The Restless Earth: Tsunami - Case Study

Question 1

What is a Tsunami?

Answer 1

Series of enormous waves caused when huge amounts of water get displaced.

Question 2

An earthquake caused a tsunami where?

Answer 2

In the Indian Ocean in 2004.

Question 3

Where is there a destructive plate boundary?

Answer 3

Along the west coast of Indonesia in the Indian Ocean.

Question 4

When did the boxing day tsunami take place?

Answer 4

26th December 2004.

Question 5

Where did the earthquake occur?

Answer 5

Off the West coast of the island Sumatra.

Question 6

On the richter scale what did it measure?

Answer 6

9.1

Question 7

How did the earthquake happen?

Answer 7

The plate moving down into the mantle cracked and moved very quickly.
Causing a lot of water to be displaced.

Question 8

The waves off the tsunami were how high?

Answer 8

Up to 30 metres high.

Question 9

The Indian Ocean Tsunami was what…

Answer 9

One of the most destructive natural disasters that’s ever occurred.

Question 10

What countries did the tsunami effect?

Name 4

Answer 10

Indonesia.
Thailand.
India.
Sri Lanka

Question 11

Why were the effects of the tsunami so bad?

Answer 11

There was no early warning systems.

Question 12

How many people were killed?

Answer 12

230,000.

Question 13

How many people became homeless?

Answer 13

1.7 million.

Question 14

What was destroyed?

Answer 14

Towns.

Villages.

Question 15

Infrastructure including _____, ____ ____ and _____ ____ were destroyed

Answer 15

Roads.
Water pipes.
Electricity pipes.

Question 16

How many people needed emergency food, water and medical supplies?

Answer 16

5-6 Million.

Question 17

There was massive…

Answer 17

Economic damage.

Question 18

Fisherman lost their…L

Answer 18

Livelihoods.

Question 19

What happened to the tourism industry?

Answer 19

It suffered because of the destruction.

People were afraid to go on holiday there.

Question 20

What did salt from the seawater do?

Answer 20

Plants can’t grow.

Question 21

What else was destroyed by the waves?

Name 4

Answer 21

Mangroves.
Coral reefs.
Forests.
Sand dunes.

Question 22

The responses involved a lot of…

Answer 22

International Aid.

Question 23

Within days of the tsunami happening what had happened?

Answer 23

Hundreds of millions of pounds had been pledged.

Question 24

Who was the hundreds of millions of pounds pledged by?

Answer 24

Foreign governments.
Charities.
Individuals.
Businesses.

Question 25

What was the for?

Answer 25

Survivors.
Food.
Water.
Shelter.
Medical attention.

Question 26

What did foreign send?

Answer 26

Ships.
Planes.
Soldiers.
Teams of specialised help.

Question 27

What did the help do?

Answer 27

Rescue people.
Distribute food/water.
Begin clearing up.

Question 28

Name 4 long term responses?

Answer 28

Billions of pounds have been pledged.
Programmes set up.
Tsunami warning system.
Disaster management plants.

Question 29

What has the billions of pounds pledged to help?

Answer 29

Re-build infrastructure.

Question 30

Volunteers have been trained…

Answer 30

So they are aware of what to do if a tsunami happens again.