Things to study

Question 1

What are tectonic plates?

Answer 1

Pieces of the earths and the upper most mantle referred to as the lithosphere

Question 2

What do tectonic plates consist of?

Answer 2

Oceanic crust & continental crust

Question 3

What is Iceland’s volcano called?

Answer 3

Eyjafjallajokull (only need to know how to spell it)

Question 4

Where did the volcano erupt?

Answer 4

Located south of the intersection between the South Iceland Seismic Zone and the Eastern Volcanic Zone, Eyjafjallajokull is close to a propagating rift zone

Question 5

When did it erupt?

Answer 5

14th of April 2010

Question 6

Atmospheric air pressure

Answer 6

The force exerted on the earths surface by the weight of the air, measured in millibars

Question 7

Caldera

Answer 7

A caldera volcano occurs when a volcano erupts so explosively that the magma ash chamber empties and the car

Question 8

Climatic zones

Answer 8

Divisions of the earths climates into belts or zones according to average temperatures and average rainfall. The three major zones are polar template and tropical

Question 9

Composite volcanoes (stratovolcanoes)

Answer 9

A steep sided dome shaped volcano that are erupts a variety of materials such as sticky acid lava and ash. Occurs at destructive plate margins

Question 10

condensation

Answer 10

the process whereby rising water vapour becomes a liquid

Question 11

Continental drift

Answer 11

the movement of continents and tectonic plates, which is driven by convection in the mantle

Question 12

Continental plate

Answer 12

the lithosphere (crust) upon which sits our continents and land

Question 13

Convection

Answer 13

the constant churning of the mantle through heat energy (radiation) passing out from the core

Question 14

Core

Answer 14

the centre of the Earth, with a solid metal inner core (at 6000°C temperature) and semi-solid outer core (4030–5730°C) from which heat is radiated outwards through the mantle

Question 15

Coriolis effect

Answer 15

the result of Earth’s rotation on weather patterns and ocean currents, making storms swirl clockwise in the southern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere

Question 16

crust

Answer 16

the solid, rocky shell layer (lithosphere) over the mantle around the Earth, upon which sit our continents and oceans; the Earth’s crust is fragmented into tectonic plates that float on the mantle

Question 17

Development

Answer 17

the state of growth or advancement whereby people and places improve over time

Question 18

Drought

Answer 18

a prolonged period of time with unusually low rainfall; droughts occur when there is not enough rainfall to support people or crops

Question 19

El Niño

Answer 19

climatic changes affecting the Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterised by the appearance of unusually warm water around northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December; the effects of El Niño include the reversal of wind patterns across the Pacific, causing drought in Australasia, and unseasonal heavy rain in South America