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Online Geography Resources |
Hazards and Disasters |
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Starter |
| Lets play ... "Name that Hazard" [Click on the images to see a larger version] |
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Hazard 3 |
Hazard 4 |
Hazard 5 |
Hazard 6 |
Hazard 7 |
Hazard 8 |
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Name that Hazard Worksheet  |
Activities |
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What is a Natural Hazard? |
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Task |
| Draw a venn diagram to illustrate the following four situations. Your venn diagram should include the extreme natural event and the vulnerable population and the scale of the natural hazard. |
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Classifying Natural Hazards Task |
Cut out the 'Hazards Classification Slips'. Try to classify all the hazards by the following themes:
For each theme you can have as many categories as you wish. |
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What is a Disaster? |
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The definition that is provided by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction: “A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that causes serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society causing widespread human, material, economic and/or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own level of resources." For a disaster to be entered into the database of the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, at least one of the following criteria must be met:
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What is a Disaster? Task |
| Which of the following event were/are disasters? Explain your answer for each event. |
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UK hit by strong gales and storms |
| In Downpatrick, a motorist died when a tree fell on her car while Northern Ireland Electricity says 15,000 homes are without power. [18 January 2009] | |
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Call for Afghan 'Berlin airlift' |
| A combination of light spring rains, a summer drought, poor irrigation, low crop yields in the north and north-west of the country and rising world food prices is said to have left a third of Afghans - an estimated 8.4 million people - facing possible famine. [31 October 2008] | |
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Rare hurricane hits east Canada |
| Hurricane Kyle has made landfall in eastern Canada, the country's hurricane service reports. It struck near Yarmouth on the southern tip of Nova Scotia province, before being downgraded to a tropical storm. There are no reports of damages. [29 September 2008] | |
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Buncefield explosion: One year on |
| The clean-up of 26 million litres of stored contaminated water used to fight the blaze, as well as ground water contaminated by diesel entering a borehole, remains a concern. The Health Protection Agency concluded there was no evidence of a public health risk from the plume - either as deposits or on air quality. [11 December 2006] | |
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Liberia worms swarm 'emergency' |
| Liberia's president has declared a state of emergency in response to a plague of crop-destroying army worms. Some 400,000 residents in 80 villages had been affected, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. [27 January 2009] | |
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Chinese reveal child quake toll |
| China says 5,335 schoolchildren died or remain missing after last year's devastating Sichuan earthquake. When the earthquake struck, a disproportionate number of school buildings collapsed. Chinese officials made the announcement days before the 12 May anniversary of the disaster that killed up to 90,000 people. [7 May 2009] |
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Something to think about ... |
When is a disaster not a disaster? Why does it take ten deaths before an event is a disaster? Can there be an objective definition of a disaster? |
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Review and Homework Task |
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