Restless Earth

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  • Created on: 08-12-13 15:11
What is the Lithosphere made of?
Continental and Oceanic Crust + Upper mantle
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What are high temperatures in the Earths core caused by?
Radioactive decay causing convection currents
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What are the three main plate boundary types?
Constructive, Conservative and Destructive
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What are hotspots?
Areas of rising plumes of magma into the asthenosphere creating trails of volancoes
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Basic, what happens at destructive and constructive plate boundaries?
New crust is made at constructive and old crust is destroyed at destructive
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What are the different types of volcanoes?
Sheild and Strato
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What effects the danger of the hazard?
The size, the vulnerability, the populous capacity
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What is lava from a composite volcano like?
sticky, flows slowly, made of basalt and granitic
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What effects the severity of an Earthquake?
depth, size, material, distance from epicentre
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What are volcanoes?
Active, Dormant or Extinct
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