Tectonic Hazards

Question 1

What landforms/Hazards appear at destructive plate boundaries.

Answer 1

Composite volcanoes
ocean trench
Benioff zone

Question 2

What are examples of plates at destructive plate boundaries

Answer 2

Oceanic - Nazca

continental - South American plate

Question 3

What landforms/Hazards appear at constructive plate boundaries.

Answer 3

Shield Volcano
Island arcs
Ocean ridge

Question 4

What are examples of plates at Constructive plate boundaries

Answer 4

oceanic vs oceanic
North American Plate vs Eurasian

Continental vs continental
Nubian plate vs African plate

Question 5

What landforms occur at a conservative plate boundary

Answer 5

No land created or destroyed

Question 6

What landforms occur at a Collison plate boundary

Answer 6

Fold mountains

Benioff zone - high magnitude

Question 7

Three impacts of Haiti Earthquake magnitude 7

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Three responses of Haiti Earthquake

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Impacts of Japanese tsunami

Answer 9

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

Question 10

responses to Japanese tsunami

Answer 10

100,000 soldiers mobilised

UK sent 63 search and rescue specialist

Question 11

What is the 4 types of erosion

Answer 11

Abrasion, attrition, sheer power, corrasion.

Question 12

Three types of weathering

Answer 12

mechanical, chemical, biological

Question 13

Fastest type of mass movement.

Answer 13

Rockfall

Question 14

examples of chemical weathering

Answer 14

carbonation, hydration, oxidation, hydrolysis