Shell EOY | Tropical Storms| 2023

Question 1

Natural Hazard Definition

Answer 1

A natural phenonemnon that has the potential to cause damage to property and threaten human lives

Question 2

Natural Disaster Definition

Answer 2

A natural hazard that has occured and caused huge loss of life and/or property damage

Question 3

Natural Event

Answer 3

A natural hazard that has occured but is in an area or of a magnitude that posed no clear threat to human life or property

Question 4

Name the four types of natural hazard

Answer 4

Geographical, Hydro, Atmospherical and Biological

Question 5

Give an example of a geogrpahical hazard

Answer 5

Earthquake

Question 6

Give an example of a Hydrological Hazard

Answer 6

Floods, Droughts

Question 7

Give an example of an atmospherical Hazard

Answer 7

Hurrican, Wildfire

Question 8

Give an example of a biological hazard

Answer 8

Animal disease

Question 9

When and why are hurricanes most common/dangerous

Answer 9

In september, as the water has heated up from the summer

Question 10

How does a hurricane form?

Answer 10

When the water is 26.5oC or above and the deapth is 60+m, warn air rises from the water, and moving wind takes its place underneath. This process repaeats, making large thunderclouds, and eventally, a tornado. The spin of the Earth also factors in the direction of the hurricanes spin.

Question 11

What is the coriolis effect

Answer 11

The Coriolis Effect -
Because the Earth rotates on its axis, circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.