Restless earth-case studies

Question 1

What is your fold mountain case study and where is it located?

Answer 1

The alps and its located in Central Europe

Question 2

How was the fold mountain formed?

Answer 2

The African plate collided with the Eurasian plate causing the rock in the geosyncline to be folded up into a mountain range.

Question 3

What are human uses of the fold mountain case study? (Explain)

Answer 3

• Tourism-hotels and money income
• Farmers-plant crops on the fold mountain
• Businesses- hydroelectric power
• Industries- logging the coniferous forest

Question 4

How have people Adapted to living on fold mountains?

Answer 4

Farmers buy in fodders crops and pasture livestock on the valley bottoms each year instead of moving everything up to the high pastures each summer while hay grows on the bottom floor
-railway tunnels have been cut into the mountains to make travel much easier
Fields cultivated for crops in summer

Question 5

What’s your super volcano case study and where is it?

Answer 5

Yellowstone and its located in the USA in Wyoming

Question 6

What are 3 characteristics of a super volcano for example Yellowstone?

Answer 6

• Ejects 1000x more compared to a normal volcano
• not a usual cone like structure it occurs in large depressions called calderas
• they are over 10x the size of a regular volcano

Question 7

What are the likely effects of a super volcanic eruption such as yellow stone?

Answer 7

• 25 mile high ash cloud
• everything within a 100 mile radius will be destroyed
• the ash cloud will lower temperatures by 20c
• the uk will receive the ash cloud 5 days after the eruption
• global economy placed under huge pressure and will probably collapse
• people, home and wildlife will be destroyed

Question 8

What is your volcano case study and where is it?

Answer 8

Mt merapi located in the south east of Asia on a destructive plate margin at a subduction zone

Question 9

What’s so special about mt merapi?

Answer 9

Part of the Pacific ring of fire

Question 10

Cause of the volcano eruption?

Answer 10

The indo Australian plate being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate

Question 11

What are the primary effects of a volcanic eruption such as mt merapi, what will be effected and how?

Answer 11

• volcanic bombs and hot gasses up to 8000c will spread (wildlife people) the hot temperature will burn people alive and the wildlife around it
• pyroclastic flow down the volcano(people’s homes, towns wildlife) - destroy and burn down homes and workplaces destroying the lives of humans
• Sulphur dioxide spreading as far as south Australia (people) - harm humans bodies killing them

Question 12

What are the secondary effect of a volcanic eruption such as mt merapi, what will be effected and how?

Answer 12

• prices of food increases- because of loss of crops- people will starve because they can’t afford it- effects local people and business owners
• emergency shelters for the homeless- effects the homeless- gives the somewhere to live for now
• ash rock and lava will be washed down by rainfall creating lahars (mudflows)

Question 13

Positive impacts of a volcanic eruption and how are they positive?

Answer 13

• fertile soil to help grow crops better

- the dramatic scenery brings in tourism providing much needed income to the country

Question 14

Negative impacts of a volcano eruption?

Answer 14

• people are dead or injured
• risk of diseases spreading because of overcrowding due to so many left homeless
• loss of jobs and homes

Question 15

Short term responses to a volcanic eruption?

Answer 15

• volunteering/military help out
• international aid such as the Red Cross
• evacuation centres

Question 16

Long term responses to a volcano eruption?

Answer 16

• formal evacuation centres
• people moved to new homes permanently
• special task force

Question 17

What is your earthquake MEDC case study and where is it located?

Answer 17

New Zealand located in the Pacific Ocean south east of Australia

Question 18

What was the cause of the MEDC earthquake and what was it on the Richter scale?

Answer 18

The conservative margin where the Pacific plate slid past the Australian plate in the opposite direction it was 6.3 on the Richter scale

Question 19

Primary effects on the MEDC earthquake?

Answer 19

181 people killed
80% of country with no electricity 
Damage to water and sewage supplies 
Buildings and homes destroyed
Large cracks in the ground

Question 20

Secondary effects on a MEDC earthquake?

Answer 20

Loss of income and jobs
People effected mentally and need support
Damage to roads making it difficult for emergency services

Question 21

Short term responses to a MEDC earthquake?

Answer 21

Cared for the most vulnerable
Areas were zoned
International aid

Question 22

Long term responses for a MEDC earthquake?

Answer 22

Paid 898 million in building claims
Temporary housing
Roads and houses were cleared

Question 23

What is your LEDC earthquake and where is it located?

Answer 23

Haiti a small island in the Caribbean

Question 24

What caused the LEDC earthquake and where was it on the Richter scale?

Answer 24

The North American plate sliding past the Caribbean plate at a conservative plate margin it was 7.0 on the Richter scale

Question 25

Primary effects of a LEDC earthquake?

Answer 25

316,000 killed and many injured
Prison was destroyed 4,000 inmates escaped
Infrastructure was destroyed
Buildings were destroyed such as their stadium

Question 26

Secondary effects of a LEDC earthquake?

Answer 26

1in 5 with no job
Bodies were piled up in streets
Poor manage,net meant aid was hard to get

Question 27

Short term responses to a LEDC earthquake?

Answer 27

100 million pounds given from USA
Tents and shelters
People, and to rescue each other due to poor management
Food rations

Question 28

Long term responses to a LEDC earthquake?

Answer 28

Rubble on the roads and ground was still not cleared
Millions still in shelters and tents
There was some support for Those with no job
Clean Water was eventually supplied to few people

Question 29

What is you tsunami case study and where is it located?

Answer 29

Japan Boxing Day in the Indian Ocean Japan

Question 30

What caused the Japan tsunami?

Answer 30

The indo Australian plate subduction below the Eurasian plate caused by a 9.0 earthquake the earthquake caused the sea floor to split displacing the seawater above

Question 31

Main impacts of the tsunami?

Answer 31

1/4 million people died
2million people were homeless
13 other counties were also effected
Islands such as the Maldives had to rebuild for tourism
Mangrove swamps acted as a barrier for the tsunami
People died
Everything was destroyed

Question 32

Challenges of living in the alps?

Answer 32

Relief- high mountains steep slopes narrow valleys with little flat land for farming
Climate- temperature drops with height growing season is short
Soils are stony thin and infertile
Accessibility travel along valleys is ok. It between them is very difficult

Question 33

Give one example of. How people in the fold mountain gain region have adapted to the problems of steep relief and poor soils?

Answer 33

Steep relief-animals such as goats are farmed there as they are well adapted to live on steep mountains. Man made defences and trees are used to protect against avalanches or rock slides.
Poor soils- animals are grazed in the upper most areas as the soil is thin and in fertile which means crops can’t grow there