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A-Level Physical Geography
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- 1What are Jökulhlaups?A type of catastrophic glacial outburst flood.
- 2What is social vulnerability?When a household or community is unable to support the disadvantaged people within it.
- 3What type of hazard is flooding?Geo-morphological
- 4Do hotspots move with the overlying crust?No
- 5What are hotspots?An area on Earth over a mantle plume or an area under the crust where magma is hotter than surrounding magma.
- 6—Surface Waves
L Waves - 7Who proposed plate tectonic theory and when?Alfred Wegener in 1915
- 8What is plate tectonic theory?It states that the Earth's solid outer crust, the lithosphere, is separated into plates that move over the asthenosphere, the molten upper portion of the mantle. Oceanic and continental plates come together, spread apart, and interact at boundaries all over the planet.
- 9How are mega disasters classed?High impact and low probability
- 10What index considers measures of exposure, susceptibility, coping capacity and adaptive capacity?World risk index
- 11What word describes the changing of direction of the Earth's magnetic field?Paleomagnetism
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