Plate Motion Engineering

What is geohazards engineering?

• The study and application of techniques to understand and manipulate the movement of ocean currents.

• The study and application of techniques to understand and manipulate the movement of celestial bodies.

• The application of concepts from Earth science and physics to help minimize the impact of natural disasters.

• The study and application of techniques to understand and manipulate the movement of weather patterns.

What are the three different phases of engineering?

• Research, Design, and Proposal.

• convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and collision boundaries

• convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and subduction boundaries

• convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and sliding boundaries

What are the criteria of an engineering project?

• Tectonic plates move due to gravitational forces from the moon.

• Tectonic plates move because of the rotation of the Earth.

• Tectonic plates move as a result of earthquakes.

• Standards by which something is judged.

What is a false alarm?

• Convection currents and plate boundaries interaction

• Earthquakes and volcanic activity

• A warning that is generated for a specific area, even though no emergency or disaster occurs.

• Tectonic plates colliding with each other

What does a dossier mean?

• Weather balloons, ground-penetrating radar, tiltmeters, and LiDAR

• Radar measurements, aerial photography, magnetometers, and bathymetry

• Satellite communication, ground-based telescopes, accelerometers, and sonar

• It is a collection of documents about a particular person, event, or subject.

What are the potential hazards associated with plate motion?

• floods

• earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides

• hurricanes

• droughts

What is a constraint?

• It's what creates tectonic boundaries that determine the distribution of earthquakes and volcanic activity.

• It is limitations on a design.

• It is plate motion that causes earthquakes and volcanic activity to occur randomly.

• it's motion that has no effect on the distribution of earthquakes and volcanic activity.