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Question 1

Adaptation

Answer 1

Actions taken to adjust to natural events to reduce potential damage, limit the impacts and take advantage of opportunities or cope with the consequences

Question 2

Climate Change

Answer 2

A long term change in the earth’s climate

Question 3

Conservative Plate Margin

Answer 3

two plates sliding alongside each other in the same or opposite directions

Question 4

Constructive plate matgin

Answer 4

plates that are moving apart

Question 5

Destructive plate margin

Answer 5

two plates converging and the oceanic plate is subducted

Question 6

Earthquake

Answer 6

A sudden violent movement within the earth’s crust followed by a series of shocks

Question 7

Economic impact

Answer 7

effect of an event on the wealth of an area or community

Question 8

environmental impact

Answer 8

effect of an event on the landscape and ecology of the area

Question 9

extreme weather

Answer 9

when a weather event is significantly different from the average or usual weather pattern, it is usually severe or unseasonal

Question 10

global atmospheric circulation

Answer 10

The worldwide system of winds that transport hear from tropical to polar latitudes. In each hemisphere, air also circulates through the entire depth of the troposphere which extends up to 15km

Question 11

hazard risk

Answer 11

probability or chance that a natural hazard may take place

Question 12

immediate responses

Answer 12

reaction of people as the disaster happens in the immediate aftermath

Question 13

infrastructure

Answer 13

the basic equipment and structures that are needed for a country or region to function e.g. roads

Question 14

long-term responses

Answer 14

later reactions that occur in the weeks, months and years after the event

Question 15

mitigation

Answer 15

actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to human life and property from natural hazards such as building earthquake proof buildings or making international agreements about carbon reduction targets

Question 16

monitoring

Answer 16

actions taken to reduce or eliminate the long term risk to human life and property from natural hazards such as building earthquake proof buildings or making international agreements about carbon reduction targets

Question 17

orbital change

Answer 17

changes in the pathway of earth around the sun

Question 18

planning

Answer 18

actions taken to enable communities to respond to and recover from natural disasters

Question 19

plate margin

Answer 19

the border between 2 tectonic plates

Question 20

prediction

Answer 20

attempts to forecast when a natural hazard will strike based on current knowledge

Question 21

primary effects

Answer 21

initial impact of a natural event on people and property caused directly by it

Question 22

protection

Answer 22

actions taken before a natural hazard strikes to reduce its impact such as educating people or improving building designs

Question 23

secondary effects

Answer 23

after effects that occur as indirect impacts of a natural event sometimes on a longer timescale

Question 24

social impact

Answer 24

the effect of an event on the lives of people and its community

Question 25

tectonic hazard

Answer 25

natural event caused by movement of the earth’s tectonic plates e.g. earthquake

Question 26

tropical storm

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an area of low pressure with winds moving in a spiral around a calm central point. Strong winds and heavy rainfall

Question 27

Volcano

Answer 27

an opening in the earth’s crust which forms lava, ash and gases erupt