General
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Measures
Impacts
200
The name of this type of landform.
What is a volcano?
200
This hazard from volanoes can result in the collapse of roofs when it accumulates on it.
What is volcanic ash?
200
An earthquake occurs due to the release of a build up of this.
What is energy?
200
This is the main hazard of an earthquake.
What is the collapse of built structures?
200
This fishing village in Jamaica serves as a major tourist attraction.
What is Port Royal?
400
This theory explains how major landforms are created as a result of earth's subterranean movements.
What is the Plate Tectonics Theory?
400
This island was affected by the La Soufriere volcano, despite being 190 km away from St. Vincent.
What is Barbados?
400
These giant waves are secondary effects of earthquakes.
What is a tsunami?
400
These are present in an emergency supply kit.
What are canned, non-perishable foods, medication, flashlights or battery operated radios?
400
This is the best way to keep you and your family safe from natural hazards.
What is to educate yourself and those around you?
600
This is the rigid layer of the earth consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
600
This should be done to stay safe from a volcano and its hazards when evacuating.
What is move to higher ground away from the volcano?
600
In 2010, it is in this Caribbean country that an earthquake led to political instability.
What is Haiti?
600
To move away from the volcano and its hazards. One should____
What is move to higher ground in the oppposite direction of the volcano.
600
This is an economic impact from earthquakes and volcanoes where a country will import more than it exports.
What is a negative trade balance?
800
This type of plate boundary can be found between South American and Caribbean plate.
(Hint: divergent or convergent)
What is a convergent plate boundary?
800
This volcano is located in Montserrat
What is the Soufriere Hills?
800
The major earthquakes in the Caribbean occur at these plate boundaries.
What are the transform and convergent plate boundaries?
800
This enables the rapid evacuation of residents near a volcano or the epicentre of an earthquake.
What is predicting when an eruption or earthquake will occur?
800
These are the gases that are produced as a hazard from a volcanic eruption.
What are hydrogen sulphide, carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide, along with hydrogen halides.
1000
These two plates are just some of which the Caribbean plate is surrounded by.
What are the North American, South American, Nazca and Cocos plates?
1000
These are the flows composed of mud, rock, pyroclastic material, and water that destroy habitats.
What are mudflows or lahars?
1000
These are social effects of earthquakes.
What is loss of life?
What is crime?
What is the spread of diseases?
1000
Before an eruption, there are many precautions that can be taken.
What is know the active volcanoes?
What is have an emergency plan?
What is educate yourself and others?
What is know the emergency contacts?
1000
This is a tourist attraction present in St. Lucia that is the only one of its kind.
What is a "drive-in volcano"?