Hazards

Question 1

What is a natural hazard?

Answer 1

Extreme natural events that can cause loss of life, extreme damage to property and disrupt human activities

Question 2

(UK) What are the different types of extreme weather?

Answer 2

Heavy rain, floods, heavy snowfall, heatwave, droughts

Question 3

(CLIMATE CHANGE) What is the evidence?

Answer 3

Glacier retreat, ice cores, rising sea level

Question 4

(CLIMATE CHANGE) What are the natural causes?

Answer 4

Orbital changes, solar output, volcanic activity

Question 5

(CLIMATE CHANGE) What are the human causes?

Answer 5

Burning fossil fuels, agriculture, deforestation

Question 6

(CLIMATE CHANGE) What are mitigation methods to manage the impacts?

Answer 6

Carbon capture, planting trees, international agreements

Question 7

(CLIMATE CHANGE) What are adaptation methods to manage the impacts?

Answer 7

Agriculture, water supply, reducing risk from sea level rise

Question 8

(TROPICAL STORMS) Define ‘tropical storm’

Answer 8

an area of low pressure with winds moving in a spiral around a cal central point

Question 9

(TROPICAL STORMS) What are they called in the US and Caribbean?

Answer 9

Hurricanes

Question 10

(TROPICAL STORMS) What are they called in South Asia?

Answer 10

Cyclones

Question 11

(TROPICAL STORMS) What are they called in East Asia?

Answer 11

Typhoons

Question 12

(TROPICAL STORMS) What are they called in Australia?

Answer 12

Willy-willies

Question 13

(TROPICAL STORMS) How can the effects be reduced?

Answer 13

Monitoring and prediction, protection, planning

Question 14

(TECTONICS) What is a plate margin?

Answer 14

The region where two or more plate margins meet

Question 15

(TECTONICS) What is an earthquake?

Answer 15

a sudden and violent period of ground shaking