Challenges of natural hazards
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A natural event that threatens people or has the potential to cause damage, destruction and fatalities. | Natural hazard |
Examples of natural hazards | Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, storms, landslides |
What are the two main type of natural hazard? | Atmospheric and tectonic |
Factors that affect risk | Urbanisation, Poverty, Climate Change |
Conservative plate margins | Where two tectonic plates slide past eachother |
Constructive plate margin | Where rising magma adds new material to plates that are diverging. |
Destructive plate margin | Where two plates are converging and the oceanic plate is subducted |
Earthquake | A sudden or violent movement within the Earth's crust followed by a series of shocks |
Volcano | An opening in the Earth's crust from which lava, ashes and gases erupt |