Tectonic Plates
The name of a tectonic plate under a continent
What is a continental plate?
What disaster occurred in 2019 where people were unable to be recured
What is White Island Volcanic Eruption
The instrument that measures an earthquake
What is a Seismograph
The negative human impacts on the Glass House Mountains
What is pollution, destruction and financial cost
The place where most geomorphic hazards occur
What is the Ring of Fire
The term given when plates slide past each other.
Type of plate boundary that causes a volcanic explosion
What is a converging plate boundary
The term given when things are broken off and moved to change the landform.
Weathering and Erosion
Two other groups of people who are connected with the Glass House Mountains
Who are the residents and the tourists
The smaller plate that helped to form the Himalayan Mountain range
What is the Indian Plate
Diverging plates will form this
A rift or valley
Ash from volcanic eruptions can impact this human activity
What is air travel
Long term human impacts of earthquakes
What is water desalination and health issues
Positive ways that human's impact on Glass House Mountains
What is bush walking, photography and cultural emersion, education and respect of environment
The ocean located in the Ring of Fire
The Pacific Ocean
Two continental plates push together
What is convergent plate movement
Reasons people choose not to move away from areas that have geomorphic disasters
What is poverty, job loss, connection to the area, family, lack of education
The term given to an earthquake measurement
What is a Richter scale
Main reasons Glass House Mountains connect to Frist Nations people
Sacred ground, tradition, ancestors, earth, dreamtime
A country located in the Ring of Fire that is close to Australia and suffers regular earthquakes and volcanos.
What is New Zealand
The process where an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate.
What is subduction?
The term that states how the Glasshouse mountains were formed
What is a volcanic plug
Short term impacts of an earthquake
What is death, Injury and displacement
The group of people most connected to the Glass House Mountains
The first Nations people
The names, type of plates and movement that formed the Himalayan mountains
What are the continental plates of India and Eurasia that converge toward each other