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Tectonic Keywords Flashcards

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Ash falls

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Small particles of rock and volcanic glass that land after a volcanic eruption has blasted them into the air

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Asthenosphere

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The part of the mantle, below the lithosphere, where the rock is semi molten

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Benioff zone

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The area where friction is created between colliding tectonic plates, resulting in intermediate and deep earthquakes

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Body waves

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The group name for primary and secondary seismic waves, because they travel through the earths body

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Collision margin

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Where two continental plates meet and the sediments between them are crumpled and forced up to form high fold mountains

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Conservative plate margin

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Where two plates slide past each other also known as a transform margin

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Constructive margin

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Where two plates move apart, also known as a divergent boundary

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Continental crust

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Older, thicker layer of crust, which makes up the earths landmasses. It is less dense than oceanic crust

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Convection currents

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Hot, liquid magma currents moving in the asthenosphere

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Convergent boundary

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Where two plates move towards each other and collide, also know as a destructive margin

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Crustal fracturing

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When energy released during an earthquake causes the earths crust to crack

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Deep ocean trench

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A deep ditch in the ocean, marking the place where an oceanic plate starts to sink beneath a continental plate

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Destructive margin

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Where two plates move towards each other and collide, also known as a convergent boundary

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Divergent boundary

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Where two plates move apart, also known as a constructive margin

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Epicentre

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The point on the earths surface directly above the focus

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Focus

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The point inside the earths crust from which the pressure is released when an earthquake occurs

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Fold mountains

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Chains of mountains, formed when two plates collide and the continental plate is folded and slowly pushed up

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Gas eruptions

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When volcanic gases (water vapour, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide) that were dissolved in the magma are released into the atmosphere during an eruption

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Hazard adaptation

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Strategies designed to reduce the impacts of hazard events

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Hazard mitigation

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Strategies meant to avoid, delay or prevent hazard events

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Hazard management cycle

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a theoretical model of hazard management as a continuous 4-stage cycle involving mitigation, preparation, response and recovery

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Hot spot

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an area where radioactive decay within the Earth’s core is concentrated, generating very hot temperatures and heating the lower mantle. This creates localised thermal currents where magma plumes rise

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hydrometeorological hazards

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natural hazards caused by climate processes (including droughts, floods, hurricanes and storms)

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Intra plate earthquakes

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Earthquakes which occur far from the plate margins

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Island arcs

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curved lines of islands, formed when underwater volcanoes grow and rise above sea level to form separate island volcanoes

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jökulhlaups

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A heavy and sudden flood caused when the heat of a volcanic eruption melts the snow and ice in a glacier

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L waves (surface Love waves)

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Seismic waves which travel on the surface and are the slowest waves but cause the most damage

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Lahars

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Masses of rock, mud and water that travels quickly down the sides of a volcano

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Land use zoning

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A process by which local government regulates how land in a community may be used

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Landslides

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when blocks of rock moves very rapidly downhill, caused when the ground shaking during an earthquake places stress on the slopes

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Lava flows

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streams of lava that have erupted from a volcano onto the Earth’s surface

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Liquefaction

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when the violent shaking during an earthquake causes surface rocks to lose strength and become more liquid than solid

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Lithosphere

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the solid layer, made from the crust and upper mantle, from which tectonic plates are formed

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Magma plume

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a rising column of hot rock created by hot spots heating the lower mantle, creating localised thermal currents

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Mid ocean ridges

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underwater mountain ranges, formed when hot magma is forced up from the asthenosphere and hardens, creating new oceanic crust

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Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale

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takes observations from people who experienced the earthquake and rates them on a scale from I (hardly noticed) to XII (catastrophic)

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Moment magnitude scale

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measures the total energy released by an earthquake at the moment it occurs

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Multiple hazard zone

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an area that is at risk from multiple natural hazards such as hurricanes and earthquakes

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Natural disaster

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a major natural hazard that causes significant social, environmental and economic damage

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Natural hazard

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a naturally occurring process or event that has the potential to affect people

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Non governmental organisation

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a non-profit organisation created by private organisations or people with no participation or representation by any government

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Oceanic crust

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a thin, dense layer of crust, which lines the ocean floors

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P waves (Primary or pressure waves)

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the fastest seismic waves and the ones which reach the surface first. They are high-frequency and pushing like balls in a line. They travel through both the mantle and core

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palaeomagnetism

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the study of past changes in the Earth’s magnetic field

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Pressure and release model

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a tool used to work out how vulnerable a country is to hazards

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Pyroclastic flows

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a mixture of dense hot rock, lava, ash and gases ejected from a volcano, which move very quickly across the Earth’s surface

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Rift valleys

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steep-sided valleys, formed at divergent boundaries when the crust stretches and the land between parallel faults collapses

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S waves (Secondary or shear waves)

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seismic waves which are slower than P waves and only travel through solids, with a sideways motion. They do more damage than P waves

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Sea floor spreading

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when new oceanic crust – formed when hot magma is forced up from the asthenosphere and hardens – pushes the tectonic plates apart

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Slab pull

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when newly formed oceanic crust sinks into the mantle, pulling the rest of the plate further down with it

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Subduction

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when two plates move towards each other and one slides under the other into the mantle

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Subduction zone

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the area in the mantle where a tectonic plate melts

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the Park model (hazard- response curve)

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shows how a country or region might respond after a hazard event

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Transform fault

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A fault created on a large scale when two plates slide past each other

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Transform margin

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Where two plates slide past each other, also known as a conservative boundary

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Tsunami

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A series of larger than normal waves which are usually caused by volcanic eruptions or underwater earthquakes

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Urbanisation

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The increasing proportion of people living in towns and cities as opposed to the countryside

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Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)

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A logarithmic scale between 0 and 8 which is used to describe and compare the size or magnitude of volcanic eruptions

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Water column

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Water that is displaced above the sea floor when an earthquake has caused the sea floor to uplift. This water column will form tsunami waves

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