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WorksheetsAQA GCSE GEOGRAPHY - TECTONIC HAZARD
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What natural hazard happens at a subduction zone?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Earthquakes
Tropical storms
What natural hazards occur at a constructive boundary?
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Volcanoes and earthquakes
Why do earthquakes happen on conservative boundaries?
The weather is very hot
The plates get stuck as they move against one another
The plates are pulling apart
Magma is erupting and makes the ground shake
What plate is the UK on?
North American
Eurasian
Caribbean
Indo-Australian
Approximately how far is it to the centre of the earth?
2,900 kilometres
2,440 kilometres
4,600 kilometres
6,400 kilometres
What types of plate meet at a collision zone?
Oceanic and oceanic
Continental and continental
Oceanic and continental
Eurasian and north American
Which layer of the earth does this describe?
‘liquid, convection currents, magma’
Inner core
Outer core
Mantle
Crust
What creates plate movement?
Hot weather
Warm weather
Global Warming
Convection currents
Which gas gives evidence that an earthquake may happen?
Methane
Carbon Dioxide
Ozone
Radon
An increase in which gases may indicate a volcanic eruption is likely?
Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide
Ozone and methane
Sulphur dioxide and hydrochloric acid
Sulphuric acid and magnesium dioxide
Which methods are used to monitor Mount Sakurajima in Japan?
Satellite
Gas monitoring
Temperature change
All of the methods mentioned
Which of these is a reason for living in a seismic area?
A seismic event is hugely unlikely to happen.
There are no longer fatalities in seismic areas.
Seismic areas are now completely safe.
There are job opportunities in seismic areas.
Which of these jobs isn’t created by plate boundaries?
Diamond miner
Rice farmer
ICT technician
Geothermal heat engineer
Which of these would help a building stay standing if there was an earthquake?
Hollow bricks
Shock absorbers
Flat roof
Cube shape
How hot is pyroclastic flow?
-20 degrees C
2 degrees C
20 degrees C
200 degrees C
Why do earthquakes happen on conservative boundaries?
It's hot
The oceanic plate sinks and gets stuck
Volcanoes cause them
The plates are rubbing together and get stuck
What type of plate boundary produces a shield volcano?
Conservative
Destructive subduction
Constructive
Destructive collision
On what type of boundary do shallow focus earthquakes occur?
All types
Conservative
Constructive
Subduction Zones
