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WorksheetsGlobal Hazards - Tectonics 1. Geography GCSE OCR B.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
What is the name of this type of plate boundary?
Destructive
Collision
Constructive
Conservative
Which two of these plate boundaries produce volcanoes as well as earthquakes?
Destructive
Collision
Constructive
Conservative
Which of these is a primary effect of earthquakes?
Landslide
Buildings collapse
Tsunamis
People lose their jobs
What type of volcano is this?
Composite
Shield
Fissure
Caldera
What is the maximum value on the Mercalli scale?
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
What is the name for the type of volcano formed when an oceanic plate is moving over a particularly hot area of the mantle, which creates a super-heated plume of hot magma. Eventually this can 'punch through' the plate leading to volcanic islands appearing?
Caldera volcano
Fissure volcano
Punch though volcano
Hotspot volcano
Which three of these are real impacts of the Eyjafjallajokull eruption in Iceland in 2010?
20 farms were destroyed on Iceland
Tourism increased to Iceland
Jokulhlaups destroyed parts of Route 1
5000 flights were cancelled
During the Eyjafjallajokull eruption huge plumes of tephra were created which rose 30,000 feet into the atmosphere. What is tephra?
Fine volcanic dust
Mudflows
Bombs of lava
Hot rocky gas and ash
Which of these is NOT a method of predicting volcanoes?
Measuring gas emissions
Seismometer measurements
Milankovitch cycles
Thermal scanning
What does mitigate mean?
Reduce the impact of a hazard
Increase the impact of a hazard
Move the impacts of a hazard
