GEOGRAPHY natural disasters Earthquakes primary and secondary effects - Causes and effects table in GCSE Geography

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GEOGRAPHY natural disasters Earthquakes primary and secondary effects

Causes

* Earth quakes are caused by 2 tectonic plates.
there are 3 ways the tectonic plates can collide.
towards each other
away from each other
side by side
earth quakes are caused when the tectonic plates go side by side and towards each other
when they move away from each other volcanoes are formed and when they go towards each other fold mountains are caused.

Effects

effects of a earth quake can be sorted into primary and secondary
primary are immediate things that happen such as buildings fall down
hospitals fall and collapse and schools collapse too
people and animals die
secondary effects are things like :
impact on the economy - key word business no money is coming in to teh country to help fix if its a poor country it will be impacted a lot more than a richer country.

Overall summary

key words to learn:Economy divergent convergent transform volcanoes fold mountains eruptions Richter scale primary effects secondary effects

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