Analysis of earthquakes using real map and data sets
<div>Students can access and analyse real world earthquake data using online portals created by Geoscience Australia (GA) (Geoscience Australia data portal and Earthquakes@GA). The document provides background information for teachers about earthquakes and the online portals, as well as two student inquiry activities. Each activity includes instructions on how to access and use the relevant portal as well as questions that prompt students to find, record, and interpret the data. An Excel table is provided to accompany one of the activities.</div><div><br></div><div>The activities are suitable for use with secondary to senior secondary science and geography students. The topics covered in these activities include: earthquakes, plate tectonics and natural hazards.</div><div><br></div><div>The print version has lines provided for written answers, the accessible version is intended for digital responses. </div>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-11-04
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-02-12T03:31:23
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/149045
- Citation identifier
- Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149045
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Publisher Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Author Alden, T.
Internal Contact Author Blewett, S.
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Classroom resource for secondary teachers to use with students; includes guidance for teachers, instructions for each data portal and student activities and questions using data from the portals.
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- Completed
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Resource provider Office of the Chief Scientist
External Contact Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Alden, T.
Internal Contact
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- Geoscientific information
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
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Product data repository: Various Formats
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
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Geoscience Australia data portal
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earthquakes@GA
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Earthquakes
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plate tectonics
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natural hazards
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real world data
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data portal
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Student activity
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- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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Natural Hazards
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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CC-BY
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4.0
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details User Any
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- License
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023
Resource constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Classification system
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
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Download the student activities - Print version (docx) [3.79 MB]
Download the student activities - Print version (docx) [3.79 MB]
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docx
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Download the student activities - Accessible version (docx) [3.79 MB]
Download the student activities - Accessible version (docx) [3.79 MB]
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docx
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Download excel graph template (xlsx) [18 KB]
Download excel graph template (xlsx) [18 KB]
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xlsx
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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<div>Standalone activity created for a workshop at the CONASTA70 teacher conference to provide instructions to teachers and students on how to use the Geoscience Australia data portal and Earthquakes@GA portal to access and analyse recent and historic earthquake data.</div><div><br></div>
Metadata constraints
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
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urn:uuid/84bfedac-3920-4391-9450-c4b5a006ab57
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Alden, T.
Internal Contact
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- Document
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Teaching / Outreach Document
Alternative metadata reference
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/149045
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-02-12T03:27:16
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-02-12T03:27:16
Metadata standard
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551
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