Slide 1The Mezzogiorno Problems of the South of Italy Earthquake and Volcanoes Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Naples and Vesuvius Slide 5 A small hill top town in Basilicata. Slide…

Slide 1POMPEII A town destroyed by Vesuvius on August 24 th /25 th AD 79 Peter Mountford PhD Student University of Melbourne Slide 2 An Overview of the Lecture My personal…

Slide 1Carbon Dating Used for determining the age of earth materials Age of rocks, fossils Every living organism on Earth has carbon When organism dies, carbon remains but…

Slide 1Gim Przymierza Rodzin class IPe – Extreme events on the earth Slide 2 FLOODS Slide 3 WHERE ARE THERE FLOODS IN THE WORLD? Huge floods occur in China, India, Bangladesh…

Slide 1The Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79 Slide 2 Why Vesuvius?  Mt. Vesuvius lies on a fault, a break in the earth’s crust between the African crustal plate and…

Slide 1Roman Wall Painting Slide 2 Pompeii Pompeii was not an artistic centre but a small seaside resort. There may have been regional differences and differences in personal…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The Etruscans, Archaic Italy Vocabulary Etruscan Terracotta Tufa Haruspex Acroteria Cella/cellae Tumulus Trempe l’oeil Slide 3 Etruscan Territories Slide…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Mezzogiorno, Italy A European Peripheral Region Slide 3 What is a peripheral region? A peripheral region is a region that is isolated from another region…

Slide 1 continent Largest land mass on earth North America South America Asia Australia Africa Antarctica Europe Slide 2 bay body of water with land on three sides smaller…

Slide 1 By rohail Slide 2 Italy is located in southern Europe. It sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea like a boot. Slide 3 It takes about eight hours to fly from New York…