Students understand and appreciate the
physical, biological and technological world and have
the knowledge and skills to make decisions in relation
to it.
Tsunami Tsunami is a Japanese word meaning
harbour wave. It is a water wave or a series of waves
generated by an impulsive vertical displacement of the
surface of the ocean or other body of water. The term
tidal wave is frequently used in the older literature
and in popular accounts, but is now considered incorrect. National
Geophysical Data Center
Indian Ocean Tsunami On the morning of Sunday 26 December
2004 a severe earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the coast
of northern Sumatra caused tsunamis that impacted on at
least nine countries in the region leaving an estimated
150,000 dead and many more homeless.
