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Weekly Blog- 11/ 16

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Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia Summary: My group and I continued working on our map until we thought it looked good. We added a legend showing what the symbols and colors mean and traced the words in black pen to make them easier to see. After that, my group and I thought It would be best to split up; Minh Anh and Ashley work on the counter argument while Gabby and I work on the script for our video. Even though we parted ways we all pitched in and did some extra research together. Throughout the research my group and I discovered that Braxton would be the best city in West Virginia because it has the least natural hazards in its past. While writing the script we realized that it was hard to make an actual advertisement that was funny and informative, so we have an introduction and a sequel.  Gabby and I didn't want our video just to be talking on and on about West Virginia, so we thought it would be nice to compare it with another state

Weekly Blog- 11/9

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Image: www.flickr.com  (this shows a tsunami) Summary: My partner, Ashley, and I continued our research on different natural disasters for our project. We researched tsunamis, winter storms, and earthquakes giving us good information to use for our project. Here is the natural disaster, the "ingredients", and where it occurs: Winter Storms- Caused by a warm front.Warm front- When the warm air advances and pushes the cold air. Can occur in the east coast towards the north and east Alaska. Earthquakes- Caused by tectonic plate movement. When the plates move apart or rub against each other. Can occur anywhere, but earthquakes are very common in the west coast. Tsunamis- Caused by earthquakes or violent volcano eruptions. Can occur on the west and east coast, really anywhere there is an ocean nearby. After