Laboratory Manual on Natural Disasters

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

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