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8.6 NH Final Exam
Term | Definition |
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Cone of Uncertainty | The probable track of the center of a hurricane. |
Severity | The quality or state of being severe |
Natural Hazard Forecast | A depiction that provides information on the physical event characteristics, such as the location, timing, and magnitude of a potentially damaging natural hazard. |
Storm Surge | An abnormal rise of water generated by a storm. |
Saffir-Simpson Scale | A wind scale with a 1 to 5 rating based on a hurricane's sustained wind speed. |
Risk | The possibility of something bad happening. |
Mitigate | To make less severe, serious, or painful. |
Magnitude | The great size or extent of something. |
Fault | A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. |
Seismometer | The internal part of the seismograph, which may be a pendulum or a mass mounted on a spring. |
Monitoring | A process to periodically collect, analyse and use information to actively manage performance. |
Precursor | A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner. |
Tectonic Plate | A massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere. |
Tectonic Plate Boundary | The border between two tectonic plates. |
Convergent Boundary | This occurs when plates move towards each other and collide; converge. |
Divergent Boundary | This occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other; diverge. |
Transform boundary | This occurs when plates slide sideways past each other; sideways. |