PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Haiti Earthquake
When: 2010
Who: people and the environment
Where: the Caribbean and
North American plate near the equator.
What: an earthquake
Forces involved
Kinetic energy caused the sliding of the tectonic plates like unbalanced forces.
Unbalanced forces caused the slide of the tectonic plates.
Environmental impact
Many food sources were destroyed from the earthquakes.
Water sources were probably polluted by the damaged buildings leaking pollutants into the water. Both predator and prey have both died from the environmental damage of the earthquake.
Many watersheds were polluted and damaged. Ecosystems were damaged from lack of clean waters. Erosion was sped up from damage to the landscape from the earthquake. The weather was affected by the pollution In the water.
Sources
Wikipedia and Google images and Google earth
