Test 7

Question 1

What is a Natural Hazard?

Answer 1

A Natural Hazard is weather or natural phenomena that could hurt or injure people, animals, and surrounding areas.

Question 2

What are Hurricanes?

Answer 2

Hurricanes are massive storms that have high winds, heavy rains, and coastal flooding.

Question 3

What are Tornadoes?

Answer 3

Tornadoes are strong winds rotating in a cyclone. They may involve rain and hail.

Question 4

What are earthquakes?

Answer 4

Earthquakes are sudden geological events in which the ground shakes violently for a short period of time.

Question 5

Can a natural hazard become a natural disaster? How?

Answer 5

Yes, It becomes a natural disaster when it destroys property injures, or loss of power and resources.

Question 6

Where can a natural disaster take place?

Answer 6

A natural disaster can take place in a small or large area or area with a large or small population (Anywhere)

Question 7

Which area is more likely to become a natural disaster?

Answer 7

Areas that have the most likely to become natural disasters are denser populations.

Question 8

What is an example of a Geologic Hazard that happens quickly?

Answer 8

Earthquakes

Question 9

What are examples of Weather and Climate Hazards?

Answer 9

Hurricanes, drought, blizzards, thunderstorms, and floods

Question 10

What is another name for the Ring of Fire?

Answer 10

Circum- pacific belt

Question 11

Where do most volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur?
(not the Ring of Fire)

Answer 11

On plate boundaries

Question 12

Are you better able to predict a volcanic eruption or an earthquake?

Answer 12

Volcanic eruptions

Question 13

What techniques do scientists use to monitor volcanoes?

Answer 13

They use seismograph detection they also use measurements of how far the ground is moving.

Question 14

Can we predict volcanic eruptions?

Answer 14

NO

Question 15

How might we control a volcanic eruption?

Answer 15

Depresszation of magma chamber

Question 16

What are seismologists?

Answer 16

A scientist that detects and studies seismic waves

Question 17

What technologies are used to detect and monitor earthquakes?

Answer 17

Sisemograph, creepmeters, and laser beams

Question 18

What are the 3 types of plate boundaries?

Answer 18

Divergent, Convergent, and Tranform

Question 19

Which layer of the Earth do we live in?

Answer 19

The crust

Question 20

What are the other layers of Earth?

Answer 20

The mantle, inner core, outer core

Question 21

What is the mantle made out of?

Answer 21

The upper and lower mantle

Question 22

What is the Inner Core made of?

Answer 22

Iron and nickel

Question 23

What is the outer core made of?

Answer 23

Liquid iron and nickel

Question 24

What are the specific types of convergent plate boundaries?

Answer 24

Continent to Ocean
Ocean to Ocean
Continental to Continetal

Question 25

What does subduction mean?

Answer 25

Going under

Question 26

Which boundary is where plates slide sideways past each other?

Answer 26

Transform boundaries

Question 27

Which boundary is where plates move towards each other?

Answer 27

Convergent boundaries

Question 28

Which boundary is where plates move away from each other?

Answer 28

Divergent boundaries

Question 29

Continent to Continent convergent boundary can create…

Answer 29

Large mountain ranges

Question 30

Continent Ocean convergent boundary can create…

Answer 30

Deep trenches

Question 31

Ocean to Ocean convergent boundary can create…

Answer 31

Mountain range

Question 32

Divergent boundaries can create…

Answer 32

Deep rifts

Question 33

Transform boundaries can create…

Answer 33

Earthquake

Question 34

What is the lithosphere?

Answer 34

The upper mantle and crust

Question 35

What is a guyot?

Answer 35

Seamounts that have risen above sea level only to be eroded and weather by waves which destroy the top of the seamount resulting in a flattened shape

Question 36

What is a seamount?

Answer 36

A mountain under the sea