Big Ideas in Natural Hazards

Match the Big Idea to the definition

• Representiong how things interact

• Cause and effect

• Can't be created or destroyed

• Patterns

• The reasons and results of something

• Systems and System Models

• Consistent or repeated structures/events

• Energy and Matter

• Different measures of size and time

• Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

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Sort the definitions based on the Big Idea they represent

Groups:

(a) Structure and Function

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(b) Stability and Change

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(c) Patterns

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(d) Cause and Effect

• The reasons for an event

• What happens after an event

• Consistentcy

• How something is built determines how it is used

• Becoming different over time

• The parts of something make it work a certain way

• Staying the same over time

• Repetition

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What Big Ideas are best represented by this graph?​ (a)   ​ ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
• The Law of Superposition
• Hazard Monitoring Devices
• Patterns
• Energy and Matter
• Cause and Effect
• Stability and Change
• Structure and Function

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Sort the examples based on the Big Idea they represent. There are two examples for every Big Idea

Groups:

(a) Structure and Function

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(b) Stability and Change

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(c) Patterns

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(d) Cause and Effect

• The structured order of rock layers in the earth acts like a timeline of their relative ages

• Chemicals like ammonia and bleach are stable on their own but change to a poison gas if combined

• The Colorado River caused erosion of rock layers and made the Grand Canyon

• The moon has the same series of phases every 27-28 days

• Birds have wings so they can fly

• When you don't wash your hands, you can get sick from germs

• Ancient fossils can be preserved in rock layers for millions of years

• Some fossils are consistently found in the same rock layers

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Which idea from natural hazards does NOT represents a pattern?

• Last year, Tucson had over 66 days where the temperature was 100 degrees or more.

• A Doppler radar constantly sends out radio waves and measures them as they return to detect storms and other types of weather.

• Most volcanoes and earthquakes are found near the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean.

• Hurricanes Katrina cost over $161 billion in damages.

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Reorder the following events to show the cause and effect of volcanic eruption

• Volcanic clouds in the atmosphere can drift around the world and affect global weather by blocking sunlight

• Some eruptions can be explosive, creating fiery clouds that destroy anything they fall on

• Earthquakes or other disturbances cause magma to be pushed up to the surface

• Ash falling from explosive eruptions can mix with water and create dangerous mudflows, or lahars

• Molten rock or magma is moving under the surface of the earth

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​ When water on the ocean's surface is ​ (a)   , a storm sucks up heat ​ (b)   from the water. More energy means ​ (c)   moisture in the air, which means the storm can become a ​ (d)   . The energy of a storm can affect ​ (e)   when the force of the wind and rain destroys tress, buildings, and anything else in its path.

• warm
• cold
• energy
• more
• less
• hurricane
• tsunami
• avalanche
• matter

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Natural hazards like wildfires are becoming larger and more frequent over time, while the frequency of earthquakes stays about the same. This is an example of the the big idea of

• Structure and Function

• Stability and Change

• Energy and Matter

• Systems and System Models

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Match the following

• Quantity

• We measure blizzards by how much snow falls on the ground

• Proportion

• In December 1967, a blizzard snowed 84 inches on Mt Lemmon

• Scale

• On average, Flagstaff gets 10 times more snow as Tucson

Match the functions to the specific parts or structures that help a tsunami buoy do its job.

b

a

c

d

Detects changes in water pressure

Receives signal from the buoy

Keeps buoy close to detector

Floats on surface to send signals