Miscellaneous

Question 1

The Hazard Management Cycle

Answer 1

Response: Efforts to minimise effects created by disaster. For example, search and rescue. Recovery: Returning communities to normal. Mitigation: Minimising the effects of the disaster. Preparedness.

Question 2

Ways to reduce risk

Answer 2

Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Mitigation, Development, Adaptation to Climate Change

Question 3

Things that cause vulnerability to a storm

Answer 3

Underlying Causes, Dynamic Pressure, Unsafe Conditions.

Question 4

Types of Hazard

Answer 4

Geological Hazards, Water and Climate Hazards, Environmental Hazards Biological, Chemical Industrial and Nuclear Accidents, Accident Related.

Question 5

Disaster Management Cycle

Answer 5

Preparedness, Individual Disaster Response, Response/Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, Mitigation.

Question 6

Relief

Answer 6

The difference between the highest and lowest elevations in an area.

Question 7

What are the two types of resilience?

Answer 7

Social and Ecological. Social is the ability to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental changes.

Question 8

What are the two types of hazard?

Answer 8

Primary and Secondary. Primary are hazards that are directly related to the hazard event. Secondary are hazards that occur due to the occurence of another.

Question 9

What are the three types of plate boundaries?

Answer 9

Constructive, Destructive and Conservative.

Question 10

Secondary effects of volcanic hazards

Answer 10

Lahars (volcanic mudflows), Flooding, Volcanic Landslides, Tsunamis, Acid Rain, Climate Change.

Question 11

What are intraplate volcanoes known as?

Answer 11

Hotspots