Natural & Tectonic Hazards

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A natural event that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction or death.
Natural Hazard
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A natural hazard caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
Tectonic Hazard
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Tectonic Plate Margin where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart.
Constructive Plate Margin
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Tectonic plate margin where two tectonic plates slide past each other.
Conservative Plate Margin
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Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging and the ocean plate is subducted.
Destructive Plate Margin
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The boundary between two tectonic plates.
Plate Margin
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A sudden or violent movement within the earth's crust followed by several aftershocks.
Earthquake
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The probability or chance that a natural hazard may take place.
Hazard Risk
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The reaction of people as the disaster is happening and in the immediate aftermath.
Immediate Responses
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Reactions that occur later in the weeks, months and years after the event.
Long-term Response
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Recording physical changes to help forecast when and where a natural hazard might strike.
Monitoring
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Precautions taken to enable communities to respond to, and recover from, natural disasters through special measures (E.g. Emergency evacuation plans)
Planning
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Attempts to forecast when and where a natural hazard will strike based on current knowledge and information.
Prediction
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The initial and direct impact of a natural event on people and property.
Primary Effects
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The indirect, after effects caused by the natural event.
Secondary Effects
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Actions taken before a hazard strikes to reduce its impact.
Protection
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Card 2

Front

A natural hazard caused by the movement of tectonic plates.

Back

Tectonic Hazard

Card 3

Front

Tectonic Plate Margin where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging or moving apart.

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Tectonic plate margin where two tectonic plates slide past each other.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Tectonic plate margin where two plates are converging and the ocean plate is subducted.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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