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Natural Disasters
100
Has long, bitter cold and dark winters, short and cool summers, with low rainfall.
What is tundra?
100
Country that borders Yemen and Oman.
What is Saudia Arabia?
100
The Earth's core is made of these two metals.
What are nickel and iron?
100
Volcanoes that circle the Pacific.
What is the Ring of Fire?
100
Magma that is thick like tar is called this.
What is viscous?
200
The beginning of an area where no trees grow.
What is the tree line?
200
A biome that has many deciduous trees and thickly covered shrubs.
What forest and/or shrublands?
200
This forms when liquid rock bursts through the Earth's surface.
What is a volcano?
200
Name three plates the Nazca plat border.
What are South American, Pacific, Antarctic, or the Caribbean plates.
200
Eyjafjallajökull volcano is in this country.
What is Iceland?
300
Russia's biggest region.
What is Sakha?
300
The three major religions in the Middle East.
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
300
Measures the magnitude of earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
300
Chile is on this plate.
What is the South American plate?
300
This heat energy is stored n rocks.
What is geothermal?
400
This group of people in the North Caucasus region fought for independence and failed.
Who are the Chechens?
400
These nomadic people travel the deserts with goats, sheep, and camels.
What are Bedouins?
400
Is made of the crust and upper mantle
What is the lithosphere?
400
The Canary Islands are on this plate.
What is the African plate? (near Morocco)
400
The term for a large wave that a surfer may ride.
What is a tidal wave? (NOT a tsunami... a tidal wave is a regularly reoccurring shallow water wave caused by effects of the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth on the ocean).
500
74% of the population live in this type of environment.
What is urban?
500
Word that describes and Islamic state.
What is a caliphate?
500
Lava cools and hardens to form this.
What is igneous rock?
500
St Kitts-Nevis is on this plate.
What is the Caribbean plate?
500
Stored energy released in waves.
What are seismic waves?