Vanuatu
grade 7 inquiry
Note
Day 1
Day 2
Do Natural or Human activities cause a bigger impact on landform.
To answer my question I will split it into 2 parts how human activity changed landform and natural activity that changed landform. Then I will compare them and come to an answer.
Day 3
Day 4
How do Volcanoes in Vanuatu alter or change the landform?
Day 5
Day 10
Day 11
-University of Vanuatu
-Vanuatu environment department
-Volcano live
-The watchers
Day 12
-The watchers (look at any kind of volcanic activties)
- The Redd desk (vanuatu's environment department )
-University of Vanuatu(have a course in geography)
Day 13
This is the flag of Vanuatua
The map
- Malampa (capital: Lakatoro)
- Penama (capital: Saratamata)
- Sanma (capital: Luganville)
-hefa (capital: Port Vila)
- Tafea (capital: Isangel)
- Torba (capital: Sola)
The capital
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*Cyclone=%5.3
*Earthquake=%42
*Tsunami=%40.1
*Storm=%11.5
*Other=%1.1
*Number of volcanoes
8-year moving average 2005-2013Extensive [%]Intensive [%]
DataCards2.25100.000.00
Deaths0.00100.000.00
House destroyed28.30100.000.00
House damaged10.75100.000.00
Injured people1.75100.000.00
Displaced people475.25100.000.00
Combined economic loss (US$)667,731.40100.000.00
Vanuatu government
*southwest pacific is on the route of which most cyclones travel through
*are of Vanuatu dry or wet receives 2-3 cyclones in the season
*Greatest in January and February
*Marginal seas is a common route for 20-30 cyclones
*3-5 causing sever damage
*hard to predict
*erratic in movement
*Maintain Southey movement
*Vanuatu being small islands grouped together in a north to south distribution are effected by almost every cyclone passing through.
Encyclopaedia of the world
*very active titonic area
* consists of Pliocene-Pleistocene volcanic rocks and uplifted coral
*experiences significant volcanic activity
*climate-tropical
*sever cyclons and earth quakes are regular
* food and fish freezing, wood processing, meat canning
Vanuatu Volcanoes
*7 on land and 2 under the sea
Volcanoes
*clog rivers
*forms new land
*can form new rich soil
*can cover land with new rocks
*large area can be effected by
-ash falls
-landslides
-mudflows
-pyroclastic flows
-steam explosions