Geography Key Words and Definitions Tectonics Topic
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| Risk | show 🗑
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| Short term | show 🗑
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| show | A hazard that lasts for a few weeks
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| Long term | show 🗑
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| Tectonic | show 🗑
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| Natural hazard | show 🗑
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| Prediction | show 🗑
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| show | Can be as effective as prediction in reducing impact
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| Plate | show 🗑
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| Oceanic crust | show 🗑
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| Continental crust | show 🗑
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| show | The centre of the Earth
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| Mantle | show 🗑
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| Magma | show 🗑
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| show | The slow circular movements of molten rock in the mantle caused by the heat rising from the Earth’s crust
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| Crust | show 🗑
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| show | Where two plates meet
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| Ring of Fire | show 🗑
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| show | A long undersea mountain chain formed on a constructive plate boundary. (e.g. Iceland is on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
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| show | A long, deep valley in the ocean floor. They are formed at destructive plate boundaries
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| Destructive margin | show 🗑
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| Subduction zone | show 🗑
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| Fold mountains | show 🗑
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| show | Rock formed from particles of sediment which have been compressed and cemented together
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| Constructive margin | show 🗑
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| Collision margin | show 🗑
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| Transform boundary/ Conservative margin | show 🗑
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| show | A cloud of extremely hot gas, ash, lava fragments and rock which is ejected during a volcanic eruption and runs down the side of a volcano
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| show | A lump of lava which is thrown high into the air when a volcano erupts
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| Active volcano | show 🗑
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| show | Impacts which develop later, such as fall in global temperatures
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| Lahar | show 🗑
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| Albedo effect | show 🗑
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| show | The initial impact of the volcano
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| Lava | show 🗑
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| show | Thick and sticky lava thrown out by some volcanoes, mainly along destructive plate boundaries
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| show | Thin and runny lava thrown out by some volcanoes, mainly along constructive plate boundaries
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| Shield volcano | show 🗑
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| Tsunami | show 🗑
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| Aftershock | show 🗑
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| Secondary effects | show 🗑
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| Richter scale | show 🗑
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| Primary effects | show 🗑
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| Epicentre | show 🗑
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| show | The point below ground where an earthquake begins
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| Seismometer | show 🗑
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| show | These machines measure how much the angle of the land is changing (e.g. to see if magma is welling up below)
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