Hazardous Weather Flashcards
(10 cards)
1
Q
Convectional Rainfall
A
- Sun warms up air
- Warm moist air rises
- Moist air condenses
- Clouds form
- Rain falls
2
Q
Frontal Rainfall
A
- Warm air pushes into the cold air
- The warm front and the cold front form
- Warm humid air cooled by cold air
- Condesation means clouds form
- Rain falls
3
Q
Relief Rainfall
A
- Warm moist air is forced over highlands
- Air cools
- Condensation occours and clouds form
- Rain falls
4
Q
Constructive plate boundary
A
- Both plates move apart
- Lava rises and hardens creating new land
- Weak earthqukes
- New islands in ocean
5
Q
Destructive plate boundary
A
- Strong earthquakes
- Volcanoes, trenches, fold mountains
- Oceanic forced under continental
- Magma forced up through high pressure
- Move towards different types of crust
6
Q
Collision plate boundary
A
- Towards same type of crust
- Violent earthquakes, fold mountains
7
Q
Conservative plate boundary
A
- Violent earthquakes
- Plates move alongside each other
- Creates friction
8
Q
Shield volcano
A
- Constructive
- Low rounded peak
- Wide base and gentle sloping sides
- Layers of runny ash
- Frequent non-violent erruptions
9
Q
Strato volcano
A
- Steep slopes and narrow base
- Secondary cones
- Layers of thick lava and ash
- Magma forced up - violent erruptions
- Erruptions infrequent but devastating
10
Q
Response to erruption/quake
A
- Quake alert is an app that sends when earthquakes are about to happen
- TV reports and newpapers spread word
- Seismometers and other equipment
- Earthquake proof buildings
- Evacuation, state of emergency
