place examples Flashcards
(10 cards)
what is an example of a hot spot?
-The Hawaiian hot spot
-extends 5000 km along the emporer sea mountain chain
what is an example of a place that has a fatalism approach?
-Haiti
what is a place that has a domination approach?
-Japan
what is a place that has a adaptation approach?
-Montserrat
what is an example of an ocean trench at an oceanic and continental plate margin?
the Peru-Chile trench along the pacific coast of South America
what is an example of a fold mountain at an oceanic and continental plate margin?
-The Andes
where is an example of a deep ocean trench at an oceanic and oceanic plate margin?
-The Mariana trench and Mariana Islands
-the pacific plate is being subducted beneath the smaller Philippine plate
where is an example of a fold mountain at a continental and continental margin?
-Himalayas
-Everest
where is an example of a conservative plate boundary?
-The San Andreas fault line where the Pacific plate is moving north west at 6cm per year whereas the North American Plate is moving north west at 1 cm per year
-last movement was in 1989 in San Francisco which had 15 s of 6.9 magnitude on Richer scale
where is an example of a Lahar?
-Nevado del Ruiz eruption which caused a lahar killing over 20,000 people in Armero , colombia