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AQA GCSE The challenge of natural hazards key terms
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The period of geological time from about 2.6 million years ago to the present.
A really long time ago...
Orbital changes
Quaternary period
Jurassic Park
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The probability or chance that a natural hazard may take place.
Plate margin
Hazard risk
Tectonic hazard
Natural hazard
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HIC
More economically developed country
Low income country
High income country
Highest income country
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The margin or boundary between two tectonic plates.
Earthquake
Convection currents
Monitoring
Plate margin
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Recording physical changes to help forecast when and where a natural hazard might strike.
Planning
Prediction
Responses
Monitoring
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The initial impact of a natural event on people and property, caused directly by it.
Flooding
Primary effects
Secondary effects
Buildings collapse
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Later reactions that occur in the weeks, months and years after the event.
Responses
Immediate responses
Long-term responses
Planning
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The reaction of people as the disaster happens and in the immediate aftermath.
Long-term responses
Immediate responses
Monitoring
Responses
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LIC
High income country
Less economically developed country
Low income country
Lowest income country
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Natural event that threatens people, has the potential to cause damage, destruction and death.
Hazard
Volcanic eruption
Hurricane
Natural hazard
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A sudden or violent movement within the Earth’s crust followed by a series of shocks.
Ground shakes
Volcanic eruption
Earthquake
Monitoring
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Action taken to reduce or eliminate the long-term risk to human life and property.
Mitigation
Climate change
Adaptation
Migration
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Tectonic plate margin plates are diverging or moving apart e.g. Mid Atlantic Ridge.
Conservative plate margin
Convection currents
Constructive plate margin
Destructive plate margin
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Tectonic plate margin where two tectonic plates slide past each other.
Convection currents
Destructive plate margin
Constructive plate margin
Conservative plate margin
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Changes in the pathway of the Earth around the Sun.
Mitigation
Enhanced greenhouse effect
Natural greenhouse effect
Orbital changes
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Actions taken to adjust to natural events such as climate change, to reduce potential damage.
Planting trees
Adaptation
Mitigation
Reducing CO2 emissions
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Attempts to forecast when and where a natural hazard will strike, based on current knowledge.
Long-term responses
Planning
Immediate responses
Prediction
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Actions for communities to respond to and recover from, natural disasters e.g. evacuation plans
Plate margin
Monitoring
Responses
Planning
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A long-term change in the earth's climate, especially.
Climate change
Orbital changes
Temperature increase
Natural greenhouse effect
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Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging.
Conservative plate margin
Destructive plate margin
Convection currents
Constructive plate margin
