Year 10 - Geography
Reducing risks from earthquakes and volcanoes
Tectonic hazards
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about tectonic hazards, their location, causes and effects. Pupils learn about the different types of hazard before focusing on earthquakes and volcanoes. Pupils will learn about tectonic processes, hazard impacts and the options for mitigation and adaptation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain why people continue to live in areas at risk from tectonic hazards and how management can reduce the effects of a tectonic hazard.
Key Notes
- People continue to live in areas at risk from a tectonic hazard.
- Monitoring and prediction can reduce the risks from a tectonic hazard.
- Protection and planning can reduce the risks from a tectonic hazard.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hazard risk: the likelihood or chance of being affected by a natural hazard, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption
- management: techniques used to reduce hazard risk, including monitoring and prediction and planning and preparation
- monitoring: techniques used to detect and record indicators of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Because we know the location of plate margins, scientists can predict when earthquakes will happen.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
People continue to live in areas at risk from a tectonic hazard. Monitoring and prediction can reduce the risks from a tectonic hazard.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'hazard risk'
the likelihood or chance of being affected by a natural hazard, such as an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Because we know the location of plate margins, scientists can predict when earthquakes will happen. Correction: While scientists can identify areas that are at high risk of earthquakes, exact predictions for when and where an earthquake will occur (or what magnitude it will be) are not possible.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Examples of management of earthquake hazards Study Guide
- Examples of management of volcanic hazards Study Guide
- Global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes Study Guide
- Impacts of earthquakes in a developed and a developing country Study Guide
- Impacts of volcanoes in a developed and an emerging country Study Guide
- Plate tectonics theory Study Guide
- Processes at conservative plate margins Study Guide
- Processes at constructive/divergent plate margins Study Guide
- Processes at destructive/convergent plate margins Study Guide
- The structure of the Earth Study Guide
- Using GIS to visualise physical processes at different types of plate margin Study Guide
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