Year 8 Geography – Geomorphological hazards –

Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Resources:
Tsunamis – pp 114-115 Oxford textbook.
Japan earthquake and tsunami (2011) – pp116-117
Case Study Asia’s tsunamis – seqta PDF

Using information from the above textbooks and other sources, complete the following table
of information and questions.
Task 1:

Indian Ocean earthquake Japan earthquake and

and tsunami tsunami
Earthquake details

Damage

Task 2:
Answer questions 1-7 on p115 of Oxford textbook. For question 6 only list five changes
caused by the 2004 tsunami

Task 3:
Answer questions 1-6 on p 117 of Oxford textbook.