Assignment Task:
What's an earthquake? What causes this type of catastrophe? An earthquake is a type of natural disaster that has the potential to cause significant property damage and fatalities. In order to be better prepared for earthquakes, it is essential to have a solid understanding of the factors that contribute to their occurrence. The theory that earthquakes are brought on by the shifting of tectonic plates is the one that is most widely accepted. The location below the earth's surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter. Sometimes an earthquake has foreshocks. These are smaller earthquakes that happen in the same place as the larger earthquake that follows. Scientists can't tell that an earthquake is a foreshock until the larger earthquake happens. The largest, main earthquake is called the mainshock. Mainshocks always have aftershocks that follow. These are smaller earthquakes that occur afterwards in the same place as the mainshock. Depending on the size of the mainshock, aftershocks can continue for weeks, months, and even years after the mainshock. But what causes earthquakes? The earth has four major layers: the inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. The crust and the top of the mantle make up a thin skin on the surface of our planet. But this skin is not all in one piece - it is made up of many pieces like a puzzle covering the surface of the earth. Not only that, but these puzzle pieces keep slowly moving around, sliding past one another and bumping into each other. We call these puzzle pieces tectonic plates, and the edges of the plates are called the plate boundaries. The plate boundaries are made up of many faults, and most of the earthquakes around the world occur on these faults. Since the edges of the plates are rough, they get stuck while the rest of the plate keeps moving. Finally, when the plate has moved far enough, the edges unstick on one of the faults and there is an earthquake.On the other hand, the purpose of this study inquiry is to determine whether or not earthquakes can also be brought on by the movement of water.
Material and method (your experimental design, how you record your data, how you analyzes it statistically (~ 1pg or more if necessary)
Results - and statistical analysis (~ 1pg or less is often appropriate) In the results you just describe the data, and tell which is or isn't "statistically different from which other"
Discussion: discuss strengths and weaknesses of your experimental design (and constraints) and discuss your results, put them in relation in relation with the background information you've presented. (~1 pg)