End of Natural Disasters Unit TEST Study Guide
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What are the three types of plate boundaries?
What is the difference between lithosphere and asthenosphere ?
What is sea floor spreading?
What are fracture zones?
What are the three types of convergent plate boundaries?
Compare and contrast the types of ideas that are the driving forces for plate tectonics (there
are two of them, large convection currents, slab-push and slab pull)
What are the three types of stress? Where does each take place?
There are two types of shocks what are they and give a description of each.
There are 4 types of waves associated with earthquakes (2 body waves and 2 surface waves)
what are they and give a description of each.
What is a tsunami?
Draw a diagram of how it happens.
What are the three types of volcanoes, give an example of each, draw a diagram and give a
brief description
What is a hurricane? What are the conditions that allow them to form?
When is hurricane season?
What are terms used to describe the development of a hurricane?
How are hurricanes measured?
Be able to give an example of each type of natural disaster and discuss the result.