What is a natural event or process which has the potential to affect people?
Hazard
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What is it called when a hazard has killed 10 people or caused $1 million in damages, according to EM-DAT?
Disaster
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What type of boundary is where the oceanic crust is subducted beneath the continental crust?
Destructive
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What type of boundary is where the plate move in opposite directions away from each other?
Constructive
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What type of boundary is where the plates either move in the same direction or in opposite directions but consistently stay touching each other?
Conservative
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What type of boundary is where the plates move into each other and are of equal densities so move upwards, creating fold mountains?
Collision
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What volcano erupted in June 1991 in the Philippines?
Pinotubo
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Where did the earthquake in LA in 1994 happen?
Northridge
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What is part of a 7 year cycle, in which it occurs every 1-2 years and the air currents move eastward across the Pacific, bringing moist air to South America causing heavy rain in these areas?
El Nino
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What is part of a 7 year cycle, in which it occurs very 1-2 years and it brings moist air to Australia and the western pacific meaning dry air moves over California?
La Nina
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What cycle describes how both the variation in the Earth's axis and its rotation around the sun influences global warming?
Milankovitch
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What word means the amount of solar radiation reflected by the Earth's surfaces with ice and snow reflecting the most
Albedo
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What point refers to a point beyond which the Earth cannot recover from the effects of carbon emissions, even with drastic actions?
Tipping point
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What was the global agreement setting targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions which was signed by 175 countries in 1997?
Kyoto Protocol
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What is the area of sediment deposited where a river enters the sea or lake called?
Delta
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What is a type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic flow material, rocky debris and water?
Lahar
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What is it called when an area has a random deposit of a large chamber of magma that pushes the land above it up creating volcanoes
Hotspot
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What kind of crop are those that are sold for income, rather than someone's own food security?
cash crop
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What is the process called where an area that was once rich in vegetation changes into an arid or semi-arid area of land?
Desertification
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What is it called when something absorbs more carbon dioxide than it emits?
Carbon Sink
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
What is it called when a hazard has killed 10 people or caused $1 million in damages, according to EM-DAT?
Back
Disaster
Card 3
Front
What type of boundary is where the oceanic crust is subducted beneath the continental crust?
Back
Card 4
Front
What type of boundary is where the plate move in opposite directions away from each other?
Back
Card 5
Front
What type of boundary is where the plates either move in the same direction or in opposite directions but consistently stay touching each other?
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