In the United States, people living in Florida, the Southeast, and up the East Coast deal with hurricanes but rarely worry about earthquakes. People living in southern California deal with earthquakes quite often but rarely see any snow. People who live in the northern states and in Canada often deal with large amounts of snow, but only those people in mountainous regions experience danger from avalanches. People residing in the state of Washington have witnessed one of the most powerful volcanic disasters within the last 20 years. Each team should research the effects that its particular natural force has had on your region and generate a short set of mathematical problems relating to that force.
Teams can make presentations to the class and duplicate mathematical problems for others to solve.