Hazards

Question 1

What’s a natural hazard?

Answer 1

A natural event in which can cause harm to people and the environment

Question 2

What effects hazard risk?

Answer 2

Wealth- poor people might have to live in hazardous places
Education- people might not be aware of the risk
Location- some areas are more at risk than others

Question 3

What’s the thickest layer of the earth?

Answer 3

Mantle

Question 4

Differences between oceanic and continental crust

Answer 4

Continental is less dense than the oceanic,
Continental is thicker than the oceanic,
Both from different rocks

Question 5

What happens to temperature and density as you move onwards from the core?

Answer 5

Becomes cooler and less dense

Question 6

Direction of plate movements:

Answer 6

Conservative- side by side
Destructive- oceanic subducted beneath continental plate
Constructive- move apart

Question 7

What happens at destructive plate boundaries?

Answer 7

Earthquakes due to the friction of the plates and volcanos as the oceanic plate subducts and melts the magma erupts through the surface

Question 8

Where do the most destructive eruptions occur?

Answer 8

Destructive boundaries

Question 9

What’s the scale for measuring earthquakes?

Answer 9

Richter scale

Question 10

What’s subduction?

Answer 10

Dense plate is forced beneath a less dense plate