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Think Before You Write Cognitive Skills

Answer the following questions:
1. Why do earthquakes occur?
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2. What device do scientists use to measure earthquakes?

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3. What are the destructive effects of earthquakes?
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4. What is the difference between the focus and the epicentre of the earthquake?

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5. When an earthquake occurs in a sparsely (thinly) populated region, it is not considered to be a disaster, why?

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6. In what ways are volcanoes dangerous?

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7. Which countries have a lot of volcanoes?

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8. How are volcanoes formed? Why do they erupt?
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9. Do you think volcanoes could be used as an energy source? How?

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10. Could you think of any ways people benefit from volcanoes?
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