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8.6 NH Final Exam

8.6 NH Final Exam Flashcards

TermDefinition
Mitigate Make less severe, serious, or painful.
Levee An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.
Mercalli Scale A scale that measures earthquakes based on observable damage.
Enhanced Fujita Scale A scale that measures tornadoes based on wind speed to related damage.
Volcanic Explosive Index A scale that measures volcanoes based on volume of tephra(rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcano).
Magnitude The size or extent of something.
Saffir-Simpson Scale A scale that measures hurricanes based on their maximum sustained wind speeds.
Tectonic plate boundaries Where two or more tectonic plates meet.
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 were once pushed past one another.
Cone of uncertainty A forecast that predicts where a hurricane will travel
Mitigate Make less severe, serious, or painful.
Levee An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.
Mercalli Scale A scale that measures earthquakes based on observable damage.
Enhanced Fujita Scale A scale that measures tornadoes based on wind speed to related damage.
Volcanic Explosive Index A scale that measures volcanoes based on volume of tephra(rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcano).
Magnitude The size or extent of something.
Saffir-Simpson Scale A scale that measures hurricanes based on their maximum sustained wind speeds.
Tectonic plate boundaries Where two or more tectonic plates meet.
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 were once pushed past one another.
Cone of uncertainty A forecast that predicts where a hurricane will travel
Monitoring To observe and check the progress or quality of something over a period of time; keep under systematic review.
Convergent Plate 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.
Divergent Plate Boundary A location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates move apart from one another.
Transform Plate Boundary a location in Earth’s crust and mantle where two tectonic plates slide past one another.
Precursor An event that happens before another event. This event can be used to predict the second event.
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