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A level Physical Geography: Tectonics Part 1 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 105 times
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- The average score is 9 of 43
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A natural event that has the potential to threaten both life and property | Hazard | 51%
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| Mixture of dense hot rock, lava, ash and gas that travels extremely fast, destroying everything in its path | Pyroclastic Flow | 47%
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| A series of larger than normal waves, usually caused by volcanic eruptions or underwater earthquakes | Tsunami | 47%
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| Volcanoes not located on a plate boundary; magma rises through the lithosphere and erupts to form active volcanoes | Hotspot | 43%
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| Waves generated from the epicentre, most destructive and slowest, travels along and focuses all its energy onto the earth's surface, can only travel through solids | Love | 43%
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| A hazard becoming reality in an event that causes deaths and damage to goods/property and the environment | Disaster | 40%
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| Earthquakes that don't occur on a plate margin | Intra plate | 39%
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| VEI; A logarithmic scale that measures the magnitude of a volcanic eruption | Volcanic Explosivity Index | 37%
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| Waves generated from the hypocentre, longitudinal, can travel though solids, liquids and gases | Primary | 36%
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| A pulling force exerted by cold, dense oceanic plate subducting under continental plate into the mantle | Slab pull | 36%
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| MMS; a logarithmic scale that measures the amount of energy released from an earthquake | Moment Magnitude Scale | 33%
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| Masses of rock, mud and water travelling down the side of a volcano | Lahars | 32%
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| Waves generated from the hypocentre, transverse, can only travel through solids, slower than P waves | Secondary | 32%
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| Sudden floods caused by melted glacial snow and ice | Jokulhlaup | 31%
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| Gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface over geographical time | Continental Drift | 28%
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| Risk = (Hazard x Vulnerability) / Capacity to Cope | Risk equation | 25%
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| An area of seismicity corresponding with the slab being thrust downwards in a subduction zone | Benioff Zone | 24%
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| The point at which an earthquake begins | Hypocentre | 24%
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| The sum of the ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage common affairs | Governance | 21%
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| Very hot, low viscosity, easy gas escape, peaceful eruptions | Basaltic magma | 20%
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| Oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle | Subduction | 20%
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| The formation of new crust due to rising magma at a divergent plate boundary | Sea floor spreading | 19%
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| The ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from natural hazards | Vulnerability | 19%
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| Very hot and very slow lava streams destroying everything in its path | Lava flows | 17%
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| OFZ; a belt of activity along the mid-ocean ridges | Oceanic Fracture Zone | 17%
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| Rising magma pushes the lithosphere upwards causing it to slide down under gravity when it cools | Ridge push | 17%
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| Less hot, high viscosity, difficult gas escape, explosive eruptions | Rhyolitic magma | 15%
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| CFZ; a belt of activity following mountain ranges around the world | Continental Fracture Zone | 13%
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| The varying magnetism in the rocks due to the polarity of the earth switching every 300,000 years | Palaeomagnetism | 13%
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| Model that shows how a country might respond after a hazard event: Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction | Park Model | 13%
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| A technique used to understand, analyse and assess a hazard or hazards which contrast temporally and spatially | Hazard Profile | 12%
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| A hazard generated by tectonic/geological processes | Geophysical | 11%
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| MIS; Measures the effect on people, structures and the natural environment | Mercalli Intensity Scale | 9%
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| A fault that is not slipping due to frictional resistance on the fault being greater than the shear stress across it | Locked fault | 8%
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| Gases dissolved in magma | Volatiles | 8%
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| Process in which governments and other organisations work together to protect people from natural hazards | Hazard Management Cycle | 7%
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| DART | Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis | 5%
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| Volatiles in magma released into the atmosphere after an eruption | Gas eruptions | 5%
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| Convection currents from the lower mantle cause plates to move due to rotational movement in the asthenosphere | Mantle convection | 5%
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| The lower layers of the Earth's crust | Sima | 5%
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| The upper layers of the Earth's crust | Sial | 4%
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| Strategies used to avoid, delay or prevent hazard events | Hazard Mitigation | 3%
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| Has potential to have social and economic impacts | Tectonic Event | 3%
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