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Question 1

Definition of natural hazard

Answer 1

Extreme natural events which pose a danger to property and loss of life

Question 2

Pieces of earth crust

Answer 2

Plates

Question 3

Plate boundary causes by side by side and example

Answer 3

Conservative - San Andreas fault, california

Question 4

Which piece of equipment used to record power of earthquakes and what does it produce

Answer 4

Seismometers - seismic waves

Question 5

What do all have in common

Answer 5

Large Tropical storms produce heavy rain and high wind

Question 6

Main location of tropical storms

Answer 6

In between cancer and Capricorn tropics

Question 7

What temp is needed in sea for tropical storm to form

Answer 7

27 degrees c

Question 8

Immediate impacts of typhoon Hyman

Answer 8

1.1 million damaged houses (homeless
Electricity interrupted
Roads blocked by fallen trees
6190 deaths

Question 9

Difference between greenhouse effect and global warming

Answer 9

Ge is natural and beneficial to earth
Global warming is consequence of fossil gases expelled by industry which generates an unnatural increase in global temperature

Question 10

4 gases most responsible for global warming

Answer 10

Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Flurionated gases (chlorofluorocarbons

Question 11

Britain’s weather is getting more extreme t/f

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Beast from the east cause

Answer 12

Cold air from east (|siberia
Warm air from Atlantic ocean

Question 13

Dif between mitigation and adaptation

Answer 13

Mitigation is preventing climate change 0 reducing gases
Adapting is changing ;life with climate change - adjusting to new temp

Question 14

2 major climate change effects

Answer 14

Rising sea levels
Droughts

Question 15

Carbon dioxide is most prevalent greenhouse gas

Answer 15

False - water vapour

Question 16

River begins

Answer 16

Source

Question 17

2 rivers meet

Answer 17

Confluence

Question 18

Small stream that joins river

Answer 18

Tributary

Question 19

4 erosion processes in river

Answer 19

Abrasion attrition corrosion hydraulic action

Question 20

What is thalweg

Answer 20

Line of fastest flow

Question 21

Fasted flow is inside or outisde of meander

Answer 21

Outside

Question 22

Describe formation of waterfall

Answer 22

River flows over layer of hard and soft rock
Plunge pool is created at bottom
Soft rock erodes over time leaving overhanging hard rock
Hard rock collapses
Over time retracts causing a gorge

Question 23

Where land meats sea

Answer 23

Coast

Question 24

Difference between destructive and constructive wave

Answer 24

Con builds up beacg, stronger swash
De reoves material from beach, stronger backwash

Question 25

Waves more material a long a beach

Answer 25

Long shore drift

Question 26

Discordant coastline

Answer 26

Alternate bands of harder and softer rock types run perpendicular to the coast

Question 27

Landforms cr3eated by discordant coastline

Answer 27

Headlands and bays

Question 28

Scale used to measure earthquakes

Answer 28

Richter scale

Question 29

Difference between hard and soft engineering

Answer 29

Soft - natural attempts such as allowing bea he’s to develop, working with nature Hard- man made structures or engineering of artificial strucutrews

Question 30

Ecosystem

Answer 30

Living and non living part5s of an environment and the relationships between them

Question 31

Biotic vs abiotic

Answer 31

Biotic- living Abiotic - non living (water,soil

Question 32

Food chain v food web

Answer 32

Chain - shows how each living things gets its food between producers and consumers A food web displays all food chains in an ecosystem

Question 33

Primary consumer

Answer 33

Animals that eat plants made by producers

Question 34

Location of rianfrodresf

Answer 34

Along equates, between tropics, continents of South America, Africa and Australia , asia

Question 35

Plant adapti9on 1

Answer 35

Thick waxy leaves and drip tips to shed heavy rainfall slowly down

Question 36

Plant adaption 2

Answer 36

Buttress roots provide a stable base to prevent tree falling

Question 37

Word tundra

Answer 37

Finnish word - tuntaria which means barren or treeless land

Question 38

Permafrost and challenges

Answer 38

Permafrost - ground remaining frozen for at least 2 years Icy roads Ashe car accidents Building build on raised piles to prevent permafrost melting

Question 39

River transport processes

Answer 39

Solution saltation traction. Suspension