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What is an extreme natural event that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction and death known as?
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What is a hazard that occurs because of a movement of the Earth’s crust, such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake is classified as?
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What is an extreme natural event that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction and death known as?
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What is a hazard that occurs because of a movement of the Earth’s crust, such as a volcanic eruption or earthquake is classified as?
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What is a hazard that occurs as the result of certain atmospheric conditions, such as a tropical storm, classified as?
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Where do over half the world’s volcanic eruptions and earthquake occur?
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What type of natural hazard is likely to be more intensive due to climate change?
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What layer of the Earth is found beneath the crust?
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What is the upper section of the mantle called?
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What is the layer, present below the atmosphere, consisting of the Earth’s crust along with the uppermost solid layer of the mantle?
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What are the two types of tectonic crust known as?
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Which type of tectonic crust is thickest?
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Which type of tectonic crust is most dense?
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What are the large pieces of lithosphere known as?
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What is molten liquid rock above the surface of the Earth known as?
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What is molten liquid rock below the surface of the Earth known as?
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Identify the three main plate margins (type your answer in alphabetical order separated by a space).
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Which theory of tectonic movement suggests plates move due to heat currents in the mantle?
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Which theory of tectonic movement suggests plates move due to gravity causing the higher plate at a ridge to push away causing them to move away from each other?
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Which theory of tectonic movement suggests plates move due to gravity pulling a tectonic plate into the mantle along destructive margins?
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Identify the type of volcano typically found along destructive plate margins.
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What type of margin do the North American and Eurasian plate form?
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What type of margin do the Pacific and North American plate form?
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What type of margin do the Pacific and Eurasian plate form?
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Along which type of plate margin are subduction zones found?
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What type of volcano is typically found along constructive plate margins?
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What causes plates forming a conservative margin to get stuck as they pass each other?
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The San Andreas fault occurs along which type of plate margin?
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The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located along which type of plate margin?
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Where do volcanoes occur in addition to constructive and destructive plate margins?
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What type of effect is one that is directly caused by the disaster, is an integral part of the disaster itself; in the case of an earthquake, it would be the ground shaking, or in the case of a volcanic eruption, lava pouring out of the volcano?
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What type of effect involves the things that happen in the hours, days, and weeks after a disaster?
