EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
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Reinforcing buildings with metal framing decreases earthquake damage less.
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Building homes on stilts helps to secure them from flooding.
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Earthquakes happen only along tectonic plate boundaries.
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The biggest threat to organisms during an earthquake is an object or piece of an object falling on them.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Earth’s crust (the outer layer of the planet) is made up of several pieces called tectonic plates and most earthquakes occur along their edges.
Detailed explanation-2: -Convergent plate boundaries A convergent plate boundary, also known as a destructive plate boundary, usually involves an oceanic plate and a continental plate. The plates move towards one another and this movement can cause earthquakes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following is NOT true about Earth’s tectonic plates? Some tectonic plates contain only continental lithosphere. (True: Tectonic plates vary greatly in size, some tectonic plates contain only oceanic lithosphere, and some tectonic plates contain both oceanic and continental lithosphere.)
Detailed explanation-4: -A divergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other. Along these boundaries, earthquakes are common and magma (molten rock) rises from the Earth’s mantle to the surface, solidifying to create new oceanic crust.