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Latin America and Natural Disasters

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Quiz #7

Answer the following 3 questions according to what your Natural Disaster Article:

  1. What country/countries did your article focus on?
  2. In one detailed sentence, tell me what your article was about.
  3. How did plate tectonics play a factor in the natural disaster your article focused on?

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Bonus:

4. A _________ is a large, destructive sea wave that is produced by an underwater earthquake, explosion or volcanic eruption.

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  • Colonization: any one or more species populate an area. Migration to a new area.
  • Imperialism, as defined by the People of Human Geography, is the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.

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Early Residents

Indigenous: native peoples

  • Maya: in the Yucatan Peninsula
    • 2000 BC-900 AD
  • Aztec: in Central Mexico
    • 14th-16th centuries
    • Conquered by Cortez in 1521
  • Inca: Peru
    • 13th-16th centuries
    • Conquered by Pizarro in 1533

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Mayan Empire

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Aztec Empire

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Incans

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Colonization

  • The Spanish and Portuguese colonized most of Latin America from the 1500s-1800s.
    • Conquistadors conquered many of the indigenous peoples:

1. France colonized:

    • Haiti
    • French Guiana (still part of France today)
    • Martinique (still part of France today)
    • Guadalupe (still part of France today)

2. Portugal Colonized:

    • Brazil
    • Part of Paraguay

3. England colonized (think of where they speak English today):

    • Bermuda
    • Virgin Islands
    • Jamaica
    • Belize
    • Guyana

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Physical Geography

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Andes

Longest continental mountain range in the world

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The Amazon Basin

  • Amazon- Largest rain forest in the world
  • Amazon River- 2nd largest river in the world
  • 40% in Brazil
  • Deforestation: the clearing or destruction of forests

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Amazon River

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Amazon Rainforest

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Amazon Rainforest

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Panama Canal

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Panama Canal

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Natural Disasters

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“A 10-year-old girl saved her family and 100 other tourists from the Asian tsunami because she had learnt about the giant waves in a geography lesson, it has emerged.

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Tilly Smith, from Oxshott, Surrey, was holidaying with her parents and seven-year-old sister on Maikhao beach in Phuket, Thailand, when the tide rushed out

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As the other tourists watched in amazement, the water began to bubble and the boats on the horizon started to violently bob up and down.

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Tilly, who had studied tsunamis in a geography class two weeks

earlier, quickly realized they were in danger.

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She told her mother they had to get off the beach immediately

and warned that it could be a tsunami.

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She explained she had just completed a school project on the

huge waves and said they were seeing the warning signs that a

tsunami was minutes away.

Why should I care?

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Her parents alerted the other holidaymakers and staff at their hotel, which was quickly evacuated. The wave crashed a few minutes later, but no one on the beach was killed or seriously injured.

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In an interview with the Sun, Tilly gave the credit to her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney, at Oxshott's Danes Hill Prep School.

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She said "Last term Mr Kearney taught us about earthquakes and how they can cause tsunamis.

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"I was on the beach and the water started to go funny. There were bubbles and the tide went out all of a sudden.

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"I recognized what was happening and had a feeling there was going to be a tsunami. I told mummy.”

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Natural Disasters

  • What are they?
    • Hurricane
    • Earthquakes
    • Tsunami

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Hurricanes

    • Hurricane (a.k.a Cyclone/typhoon): dangerous storm winds, usually occur in warm months

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Hurricane Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP4rgvu4xDE

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Earthquake

    • Definition: Sudden, violent movements of tectonic plates

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How Earthquakes are measured

  • Usually occur at fault lines, but can occur anywhere
  • Measured on the Richter scale
    • 3 or below is not felt, 7 or above causes serious damage
  • Epicenter: the point at the beginning of the quake
  • Ring of fire: 90% of world’s earthquakes occur here

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Ring of Fire

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Tsunami

    • Giant, dangerous waves caused by the aftershock of an eruption, earthquake, or other event

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Haiti

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Japan

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