Mistakes From Booklet One

Question 1

Types of weather hazards in the uk

Answer 1

Flooding
Droughts and heat waves
Extreme cold weather
Storm events

Question 2

What is extreme weather

Answer 2

Where the weather is especially severe or out of season and is clearly different to usual wether pattern

Question 3

Flooding

Answer 3

Caused by heavy rainfall or storm waves
Can cause flash flooding
Crops damaged
Damage to home and businesses
Death by drowning
Recovery is expensive
Landslides

Question 4

Droughts and heat waves

Answer 4

Long periods with little or no rainfall
15 consecutive days with less that 0.2 mil of rain
Crop production fails
Wildlife affected
Reservoirs run low so reduced water supplies
Hosepipe bans
Elderly vulnerable to heat exhaustion
Roads melt

Question 5

Extreme cold weather

Answer 5

If the usual depressions are not passing over the uk
Crops fail cattle may not survive
Transport shuts
Injury from snow and ice
Business and school shut

Question 6

Storm events

Answer 6

Depressions bring heavy rain
Flood and wind damage
Trees uprooted
Power supplies down
Disruption to transport
Death

Question 7

Evidence weather is becoming more extreme

Answer 7

Frequency of extreme weather is increasing
Since 1980 temps have increased by 1 degrees
Serious flooding has become frequent in the winter for example Cumbria 2009
Highest temp was august 2003

Question 8

Case study

Answer 8

Beast from the east