e) Unit 1: Hazardous Earth- Tectonics case studies

In what year was the Haiti earthquake?

• 2000

• 2010

• 2016

• 2023

If you were writing about an earthquake in a developed country which case study would you use?

• Katrina

• Haiti

• Haiyan

• Sendai, Tohoku

If you were writing about an earthquake in a developing country which case study would you use?

• Katrina

• Haiti

• Haiyan

• Sendai, Tohoku

What magnitude was the Haiti Earthquake?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 9

What year was the Sendai, Tohoku earthquake?

• 2000

• 2011

• 2016

• 2023

True or False: The Haiti earthquake triggered a tsunami.

• True

• False

Haiti is the poorest country in the...

• World

• Southern hemisphere

• Eastern hemisphere

• Western hemisphere

Organise these impacts into the right categories.

Groups:

(a) Primary

,

(b) Secondary

• People become homeless/displaced

• Gas pipes are ruptured

• Disease spreads

• Damage from tsunamis

• Buildings collapse

• People are killed/injured

Despite the earthquake being magnitude 9, Japan were able to reduce some of the damage. Select the reasons why.

• They evacuated the whole of Sendai city in advance

• Education of the population

• Strict building laws and earthquake proof building design

• Early warning alerts from mobile phone apps

How many hospitals were destroyed in the Haiti earthquake?

• 2

• 5

• 8

• 10