DRIVE

Essential Question

• Do natural disasters affect how/ where you choose to live?

Main topics

• Natural disasters
• Why people choose to live where they do
• Does where people choose to live have anything to do with natural disasters?

What?

• My topic is about:
• People being afriad of certain natural disasters
• Their fears of certain natural disasters affecting where they want to live

Why?

• I decided to research this topic because I like studying natural disasters and how they are formed
• I am going to choose where I live based of natural disasters when I'm older

Who?

• Janeta Tansey
• A psychiatrist that saw emotional similarities between cancer patients and flood victims
• I now realize how awful the emotional damage is in flood victims

Who? part 2

• Joseph Connell
• He noticed the places with the highest diversity were not the most stable
• He is saying the highest diversity isn't the most stable, talking about that people shouldn't live there because it is not as stable/safe

When?

• Joseph Connell, a professor at UC Santa Barbara, studied nature around 1978
• Janeta Tansey noticed the similarities around 2013

Where?

• A group of scientists have discovered that specific places where unexpected changes in temperature could trigger the occurrence of natural disasters

Where? part 2

• Sybren Drijfhout was the lead professor of this discovery
• This impacts my topic because it's another thing that could cause natural disasters, which needs to be noticed

How?

• My topic impacts many people by saving lives

Did you know? (extra facts)

• In the last 20 years, flooding has been the most common natural disaster by far
• Droughts and flooding are the most deadly natural disaster
• Over 1/2 of the victims of both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy were senior citizens over the age of 65

Summary

• My topic is focusing on if people choose a home based on there certain fear of natutal disasters

Final Thought

• My final thought on this topic is that everyone should choose where to live based on natural disasters