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Characteristics of Earth
What is heat within the core main...,
What is the mantle made up of,
What are the rocks like in the core
8
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Philippines
How many active volcanoes,
How many natural disasters over l...,
Why are they vulnerable
8
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Types Of Plate Margins
What happens at conservative plat...,
What hazards occur at conservativ...,
What happens at constructive plat...
6
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Disaster/risk Mangement Cycle
What does it illustrate,
What do appropriate actions in th...,
What is one of their main goals
3
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The Park Model
What does the park model describe,
What are the 3 phrases,
What is relief
13
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Methods To Monitor Volcanoes
How is ground deformation measured,
How do tiltmetres work,
What do magnetometers measure
5
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Primary Volcanic Hazards
What is a lava flow,
What do lava flows sometimes do,
What are lava flows expelled through
9
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Earthquakes
Where do shallow earthquakes occur,
Where do intermediate earthquakes...,
Where do rocks derive their stren...
8
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Types Of Waves
Characteristics of primary waves,
Characteristics of secondary waves,
What waves do more damage
8
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Theory of Plate Tectonics
What did alfred wegener publish,
What was the super continent named,
Geological evidence for the theory
6
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Landforms associated with Plate Movements
When are ocean ridges formed,
What activity occurs along oceani...,
When are rift valleys formed
7
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Ridge Push & Slab Pull
Ridge push,
Slab pull
2
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Impacts of volcanic activity
What is tephra,
What are pyroclastic flows,
What are volcanic gases
4
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Mt Nyiragongo - volcanic eruption LIC
Where is mt nyiragongo,
How big is the main crater of the...,
How many times has it erupted sin...
28
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Nature & distribution
What is the focus,
What is the epicentre,
Characteristics of a shallow focus
11
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Effects of seismic events
Primary effects of an earthquake,
What is soil liquefaction,
What are landslides
5
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Tsunamis
What is a tsunami,
What are there wave lengths like,
What are there wave heights like
6
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Managing a seismic hazard
What are attempts based to predic...,
How is a hazard zone map produced,
What can close studies of fault l...
8
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Haiti - earthquake LIC
When did the earthquake occur,
What was the measurement on richt...,
Where is haiti located
28
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Tropical storms - nature/distribution
What is a tropical storm,
How big do they measure in diameter,
Where do they begin from
13
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Impacts of tropical storms
What speeds can the winds exceed,
What can rainfall reach up to,
When do high sea levels result
3
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Managing tropical storms
What does prediction of them depe...,
What are weather bureaux able to ...,
What is warning time
3
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Hurricane Katrina
When did it occur,
What category was the hurricane,
When did the first storm develop ...
29
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Typhoon Haiyan
When did it occur,
Where did it occur,
What was the typhoon known as
16
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Nature of wildfires
What do surface wildfires do,
Where do crown fires spread,
What will the nature of a fire de...
5
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Effects of wildfires
Loss of crops timber livestock,
Loss of life,
Loss of property
5
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Dealing with wildfires
Managing the vegetation,
Managing the built environment,
Modelling
3
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Multi-hazard envrionment
Where is the philippines at the m...,
How many active volcanoes,
What are they at risk too
18
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Alberta Wildfire
When did it occur,
Where did it occur,
How many evacuated the city of fo...
22
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Management of Hurricane Katrina
What allowed for a coordinated ev...,
What did fema do,
How many national guard personnel...
5
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Kobe earthquake
When did it occur,
What did it measure on richter scale,
Where did it occur
19
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Japanese Tsunami
When did it occur,
What and where triggered the tsunami,
Where was the worst affected city
23
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Fudai's Sea Wall
Where is fudai,
How long did the sea wall and flo...,
How big is the sea wall
5
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Impacts and management of tropical storms
What does prediction depend upon,
What surveillance needed,
What does it cost the us
5
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Types of volcanoes
What is the shape like of a compo...,
What are eruptions like from a co...,
Where are composite volcanoes found
11
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Types of lava
What is viscosity like for basalt...,
What is viscosity like for andesi...,
Is basaltic rhyolitic or andesiti...
6
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hazard management cycle
4 stages,
What makes the model less effective,
What dont they take into account
3
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plate tectonics
Asthenosphere,
Lithosphere,
What do convection currents do
9
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measuring
Logarithmic scale,
Mercalli scale,
Saffir simpson scale
3
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formation tropical storms
6 conditions needed,
Stage 1,
Stage 2
12
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