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Research - Plate Tectonic Flashcards

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A model that shows that a natural disaster only occurs if a vulnerable population is exposed to a hazard

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Degg’s Model

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A natural event that has the potential to harm eg. Typhoon or volcano

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Hazard

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A natural hazard that affects human life or the economy eg. Typhoon Haiyan

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Disaster

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A theory proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, stating that the continents drifted apart over 250 million years from Pangea

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Continental Drift Theory

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Branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks. As magma solidifies, the iron minerals align themselves with the magnetic North pole (magnetism flips every 200,000yrs)

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Paleomagnetism

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The process where the Earths Core is slowly broken down, driving convection currents causing tectonic plate movement

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Decaying core

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The solid, outer layer of the Earth. Consists of the crust and brittle upper solid portion of the mantle

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Lithosphere

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The zone of the Earth’s mantle much hotter and more liquid than the lithosphere

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Asthenosphere

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Rock that’s formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava. At constructive, basalt and at destructive, andesitic/rhyolitic

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Igneous rock

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Lower layer of Earth’s crust, namely rocks rich in silica and magnesium as basalt

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SIMA

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Upper layer of Earth’s crust, namely rocks rich in aluminium silicate minerals as granite

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SIAL

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fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption

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Tephra

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An underwater deep-ocean rift valley at 3,000-6,000m. Found at oceanic constructive plate boundaries

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Abyssal plain

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A type of plate bouder where plates slide past one another without production or destruction of crust

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Transform fault

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Subsistence sections of crust between fault lines formed at a continental constructive plate boundary

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Rift valley

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As a tectonic plate moves further from an oceanic ridge, it cools and becomes denser causing it to sink beneath a continental crust

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Slab pull

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Boundary between subduction plate and overlying crystal rocks ….

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Wadati Benioff Zones

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Occurs at collision plate boundaries where magma plumes are trapped beneath the surface

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Relic subduction

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The convergence of two plates of continental crust

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Collision Margin

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A system of parallel mountain ranges eg. Andes

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Cordillera

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A curved chain of volcanic islands (due to Earth’s curvature) located at a tectonic plate margin usually with a deep ocean trench

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Island Arc

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An stationary plume where molten magma breaks through the Earth’s crust and as the plate moves, the basic shield volcano becomes inactive eg.Hawaii

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Hotspot

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An underwater mountain which was previously a hotspot volcano and due to erosion and plate movement has a flat top underwater.

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Guyots

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A line of islands formed by tectonic plate movement over a hotspot, forming volcanoes and then inactive mountains eg. Hawaiian islands

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Linear island chain

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AKA an archipelago

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Clustered island chain

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The immediate hazards of an eruption coming directly from it eg. Pyroclastic flows

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Primary hazard

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Indirect hazards caused by primary volcanic hazards which occur on a longer timescale eg. Lahars

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Secondary hazards

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Volcanic hazards that result from secondary hazards and have a very long term human impact after the eruption

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Tertiary hazards

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A mixture of water, rock, ash and sand from a volcano due to heavy rainfall or heat from a volcanic vent melting ice

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Lahar

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High speed avalanches of hot ash, rock fragments and gas, 800°c

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Pyroclastic flows

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Volcanic Explosivitiy Index. Measures a out of tephra created on a log scale

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VEI

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Highly viscous lava (high in silica ~70%) forms granite, at destructive plate boundaries, forms composite cone volcanos and cooler than basic (~800°c)causing violent eruptions due to trapped air

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Acidic lava

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Less viscous lava due to lower silica content (~50%) forms basalt found at constructive plate boundaries and hotspots, higher temps (~1200°c), forms shield volcanos with smaller more frequent eruptions

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Basic lava

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Heat from cooling magma can cause hydrothermal change of the rocks, turning into clay, weakening it and increase risk of slope failure

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Landslides

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When masses of water/ ice are suddenly released from a glacier

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Jökuhlaup

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Point inside crust to where the pressure is released, causing an earthquake

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Focus

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Point at the surface of the crust directly above the focus

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Epicentre

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Known as moment magnitude scale, measures seismic movement + strength (seismograph) and rigidity of rock + amount of slip

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Richter scale

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Measure of earthquake scale from 1-12 based upon total destruction of all buildings (subjective)

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Mercalli scale

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Earthquakes caused by tectonic plate movement plate boundaries eg. Ridge, transform, rift, Wadatti Benioff zones

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Tectonic earthquakes

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Earthquakes that occur at interplate hotspots, usually with a shallower focus and less scale

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Magmatic earthquake

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A zone of seismic activity on the two slabs just above the subduction zone

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Wadatti Benioff zones

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Earthquakes on one side of a volcano. Due to a bulge in the magma chamber

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Earthquake swarm

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Push waves that travel through the Earth, primary waves recorded

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P waves

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Shake waves, travels through Earth and are secondary waves recorded

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S waves

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Long waves that travel along the Earths surface, producing large movement and most destructive, last waves recorded

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L waves

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Theory that earthquake hazards increase with time due to increased pressure between plates

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Seismic Gap theory

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First phase of a tsunami where it’s created either by: earthquake-causing displacement, earthquake-caused landslide or volano

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Génération phase

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Second phase of tsunami where it’s travelling in the deep sea with a long wavelength and low crest

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Propagation phase

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Third phase of tsunamis where it hits the sea beds and slows due to friction

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Shoaling phase

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Final have of a tsunamis where it hits land and then the wave moves back into the sea

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Inundation + Drawback phase

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A scale for tsunamis (similar to mercalli scale)

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Tsunami intensity scale

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Where a tsunami curves around a coastline

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Wave refraction

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The sudden movement of plates due to built-up pressure creating large earthquakes (seismic gap theory)

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Megathrust

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A technological disaster caused by natural disaster eg. Fukushima

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Natec

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how quickly the peak of the hazard event occurs, how long it takes to travel from focus to disaster zone eg. Earthquakes

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Speed of onset

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The ability of people, organizations and systems, using available skills and resources, to manage, money, aid + protection

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Capacity to cope

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Measures the risk of a hazard (both physical and social): hazard (mag+frequency) x vulnerability/ capacity to cope

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Risk equation

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A factor of the risk equation that measures land degradation and land use as well as the population vulnerability

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Vulnerability

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Sensationlisation of a disaster by journalists

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A2 Geography (5 decks)

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