Geography 🌍

Question 1

What tectonic event occurred in Haiti on January 12, 2010?

Answer 1

The Port-au-Prince earthquake.

Question 2

True or False: The Port-au-Prince earthquake had a magnitude of 7.0.

Answer 2

True.

Question 3

What is the primary cause of earthquakes like the one in Port-au-Prince?

Answer 3

The movement of tectonic plates.

Question 4

Fill in the blank: The Port-au-Prince earthquake primarily affected the _______ region of Haiti.

Answer 4

West🥰

Question 5

What was one major consequence of the Port-au-Prince earthquake?

Answer 5

Widespread destruction and loss of life.

Question 6

Short Answer: Name one type of tectonic plate boundary involved in earthquake activity.

Answer 6

Transform, divergent, or convergent.

Question 7

True or False: The Port-au-Prince earthquake resulted in significant international humanitarian aid.

Answer 7

True.

Question 8

What is the Richter scale used for?

Answer 8

To measure the magnitude of earthquakes.

Question 9

The port au prince earthquake was in which country

Answer 9

Haiti

Question 10

What are the edges of tectonic plates called?

Answer 10

Plate boundaries

Question 11

Where in the world do most earthquakes happen?

Answer 11

The americas and asia

Question 12

What is an example of two tectonic plates moving towards eachother?

Answer 12

African plate and the antartic plate

Question 13

What is an example of two tectonic plates moving past eachother?

Answer 13

North American plate and the Eurasian plate

Question 14

What is a richter scale?

Answer 14

A richter scale measures magnitude by measuring the shockwave using a seismograph

Question 15

What is a mecalli scale?

Answer 15

A mechalli scale measures the impact or damage to buildings caused by an earthquake

Question 16

What shockwave is faster, primary or secondary ones?

Answer 16

Primary

Question 17

What magnitude earthquake was the one in Haiti?

Answer 17

Magnitude 7

Question 18

What time did the Haiti earthquake happen?

Answer 18

4:53 pm

Question 19

Where does the magma come from that comes out from volcanoes?

Answer 19

Inside the earth

Question 20

What is a supervolcano?

Answer 20

A volcano 1000x bigger than a regular one that has potential to profuce an eruption with major effects on global climate and ecosystem

Question 21

Where are most supervolcanoes located?

Answer 21

Near the point boundaries

Question 22

What is the definition of a superpower nation?

Answer 22

An extremely powerful country one that is capable of influencing international events, its power can be felt across the whole world

Question 23

What are the main factors for a country to be a superpower?

Answer 23

Size, location, population, resources, milatary power, economic power, soft power, political power

Question 24

What are the BRIC nations?

Answer 24

Brazil, Russia, India, China

Question 25

What are the MINT nations?

Answer 25

Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey

Question 26

What is a uni-polar world system?

Answer 26

Where most of the worlds regions economic, social, culturual aspects are influenced by a single state/country

Question 27

What is a bi-polar world sytem?

Answer 27

A system of world order in which the majority of global economic, miliatary, and culturual influence is held between two states/countries

Question 28

What is a multi-polar world system?

Answer 28

Where power is distributed at among 3 significant countries

Question 29

Are BRIC and MINT nations emerging superpowers?

Answer 29

Yes

Question 30

What do convection currents do in the mantle?

Answer 30

They move tectonic plates

Question 31

What is the source of heat driving the convection currents?

Answer 31

Radiocative decay happening deep inside the earth

Question 32

What is an epicentre?

Answer 32

The point on the earths surface directly above the fows of an earthquake

Question 33

What is a fault line?

Answer 33

A line on the earths surface that traces the geological fault

Question 34

What is the focus?

Answer 34

The point where the earthquake happens, where stress is builded up and released between 2 plates

Question 35

What rock type is in contiental plates?

Answer 35

Granite

Question 36

What rock type is in oceanic plates?

Answer 36

Basalt

Question 37

What are secondary effects of earthquakes?

Answer 37

Tsunamis, landslides and aftershocks

Question 38

What are 4 layers of the earth?

Answer 38

Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core

Question 39

What is the thinnest layer on the earth?

Answer 39

The crust

Question 40

What is the thickest layer on the earth?

Answer 40

The mantle

Question 41

What is the most inner part of the earth?

Answer 41

The inner core

Question 42

What happens to the temperature as you go deeper into the earth?

Answer 42

Its gets hotter

Question 43

What was the big continent called that alfred wegner discovered

Answer 43

Pangaea

Question 44

What is the name of the process in how the continents moved away from eachother?

Answer 44

Continetial Drift

Question 45

Which layer of the earth is broken up into tectonic plates?

Answer 45

The crust

Question 46

Which layer of the earth is the hottest

Answer 46

Inner core

Question 47

Which layer of the earth has convection currents

Answer 47

The mantle

Question 48

Which tectonic plate do we live on?

Answer 48

The eurasian plate

Question 49

Which plate boundary caused the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami?

Answer 49

Convergent (destructive)

Question 50

Which country was most affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami?

Answer 50

Indonesia

Question 51

True of false: a tsunami wave flows in one direction towards the cost

Answer 51

False

Question 52

What is the advice given to students in earthquake prone countries?

Answer 52

Drop, cover, hold on

Question 53

Is cross bracing a good method of seismic proofing?

Answer 53

Yes

Question 54

What country has the largest milatary in terms of peoples?

Answer 54

China