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3 phases of a wildfire

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  • Preignition
  • Combustion
  • Extinction
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Preignition

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fuel (Earth materials) with low water content reach a high temperature
- pyrolysis: heat breaks down the chemicals in Earth material

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Combustion

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lighting strikes, nearby fires, or human ignition lights the fuel on fire

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Extinciton

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the wildfire runs out of fuel and burns out

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South facing slopes

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get more sun exposure and are more prone to wildfires

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Types of wildfires

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  • Ground
  • Surface
  • Crown
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Ground fires

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fires that move underneath the ground, no flames, lots of smouldering

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Surface fires

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fires that burn along the surface, burning up ground materials

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Crown fires

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fires that burn up into the air, carried by trees

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Rain shadow effect

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wind from the ocean, carrying water vapour, stop at tall mountains, so the other side of the mountains is only dry air

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Prescribed fires

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purposefully set forest fires with the intent to destroy dangerous fuel buildup and destroy invasive plant species

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Ebola

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discovered in the 1970s and peaked in Africa in 2014

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4 stages of a disease outbreak

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  • Outbreak: several cases appear simultaneously
  • Epidemic: disease starts spreading uncontrolled locally
  • Pandemic: international uncontrolled spread
  • Endemic: society achieved majority immunity
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Common vehicle / Source epidemic

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disease spreads and contaminates circulated resources
- ex. E-Coli spread in lettuce

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Propagated epidemic

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diseases spread by infectious agents, like humans or animals

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Spanish flu

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  • Killed 40 million people in 1918 + 1919
  • Spread through WW1 soldiers travelling internationally
  • Killed 30k Canadians
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Bubonic plague (black death)

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infectious disease carried by rats and fleas
- 1347-50: 50 million killed in Europe, Asia, and Africa
- 1894: 13 million killed in Europe, due to the the spread in port cities
- 2020s: 120 deaths annually

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World Health Organization (WHO)

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UN org in charge of the spread of disease

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Chelyabinsk meteorite

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pieces of a meteor that imploded in the atmosphere, crashed down into Russia

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Meteoroid

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a broken off section of an asteroid

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Meteorite

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meteoroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere

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Shooting stars

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very far away super fast moving asteroids

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Kuiper belt

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large asteroid belt just beyond Neptune

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Airburst

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meteorites that implode in the atmosphere before reaching the troposphere

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Impact craters

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craters in the Earth that are evidence of past meteor impacts
- simple and complex

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Simple impact crater

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0 to 5 km wide

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Complex impact crater

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6 km and up wide

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Breccia

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small rock pieces that are left over from a meteor

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Catastrophism

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belief that catastrophic events are the cause of large Earth features, like mountains and valleys

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Uniformitarianism

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belief that large Earth features are always growing and moving, just very slowly over long periods of time

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6 major mass extinction events

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Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous, and Eocene

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Yucatan Peninsula crater

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predicted impact crater of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs found in Mexico
- 180 km wide and 40 km deep

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Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT)

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asteroid detection system

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Incoming asteroid solutions

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  • Blow the asteroid up
  • Push the asteroid out of Earth’s orbit
  • Evacuate predicted impact area
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Torino Impact Hazard Scale

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scale used to measure the severity of asteroids

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Senotea

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large hole in the ground filled with water

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What would constitute a category 9 on the Torino scale?

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Regional devastation causing tsunamis and earthquakes

38
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How did the Ebola virus spread so quickly?

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Poor literacy rates and sharing needles (low medical supplies)

39
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A complex meteorite impact crater is how long?

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At least 6 km wide

40
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Chernobyl (1986)

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Nuclear power plant that exploded in Ukraine because of a flawed reactor operator and untrained staff

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Socio-technological disasters

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results of human activity (accidental or poor decision making)
- 3 types: routine, global, and titanic

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Routine socio-technological disaster

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  • Common disasters
  • Car crashes
  • Drug epidemics
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Global socio-technological disaster

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  • Widespread and long-term
  • Nuclear war
  • Contaminated food or water
  • Pollution
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Titanic socio-technological disaster

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  • Singular event mass loss
  • Plane crash
  • Ship sinking
45
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Biomagnification

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toxins and diseases move up the food chain when larger animals eat smaller animals

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3 sectors of hazards

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  • Large scale / structural: buildings, dams, bridges
  • Transport: trains, planes, cars
  • Industry: power plants
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Radiation cycle

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  • Uranium mining
  • Nuclear fuel production
  • Nuclear power
  • Transport and waste disposal
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In 1959, Listowel arena roof collapsed. What kind of disaster was this?

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Socio-technological structural failure

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Migration

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movement of people who choose to move to another place with the intent of settling permanently

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Push factors

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reasons to leave your country or city

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Pull factors

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reasons to migrate to another country or city

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Voluntary migrants

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people who choose to move somewhere else for personal advantages

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Involuntary migrants

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people who are forced to leave their country due to conditions or outside forces

54
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Post-WW2 migration

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Eastern Europeans moved west and many Europeans moved to North America

55
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What is a push factor for migration?

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Unemployment, drought, war, and sea-level rise

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Tuvalu

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country in the South Pacific made up of 9 small islands that has a maximum elevation of 4.5 meters

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Climate

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long-term atmospheric conditions

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Weather

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short-term atmospheric conditions

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Climate zones

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temperature and precipitation zones affected by ocean currents and mountain ranges

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Sun emits

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short-wave radiation (hotter)

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Earth reflects

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long-wave radiation (colder)

62
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

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CO2 holds long-wave radiation in the atmosphere, which is why pollution makes the Earth hotter

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Atmosphere Gas contents

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  • Permanent gasses: Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%)
  • Variable gasses: water vapour, carbon dioxide, and methane
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Glacial intervals

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periods of times with major ice glaciers on Earth (ice ages)

65
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Pleistocene

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  • The last glacial interval
  • 20,000 years ago
  • Earth was 30% covered in ice
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Paleoclimate proxy records

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how scientists determine historic time periods
- Tree rings: gasses in the trees grow based on temp
- Lake and ocean sediment
- Ice: bubbles and rings

67
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Global warming

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increase in land and ocean temperatures over the past 60 years

68
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COP28

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UN climate change conference 2023

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Greenhouse effect

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the atmosphere absorbs 50% of the short wave radiation from the Sun and the Earth receives and reflects the other 50%

70
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Positive feedback loop

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Ice reflects Sun radiation and water absorbs radiation

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Ocean acidification

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Carbon dioxide emissions into the ocean
- kills the coral reef

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