3.7 - Bangladesh

Question 1

Bangladesh is in an area prone to

Answer 1

Pressure changes

Question 2

How does pressure add vulnerability?

Answer 2

1mb drop means 1cm SLR rise

Question 3

SLR prediction

Answer 3

55cm in 100 years

Question 4

How does topography increase risk?

Answer 4

Triangular shape bay
Funnels water
Concentrates it
Intensifies tropical cyclones and storm surges

Question 5

How has physical geography influenced human geography?

Answer 5

Coastal areas mean a port in Chittagong was able to be made

Chittagong now main GDP source, mega city

Question 6

Tropical cyclones cause what

Answer 6

Intense rainfall
Strong winds (260kmph)
Increased wave height

Question 7

SLR will result in what if prediction is correct

Answer 7

40% farmland lost

Vital coastal mangrove systems ruined

Question 8

Delta sediment is

Answer 8

Unconsolidated increasing erosion risk

Question 9

Bangladesh is how low-lying

Answer 9

Less than 3m above SL

Question 10

Subsidisation rate

Answer 10

8-18mm/year

Question 11

Humans have done what to reduce protection

Answer 11

Deforested mangrove forests which would dissipate wave energy from cyclones, erosion from the river delta

Question 12

River discharge meets

Answer 12

Storm surges