WorksheetsAQA GCSE Geography Natural Hazards
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is a natural hazard?
Burning yourself on the iron at home
A road traffic accident
A natural event which causes a threat to human activity or people
A natural event which involves a human causes hazard
Which of these are natural hazards?
Volcanic Eruptions
Earthquakes
Tsunami
Cave Arches Stacks and Stumps
What are tectonic plates?
Extra large ceramic plates
Sections of the Earth's crust that are divided up, their margins create volcanoes and earthquakes
The Earth's crust
The top of the earth
Which one is the odd one out?
Crust
Inner Core
Mantle
Subduction Zone
What features are found at a destructive plate boundary?
Subduction Zone
Fold Mountains
Volcanoes
Magma Sinks
Which of these features is NOT found at a constructive plate margin?
Subduction Zone
Rising Magma
Plates moving apart
Volcanoes
Which of these is an example of a Conservative plate boundary?
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Himalayas Mountain Range
The Andes Mountain Range
San Andreas Fault
What is a primary effect of an earthquake?
Forest Fires
Ruptured water pipes
Death and Injuries
Death by diseases
Which of these are secondary effects of an earthquake?
Tsunami
Fires
Ground Shaking
Landslides
Where would you find a Hadley cell?
North and south of the equator
In the polar regions
At the outer edge of the atmosphere
North of the equatot
The ocean temperature must be above what for a tropical storm to form?
10 °C
17°C
20 °C
27 °C
Where are the strongest winds of a tropical storm found?
Eye
Eye Wall
Rain bands
Clouds
How many people where killed due to Typhoon Haiyan when it hit the Philippines in November 2013?
Nobody was killed
500 people
6300 people
15,000 people
How many people were displaced due to Typhoon Haiyan?
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
Which of these is not a weather hazard usually experienced in the UK?
Thunderstorms
Strong Winds
Hurricanes
Drought
Which of the following is a social impact of the Somerset Levels floods in 2014?
Over 600 homes flooded
Floodwaters heavily contaminated with sewage and other pollutants
Over 1000 livestock evacuated
An estimated £10 million of damage
What is one way that Somerset County Council is reducing the risk from future flooding?
Diverting the Rivers Tone and Parratt
Paying for home insurance for residents at risk
Moving people out of the area
Building more pumping stations
True or False - it is very dry at the equator?
True
False
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
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 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
What type of plate boundary produces a shield volcano?
Conservative
Destructive subduction
Constructive
Destructive collision
Why do some volcanic eruptions cause climate change?
The noise changes the earth's orbit
Lava makes the Earth hotter
Dust and ash block sunlight
They change the sea temperature
What are the variations in the earth’s orbit known as?
Earthly ellipses
Milankovitch cycles
Axial asymmetry
Planetary Phases
