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An Assessment of Hillslope Stability Using the Factor of Safety part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Laura Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In this homework assignment students are asked to consider the balance of forces on a hill slope using the Factor of Safety.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geography:Physical
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Flood Frequency and Risk Assessment part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Carol Ormand Ph.D., Carleton College
Students calculate recurrence intervals for various degrees of flooding based on historical data. Students then do a risk assessment for the surrounding community.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Hydrology
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Two streams, two stories... How Humans Alter Floods and Streams part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
An activity/lab where students determine the changes in 100-year flood determinations for 2 streams over time.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water cycle/groundwater-surface water interface, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
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Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Rate of Lava Flow part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Question In 1983, an eruption began at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii that has proved to be the largest and longest-lived eruption since records began in 1823. Lava has poured out of the volcano at an average rate of ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology
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Earthquake Shaking and Damage part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
This student homework and problem set has students quantitatively earthquake hazard, shaking and damage.

Grade Level: General Public, College Lower (13-14), Informal
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Vectors and slope stability part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
An in-class activity or homework for graphically solving slope-stability problems with vectors.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Air-sea Interactions: Activities in Oceanography part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Steve LaDochy, California State University-Los Angeles
This online set of activities help students learn properties of ocean waves, wind-wave relationships and properties of tsunamis.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Assessments, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Animations/Video
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Marine Hazards, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards:Tsunami
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Determining Earthquake Probability and Recurrence from Past Seismic Events part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
A homework/classroom activity where students collect historical earthquake information and use it to forecast the probability of larger earthquakes.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

BotEC: The San Andreas Fault's Rate of Movement part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Peter Kresan
Question: The San Andrea is an active fault zone, marked by frequent earthquake activity. The crust southwest of this strike-slip fault (including Los Angeles) is sliding to the northwest relative to the other ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones

Floods over time: death vs. destruction part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Anna Tary, Boston University
This exercise looks at the dollar losses and deaths caused by flooding in the US, and at the causes of, and relationships between the two trends.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review