place examples Flashcards

(10 cards)

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what is an example of a hot spot?

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-The Hawaiian hot spot
-extends 5000 km along the emporer sea mountain chain

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what is an example of a place that has a fatalism approach?

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-Haiti

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what is a place that has a domination approach?

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-Japan

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what is a place that has a adaptation approach?

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-Montserrat

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what is an example of an ocean trench at an oceanic and continental plate margin?

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the Peru-Chile trench along the pacific coast of South America

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what is an example of a fold mountain at an oceanic and continental plate margin?

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-The Andes

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where is an example of a deep ocean trench at an oceanic and oceanic plate margin?

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-The Mariana trench and Mariana Islands
-the pacific plate is being subducted beneath the smaller Philippine plate

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where is an example of a fold mountain at a continental and continental margin?

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-Himalayas
-Everest

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where is an example of a conservative plate boundary?

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-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

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where is an example of a Lahar?

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-Nevado del Ruiz eruption which caused a lahar killing over 20,000 people in Armero , colombia

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