Physical Processes
Most of these are dormant and extinct.
What are Volcanoes?
Natural hot water is one of the benefits of living near what?
What is a volcanoe?
Changes in long-term weather patterns caused by natural events and human activity
What is climate change?
As a result of climate change, some areas will undergo a decrease in temperature leading to less...
What is precipitation?
The average weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
They can occur below water and cause Tsunamis.
What are earthquakes?
Governments can mitigate the consequences of earthquakes by creating strict _________ codes.
What is building?
Less precipitation in a region over time can increase the risk of.
What is drought?
Can destroy settlement's built along the coastlines and beaches.
What is coastal erosion?
Any naturally occurring change on or in Earth, such as an earthquake
What are Physical Processes?
The gradual process of turning drylands into deserts.
What is desertification?
This consequence of desertification can cause damage to equipment, buildings, as well as human skin and eyes.
What are dust storms?
Climate scientists predict a rise of 1 m in sea levels by this date.
What is 2100?
The Netherlands used this process of creating new land in order to stop rising sea levels.
What is Land Reclamation?
Continuous dry weather.
What is drought?
What is the Great Green Wall Project?
Human activities such as construction and removing tree roots can lead to.
What are landslides?
This country used a system of dams, dikes, and sand dunes to control rising sea levels.
What is the Netherlands?
The number of extreme storm has become more frequent as a result of...
What is climate change?
Areas with a long growing season and a semi-desert to moist climate; includes grassland and semi-desert scrub
What are drylands?
An area on Earth where most volcanoes are found.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Landslides were beneficial to what river basin?
What is the Indus River Basin?
a mathematical representation of Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and physical processes, often displayed in a map.
What is a climate model?
This hurricane destroyed a large portion of New Orleans in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
the wearing away of Earth’s surface by wind, water, or glacial action
What is erosion?