1: Natural hazards

Question 1

What makes a natural hazard different from other kinds of hazards?

Answer 1

Risk is due to naturally occurring processes

Question 2

Definition of natural disaster

Answer 2

Realisation of the natural hazard with injury or loss of life to people

Question 3

Geological hazards

Answer 3

Earthquakes

Sinkholes

Landslides

Tsunamis

Question 4

Climatic hazards

Answer 4

Hurricanes

Flooding

Mid-latitude storms

Droughts

Tornadoes

Question 5

Biological hazards

Answer 5

Wildfires

Disease

Pests

Question 6

Why a natural disaster is never “completely natural”?

Answer 6

Always needs interaction between people + environment

A volcano that erupts far from humans and effects no one is not a natural disaster

Question 7

Risk

Answer 7

Probability of an event happening and the scale of its possible damage

Question 8

What determines the risk level in a place?

Answer 8

Distribution

Frequency

Scale

Prediction

Question 9

What determines size of a disaster?

Answer 9

Magnitude

Vulnerability of the population

Question 10

Human factors that affect the level of vulnerability

Answer 10

Population density

Supply of reliable resources

Quality of defences

Question 11

How to reduce vulnerability

Answer 11

Raise awareness

Do this through precautionary actions

Plans for coping with the impact