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| Name two differences between continental plates and oceanic plates | show 🗑
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| Name the type of plate margin where two plates are moving towards each other | show 🗑
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| What is an oceanic trench? | show 🗑
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| show | Conservative
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| show | Fold mountains form along both destructive and collision plate boundaries.They form when two continental plates collide and crumple into a fold mountain range.
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| show | Winter sports such as skiing in resorts
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| show | Because the slopes are so steep, the farmers have cut out terraces into the slope to create flat land that is suitable for growing crops
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| show | The alps
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| Describe three ways humans use the fold mountain area | show 🗑
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| show | Farmers introduce vineyards or providing camp-sites for tourists to help boost their income.
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| What's magma called when it erupts onto the surface? | show 🗑
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| show | Composite cone - Montserrat
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| Which type of volcano is formed when the lava is runny? Name an example | show 🗑
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| Give three things that scientists do to try and predict a volcanic eruption. | show 🗑
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| Name a volcanic eruption and state when and where it happened | show 🗑
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| show | The island had to be evacuated and out of the few who stayed, 19 died
Many homes, the hospital, the airport and roads were destroyed
More than half the island became uninhabitable
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| show | People who stayed suffered very harsh conditions and medical conditions like silicosis were reported
Montserrat's economy was devastated as tourism came to a halt
Floods as valleys were blocked by ash
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| show | New roads and a new airport built
A volcanic observatory has been built to monitor the volcano
Services in the north of the island have been expanded as Little Bay is developed as the new capital
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| show | The island was evacuated
Many people left the island completely which meant the population had fallen from 12,000 to 3,500
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| show | Many young people left the island forever, which has resulted in an ageing population. This means less agricultural work can be done so the economy has been damaged.
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| Where do super-volcanoes form? | show 🗑
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| Give one way that a super-volcanic eruption is different from a volcanic eruption | show 🗑
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| show | Global cooling that could lead to an ice age
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| What causes earthquakes? | show 🗑
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| What's the point in the Earth where an earthquake starts? | show 🗑
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| What's the point on the surface of the earth above where an earthquake starts? | show 🗑
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| show | It measures the magnitude of an earthquake so that you can compare their sizes
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| show | San Francisco, Loma Prieta
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| show | 67 dead, 3000+ injured, 12,000 displaced - temporary shelter supplied for those in need.
Gas and water mains were burst, causing fires with not enough water to put them out - fire services had to pump water out of the bay to put them out.
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| show | powerful undersea earthquakes are responsible for most tsunamis
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| Give an example of a tsunami | show 🗑
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| Describe two effects of the tsunami | show 🗑
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