Eduqas GCSE Geography A Theme 3 Tectonic Landscapes and Hazards overview quiz quiz

In narrow belts along plate boundaries

Spread completely evenly across the whole surface of the Earth

Only in the middle of the large continents, far from the sea

Only at the far north and south poles

The daily rotation of the Earth on its axis and nothing else at all

Convection currents in the mantle, driven by heat from the core

The gravitational pull of the Moon dragging the plates around

The rise and fall of the ocean tides along the coast

The plates pull apart and fresh magma rises up to fill the gap between them

The plates simply slide past each other sideways without ever forming any volcanoes at all

The denser oceanic plate is subducted beneath the other, melting and feeding volcanoes

Two continental plates crumple upwards to form high fold mountains

Thick, sticky, high-silica andesitic lava

Solid rock only

Ice and water

Runny, low-silica basaltic lava

The point on the surface directly above the focus

The underground point where the earthquake starts

The edge of the tectonic plate

The deepest part of the ocean

The collapse of a building from shaking

A tsunami caused by the quake

Ground rupture along the fault

The seismic waves themselves

Twice as much

About 100 times

About 1000 times

Exactly the same

There are no benefits at all, the people are simply careless and unaware of the danger

Because tectonic hazards have genuinely never once happened anywhere in the region

Because the government forces every single person to live there against their wishes

Fertile volcanic soils, geothermal energy, tourism, home and poverty

Haiti was more vulnerable: weak buildings, high density, poverty and a slow response

Haiti's earthquake was actually far larger and more powerful than the one in Japan

Japan had no earthquake defences or building codes in place at the time of the quake

Haiti had much better building standards and a far faster emergency response

Earthquakes

Volcanic eruptions

Neither can ever be monitored

Conservative-boundary slips

They are exactly the same thing and the two words can be used interchangeably in geography

Protection only ever applies to active volcanoes, while preparation only ever applies to large earthquakes

Protection is physical (buildings, walls); preparation is people-focused (education, drills, warnings)

Preparation simply means rebuilding homes and infrastructure after a hazard event has happened

Rebuilding homes and infrastructure steadily over several years

Improving and enforcing stricter long-term building codes

Repairing and rebuilding the wider regional economy over time

Search and rescue, shelter and emergency aid