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What is a climatic hazard?

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When’s region has certain weather conditions, such as flooding

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What is a tectonic hazard?

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When the earths crust moves e.g. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes

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What factor can influence the impacts of a natural hazard?

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Human activities

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What hazard can only occur in specific areas?

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Tornadoes

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Which part of the earth is found above the mantle?

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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 the name given to the hot underground currents which move plates around?

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Convection currents are underground movement of magma

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

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Destructive

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

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Constructive

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What is the name given to margins were plates move side-by-side?

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Conservative

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Name an arc of islands found above hotspots?

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Hawaii

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Where do volcanoes occur?

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At constructive and destructive plate margins

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What is subduction?

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Well oceanic plate is forced continental plate

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Where is Continental crust found?

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Under landmasses in continents

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What is an earthquake?

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Sudden brief period of intense ground shaking

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At which plate margins to find a earthquakes?

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All three plate margins

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What is the point in the earths crust where the earthquake originates known as?

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Focus

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What is the point on the Earth’s surface directly above where the earthquake originates?

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Epicentre

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What piece of equipment measures earthquakes?

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Seismometer

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What is an example of a primary effect?

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Deaths and injury

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What is an example of a short-term response?

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Aid from other countries

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What is earthquake prediction?

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Attempts to forecast an earthquake this is very difficult and not very accurate

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How can buildings be adapted to cope with earthquakes?

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Rubber shock absorbers fitted to absorb earth tremors

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How do people prepare for earthquakes?

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Have drills and educate people on what to do in the event of an earthquake

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Where are volcanoes found?
Along constructive and destructive margins
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Where do volcanoes cause the most damage?
In poorer countries as they have fewer resources to cope
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Where is the crater found?
At the top of the volcano
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Which part of a volcanic eruption can have a global impact?
Ash can have a global impact as it can block sunlight
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What is a positive effect of a volcanic eruption?
Tourism as tourists visit volcanic areas for the dramatic scenery
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What is a negative effect of a volcano?
Damaged buildings
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What is the characteristic of a composite volcano?
Layers of ash and lava
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What is a characteristic of shield volcano?
Found a long constructive margins
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Give an example of a shield volcano
Mauna Loa, Hawaii
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What is an instrument that helps to monitor volcanoes?
Tiltmeter as they measure changes in the landscape
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What type of pressure system as a tropical storm?
A tropical storm is a very powerful low pressure weather systems
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What is the central part of the tropical storm known as?
The eye
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Tropical storms form when water is at what minimum temperature?
27°C
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When does the tropical storms begin to lose energy?
When the storm reaches land
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How will climate change have an affect on tropical storms?
Tropical storms will become more intense and powerful and in more areas as the sea is increasing temperature
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Name a method that can help track and predict tropical storms?
Satellite images
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Typhoon Haiyan occurred in which area of the world?
South east Asia mainly in the Philippines and Vietnam
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Give a social impact of typhoon haiyan
1.9 million people were left homeless
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What type of weather conditions does a depression bring?
Unsettled weather with varied rainfall
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What type of weather conditions does an anticyclone bring to the UK in the summer?
Settled weather, dry and clear skies
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What is a relief rainfall?
When warm moist air from the Atlantic ocean rises up over mountains
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What is convectional rainfall?
It occurs during the summer in the UK, when the Sun heats the land
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How did the environmental agency help reduce the risk of flooding?
They send out flood warnings which help people prepare
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Since when has that been a rapid increase in global temperatures?
The global temperatures have dramatically increased since 1950
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What can be used to measure changing temperatures over time?
Ice core samples as they have trapped air from thousands of years ago

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