The average weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
An area that contains most of Earth's volcanoes and circles the Pacific Ocean.
Bonus: name the tectonic plate.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
March, 2011
What is when a tsunami hit northeastern Japan, evacuating 300 000 people, and killing over 15 000
100
The Indus River basin is an example of this.
What is...where landslides can be beneficial, by creating land that is suitable for agriculture, allowing people to grow crops and raise livestock.
100
This frightening looking landform is surprisingly safe. It may even provide land that is rich in copper and gold.
What are volcanoes?
200
Areas with a long growing season and a semi-desert to moist climate; includes grassland and semi-desert scrub.
What are drylands?
200
Lava, gas and ash.
What is released when a volcano erupts?
200
Areas that are prone to earthquakes
What are areas that are on or near plate boundaries?
200
The loss of arable land in an area can change settlement patterns. and force people to leave their homes.
What are ways that desertification affects millions of people worldwide?
200
A natural disaster scientists can not predict.
What is an earthquake?
300
Changes in long-term weather patterns caused by natural events and human activity.
What is climate change?
300
Many metals (gold, silver and copper) are found here, and provide mining jobs. Homes are heated naturally be geothermal energy, and tourists love to visit.
What are reasons people would choose to live on or near a volcano?
300
Steps taken to minimize the risk of casualties or death in an earthquake.
What is ...practise earthquake drills, set up shelters, create evacuation plans, develop building codes to make sure that buildings are earthquake proof
300
Big slopes, wet ground, too many trees cut, and roads built.
What are conditions that can cause landslides?
300
Desertification, earthquakes, volcanoes.
What are examples of physical processes?
400
Any naturally occurring change on or in Earth, such as an earthquake.
What is physical process?
400
Pahoa, Hawaii, October 2014
When and where did Mount Kilauea erupt recently.
400
Increased chance of loss of life in an earthquake.
What is...countries that don't have the systems or money to build structures that will withstand an earthquake, or to rebuild.
400
Drought
What is a condition that worsens desertification?
400
Eyes and skin
What are the parts of the body that are affected the most by dust storms?
500
The unwanted process of turning arable land into desert due to factors such as reduced rainfall and poor agricultural practises.
What is desertification?
500
Early warning systems help reduce damage.
Bonus: give examples of signals.
What is....a way to reduce damage to settlements and population caused by volcanic eruption.
500
Population density, structure strength and emergency measures taken.
What are the factors that influence the amount of casualties after an earthquake?
500
The Great Green Wall Project
What is the project the Chinese government has begun, to create shelterbelts, that prevent soil from eroding away. They have planted shrubs, grasses, and trees along the edges of their deserts.
500
Soil in Central and South America get most of their mineral nutrients this way.