- Explain the relationship between the magnitude, frequency, seasonality, or cycles of natural disasters
- Identify the dynamic interconnections between earth processes and their effects on the environment
- Use scientific methods to gather, analyze, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data from multiple sources
- Make inferences and formulate predictions using scientific data, observations, and methods
- Examine the effects of natural hazards on human environments
- Demonstrate how natural hazards become disasters and ultimately catastrophes
- Determine the roles of federal and local governments, non-profits, communities, and individuals in natural disaster mitigation preparedness, response, and recovery
- Give examples of how population growth, social and economic inequality, poor land-use practices, and concentration of infrastructure in hazardous areas are increasing our vulnerability to natural disasters
- Answer the following prompts:
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- How was this film related to the disaster? How was the disaster used to move the story forward?
- What is the science behind the phenomenon you chose to research? This should be the most significant section of the project.
- How well or poorly did the film depict the reality of this phenomenon?
- What are the short term, long term, and global effects of the disaster?
- How could the situation in the movie be improved or mitigated through actions in real life?
- Make sure you include appropriate graphics/videos, embedded into the post. Also, hyperlinks to appropriate pages can be useful as well.
All projects should include any resources you utilized referenced in an appropriate format. You must have a minimum of three.