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Theme 3: Tectonic Landscapes and Hazards (Component 1, optional)

4 dot points across 4 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How can the risk from tectonic hazards be reduced?

Managing and reducing tectonic hazards: prediction and monitoring, protection through building design and planning, preparation and education, the immediate and long-term responses to an event, and the evaluation of these strategies.
An Eduqas GCSE Geography A (C111) answer to managing and reducing tectonic hazards in Theme 3, covering prediction and monitoring, protection through building design and planning, preparation and education, the immediate and long-term responses, and how to evaluate these strategies.
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Why do earthquakes and volcanoes occur where they do?

Plate tectonic theory and the global distribution of hazards: the structure of the Earth, convection and plate movement, the types of plate boundary (constructive, destructive, conservative, collision), and the global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes.
An Eduqas GCSE Geography A (C111) answer to plate tectonic theory and the global distribution of hazards in Theme 3, covering the structure of the Earth, convection and plate movement, the four types of plate boundary, and the global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes.
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What landforms and hazards do tectonic processes create at different boundaries?

Tectonic processes and landforms: the features of volcanoes (shield and composite) and lava types, the characteristics of earthquakes (focus, epicentre, magnitude), primary and secondary hazards, and the landforms of constructive, destructive and collision boundaries.
An Eduqas GCSE Geography A (C111) answer to tectonic processes and landforms in Theme 3, covering shield and composite volcanoes and lava types, earthquake characteristics (focus, epicentre, magnitude), primary and secondary hazards, and the landforms of constructive, destructive and collision boundaries.
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Why do tectonic hazards affect people so differently in richer and poorer countries?

Vulnerability and the impacts of tectonic hazards: why people live in hazardous areas, the factors that affect vulnerability, and the contrasting social, economic and environmental impacts of a tectonic event in places at different levels of development.
An Eduqas GCSE Geography A (C111) answer to vulnerability and the impacts of tectonic hazards in Theme 3, covering why people live in hazardous areas, the factors affecting vulnerability, and the contrasting social, economic and environmental impacts of tectonic events at different levels of development.
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