Edexcel GCE Geography Unit 1: Topic 1 - World At Risk.

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What is 'hazard' timesed by in the Disaster Risk Equation?
Vulnerability
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Name one hydro-meteorological hazard that isn't a storm or tropical cyclone.
Droughts
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Name another hydro-meteorological hazard that isn't a storm or tropical cyclone.
Floods
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Name one risk management strategy.
Prediction
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Name a human factor contributing to disasters increasing.
Deforestation
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Name a geophysical hazard.
Landslides
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Global warming describes the recent increase in average global ______?
Temperature
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El Nino occurs every 2 to _ years.
Seven
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El Nino events are to do with oceanic current and temperature _______.
Fluctuations
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Vulnerability is how _______ a populations is to the damage caused by a hazard.
Susceptible
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Risk is the _______ that humans will be seriously affected by a hazard.
Likelihood
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Areas like Hawaii are called ______ hotspots.
Volcanic
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Card 2

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Name one hydro-meteorological hazard that isn't a storm or tropical cyclone.

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Droughts

Card 3

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Name another hydro-meteorological hazard that isn't a storm or tropical cyclone.

Back

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Card 4

Front

Name one risk management strategy.

Back

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Card 5

Front

Name a human factor contributing to disasters increasing.

Back

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Not sure all the terms are correct

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