Evidence Research Data

Name ShengyingGao    Class L

What’s up with the Weather?

EVIDENCE RESEARCH DATA                   TOPIC

Drought

You are trying to see if this type of disaster is more common now than in years past and what could be happening. You will need to find data from the past to compare to data from today to see if there are changes. All work must be done in your OWN words. Be sure to update your Reference page regularly.



Research Steps:

1. Location: Find out where this natural disaster happens most (1-2 similar locations).

Location(s):

• South Africa

Why does it happen more in these locations?

• Because the South Africa is around Sahara desert so there is drought and people cut too much trees and burned plant and crop too much on the land,  let the land become desert that  increased drought.  

Sources: "South Africa." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 01 Mar. 2013. Web. 03 Jan. 2013.


2 Data: Find out what kind of data determines the problem (temperature, rainfall, plate boundaries, etc..).

Type of Data:

 

What will this tell you about the natural disaster?

• This data tell us the South Africa had the low rainfall of between 1970-2006, because the data show the rainfall is negative.

   2 Historical Data: Look for this type of historical data (temperature, rainfall, number of occurrences, etc…).

Website Names:

• "SCIELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online." SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Jan. 2013

    3.Data Analysis: Analyze the data and look for trends.  

What does the data tell us?

• The South Africa is very drought, the rainfall of South Africa is negative.

          Are there more natural disasters of this type than usual? Is it the same?

• Yes, the South Africa is very drought, so that’s very to affect the Forest Fire.

What could be causing this?  

• The Forest is causing by drought, and humans, high temperature.

Date of the Forest fire happened on South Africa.



Sources: "Three Centuries of Managing Introduced Conifers in South Africa: Benefits, Impacts, Changing Perceptions and Conflict Resolution." ScienceDirect.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2013.