Tectonic Hazards Flashcards
What landforms/Hazards appear at destructive plate boundaries.
Composite volcanoes
ocean trench
Benioff zone
What are examples of plates at destructive plate boundaries
Oceanic - Nazca
continental - South American plate
What landforms/Hazards appear at constructive plate boundaries.
Shield Volcano
Island arcs
Ocean ridge
What are examples of plates at Constructive plate boundaries
oceanic vs oceanic
North American Plate vs Eurasian
Continental vs continental
Nubian plate vs African plate
What landforms occur at a conservative plate boundary
No land created or destroyed
What landforms occur at a Collison plate boundary
Fold mountains
Benioff zone - high magnitude
Three impacts of Haiti Earthquake magnitude 7
230,000 deaths
1.5 million homeless (primary and secondary)
5000 schools were damaged
Three responses of Haiti Earthquake
Aid package $11.5 billion
purification tablets for 250,000 people
1100 camps for homeless
Impacts of Japanese tsunami
500km land destroyed 500,000 homeless 700 aftershocks fukushima almost had a melt down 200,000 children developed thyroid problems
responses to Japanese tsunami
100,000 soldiers mobilised
UK sent 63 search and rescue specialist
What is the 4 types of erosion
Abrasion, attrition, sheer power, corrasion.
Three types of weathering
mechanical, chemical, biological
Fastest type of mass movement.
Rockfall
examples of chemical weathering
carbonation, hydration, oxidation, hydrolysis
