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8.6 NH Final Exam
Term | Definition |
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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 a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. |
Volcanic Eruption | when gas and/or lava are released from a volcano—sometimes explosively |
Flood | an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land. |
Cone of Uncertainty | describes the evolution of the amount of best case uncertainty |
Tornado | a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. |
Forecast | a prediction or estimate of future events, especially coming weather or a financial trend. |
Risk | a situation involving exposure to danger. |
magnitude | the great size or extent of something. |
fault | an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character. |
mitigate | make less severe, serious, or painful. |
tectonic plate | Pieces of the earth crust which structures the earth. |
Tectonic Plate Boundary | Where two tectonic plates meet. |
Convergent 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 |
Divergent Boundary | a location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates move apart from one another |
fault | a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass |
Precursor | a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner. |