Laboratory Manual on Natural Disasters
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 92
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 92
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This laboratory manual introduces students to major Earth science concepts through a sequence of applied exercises focused on natural hazards, weather systems, climate processes, and geospatial analysis. It begins with geographic location using latitude and longitude, then explores plate tectonics, volcanic hazards, and global earthquake distribution, including methods for determining earthquake location and magnitude. The manual examines solar radiation and Earth to Sun relationships through sun angles, seasons, and atmospheric patterns, followed by applied weather mapping concepts such as air pressure, wind, temperature, and frontal systems. Students also study hurricanes, climate change, acid precipitation, topographic map interpretation, and regional flooding, culminating in case studies of major disasters including tsunamis and other large-scale impacts.
Exercise 1 Geographic Location and Natural Disasters
What is Latitude?
What is Longitude?
Exercise 2 Plate Tectonics and Volcanic Hazards
Plate Tectonics
Volcanic Hazards
Exercise 3 Worldwide Earthquake Activity and Distribution
Exercise 4 Determining Earthquake Location and Magnitude
Exercise 5 Sun Angles and Solar Radiation
The Analemma
Equinox (Equal Night)
Solstice (Sun Stops)
Arctic and Antarctic Circles (66 1/2 degrees N and S)
Sun Angles
Exercise 6 Severe Weather and Weather Mapping
Air Pressure
Wind Speed and Direction
Temperature and Dew Point
Front Locations
Warm Front
Cold Front
Dry Line
Exercise 7 Hurricane Tracking
Hurricane Andrew, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, 1993
Exercise 8 Climate Change
Minneapolis/St. Paul Climate
Exercise 9 Acid Precipitation Across the Nation
Exercise 10 Topographic Map Interpretation
Direction
Scale and Distance
Elevation
Contour Line Patterns
Exercise 11 Regional Floods
St. Croix River, Minnesota/Wisconsin Border
Exercise 12 Mega Disasters
Tsunami
Impact
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
CREDITS
Ken Weide is a professor in the Science department at Century College.