hazards and disasters

Question 1

hazard

Answer 1

situations with a potential to cause harm to people and/or the environment
eg fallen tree on path, storm

Question 2

hazard event

Answer 2

is when a hazard is realised - the event activley occurs

Question 3

disaster

Answer 3

a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community or societies ability to cope using own resources

eg 2019 bushfires, covid 19

Question 4

geological or geophysical hazards

Answer 4

associated with the dynamics of plate techtonics. Volcanic activity, earthquakes, and tsunamis, landslides, avalanches and subsistence are included

Question 5

hydro - meteorlogical hazards

Answer 5

atmospheric and climatological wide range of hazards including droughts, floods, storms and bushfires

Question 6

biological hazards

Answer 6

associated with life forms and their processes - infectious diseases such as covid, HIV, flu, animal transmitted eg bird flu
plant invasions
animal invasions

Question 7

technological hazards

Answer 7

technoloigical hazards have origins are connected to human activity. Often combine with natural processes to produce hazards.

eg oil spills, air pollution, acid rain