Chapter 9 Natural Disasters

Which statement represents the diagram?

• Weathered materials are moved by running water such as river and lake

• Rock decomposes due to exposure to temperature, rainwater, and microorganisms

• Eroded material on Earth's surface by water, wind and waves

• Involve soil movement from the top of a slope to below causing phenomenon like landslide

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Earthquake and tsunami are geohazards that occured due an endogenic process. Name the endogenic process involved.

• Core movement

• Mantle convection process

• Plate Tectonics

• Volcano

Where does a transducer place in order to provide early warnings of landslides?

• Slope of hills

• Hill's bases

• Hill's crest

• Hill's berm

Device used to detect earthquake

• seismograph

• sensor system

• hydrograph

All these are the consequences of endogenic process except

• Erosion

• Tsunami

• Weathering

• Volcanism

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This geohazard normally occurs in wetland

• Acid rain

• Landslide

• Quicksand

• Sinkhole

The impacts of geohazards are

• loss of life

• starvation

• disease

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Waves caused by sudden movement of the ocean surface due to earthquakes, landslides on the sea floor or large volcanic eruptions. This phenomena is called

• Volcanism

• Tsunami

• Earhquake

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Lowering of groundwater levels causing a loss of support for the soft material in the rock spaces that can lead to collapse. This geohazard is known as

• Sinkhole

• Quicksand

• Landslide

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A huge undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coastline could produce what natural hazard? 

• Tsunami 
• Cyclone 
• Hurricane 
• Drought 

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