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17 Cards in this Set
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Geologic Hazards
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Earthquakes Volcanoes Landslides AVALANCHES
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Atmospheric Hazards
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Tropical cyclones (HURRICANES) tornadoes hail ice and snow
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Hydrologic Hazards
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River floods Coastal Floods Drought
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Biologic Hazards
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Epidemic disease
Wildfire |
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Earthquake Shearing
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Strike-slip Faults
Plates sliding against each other |
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Tension Faults
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Plates moving away from each other
One above other Hanging wall slips downward |
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Compression faults
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Reverse Fault
Plates moving together One plate slides under another |
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3 Scales used to measure Earthquake effectiveness
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Mercalli
Richter Moment Magnitude - USED TODAY |
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Hurricanes mostly occur where?
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In the Intertropical Convergence Zone
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Hurricanes Form?
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1. Warm air rises and cools forms clouds
2. More warm air rushes in from all sides 3. Warm ocean water serves as fuel Corriolis Force = Spin |
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Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale
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Cat 1 74-95mph
Cat 2 96-110 Cat 3 111-130 Cat 4 131-155 Cat 5 > 155 |
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Cinder Cone Volcano
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Gas blows out debris and LAVA
Simplest type of vlocano |
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Composite Volcano
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Stratovolcanoes
Steep-sided symmetrical built of alternating layers of lava/flows |
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Caldera Volcanoes
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Largest and Most EXPLOSIVE
Ground subsides or collapses and forms a CALDERA |
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Popocatépetl
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Aztec name for smoking mtn.
Stratovolcano that towers over Mex. City |
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El Chichón
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Caldera in Chiapas, Mexico
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Cerro Negro
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Cinder cone Volcano in Nicaragua
Youngest |
