to move people away from an area with a threat or hazard to a place of safety

all the basic systems in a country, such as transport and power supply

actions that occur in the hours, days or weeks immediately after a disaster to help the basic needs of people

actions that occur in the months or years after a disaster to help rebuild or recover from the effects

Living close to volcanoes

Geography

Inside Earth

The movement of tectonic plates

Plate boundaries

Types of volcanoes

Volcanic hazards

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo

Earthquakes

The effects of earthquakes

Living in earthquake regions

The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

The 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that lead to tectonic hazards and investigates the geographical pattern of hazards across the world. Pupils will also learn how tectonic hazards affect people in different places and how people seek to manage hazards.

Tectonic hazards: Why is Earth restless?

How many people live close to an active volcano?

What are the risks of living near volcanoes?

Measuring the amount of gas coming from the volcano

Emergency services provide aid such as water, food, shelter and medical help

Designing buildings to be resilient to hazards

Short-term responses after a volcanic eruption include:

Education programmes and community drills

Monitoring to predict eruptions can allow time for people to evacuate the area

International aid bringing food, water and medical supplies

Designing and building infrastructure to survive the effect of an eruption

What longer-term things help people manage the risk of living near hazards?

Which layer of Earth contains molten rock (magma)?

What happens at a destructive plate boundary?

What type of volcano has steep sides and erupts explosively?

Which of the following is a volcanic hazard?

Starter Quiz

Which layer of Earth contains molten rock (magma)?