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1. Natural Hazards

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A natural hazard a natural event that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction and death

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Which of these are natural hazards?

a)

Volcanic Eruptions

b)

Earthquakes

c)

Tsunami

d)

Cave Arches Stacks and Stumps

3.

What is Geological hazard?

a)

hazard that deals with water in the atmosphere especially as precipitation

b)

hazard that includes internal earth processes

c)

hazard that includes outbreaks that pertains to diseases caused by microorganisms

d)

hazard that includes industrial pollution, radiation, and toxic wastes

4.

Select 3 examples of Geological Hazard.

a)

Tsunamis

b)

Chemical spills

c)

Sinkhole

d)

Tropical Storms

e)

Volcanic Activity

5.

What is a hazard risk?

a)

The probability or chance that a natural hazard may take place.

b)

The risk of falling over

c)

The chances of falling into a volcano

d)

Chance or probability of being affected by a human event.

6.

What are tectonic plates?

a)

Extra large ceramic plates

b)

A rigid segment of the Earth’s crust which can ‘float’ across the heavier, semi molten rock below. Continental plates are less dense, but thicker than oceanic plates.

c)

The Earth's crust

d)

The top of the earth

7.

Scientists theorized that the continents were once joined together even before they had modern evidence from rocks and fossils. Using only maps, they observed that -

a)

continents with the most temperate climates were found near the Equator.

b)

the oceans have become smaller throughout the history of Earth.

c)

the shapes of continents appeared to allow them to fit together.

d)

most of the larger land masses are in the Northern Hemisphere.

8.

One piece of evidence that supports the Theory of Plate Tectonics is the discovery of what in both South America and Africa?

a)

The ancient atmosphere in both places was identical.

b)

The rates of weathering of rock are similar.

c)

Fossil remains of the same land-dwelling animal.

d)

Plants on both continents have similar flowers.

9.

What is a destructive plate boundary?

a)

Where two plates are converging or coming together and oceanic plate is subducted.

b)

Where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart

c)

Where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

d)

Where two plates of the same density are colliding and create fold mountains.

10.

Which of these features is NOT found at a constructive plate margin?

a)

Subduction Zone

b)

Rising Magma

c)

Plates moving apart

d)

Volcanoes

11.

Which of these is an example of a Conservative plate boundary?

a)

Mid Atlantic Ridge

b)

Himalayas Mountain Range

c)

The Andes Mountain Range

d)

San Andreas Fault

12.

Do you feel confident with the questions you have just answered?

a)

I feel confident I know this for the exam.

b)

I feel OK and I would know most of this for the exam

c)

I don't know most of the topics covered here.

d)

I need to revise and go over this topic completely.