Learner Resource 3

Hazardous Earth – Assessing your keyword understandingYour teacher will read out a sentence that defines each keyword below and sets it in an appropriate subject context. Decide which column best describes your level of understanding and add either a tick or a comment as appropriate.

Keywords No understanding Some understanding Very clear understanding

Accretionary wedge

Adaptation

Convergent Boundary

Composite cones

"DART”

Fissure Vents

Volcanic "hotspot"

Lithospheric or tectonic plates

Mid-oceanic ridge

Mitigation

Mountain belts, folds and thrust faults

Mudflows or Lahars

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Keywords No understanding Some understanding Very clear understanding

Palaeomagnetism

Plate Tectonics

Pyroclastic flows or nuées ardentes

Resilience

Risk

Shield volcanoes

Slab Pull

Subduction

Susceptibility

Sustainability

Volcanism or Vulcanism

Vulnerability

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