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Plate Tectonics Revision
Plate Tectonics Revision
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Rigid outer shell composed of the crust and upper mantle.
Lithofun
Lithuania
Lithosphere
Lithosere
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Bam, southern Iran earthquake took place in....
January 2013
January 2010
October 2003
January 2003
3
NGOS and insurers have a role to play in...
helping to create climate change
helping to reduce disasters
helping to modify the loss
helping to understand disaster events
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Which model shows the interaction between hazards, disaster and human vulnerability?
Greggs's Model
Victoria's Secret Model
Degg's Model
Regg's Model
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The 'risk disk' is...
a model to help better understand risk assessment
a model to help better understand the world
a model to help better understand disaster management
a model to help better understand adaptation
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'the realisation of a hazard, when it 'causes a significant impact on a vulnerable population
Disaster
Resilience
Hazard
Risk
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Results from zone of magma 'locking in' / 'striking' in Earth's magnetic polarity when it cools
Paleomagnetism
Subduction Zone
Locked Fault
Soil Liquefaction
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a process whereby a saturated
soil
loses strength/stiffness causing it to behave like a liquid.
Seismic waves
Soil liquefaction
Epicentre
Hypocentre
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Places where a number of physical hazards combine to create an increased level of risk...
Multiple-hazard zones
Multi- seismic collision
Tohoku
Tectonic Gold Zone
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A theory developed more than 60 years ago to explain large-scale movements of the lithosphere
Plate Tectonics
Destructive Plate boundaries
Constructive Plate boundaries
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