Tectonics
In what type of plate boundary do we get subduction?
Destrucvtive or Convergent
What country did Haiyan hit?
Phillipines
Where does most of the UK's wet weather come from?
The Atlantic
What are sunspots?
Dark Spots on the sun, the more of them there are the warmer it can be
Which parts of the world gets tropical storms?
The tropics betwenn 5- 30 degress north and south of the equator over warm oceans.
Give an example of a CONSERVATIVE plate boundary?
San Andreas or Haiti
How many islands are there in the Phillipines?
7000
In Winter what direction does cold weather usually come from?
North or East
How often does the earth change its orbit?
Around every 100,000 years
Name the 3 atmospheric cells ?
Hadley Ferrell Polar
How many people were killed in the Haiti Earthquake?
200-300,000
How many people were killed?
6000 Aprox
Give an examle of a cold weather event that hit the UK?
Beast from the East 2018
What are U shaped valleys and what evidence are they of climate change?
Valleys formed by glaciers during an Ice Age. They show the area was once covered in Ice.
Which city was 90% destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan?
Tacloban
Give an example of a destructive boundary?
Nazca and South America
How much economic damage did it do- how much money did it cost?
2 Billion
Which part of the UK was bady effected by Storm Desmond?
Cumbria
Using an example explain what mitigation of climate change is?
Planting trees- reduces the amount of Co2 in the atmosphere slowing down the enhanced greenhoue effect.
Renewable Energy
What is the Coriolis effect?
Its the effect which causes tropical storms to rotate. Caused by the earths rotation
How are Volcanic eruptions measured- what scale?
VEI Scale goes from 1-8
What was most of the damage from Haiyan caused by?
Storm Surge
Which parts of the UK get most rainfall- what is the average difference?
Western areas Northern Areas - Upland areas.
Uplands 3000+ mm
lowlands 600-800mm
What do Fossils found in the Yorkshire Pennines show us?
That Yorkshire was once under a tropical oceans as its only in Tropical oceans we find these creatures.
If Yorkshire was under a tropical ocean the sea levels were much higher than onow, meaning a warmer climate
What is the study of tree rings called?
Dendrochonlology