GCSE Geography 2 The Challenge of Natural Hazards

What are the two types of natural hazard?

• Geographical and historical

• Geographical and meteorological

• Geological and meteorological

• Geological and historical

What causes geological hazards?

• weather and climate events

• land and tectonic processes

• global warming

• erosion and deposition

What causes meteorological hazards?

• meteors

• land and tectonic processes

• the Earth's structure

• weather and climate

What are the three main parts of the Earth's structure?

CHOOSE THREE

• The crust

• The inner and outer core

• The currents

• The mantle

What are convection currents responsible for?

• The maintenance of gravitational forces

• The mass of the Earth's core

• The creation of tectonic plates

• The movement of tectonic plates

What are three types of plate margin?

CHOOSE THREE

• Constructive

• Inactive

• Conservative

• Destructive

Complete the sentence.

At a destructive plate boundary, one

plate ____________ beneath another.

• submits

• submerges

• subtracts

• subducts

What are TWO hazards caused

by volcanic eruptions?

CHOOSE TWO

• Lahar

• Pyroclastic flow

• Seismic waves

• Tropical storms

What is a 'lahar'?

• A sulphuric

  gas cloud

• A volcanic

  ash cloud

• A volcanic mudflow

• An ejection of rock and ash

How can we monitor earthquake activity?

CHOOSE TWO

• Taking gas samples to measure sulphur levels

• Creating an exclusion zone around the volcano

• Using seismometers to measure small tremors

• Keeping emergency supplies of

  food