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Provide an example of an earthquake

What direction do Constructive plate boundaries

separating

List 3 ways people predict earthquakes

Provide a positive in relation

What is a mercalli scale

Observation, provides rate of damage

List 2 ways people prepare for earthquakes

What's the difference between a Richter scale and a seismograph

Richter scale measures the strength of an earthquake and seismograph measures the waves

List a negative in relation to an earthquake

Explain the term aftershock

Small waves after an earthquake

Explain the term focus

the underground starting point of the earthquake

Explain the term 'fault line'

A long crack in the earth surface where two plates meet

Explain the term 'convection currents'

The heat from the mantle rises and cools from the earth, this continues in a cycle, causing plates to move

Provide the case study of tsunami we have studied

Japan March 2011

What direction do destructive plate boundaries

colliding

Provide an example of plate tectonics where earthquakes occurs

Constructive, destructive and transform

Explain the term epicentre

Directly above the focus on the earths surface

Explain the term 'subduction'

When plates colllide and the heavier Plate is recycled back into the mantle