Statistics for A level Physical Geography: Tectonics Part 1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A natural event that has the potential to threaten both life and property	Hazard	43%
Waves generated from the epicentre, most destructive and slowest, travels along and focuses all its energy onto the earth's surface, can only travel through solids	Love	41%
Mixture of dense hot rock, lava, ash and gas that travels extremely fast, destroying everything in its path	Pyroclastic Flow	41%
A hazard becoming reality in an event that causes deaths and damage to goods/property and the environment	Disaster	36%
Earthquakes that don't occur on a plate margin	Intra plate	36%
Sudden floods caused by melted glacial snow and ice	Jokulhlaup	36%
A series of larger than normal waves, usually caused by volcanic eruptions or underwater earthquakes	Tsunami	36%
Gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface over geographical time	Continental Drift	34%
MMS; a logarithmic scale that measures the amount of energy released from an earthquake	Moment Magnitude Scale	34%
A pulling force exerted by cold, dense oceanic plate subducting under continental plate into the mantle	Slab pull	34%
VEI; A logarithmic scale that measures the magnitude of a volcanic eruption	Volcanic Explosivity Index	34%
Volcanoes not located on a plate boundary; magma rises through the lithosphere and erupts to form active volcanoes	Hotspot	32%
Masses of rock, mud and water travelling down the side of a volcano	Lahars	32%
Waves generated from the hypocentre, longitudinal, can travel though solids, liquids and gases	Primary	32%
Very hot, low viscosity, easy gas escape, peaceful eruptions	Basaltic magma	27%
Waves generated from the hypocentre, transverse, can only travel through solids, slower than P waves	Secondary	27%
An area of seismicity corresponding with the slab being thrust downwards in a subduction zone	Benioff Zone	25%
The sum of the ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage common affairs	Governance	23%
The point at which an earthquake begins	Hypocentre	23%
Very hot and very slow lava streams destroying everything in its path	Lava flows	23%
Risk = (Hazard x Vulnerability) / Capacity to Cope	Risk equation	23%
Oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle	Subduction	23%
The ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from natural hazards	Vulnerability	20%
The varying magnetism in the rocks due to the polarity of the earth switching every 300,000 years	Palaeomagnetism	18%
Less hot, high viscosity, difficult gas escape, explosive eruptions	Rhyolitic magma	18%
CFZ; a belt of activity following mountain ranges around the world	Continental Fracture Zone	16%
MIS; Measures the effect on people, structures and the natural environment	Mercalli Intensity Scale	16%
OFZ; a belt of activity along the mid-ocean ridges	Oceanic Fracture Zone	16%
The formation of new crust due to rising magma at a divergent plate boundary	Sea floor spreading	16%
A hazard generated by tectonic/geological processes	Geophysical	14%
A technique used to understand, analyse and assess a hazard or hazards which contrast temporally and spatially	Hazard Profile	14%
Model that shows how a country might respond after a hazard event: Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction	Park Model	14%
Rising magma pushes the lithosphere upwards causing it to slide down under gravity when it cools	Ridge push	14%
Gases dissolved in magma	Volatiles	14%
Process in which governments and other organisations work together to protect people from natural hazards	Hazard Management Cycle	11%
A fault that is not slipping due to frictional resistance on the fault being greater than the shear stress across it	Locked fault	11%
DART	Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis	9%
Volatiles in magma released into the atmosphere after an eruption	Gas eruptions	9%
Convection currents from the lower mantle cause plates to move due to rotational movement in the asthenosphere	Mantle convection	9%
The lower layers of the Earth's crust	Sima	9%
The upper layers of the Earth's crust	Sial	7%
Strategies used to avoid, delay or prevent hazard events	Hazard Mitigation	5%
Has potential to have social and economic impacts	Tectonic Event	5%