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Volcanoes vs Earthquakes __ Introduction __ Marriage is one of the biggest adventures in life. A newlywed couple would like to begin this venture with a journey of a lifetime. You have been chosen to assist this adventurous couple decide where to have their honeymoon. They would like to visit an area of that is ravaged by earthquakes or volcanoes. __ Task __ Research and choose an area or region affected by earthquakes or volcanoes. Create a website to convince the couple that the area or region you have chosen will be an adventure they will never forget. Your website must include a specific region ravaged by earthquakes or a volcano, a persuasive description (at least 200 words) of the region, a map of the region, a data table with 4 rows of information about recent activity in the region, at least 4 pictures of the region, and at least 2 other items of information that will convince the couple to choose your region. __ The Process and Resources __

Send me a message through the Discussion Board. Your message needs to tell me if you are working by yourself or with a partner and the area/region you are researching. I will send you a response with your page assignment and post it in the table below.

Stephanie || Hawaii || Alex M || Cancun ||  || WD 2 Team 2 || Shea Bobby || Hawaii || Sweety || Caribbean ||  || WD 2 Team 4 || Somer Bailey || Italy || Tamariah || Hawaii ||  || WD 2 Team 5 || Ajaylia || Alaska || Taylor || Ring of Fire ||  || WD 2 Team 6 || Keonte Imani || Japan || Alyssa || Italy ||  || WD 2 Team 7 || Tawdreca || Hawaii || Alexis || San Francisco ||  || WD 2 Team 8 || April Ryan || California || Zach || Australia ||  || WD 2 Team 9 || Olivia || Mt. St. Helen || Justin || Ring of Fire ||  || WD 2 Team 10 || Ciaran Ashley R || Fiji || Sean || Toba in Sumatra ||  || WD 2 Team 11 || Chad || Ring of of Fire || Tyler || Papua New Guinea || Thaier (The Best Team of All Time) || Mt. St. Helen ||  || WD 2 Team 16 || Diamond || Costa Rica ||
 * ** Page ** || ** Sponsered By ** || ** Area/Region ** ||  || ** Page ** || ** Sponsered By ** || ** Area/Region ** ||
 * WD 1 Team 1 || Alex H || Kyushu(Japan) ||  || WD 2 Team 1 || Amanda
 * WD 1 Team 2 || Ashley B
 * WD 1 Team 3 || Lela || Italy ||  || WD 2 Team 3 || Shenika || Africa ||
 * WD 1 Team 4 || Altavia
 * WD 1 Team 5 || Marissa
 * WD 1 Team 6 || Chris B
 * WD 1 Team 7 || Alex
 * WD 1 Team 8 || Gabrielle
 * WD 1 Team 9 || Dawna
 * WD 1 Team 10 || Tiffany
 * WD 1 Team 11 || John
 * WD 1 Team 12 || Ernest || Hawaii ||  || WD 2 Team 12 || Deon || Hawaii ||
 * WD 1 Team 13 || Katie || Thailand ||  || WD 2 Team 13 || Branden || Papua New Guinea ||
 * WD 1 Team 14 || Hannah || Fiji ||  || WD 2 Team 14 || Mason
 * WD 1 Team 15 || Dominique || Iceland ||  || WD 2 Team 15 || Jay Jay || Turkey ||
 * WD 1 Team 16 || Chris J
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Investigate the web sites given here to find the information that will enable you to complete your website. __ Evaluation __ Rubric Evident ** ||
 * **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Plate Tectonics.] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to this National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) site to learn more about plate tectonics. You can view animations here of the formation of a mid-ocean ridge, a subduction zone, and a fault. Scroll down and click on the book to open the site, then click on whatever subject you are interested in. If you click on plate boundaries, you can learn more about the three types of lithospheric plates.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Understanding Plate Motions.**] Visit this U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) site to learn about the different type of plate boundaries. Scroll down to oceanic-continental convergence, then click on ring of fire to see a larger graphic of the Pacific Ocean and its convergent plate boundaries.
 * **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Savage Earth: The Earth at Work.] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to this Public Broadcasting System (PBS) online site to find out more about how plates move around on Earth’s surface. Scroll down to see a map of Earth with the major tectonic plates outlined in yellow. The map also shows the locations of earthquakes during the 20th century. Notice that the earthquakes are clustered at the plate edges. Click on ring of fire to learn about the most volcanically and seismically active region on Earth. You can find out what percentage of Earth’s active and dormant volcanoes lie along this area at the margin of the Pacific Ocean here.
 * **<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|National Earthquake Information Center – NEIC.] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to determine rapidly the location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. The NEIC/WDC for Seismology compiles and maintains an extensive, global seismic database on earthquake parameters and their effects that serves as a solid foundation for basic and applied earth science research.
 * **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Active Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, and the "Ring of Fire."] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At this USGS site you can see a map of the world, showing the different tectonic plates and the active volcanoes found around their edges. Notice the concentration of volcanoes along the western edge of the Pacific Plates, part of the ring of fire.
 * **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Volcano World: Volcanoes!] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">At this site you can learn about any volcano on Earth. You can click on Earth’s volcanoes, then on the continent to see a list by country of the active and dormant volcanoes found there. For example, click on North and Central American region, then on Paricutin in Mexico to find out when Paricutin first erupted and where.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Exploring the Environment: Volcanoes.**] Visit this NASA Classroom of the Future site to learn more about volcanoes, and why they are located where they are. To move to the next page, scroll down and click on page 2. Read through all of the pages available to find out how the Hawaiian Islands formed.
 * **<span style="color: #0033cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Global Volcanism Program: Volcanoes of the World.] **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to this site by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, to see the Volcano Basic Data files that include geographic and geologic information on all Holocene volcanoes (those with known activity during the last 10,000 years). You can search by the name of a particular volcano, or by region of the world in which it is located to obtain data about individual volcanoes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Earth’s Active Volcanoes.**] At this Michigan Technological University site you can find a map showing the locations of active volcanoes around the world. Scroll down and choose a region to study, then click on it. Click on any volcano to see photographs of the volcano, or to learn about recent volcanic activity.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Update on Current Volcanic Activity.**] Visit this site by the University of North Dakota site for a list of the most current volcanic activity worldwide. Information is listed by the name of the volcano and location, and by the date of the last eruption or activity. You can click on a volcano’s name to see a photograph of the eruption as well as a summary of volcanic activity at that location.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**Volcano Watch.**] At this site by the Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin – Madison, you can learn about the world’s most active volcanoes. The site lists about ten volcanoes and includes images of each volcano. This site is updated every 30 minutes. Scroll down to any of the volcanoes listed and click on the volcano’s name to view recent activity there.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|**The Electronic Volcano.**] Go to this Dartmouth College site to learn more about active volcanoes. The site has links to sites with catalogs of active volcanoes, data sets, and videos of active volcanoes. Scroll down to volcano name to search for information about a particular volcano.
 * Criteria** ||
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 * The website is titled with a specific region ravaged by earthquakes or a volcano. ||  ||   ||
 * The website has a persuasive description about the region. The description is at least 200 words in length. ||  ||   ||
 * The website has a map of the region. ||  ||   ||
 * The website has a data table with 4 rows of information about recent activity in the region. ||  ||   ||
 * The website has at least 4 pictures of the region. ||  ||   ||
 * The website has at least 2 other items of information that will convince the couple to choose the region for their honeymoon. ||  ||   ||