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items shown below.
Find out how to quake-safe the
touch-screen game.
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Answer the questions inside this booklet.
Find the mystery letters on each page.
Complete the puzzle at the end to discover how
to keep yourself safe during an earthquake.
and hold, or:
• Have a family emergency plan.
• Prepare a survival kit.
• In an earthquake, don’t run!
The best thing to do is drop, cover,
Play the quake-preparedness
Quake
PLAY the
Safe game
• Find and draw Rüaumoko
Search
Rüaumoko
New Zealand can experience different natural.
Luckily, we can prepare for these.
Protect
at home
and at school
Use your skills as an investigator and find
out what is going on inside our Earth.
ACTIVITY TRAIL
Awesome
Forces
FOLD
Earth’s
Lift powerhouse
SPIN Earth’s jigsaw puzzle
JUMP Quake ratings
is New Zealand in relation
• toWhere
the nearest tectonic plates?
I
the Edgecumbe
DRAW experience
The Mercalli intensity scale
measures the effects of an
earthquake on people and places.
Spin the globe and find
New Zealand.
Lift the rocks. Remember to bend
your knees and mind your back!
•
What part of the Earth does each rock represent?
Before you go into the Earthquake House, find out what a seismograph measures.
•
What do you think this position, and plate • movement,
might cause a lot of?
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Jump on the platform.
How high can you make the scale go?
Circle your answer below:
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
How much damage could your
‘earthquake’ cause?
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While experiencing the earthquake inside the house, take your own seismograph reading by gently resting the tip of a pencil or pen in the space below.
•
Now find Japan. Write the names of the plates
that are near Japan.
What is the name of the other scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake?
Why do you think one rock is
heavier than the others?
The scale
Now investigate what this scale measures.
Write your answer below.
New Zealand has between 15,000 and
18,000 earthquakes every year. Would
Japan have more or fewer earthquakes?
2
3
Use your reading to guess what this quake might measure on the Richter scale. Check your answer at the Earthquake House entrance. Were you right?
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5
Awesome Forces
When? ........................................................
What? ........................................................
Murchison (on the ‘Spotting our Faults’
display near the entrance to the earthquake
house)
When? ........................................................
What? ........................................................
Mount Ruapehu (the large video screen at the back
of Awesome Forces)
When? ........................................................
What? ........................................................
Napier (near the entrance to the earthquake house)
When? ........................................................
What? ........................................................
Lake Taupo (behind the earthquake house)
When? ........................................................
What? ........................................................
Mount Tarawera (behind the earthquake house)
Explore Awesome Forces and find out what geological event
happened at each of the places on this page, and when it
occurred. Fill in the boxes with the information you find.
EXPLORE
When?
What?
Te Papa Education
Arthur’s Pass (with the Richter Scale information near the
entrance to the earthquake house)
|
Te Ipu Kähui Rangi 2015
What plate do you live on?
The dotted line on the map
represents the plate boundary that
runs through New Zealand. Go back
to the Earth’s Jigsaw Puzzle globe
to find the names of these two
plates.
When? ......................................................
What? ........................................................
Edgecumbe (on the outside wall of the
earthquake house)