Boxing Day Tsunami

Question 0

The sundar trench marks the line where the __________ plate is being subducted beneath the _____ plate. This is a ___________ plate boundary.

Answer 0

Australian Burma

Question 1

Caused by the _______ _______ earthquake which measured . on the Richter scale.

Answer 1

Sumatra andaman 9.3

Question 2

As the Australian plate was _________ beneath the Burma plate they became stuck, causing pressure to become stuck causing pressure to build up and when this pressure is ________ the plates jolt past each other.

Answer 2

Subducted released

Question 3

A __-__ meter slip occurred along ____km of fault line in a phase over 3-4 minutes.

Answer 3

15-20 1600km

Question 4

The epicentre was ___km off the western coast of Sumatra.

Answer 4

160km

Question 5

The focus of the quake was __km below sea level

Answer 5

30km

Question 6

As the plates jolt this displaces a large column of water ___________.

Answer 6

Vertically

Question 7

In the open ocean where the water is very deep the waves travel at high speeds of ___ to ____km/h. They have a long wavelength of about ___km and a small amplitude of about _ meter.

Answer 7

500 to 1000 km/h 200km 1 meter

Question 8

Closer to land the water gets shallower and friction from the sea bed causes the waves to get compressed (squashed together) and their energy becomes more ____________.

Answer 8

Concentrated

Question 9

The waves slow down to less than __km/h, their wavelength decreases to less than __km and in the case of the Boxing Day tsunami the height increased up to __meters.

Answer 9

80km/h 20km 30m

Question 10

Just before the tsunami reaches the coast the water _________ down the shore. This is called ____ ____.

Answer 10

Withdraws draw back

Question 11

The wave then strikes the land with great force and in the case if the Boxing Day tsunami travelled up to ___m inland in some areas.

Answer 11

300m

Question 12

Elephants in ____ national park refused to leave the park to provide elephant rides, suggesting that this strange behaviour was because they could sense the tsunami was coming.

Answer 12

Yala

Question 13

The effects of the tsunami were so bad because there was no _____ _______ system.

Answer 13

Early warning

Question 14

___,___ people killed or still missing.

Answer 14

230,000

Question 15

As many as _\ _ of the dead were children.

Answer 15

1/3

Question 16

____ foreign tourists died.

Answer 16

9000

Question 17

Northern Europe and Sweden alone reported over ___ fatalities.

Answer 17

540

Question 18

___,___ injured.

Answer 18

125,000

Question 19

Whole towns and villages destroyed - over . million people lost their homes.

Answer 19

1.7

Question 20

The infrastructure was severely _______.

Answer 20

Damaged

Question 21

_ - _ million people needed emergency food water and medical supplies.

Answer 21

5-6

Question 22

14 countries were affected the worst being _________.

Answer 22

Indonesia

Question 23

________ ______ helped to act as a barrier to reduce the energy of water in some areas.

Answer 23

Mangrove swamps

Question 24

Massive economic damage because millions of fishermen lost their livelihoods. __% of Sri lank as fishing feller was destroyed.

Answer 24

60%

Question 25

Huge environmental damage because ____ from sea water means that plants cannot grow in many areas. Mangroves,coral reefs, forests and ____ _____ were also destroyed by the waves reducing biodiversity.

Answer 25

Salt sand dunes

Question 26

Water supplies ____________ making the spread of disease easier

Answer 26

Contaminated

Question 27

Sea bed depth altered causing disturbance to navigational bouys. This caused disturbance to ______ life.

Answer 27

Marine

Question 28

The tourism industry suffered because people were ______ to go on holiday there.

Answer 28

Afraid

Question 29

Short term aid such as water purification tablets, temporary housing and medical supplies were given from _____________ countries.

Answer 29

International

Question 30

The main response was to deal with the aftermath of the event. However the scale, changed ____________ broken communication links and the need to cooperate across boarders caused significant problems.

Answer 30

Topography - the arrangement of natural and physical features in an area.

Question 31

Government provided sanitation facilities, drinking water to prevent the spread of disease like _______ and _______.

Answer 31

Cholera and typhoid

Question 32

Bodies were ______ and burried

Answer 32

Burned

Question 33

World food programme provided food aid to more than _._million people affected by the tsunami

Answer 33

1.3

Question 34

Within days hundreds of millions of pounds had been pledged by foreign governments, charities and individuals and businesses to give survivors access to ____ and _______ attention

Answer 34

Food medical

Question 35

Foreign countries sent ships, planes, solders and teams of specialists to help rescue people, distribute food and water and begin ________ __.

Answer 35

Clearing up

Question 36

The British public gave £___ million - a sum much greater than what the British government donated.

Answer 36

£330 million

Question 37

The replanting of mangroves as a ______zone between the sea and human dwellings has commenced in several _______ areas.

Answer 37

Buffer coastal

Question 38

About US $__was raised internationally. The scale of the generous public response was unprecedented, not only in the amount of money raised but in the proportion of funding from the general public and the speed of which the money was pledged or donated.

Answer 38

$14

Question 39

Programmes have been set up to rebuild _____ and get people back into ____.

Answer 39

Homes work

Question 40

A tsunami warning system has been put in place in the Indian Ocean in order to warn people of incoming tsunamis and give then a chance to move to ______ ground where they will have more protection.

Answer 40

Higher

Question 41

The new Indian Ocean tsunami system is now well established and and has _ operational regional tsunami watch centres (in _____, _________ and _________) that provide services to the neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa.

Answer 41

3 India, Indonesia and Australia

Question 42

Disaster management plans have been put in place in some countries and volunteers have been _______ so that people know what to so in the event of a tsunami.

Answer 42

Trained

Question 43

mitigation and building codes - this area has seen the least progress, owing to a longer timeframe and needed for long term planning and ________ implications.

Answer 43

Economic