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8.6 NH Final Exam
Term | Definition |
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Tornado | A mobile destructive vortex of violently rotating winds advancing beneath a large storm system. |
Hurricane | a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean. |
Earthquake | a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction as result of movements within the earth crust of volcanic action. |
Volcanic Eruption | a volcanic eruption occurs when hot materials from the earth, interior are thrown out of a volcano. |
Flood | Occurs when an overflow of water submerges land that is usually dry. (It is usually caused by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt, or storm surge from a cyclone or tsunami in coastal areas). |
Severity | Extent of damage, or loss from a natural hazard event. |
Fault | a fracture in the Earth’s crust, where two blocks of rock are being pushed past one another or where two blocks of rock weak once pushed past one another. |
Tectonic Plate | Tectonic Plates are pieces of Earth’s crust. |
Forecast | a scientific claim (statement backed by evidence and scientific reasoning) about the likelihood that an event will occur in the future. |
Risk | the chance (probability) that a danger or hazard will occur. |
Natural Hazard Forecast | a scientific claim about the likelihood of a natural hazard event occurring in a particular place. |
Tectonic Plate Boundary | Where two tectonic plates meet. |
Convergent Boundary | a location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates move apart from one another |
Divergent Boundary | a location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates crash into one another, either one going under the other, or colliding into one another |
Transform Boundary | a location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates slide past one another |