Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Machu Picchu WebQuest
Web Quest: Compare and Contrast of Machu Picchu, Pompeii, and Herculaneum. Name:___________________
Directions: Answer the following questions and fill in the graphic organizer. (You may use your textbook and/or skill sheet as additional resources.)
1. What is the size of each city?
Location
Size (large, small etc.)
Machu Picchu
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Go to: http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/science/machu-picchu.html
2. Location of country and continent.
Location
Country
Continent
Machu Picchu
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Go to: http://www.worldatlas.com
3. Is Machu Picchu at the bottom, top, or inside a mountain?_______________________
Go to: http://scaramucci1.weebly.com/machu-picchu.html
4. What year was it discovered? Math!
City
Year Discovered
How many years ago was it? Current year - 2013
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Machu Picchu
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
5. How many tourists visit the site each year?
City
How many tourists visit the site each year?
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Machu Picchu
Go to: Machu Picchu - http://www.peruviantimes.com/20/one-million-tourists-visit-machu-picchu-in-2011/14250/
Go to: Pompeii - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
Go to: Herculaneum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_issues_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum
6. Give one fact (you may choose any city but limit it to one) that you think the class may not know about Pompeii, or Herculaneum, or Machu Picchu. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Directions: Answer the following questions and fill in the graphic organizer. (You may use your textbook and/or skill sheet as additional resources.)
1. What is the size of each city?
Location
Size (large, small etc.)
Machu Picchu
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Go to: http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/science/machu-picchu.html
2. Location of country and continent.
Location
Country
Continent
Machu Picchu
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Go to: http://www.worldatlas.com
3. Is Machu Picchu at the bottom, top, or inside a mountain?_______________________
Go to: http://scaramucci1.weebly.com/machu-picchu.html
4. What year was it discovered? Math!
City
Year Discovered
How many years ago was it? Current year - 2013
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Machu Picchu
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
5. How many tourists visit the site each year?
City
How many tourists visit the site each year?
Pompeii
Herculaneum
Machu Picchu
Go to: Machu Picchu - http://www.peruviantimes.com/20/one-million-tourists-visit-machu-picchu-in-2011/14250/
Go to: Pompeii - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii
Go to: Herculaneum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_issues_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum
6. Give one fact (you may choose any city but limit it to one) that you think the class may not know about Pompeii, or Herculaneum, or Machu Picchu. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
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