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Geography - Unit 1A - The Challenge of Natural Hazards

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By: James Mckeen
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Unit 1A - Tectonic Hazards - Plates, volcanoes and earthquakes
Natural hazard definition,
Two main types of natural hazards...,
3 factors affecting hazard risk
13  cards
Unit 1A - Tectonic Hazards - Case Study - Earthquake in LIC: Haiti
When was haiti earthquake,
Haiti earthquake plate boundary type,
Deaths amount
17  cards
Unit 1A - Tectonic Hazards - Case Study - Earthquake in HIC: L'Aquila, Italy
When did it occur,
Type of plate boundary,
Death amount
17  cards
Unit 1A - Tectonic Hazards - Living with tectonic hazards and key terms
6 reasons why people decide to li...,
4 types of management strategies ...,
How can we prepare plan for earth...
15  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Global atmospheric circulation and tropical storms
What are winds caused by and what...,
How is low pressure and huge cumu...,
How is high pressure created at 3...
16  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Case Study - Typhoon Haiyan, Philippines LIC
When did typhoon happen,
Category of storm,
Death amounts
16  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Tropical storms effects and responses
Who monitors and tracks tropical ...,
4 ways we can protect buildings f...,
Ways we can plan to reduce damage...
5  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Depressions and anticyclones
What are depressions,
What happens at a warm front of d...,
What happens at a cold front of d...
12  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Evidence in the UK of weather becoming more extreme
When have 4 out of 5 uks wettest ...,
What has the uk seen an increase ...,
Highest daily temperature date an...
8  cards
Unit 1A - Weather Hazards - Case Study - UK extreme weather event - Cockermouth Flood
When did flood occur,
Main cause of flood,
Death amount
14  cards
Unit 1A - Climate Change - Evidence, causes and effects of climate change
Climate change definition,
Global warming definition,
What is the quaternary period
10  cards
Unit 1A - Climate Change - Managing climate change: mitigation and adaptation
Climate change adaption definition,
Mitigation definition,
3 ways we can mitigate against cl...
12  cards

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