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Tectonic Hazards Flashcards

(14 cards)

1
Q

What landforms/Hazards appear at destructive plate boundaries.

A

Composite volcanoes
ocean trench
Benioff zone

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2
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What are examples of plates at destructive plate boundaries

A

Oceanic - Nazca

continental - South American plate

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3
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What landforms/Hazards appear at constructive plate boundaries.

A

Shield Volcano
Island arcs
Ocean ridge

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4
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What are examples of plates at Constructive plate boundaries

A

oceanic vs oceanic
North American Plate vs Eurasian

Continental vs continental
Nubian plate vs African plate

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5
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What landforms occur at a conservative plate boundary

A

No land created or destroyed

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6
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What landforms occur at a Collison plate boundary

A

Fold mountains

Benioff zone - high magnitude

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7
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Three impacts of Haiti Earthquake magnitude 7

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230,000 deaths
1.5 million homeless (primary and secondary)
5000 schools were damaged

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8
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Three responses of Haiti Earthquake

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Aid package $11.5 billion
purification tablets for 250,000 people
1100 camps for homeless

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9
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Impacts of Japanese tsunami

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500km land destroyed 
500,000 homeless
700 aftershocks
fukushima almost had a melt down
200,000 children developed thyroid problems
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10
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responses to Japanese tsunami

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100,000 soldiers mobilised

UK sent 63 search and rescue specialist

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11
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What is the 4 types of erosion

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Abrasion, attrition, sheer power, corrasion.

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12
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Three types of weathering

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mechanical, chemical, biological

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13
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Fastest type of mass movement.

A

Rockfall

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14
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examples of chemical weathering

A

carbonation, hydration, oxidation, hydrolysis

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