Earthquakes
These large sections of Earth's crust move and slide along the mantle, causing earthquakes when they get stuck and suddenly shift.
What are tectonic plats?
This is what hurricanes are called when they occur in the Pacific Ocean.
What is a typhoon?
This is a term for a seasonal wind pattern that brings heavy rains during one season and dry conditions during another.
What is a monsoon?
These are the three types of volcanoes based on their activity level.
What are active, dormant, and extinct?
This includes the characteristics of a location.
What is place?
This U.S. state experienced a magnitude 9.2 earthquake on March 27, 1964, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history.
What is Alaska?
This calm area in the center of a hurricane is formed by rotating winds and has light winds.
What is the eye?
The wet monsoon usually runs from May to early October and can bring this many inches of rain, ranging from 100 to 300.
What is 100 to 300 inches?
This is where most volcanoes for on Earth.
What are tectonic plate boundaries (where plates collide or separate)?
These include where and how humans live. Government and economic systems also make up this catagory.
This force causes tectonic plates to get stuck as they move against each other, building up tension that is released during an earthquake.
What is friction?
This is what the Saffir-Simpson Scale measures to rate hurricanes from Category 1 to Category 5.
What is wind speed (or hurricane intensity based on wind speed)?
This is what happens to atmospheric pressure over land during the spring and summer months when hot air rises, causing moist ocean air to blow in.
What is low pressure (or atmospheric pressure decreases)?
This is the term for molten rock beneath Earth's surface before it erupts.
What is magma?
This can be explained by how people, ideas, and animals move from lace to another.
What is movement?
During the 1964 Alaska earthquake, some areas were raised by over 30 feet while others dropped as much as this many feet.
What is 8 feet?
This dangerous phenomenon occurs when hurricane winds push ocean water onto the land, causing coastal flooding.ff
What is a storm surge?
This country in South Asia has been studying its monsoons for over a hundred years because they impact the economy, agriculture, and water supply.
What is India?
This island chain was formed by hot spot volcanoes, where magma pushes through Earth's thin crust.
What is Hawaii?
The study of natural features on the surface of the earth.
What is Physical geography?
These two monitoring systems were built as a result of the devastating 1964 Alaska earthquake and tsunamis.
What are an earthquake-monitoring system and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center?
What is Belize?
This is the term for a prolonged period of little rain that has affected north central India, though recent years have shown a wetter pattern.
What is a draught?
This island country sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was formed by volcanic activity as the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates move apart.
What is Iceland?
The study of people as they have spread across the Earth.
What is Human geography?