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The 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami

Geography

Inside Earth

The movement of tectonic plates

Plate boundaries

Types of volcanoes

Volcanic hazards

Living close to volcanoes

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo

Earthquakes

The effects of earthquakes

Living in earthquake regions

The 2025 Myanmar Earthquake

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?

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Large ocean waves caused by sudden disturbance

A volcanic eruption triggering a landslide

What caused the 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami?

Why can tsunamis be more dangerous than normal waves?

A large section of Earth's crust that moves

What happens at a destructive plate boundary?

Which of these is a primary effect of a volcanic eruption?

What is the molten rock called before it erupts?

Which of these is a secondary effect of an earthquake?

The 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami

Lesson outcome

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