5 Epic Disasters The Japanese Tsunami, 2011

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  1. 2. One can tell that ________ is the capital of Japan because it has a star with a circle around it on the map on The Tsunami Files Page 4.
  2. 4. Two nuclear power plants had been damaged in a town called _________________. P. 108
  3. 8. The earthquake roared as if a ________ beast had awakened deep inside the earth. P. 94
  4. 9. Synonyms for this word are likely, accustomed, or tending. Few places on earth are as _______ to earthquakes and tsunamis as Japan. P. 96
  5. 12. Synonyms for this word include: dreadful, nightmarish, unspeakable and appalling. P. 103
  6. 15. It’s been nearly 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, yet hundreds of square miles are so poisoned by _____________ that still no humans live there. P. 109
  7. 16. This word means, “rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage; the scattered remains of something destroyed.” P. 104
  8. 17. Several of Kamaishi’s schools were within striking distance of large waves so the students were in _______ danger if a tsunami hit, which means “the possibility of very serious or fatal harm.” P. 99
  9. 18. The events of March 11, 2011 were three terrible disasters bundled together – the earthquake, the tsunami and the ________ disaster. P. The Tsunami Files Page 1
  10. 19. Dangerous particles cannot simply be cleaned up. They remain dangerous for __________ or longer. The Tsunami Files Page 4
  11. 21. The inspiration in the story of the students of Kamaishi East is that not one teacher or student died, due to the years of _________ and the quick-thinking students. P. 110
  12. 23. The __________ scale is a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake based on seismograph disturbances. The more destructive earthquakes typically have magnitudes between about 5.5 and 8.9. P. The Tsunami Files Page 2
  13. 24. The sight of middle school students rushing toward higher ground __________ the minds of the elementary teachers, who had planned to keep their younger students on the third floor. P. 102
  14. 25. The parking lot about 10 minutes away from the school was referred to as the “__________” area. Synonyms for this word include: safe haven, shelter and oasis. P. 100
  15. 26. The ________ World Records recognized Kamaishi for having the world’s largest tsunami wall, which was 297 feet deep and rose 20 feet above the water. P. 98
  16. 28. After the disasters, hundreds of students found their way to a surviving school building that had no lights, food, or water. They spend the night _______ in the cold, terrified for their families. P. 105
Down
  1. 1. As the water was sucked back into the ________ Ocean, thousands of people were swept out to sea. P. 104
  2. 2. Known as the Great _________ Earthquake, the disaster that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, was the strongest to ever strike Japan. P. 106
  3. 3. Even after the shaking, roaring and crashing went on for nearly six minutes, the school stood strong because it had been built to ____________ earthquakes. P. 94-95
  4. 5. Strict building laws mandate that newer structures such as schools and __________ are designed to sway, rather than crumble, when the ground below shakes. P. 97
  5. 6. A ________ town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. P. The Tsunami Files Page 4-5
  6. 7. Synonyms for this word include “poisonous, unsafe, harmful.” P. 107
  7. 10. Synonyms for this word include: envelop, flood, bury, inundate.” It means, “to sweep over something so as to surround or cover it completely.” P. 104
  8. 11. The Japanese Tsunami reported a death toll of 18,000 people, and the tallest wave being higher than 9-story building. Most of the people died in the ________, not the earthquake. P. Tsunami Files Page 2
  9. 12. The quake under the ocean floor had triggered a tsunami, a series of massive waves that were ___________ of miles wide and were racing across the ocean at jet speeds. P. 95
  10. 13. The earthquake started to __________ twenty miles below the floor of the Pacific Ocean. P. 93
  11. 14. Tsunami Hazard Zone signs, which can be found all along Japan’s coasts, instruct people to go to high ground or go ________. P. 98
  12. 20. This word means, “the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake, above the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originated.” P. The Tsunami Files Page 4
  13. 22. While the tsunami wall crumbled like a sand castle, water rushed and rose into the streets so quickly that cars, trucks, homes and people were _____________ in seconds. P. 103
  14. 24. Hundreds of small cities, bustling towns, quaint fishing villages and quiet farming ________________ were disappearing under the water. P. 104
  15. 27. Synonyms for this word include: tackle, take on, assume, handle, do.” P. The Tsunami Files Page 5