Term 2 Natural Hazards Home Learning 5

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1. Typhoon Haiyan hit what country in 2013? (1)

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1. Typhoon Haiyan hit what country in 2013? (1)

2. What type of country is it? (1)

3. How many people died and how much damage did it cause ($)? (1)

7000 died, and $5.8billion in damage

4. What plate margin caused the Haitian earthquake in 2010? (1)

Conservative plate margin

5. 4 years after the 2010 Haitian earthquake what were 230,000 people living in? (1)

6. How can we manage tropical storms - what can we do to protect buildings? (1)

1. Reinforcing buildings or put key houses and buildings on stilts. Countries may even build sea walls

7. What type of technology can we use to predict and evacuate people if a tropical storm is going to hit? (1)

8. When planning for tropical storms who needs to be trained and ready to act if one hits? (1)

Emergency services

9. Why were the impacts of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines considerably worse compared to Hurricane Florence in the USA? (1)

The USA is an HIC so it was better prepared, reinforced buildings, evacuations and trained emergency services. Philippines is an LIC. They were not prepared, had poorly built buildings and had to rely on aid from other countries.

10. What is a squatter settlement? (1)

An area where people live on land they do not own. They are also referred to as slums, shanty towns and favelas.