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1
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The runny type of lava is called…

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Basalt

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2
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When lands acts like a liquid due to seismic shaking is…

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Liquifaction

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3
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Plate margin where two plates slide past each other…

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Conservative

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4
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Date of the Kobe earthquake…

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17th January 1995

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5
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The thick type of lava is called..

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Andesite

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6
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The bay area of Kobe is called…

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Osaka Bay

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7
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The deep depression created by a super volcano eruption is called…

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Caldera

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8
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Denser of the two plates…

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Oceanic

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9
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Capital city of Haiti

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Port au Prince

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10
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The state that Mt St Helens is located…

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Washington

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11
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The name given to protecting buildings by constructing an exoskeleton…

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Retro-engineering

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12
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The name of the building in Kobe that is protected by retro-engineering…

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Osaka Bay Tower

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13
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The date of the Haiti earthquake…

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13th January 2010

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14
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The weight of the roofs that pancaked in the Kobe outer suburbs…

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2 Tonnes

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15
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The name of the plug in the top of the volcano that causes pressure to build…

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Lava dome

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16
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The date of the Mt St Helens eruption…

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18 May 1980

17
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Type of plate boundary you find composite volcanoes…

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Destructive

18
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The guy driving the bus on the Hanshin Expressway

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Fukumoto

19
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The group of people the one child policy applied to…

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Han chinese

20
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This term is when farming is done with machines. it lowers birth rate…

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Mechanization of farming