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Which part of the Earth is found above the mantle?

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The crust

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What is the name given to semi-molten rock?

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Magma

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What is slab pull?

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Slab pull is when older, more dense crust sinks at subduction zones

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What is the name given to margins where plates move together?

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Subduction

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What is the name given to margins wher plates move apart?

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Constructive

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What is the name given to margins where plates move along side eachother?

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Conservative

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What islands are found above hot spots?

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Hawaii

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Where do volcanoes occur?

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At constructive and destructive plate margins. Earthquakes occur at any plate margin

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What is subduction?

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When the oceanic plate is forced beneath the conintental plate

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Where is continental crust found

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Under land masses and continents

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What is the geographical term for what is in the middle of the earth?

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The inner core

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What is the inner core?

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Is in the centre and is hottest part of the eart. It is solid and made up of iron and nickel with temperatures of up to 5,500°C

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What is the geographical term for what is surrounding the inner core?

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The outer core

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What is the outer core?

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The layer surrounding the inner core, it is a liquid layer made up of iron and nickel

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What is the thickest layer of the earth?

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The mantle

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What is the mantle?

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The thickest section of the Earth at approximately 2900 km. The mantle is made up of semi molten rock called magma

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What is the crust?

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The outer layer of the earth, it is a thin 0-60km thick, solid rock layer upon which we live. It is either continental or oceanic

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What are tectonic plates?

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A set of adjacent, slow-moving plates which make up the Earth’s crust

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What is a plate margin?

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The region where two or more tectonic plates meet. It is a zone of intense seismic activity

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What are convection currents?

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A movement within the Earth’s mantle caused by the heat of the core

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What is continental crust?

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The surface of the earths crust found underneath large land masses

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What is oceanic crust?

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The surface of the earths crust found underneath the oceans, forming the ocean floor

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The movement of heat rising and falls underneath all of those plates is called?

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Convection currents

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What can convection currents do?

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Move the plates side to side or pull them apart

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What plate boundary does Iceland sits on?
Constructive/divergent plate boundary
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What happens at constructive/divergent plate boundaries?
2 plates are pulling apart, magma is rising up through the gap of the earths crust coursing shield volcanoes and creating islands like Iceland
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What 2 plates are moving towards eachother in Japan?
Continental and oceanic plates
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What margins are continental and oceanic plates pushing against eachother called?
Destructive/convergent plate boundary
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Are oceanic plates thicker and made of denser material than continental plates?
No, oceanic plates are thinner and made of denser material
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When oceanic and continental plates meet what plates sinks beneath?
The oceanic plate sinks beneath the less dense continental plate
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What is it called when oceanic plates sink beneath the less dense continental plate?
Subduction
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Where does it occur when 2 plates of the same density collide?
Collision plate boundaries
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How did the Himalayen mountain range form?
Collision plate boundaries, 2 plates push against eachother and the massive pressure makes the Earths crust buckle
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What occurs when 2 plates push against eachother and the massive pressure makes the Earths crust buckle?
Fold mountains
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What plate boundary is found in California?
Conservative plate boundaries
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What happens at conservative plate boundaries?
Plates are moving along side eachother at different speeds or different directions
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What happens when the plates get stuck and then finally dislodge?
We feel the effects as an earthquake at the Earth surface
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What does sustainable mean?
Something that is good for people and the environment now and in the future
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What does tourism provide?
Different types of jobs, meaning the people arent for ed to damage the environmeng in order to make a living
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What is negative effect of tourism?
It can provide a source of conflict between countries and locals
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What is conflict?
A serious disagreement between individuals or groups
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What is Wegners theory and explain it?
The theory of continental drift in the early 20th century. Wegner published a paper explaining his theory that the continental landmasess were "drifting" across the earth, sometimes plowing through oceans and into eachother
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What happens at Ocean ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic ridge?
The eurasan plate and the north atlantic plate are moving away from eachother under the atlantic ocean
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What are rift valleys such as the east African rift valley?
A developimg divergent plate boundary
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Biggest impact of the Haiti earthquake?
Left more than 1.5 million people homeless and resulted in an immense humanitarian crisis
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What are tectonic hazards?
Threats caused by the movement of tectonic plates that have the potential of causing damage to life, property, the environment, human activity or the economy
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1 of the 5 tectonic hazards?
Flooding
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1 of the 5 tectonic hazards?
Earthquakes
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1 of the 5 tectonic hazards?
Tsunamies
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1 of the 5 tectonic hazards?
Volcanoes
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What is a superpower nation?
Countries that are the most powerful nations in the world and have global influence to the global economic wealth, military, geography, resources and cultural identity
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What are factors that make a country a superpower?
Military, economic, political and cultural
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How can economic power be demonstrated?
By the suze of a countries GDP, the strength of their currency and their participation in global economic partnerhsips such as GB
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What does BRIC mean and stand for in BRIC nations?
B- Brazil R- Russia I- India C- China and South Africa
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What does MINT stand for?
M- Mexico I- Indonesia N- Nigeria T- Turkey
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What does MINT actually mean?
Fast economic growth countries
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What does BRIC actually mean?
They BRICS countries include more than 40% of the worlds population and occupy over a quarter lf the worlds land mass areas

...Year 9 Mid Years (7 decks)

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