Geography T3 Flashcards
Floods - Easy
What are the types of floods?
There are Three Types of Floods
Slow Onset, Fast Onset, and Flash.
Floods - Medium 1
What causes a slow onset flood?
Prolonged heavy rain
Floods - Medium 2
What causes a fast onset flood?
Excessive Rain and Storms
Floods - Medium 3
What causes a rapid flood?
Storms when creeks overflow or heavy seasonal rain and storms
Floods - Hard
What is a flood classified as?
A Natural Disaster
Mitigation - Easy
What is atleast one type of flood mitigation?
Dredging or Damming
Mitigation - Medium
What is dredging for?
Dedging is made to prevent bottlenecks, which sparks up floods. By this, we prevent floods and create more land.
Mitigation - Hard
What is a bottleneck?
A bottleneck is made of sediment, that has been left for a long time without dredging, that forms a sort of bottle shape, that rises levels of water in different areas of the waterbed.
History of the Brisbane River - Easy
When was the last major flood?
It was in 2011
History of the Brisbane River - Medium
When was the highest flood ever recorded in Brisbane?
1984
History of the Brisbane River - Hard
What caused the highest flood ever recorded in Brisbane?
A Cyclone
Topography - Easy
What is Topography?
Topography is the study of land.
Topography - Medium
Why might you need a topographic map?
As a hiker, GPS might not be available because of WIFI problems.
This is one reason.
Topography - Hard
What is topography related to?
Geodesy and Surveying
Zoning - Easy
What is Zoning?
Zoning is an area in geography that sets land into zones such as residental or commercial.
