3.1.5.1

Question 1

What are the six main types of natural hazard?

Answer 1

Flood
Drought
Volcano
Earthquake
Landslide/Avalance
Tropical Storm

Question 2

How can we categorise hazards?

Answer 2

Hydro-meteorological

Geophysical

Question 3

What are the two types of geophysical hazards?

Answer 3

Tectonic

Geomorphological

Question 4

how can a natural event turn into a hazard?

Answer 4

it has to effect people

Question 5

what is the definition of a natural hazard?

Answer 5

a natural event or process that affects people e.g. loss of life, injury, economic loss, environment degradation

Question 6

what is a disaster?

Answer 6

when a hazardous geophysical event effects a highly vulnerable population

Question 7

what model shows a venn diagram showing what a disaster is?

Answer 7

Dregg Model

Question 8

what does vulnerability mean?

Answer 8

community with the inability to cope with disaster

Question 9

who are the most vulnerable people in the world?

Answer 9

LICs
children/old people
people who live in favelas - unstable hillslopes
people that live in bangladesh - low lying land

Question 10

why do people remain at risk to hazards?

Answer 10

unpredictability
lack of alternatives
changing levels of risk
cost v benefit

Question 11

what does risk mean?

Answer 11

the probability of a hazard event occurring and creating loss of lives and livelihoods

Question 12

what is fatalism?

Answer 12

an attitude that nothing can be done to mitigate the outcome of hazards e.g. they are God’s will

Question 13

why are risks getting worse in some countries?

Answer 13

frequency is increasing with climate change
unsustainable development leads to poor land use and environmental degradation
the capacity to cope is decreasing due to poverty and urbanisation

Question 14

why are risks lower in more developed countries?

Answer 14

because they have resources and technology protection

Question 15

what is perception?

Answer 15

what we believe of understand about something

Question 16

what factors influence perception of hazard?

Answer 16

socio economic status
level of education
past experience
religion/culture
values/personality

Question 17

what is an adaption perception of hazards?

Answer 17

people see that they can prepare and survive an event by prediction/prevention

Question 18

what is a fearful perception of hazard?

Answer 18

people feel so vulnerable to an event that they can no longer face living there

Question 19

what does the hazard management cycle show?

Answer 19

preparation
relief
rebuilding/rehabilitation
mitigation/prevention

Question 20

what does the park model show?

Answer 20

the impact of a hazard on quality of life

how a place responds and recovers

Question 21

what is risk sharing?

Answer 21

prearranged measures that aim to reduce loss of life and property for when a hazard strikes
e.g. insurance, public education, provision of emergency services, evacuation procedures