Boxing Day- Tsunami

Question 1

Where did the earthquake occur that caused the tsunami?

Answer 1

Indian Ocean, off the West coast of Sumatra

Question 2

What year did the tsunami happen?

Answer 2

2004

Question 3

What did the earthquake measure on the Richter scale?

Answer 3

9.1

Question 4

How high were the waves of the tsunami?

Answer 4

Up to 30m

Question 5

List 3 affected countries

Answer 5

Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia

Question 6

Social Primary Impacts: How many people were killed or went missing?

Answer 6

230,000 people

Question 7

Social Primary Impacts: How many people lost their homes?

Answer 7

Over 1.7 million

Question 8

Social Primary Impacts: Why did so many people lose their homes?

Answer 8

As whole towns and villages were destroyed

Question 9

Social Primary Impacts: How many needed emergency food, water and medical supplies?

Answer 9

5-6 million

Question 10

Economic Primary Impacts: Give examples of infrastructure that was severely damaged by many countries

Answer 10

Roads, water pipes, electricity lines

Question 11

Economic Primary Impacts: How much of Sri Lanka’s fishing industry was destroyed?

Answer 11

60%

Question 12

Economic Primary Impacts: What happened to ports?

Answer 12

They were ruined

Question 13

Environmental Primary Impacts: How many litres of oil leaked into the ocean?

Answer 13

8 million litres

Question 14

Environmental Primary Impacts: What did so much oil leaking into the oceans cause?

Answer 14

Habitats for sea life destroyed, injured sea life too

Question 15

Social Secondary Impacts: With so many left homeless and living in cramped conditions, what type of threat increased?

Answer 15

Threats of disease

Question 16

Economic Secondary Impacts: What happened to Sri Lanka’s fishing industry?

Answer 16

It was completely devastated

Question 17

Economic Secondary Impacts: How much did it cost to repair infrastructure?

Answer 17

Billions of dollars

Question 18

Environmental Secondary Impacts: What was farmland ruined by?

Answer 18

Salt water- meaning that the farming industry was devastated

Question 19

Environmental Secondary Impacts: What did the oil destroy?

Answer 19

Entire ecosystems

Question 20

Environmental Primary Impacts: What happened to crops?

Answer 20

They were destroyed

Question 21

Short-term Responses: Why were medical kits sent to affected areas?

Answer 21

To treat the injured, and try to stop disease spreading

Question 22

Short-term Responses: Why were lessons on hygiene given in shelters?

Answer 22

To try to prevent disease spreading through shelters

Question 23

Short-term Responses: Why were pop up delivery wards set up?

Answer 23

So that pregnant women could give birth safely

Question 24

Short-term Responses: Who pledged hundreds of millions of pounds in aid?

Answer 24

Foreign governments, charities, businesses, individuals

Question 25

Short-term Responses: What did some foreign countries send over?

Answer 25

Ships, planes, soldiers and specialists

Question 26

Short-term Responses: Why were ships, planes, soldiers and specialists sent over?

Answer 26

To help rescue people, to clear up, to distribute food and water

Question 27

Long-term Responses: What has been put in place in the Indian Ocean?

Answer 27

A Tsunami Warning System

Question 28

Long-term Responses: Why is a tsunami warning system good?

Answer 28

As it will give people time to get to high land in the future

Question 29

Long-term Responses: What has been restored along coastlines (such as Sri Lanka)?

Answer 29

Mangroves

Question 30

Long-term Responses: Why have mangroves been restored?

Answer 30

Breeding ground for fish, they take a large amount of the tsunamis energy

Question 31

Long-term Responses: What are they rebuilding?

Answer 31

Homes

Question 32

Long-term Responses: What are people being helped to do?

Answer 32

Get back to work

Question 33

Long-term Responses: Why have disaster management plans been put in place in some countries?

Answer 33

So that people know what to do if it happens again