Tectonic Plates
The name of a tectonic plate under a continent
What is a continental plate?
What disaster occurred in 2019 off the coast of New Zealand - people rescued in helicopters and boats
What is White Island Volcanic Eruption
The instrument that measures an earthquake
Seismograph
The negative human impacts on the Glass House Mountains
pollution, destruction and financial cost
The place where most geomorphic hazards occur
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
residents and the tourists
The smaller plate that helped to form the Himalayan Mountain range
Indian Plate
Diverging plates will form this
A rift or valley
Ash from volcanic eruptions can impact this human activity
Air travel - flying planes
Long term human impacts of earthquakes
Rebuilding, homelessness, water quality, health issues
Positive ways that human's impact on Glass House Mountains
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
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.
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
death, Injury and displacement
The group of people who have a myth/legend story about Glass House Mountains
local aboriginal people/first nations people/indigenous people
The names, type of plates and movement that formed the Himalayan mountains
the continental plates of India and Eurasia that converge toward each other