Types of Natural Hazard
Name 1 natural hazard
tornado (or others)
What causes Earthquake?
plate movement
Hot molten rocks inside the volcano
magma
TRUE/FALSE: All natural hazards are predictable.
FALSE
Give an example of natural disaster
Earthquake in Turkey
Location of most earthquake
plate boundaries/ ring of fire
storage of magma
Magma chamber
is a narrow, violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
TORNADO
2 main types of natural hazard
geological and weather
What happens when a strong earthquake happens underwater?
tsunami
a hot or cold mixture of water and rock fragments that flows down the slopes of a volcano
lahar
What is scale is used to categorise the strength of tornado?
What are some natural hazard that is not included in weather and geological hazard?
Disease and meteorite impact
epicenter
Two types of plate boundaries
destructive and constructive
As the size of volcanic eruption increases the frequency of it erupting
decreases
Differentiate weather hazard and geological hazard.
weather: atmosphere
geological: geo/land
Seismographs
A VEI 7 volcanic eruption is categorise as
super-colossal
What type of plate boundaries form composite volcano?
destructive plate boundaries