inner core and outer core are extremely hot and cause convection currents in the mantle. These convection currents cause the tectonic plates to move. Plate movements can lead on to subduction. Krakatoa was created by the Oceanic Indo-Australian plate subducting under the Eurasian plate. When the Indo-Australian plate subducted under the Eurasian plate, the friction of the two plates against each other led to heat, which led to the molten rock and crust to melt.
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Unit 1: Understanding Our Natural World Theme A: The Dynamic Landscape Specification: GCSE Geography Unit 1: Understanding Our Natural World Theme A: The Dynamic Landscape |Specification Content |Learning Outcomes |Teaching and Learning Activities |Resources | |The Drainage Basin: A |Students should be able to: |
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includes marshes, sand dunes and cliffs inland of the beach. Coasts also have sandbars and troughs right of the shore. Coast, shores and beaches are active zones that are eroded by waves, winds and tectonic plate movement. Coasts are active places and the location of a coast depends on global tectonic activity and the volume of water in the ocean. The shape of a coast is developed by many processes such as uplift and subsidence, the wearing down of land by erosion, and the redistribution of material
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Explain the role of the following in the rise of atheism * Science * Evil Atheism is when someone doesn’t believe in the existence of God. There are two types of Atheism negative and positive atheism. The negative atheism is when someone have no knowledge about God and doesn’t believe in it; while on the other hand the positive atheism is when they have the knowledge but still doesn’t believe in God. Over the years things started to change, Science came and people now have better understanding
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erupted on August 24th, 79AD covering the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum “to a depth of more than 14 to 17 feet of pumice, volcanic ash, and debris. Vesuvius is located above a subduction zone form where the African plate descends beneath Italy. Magma produced from the melting African plate creates the large violently explosive volcanoes of the Italian Peninsula.” (Ball) Due to the fact that seismic activity was so common in the area, people did not pay much attention when several quakes shook the earth
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------------------------------------------------- Unit 4 exemplar report ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- OPTION 1: Tectonic Activity and Hazards ------------------------------------------------- Note: These exemplar reports are based on the work of candidates under examination conditions, during the June 2010 examination series. The reports were originally hand written but have been typed up, with diagrams redrawn. Errors
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many disadvantages primarily due to their geological weakness known as the Aegean plate boundaries (Komuscu, 1995). Turkey sits literally amid two massive tectonic plates. The Eurasia and The Africa/Arabia, which are inevitably hurtling into one another, from the north towards the south. The Anatolian plate, where the Turkish mainland lies, is being clutched upwardly near the Aegean Sea (Kutluca A. K., 2004). Both plates are located directly below Turkey and thus lead to this country’s massive history
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1. Where is Mount St. Helen’s? Describe the tectonic setting of the volcano. Mount St. Helen's is in Washington. Mount St. Helen is on the verge of two convergent plates, along a continental-continental boundary. 2. What type of volcano is Mount St. Helen’s? Describe the 1980 eruption. How was this eruption typical for this type of volcano? Mount St. Helen's is a composite volcano. In 1980 pressure built up within the Earth and blew the top from Mount St. Helens, covering surrounding areas in
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that changes in the face of the Earth can be negative or valuable to us. It is in Human nature to be adaptive to these changes. I believe that it affects our way of survival. The geological process affects or lives through weathering, erosion and plate tectonic changes, even earth quakes.The geological process affects or lives through weathering, erosion and
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