Tsunami Warning System

• Engineers design physical objects and processes that try to solve ____ problems.

• environmental
• economic
• social
• • real-world

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

• _____ define the engineering problem.

• Technicians
• • Criteria

• Architects
• Scientists

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

• _____ research is necessary when solving an engineering problem.

• • Background

• Theoretical
• Basic
• Fundamental

• A tsunami is a type of large, destructive ocean wave caused by a sudden shift in the ___.

• • seafloor

• riverbed
• atmosphere
• ocean surface

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• Tsunamis are usually caused by _____ under the water.

• volcanoes
• earthquakes
• landslides
• hurricanes

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• Tsunamis cause lots of damage to places on ____.

• mountains
• rivers
• deserts
• • land

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• Engineers need to understand the problem they are trying to solve so they can design an ___ solution.

• effective
• irrelevant
• complicated
• inefficient

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

• Engineers read with ____ to understand relevant background information that impacts their work.

• • purpose

• distraction
• indifference
• confusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

• The primary cause of tsunamis is _____.

• landslides
• earthquakes

• underwater volcanoes
• meteor impacts

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

• Earthquakes are due to movement along the three types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and _____.

• transform
• expansion
• compression
• subduction

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2