Keeping housing sustainable and safe ( Chapter 7, WA1)

Question 1

What are some environmental impacts from building houses?

Answer 1

1. Deforestation
2. Mining
3. Depletion of water underground
4. Global warming

Question 2

What are some impacts of deforestation?

Answer 2

Environmental ( Global warming), Economic ( Depleting of natural resources) and Social ( Indigenous people)

Question 3

What are some materials that are used to build?

Answer 3

Steel, Iron, Aluminium, Copper, Zinc, etc

Question 4

What causes land pollution?

Answer 4

Chemicals from factories, sewage and garbage, etc

Question 5

What are some impacts of land pollution?

Answer 5

It can damage land in the long-term which would be unsafe for buildings to be build on that piece of land.

Affect health as chemicals could be realised and affect breathing or even death.

Question 6

What could cause water pollution?

Answer 6

Surface runoff of contaminants. Poorly treated sewage. Water that are contaminated by chemicals.

Question 7

What is the impact of water pollution?

Answer 7

Water shortage and sickness + death

Question 8

What is the impact of poor sanitation?

Answer 8

Spread of sickness

Question 9

What are hazards?

Answer 9

Events that have a negative impact on people, the physical and built environments and the economy.

Question 10

How do human-induced hazards come by?

Answer 10

They arise from human actions or inaction, like ignoring safety regulations.

Question 11

How can you prevent threats?

Answer 11

You can use better quality materials to build building to ensure that they can withstand the threat of hazards.

Question 12

Why do you need to provide safe housing?

Answer 12

People will not be at risk of injury or even death. ( from diseases of r physical injury)

Question 13

What are different types of water borne diseases?

Answer 13

E.Coli Infection, Typhoid Fever, Cholera