Y10 Cities on the Brink

Question 1

Natural disaster

Answer 1

Diasester occuring as a result of environmental factors

Question 2

Human disaster

Answer 2

Disaster occuring as a result of human activity

Question 3

Vulnerability

Answer 3

The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being harmed or injured either physically or emotionally

Question 4

Deficiency

Answer 4

A lack or shortage

Question 5

Displaced Population

Answer 5

The relocation of large numbers of people from their homes

Question 6

Marginalisation

Answer 6

Social exclusion. The act of treating someone or something as if they are not important: The marginalization of certain groups within the community may lead to social unrest.

Question 7

Globalisation

Answer 7

Globalisation is a term used to describe how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

Globalization is the word used to describe the growing interdependence of the world’s economies, cultures, and populations, brought about by cross-border trade in goods and services, technology, and flows of investment, people, and information.

Question 8

Urbanisation

Answer 8

The increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.

Question 9

Facet

Answer 9

A particular aspect or feature of something.

Question 10

Impacts

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Impacts are the effects on a extreme natural or cultural event. Impacts can be short term (happen during or immediately after disaster) or long term (continue on for years after the disaster)

Question 11

Community

Answer 11

A group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristics in common

Question 12

Processes

Answer 12

A sequence of actions (step by step) , natural and/or cultural, that shape and change environments, places and societies

Question 13

Levee

Answer 13

A levee is a concrete embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river

Question 14

Hurricane

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A hurricane is a large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas

Question 15

Hurricane Katrina

Answer 15

Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana on August 23, 2005. It hit land as a Category 3 storm with winds reaching speeds as high as 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing destruction and loss of life, the storm is often considered one of the worst in U.S. history. An estimated 1,833 people died as a direct result of the storm, which also cost an estimated $108 billion in property damage, making it the costliest storm on record.

Question 16

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Answer 16

The government agency in charge of disasters in USA

Question 17

Diaspora

Answer 17

The movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. the black diaspora to northern cities.

Question 18

Resilience

Answer 18

Being able to deal with or recover from difficulties

Question 19

Evaluate

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To make a judgment about something, using supporting evidence

Question 20

Cyclone

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A cyclone is a closed, rotating wind. Cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Question 21

Equator

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The Equator is an imaginary circle around the Earth, halfway between the North and South Poles.

Question 22

Eye

Hurricane

Answer 22

Hurricane winds blow in a spiral around the calm, roughly circular center called the eye. In the eye, which is about 20 - 30 miles wide, it is relatively calm and there is little or no rain. The eye is the warmest part of the storm.

Question 23

Hurricane Classification

Answer 23

Hurricanes are classified into five categories, based on wind speed (using the Saffir-Simpson scale).
Category 1 – Winds 74-95 mph
Category 2 – Winds 96-110 mph
Category 3 – Winds 111-130 mph
Category 4 – Winds 131-155 mph
Category 5 – Winds over 155 mph.

Question 24

Latitude

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Latitude is the angular distance north or south from the equator to a particular location. The Equator has a latitude of zero degrees. The North Pole has a latitude of 90 degrees North; the South Pole has a latitude of 90 degrees South

Question 25

Longitude

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Longitude is the angular distance east or west from the north-south line that passes through Greenwich, England, to a particular location. Greenwich, England, has a longitude of zero degrees. The farther east or west of Greenwich you are, the greater your longitude. The Midway Islands (in the Pacific Ocean) have a longitude of 180 degrees (they are on the opposite side of the globe from Greenwich).

Question 26

Northern Hemisphere

Answer 26

The Northern Hemisphere is the half of the Earth that is north of the equator.

Question 27

Southern Hemisphere

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The Southern Hemisphere is the half of the Earth that is south of the equator.

Question 28

Vortex

Answer 28

vortex
A vortex is a spinning flow of air.

Question 29

Tectonic Plate

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The dozen or so plates that make up the surface of the Earth. Tectonic plates are gigantic pieces of the Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle.

Question 30

Plate Boundaries

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THe places where tectonic plates meet

Question 31

Earthquake

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An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s lithosphere

Question 32

Earthquake Process

Answer 32

Circular movements of the mantle causes th plates to diverge and collapse

The tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that releases energy in waves that travel through the earth’s crust and cause the shaking that we feel.

plate names - Pacific and Indo-Australian

Question 33

Hurricane Process

Answer 33

Sun warms up the ocean to 26.5C or above. The ocean water evaporates and forms a cloud of warm, moist air

As the water vapor rises it cools and condenses into liquid droplets

As warm air rises the winds begin blowing in a circle, gathering a cluster of clouds

Once the spinning wind reached 74 miles per hour, the storm officially became a hurricane

Question 34

Main Types of Plate Boundaries

Answer 34

Convergent (moving together) - divided into subduction (oceanic plate sliding under the continental plate) and collision (2 continental plates pushing into each other)

Divergent - pulling apart/ separating/ rifting

Transform - sliding literally past each other in different directions

Question 35

How are eartquakes measured

Answer 35

On a scale 0-10 called the Ritcher Scale