Natural Hazards

Question 1

What is a natural hazard?

Answer 1

A natural process which could cause death injury or disruption to humans or destroy property and possessions

Question 2

What is a natural disaster?

Answer 2

A natural hazard that has actually happened

Question 3

What are the two main types of hazards?

Answer 3

Geological hazards and meteorological hazards

Question 4

What is a geological hazard?

Answer 4

Caused by land and tectonic processes such as volcanos and earthquakes

Question 5

What is a meteorological hazard?

Answer 5

Caused by weather and climate examples are tropical storms

Question 6

What are the three different factors that affect risk from natural hazards?

Answer 6

Vulnerability, capacity to cope and nature of natural hazards

Question 7

How does vulnerability affect hazard risk?

Answer 7

More people in an area the greater the probability they will be affected by the natural hazards

Question 8

How does capacity to cope affect the hazard risk?

Answer 8

The better a population can cope with an extreme event the lower the rust of being severely affected (example his can deal with it better )

Question 9

How does capacity to cope affect the hazard risk?

Answer 9

The better a population can cope with an extreme event the lower the rust of being severely affected (example his can deal with it better )

Question 10

How does nature of natural hazards affect the hazard risk from natural hazards?

Answer 10

Type- risk from some hazards are greater than others
Frequency-how often natural hazards occur
Magnitude- more severe natural hazards have the greatest affects

Question 11

What are some examples is primary affects?

Answer 11

People that are injured or are killed
Buildings destroyed
Crops or water supplies that W damaged or contaminated
Electricity , gas or communications that is cut off

Question 12

What are some examples of secondary affects

Answer 12

Other hazards like tsunami
Aid can’t get through
If crops are damaged
Country’s economy can become weakened

Question 13

What are some examples if immediate responses?

Answer 13

Evacuation
Rating the injured
Providing temporary housing
Recovery dead bodies
Sending aid

Question 14

What are some examples is long term responses?

Answer 14

Repair homes and buildings
Improve dealings with natural hazards
Improve buildings
Boost economy recovery

Question 15

What are the two types of crust?

Answer 15

Oceanic and continental

Question 16

What are the differences between continental and oceanic plates?

Answer 16

Continental
Less dense
Thick crust
Oceanic
Very dense
Thin crust

Question 17

What are the 4 types of tectonic plates?

Answer 17

1. Destructive (continental to continental)
2. Destructive (continental to oceanic)
   (In a destructive plate boundary, the plates nice toward each other)
3. Constructive (2 posted move away)
4. Conservative margins (plate margins move past each other)

Question 18

Where do volcanoes occur?

Answer 18

Constructive and destructive

Question 19

Where do earthquakes occur?

Answer 19

All 3 tectonic plates

Question 20

What’s an example of a HIC earthquake?

Answer 20

New Zealand 7.8 magnitude 2016

Question 21

What is a secondary effect example of new zealand?

Answer 21

Earthquake triggered 100,000 landslides
Major landslide blocked rocket causing flooding and evacuation of 10 farms

Question 22

Give me an example of a primary effect for New Zealand

Answer 22

2 people died
Tens of titans of homes damaged
60 people needed emergency housing

Question 23

Give me an example of an immediate response doe new zealand

Answer 23

Tsunami warning
200 people evacuated
Power restored after a few hours
International warships sent with supplies

Question 24

Give me an example of a long term response of new zealand

Answer 24

53 million provided by KDC to help with revuilding water shstems
Most of road and rail repaired within 2 years

Question 25

Give me an example of a LIC techtonix hazard

Answer 25

Ghorka, Nepal, 2015 7.8 magnitude earthquake

Question 26

Give me an example of a primary effect of Ghorka

Answer 26

9000 people died
22,000 injured
800,000 buildings damaged/destroyed

Question 27

Give me an example of a secondary effect of Ghorka

Answer 27

Triggered an avalanche that killed 18 people

Question 28

Give me an example of a long term response from Ghorka

Answer 28

Road from Nepal to Tibet reopened after 2 years
Many heritage sited reopened in June 2015 to encourage tourists

Question 29

Give me an example of an immediate response from Ghorka

Answer 29

Charities like Oxfam provided medicine, food and temporary water supplies
Red cross set up emergency shelters for 130,000 people

Question 30

Give me an example of an immediate response from Ghorka

Answer 30

Charities like Oxfam provided medicine, food and temporary water supplies
Red cross set up emergency shelters for 130,000 people

Question 31

Why do people live in areas that are at sugar of tectonic hazards?

Answer 31

• always lived there
• confident government will support them
  -minerals from volcanic ash so attracts farmers
  -tourist attraction so a lot of jobs

Question 32

What are the 4 management strategies to reduce the effect of tectonic hazards?

Answer 32

Monitoring- earthquakes can be monitored by seismometers
Prediction- volcanoes can be predicted, but earthquakes cant be reliably predicted
Protection- use reinforced concrete to absorb concretes energy
Planning- people can be educated or emergency supplies can be stockplied

Question 33

What is global atmospheric circulation?

Answer 33

Transfer of heat from the equator to the poles by the movement of air

Question 34

What are the 3 cells that the hemisphere has

Answer 34

Polar
Ferrel
Hadley

Question 35

Whats an example of a tropical storm?

Answer 35

Typhoon Haiyan

Question 36

Give me 3 examples of primary effects of typhoon haiyan

Answer 36

6300 dead
1 million houses damaged
1.9 people homeless

Question 37

Give me 2 examples of typhoon Haiyan secondary

Answer 37

1 Flooding=several landslides= blocked road= delayed aid
2 5.6 million workers lost their jobs

Question 38

Give me some immediate response examples of typhoon haiyan

Answer 38

-PAGSA gave warnings and 800,000 left
-Fishermen weren’t allowed to go to sea

Question 39

Give me an example of a long term response for typhoon Haiyan

Answer 39

UN appealed for $300 million
Charities built new storm resistant homes