14 Included Experiences‚ (including guided walks‚ orientation walks‚ driving tours of certain regions – please see the Experiences Tab for more information.) Modern air conditioned coach with reclining seats‚ TV for showing DVDs‚ and toilet. Free Wi-Fi in hotels Services of your Expat tour leader who will be on hand with advice and tips and ensure that you get the most from your trip. You can also book any of the optional excursions available during your tour with your tour leader – please see
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Assess the extent to which primary rather than secondary impacts are the more serious effects arising from volcanic eruptions. (30 marks) A volcano is an earth hazard that occurs on faults between tectonic plates on a destructive boundary and an eruption is a natural disaster. A primary impact happens immediately after the disaster and before any response like death or collapsing or destruction of buildings. A secondary impact occurs later after the disaster‚ such less farm produce or a reduction
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Hazards are anything that could cause damage to humans or buildings. Many volcanic and seismic events happen that cause hazards to humans. Often the world’s poorest people are hit the worst‚ however wealthier countries can also be adversely affected. The Kobe earthquake in Japan 1995 struck at 5.45am. Many people were asleep in bed‚ causing the hazard to be increased because the people were unaware. Although many Japanese buildings were of aseismic design‚ the roofs of their houses were designed
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“Volcanic and seismic events are major pieces of evidence towards proving that plate tectonics theory is valid’ Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement (40 marks) The plate tectonics theory was made by a German named Alfred Wegener. He stated that a single continent existed about 300 million years ago named Pangaea and that it split into two continents of Laurasia in the north and Gondwanaland in the south. Today’s continents were formed by further splitting of the two masses
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“Volcanic and seismic events are major pieces of evidence towards proving that the plate tectonic theory is valid” Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement (40). The theory of plate tectonics explains the structure and motion of the Earth’s lithosphere. The theory states that the Earth’s crust is split into large sections called tectonic plates‚ and these move relative to one another creating boundaries at which the plates converge‚ diverge or move past each other. These plates
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Assess the strength of the relationship between tectonic processes and major landforms on the earth’s surface. Tectonic processes have been responsible for the major landforms across the Earth’s surface. These processes are controlled by the convection currents rising from the Earth’s mantle. Firstly‚ one place where tectonic activity occurs is at oceanic to oceanic constructive plate boundaries. Here two plates diverge or move away from each other‚ pushed apart by huge convection currents
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Lesson 13.7 LANDFORMS AND BODIES OF WATER LANDFORMS Landforms are natural features that appear on the surface of the Earth. They are formed either by the movement of tectonic plates or the action of water or ice. The Earth’s surface is the result of both constructive processes. Destructive Processes -Weathering -Erosion Constructive Processes -Plate Tectonic processes (volcanic eruptions) -Deposition Major Landforms •Mountains and Mountain Chains A mountain is a large landform that stretches
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which magma erupts to the surface‚ or it can refer to the landform created by the solidified lava and fragmental volcanic debris that accumulate near the vent. One could say‚ for example‚ that large lava flows are erupted from Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii‚ the word volcano here signifying a vent. By contrast‚ one could say that Kilauea is a gently sloping volcano of modest size as Hawaiian volcanoes go‚ the reference in this case being to a landform. Broadly defined‚ all igneous rocks are the result
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Continental drift The broad shape of Australia and its distinctive landforms have been influenced over long periods by earth movements that cause the breaking and bending of the Earth’s crust. Geographers call these movements tectonic processes. The Earth’s crust is made up of many individual moving pieces called tectonic plates. There are nine large plates and about a dozen smaller ones. The larger plates contain the continents and oceans. These plates ‘float’ on the dense layer of rock below
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most of the world’s major landforms occur and where earthquakes‚ volcanic and mountain building zones are located. The surface of the planet is made up of seven large and several smaller rigid tectonic plates which float on the semi-molton asthenosphere; the movement of these plates is influenced by the convection cells under the lithosphere‚ generated by heat from the center of the Earth. Plates can move towardsor away from eachother or in parallel‚ the type of landform created at the plate boundaries
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