WorksheetsForm 2 Revision
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 21mins
There are two types of Natural Hazards. They are:
Tectonic and Climatic Hazards
Tectonic and Continental Hazards
Natural and Tectonic Hazards
Climatic and Horrible Hazards
WHAT ARE THE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH
TROPICAL CYCLONES?
Pick 3
Storm Surges
Torrential rain and flooding
Mudslides
Strong winds
Avalanches
How would prepare for a hurricane? Answer 1 Practise.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 4 storm
True
False
The weather forecast couldn't predict the enormity of the disaster (Hurricane Katrina)
True
False
What are the causes of flooding?
Choose 2
Climate change & deforestation
A lot of ships and fish in the sea
Decrease in population & sunshine
Steep slopes & long periods of rain
When did the Bangladesh floods happen?
1998
2005
1996
2004
Bangladesh's flood action plan (FAP) had its advantages and disadvantages. Tick 2 advantages the FAP had:
Cars were given to everyone to escape the country
Shelters have been built
The government gave them unlimited food and water even when they don't have a flood
Created jobs to built embankments
Bangladesh's flood action plan (FAP) had its advantages and disadvantages. Tick 2 disadvantages the FAP had:
Children didn't want to help out
Fighting over jobs
Expensive costs for maintenance
Embankments created pools
Wildfire:
Winds can fan the fire and make it spread quicker by pushing embers into part of the forest that wasn’t burning yet.
True
False
Fires can be accidental or they can be caused by arson or even lightning strikes
True
False
The weather has to be really wet and dry for a wild fire to start.
True
False
Avalanche:
90 percent of people who die in avalanches trigger them themselves.
True
False
Which zone is the safest from an avalanche to happen?
Yellow Zone
Red zone
Blue zone
Green zone
What is this type of avalanche management?
Avalanches can be started deliberately in order to prevent the snow building up. This is one of the most important ways of preventing avalanches.
Snowboarding over a potential avalanche
Explosives
Grow trees
Ski on top of an avalanche
What is the name of this case study in 1999?
Galbor Avalanche
Galtur Avalanche
Captur Avalanche
Austria avalanche
HOW ARE MUDSLIDES PREVENTED?
Choose 3 good answers.
Anchor the slope
Armouring the bases of hills
Stopping them yourself
Draining water off hillsides
Mudslides always start with heavy rainfall.
NO
YES
It was a result of heavy downpour of rain, flash floods and mudslides that followed on 14-16 December 1999.
Name the Mudslide case study.
Vargos tragedy
Mexico Tragedy
Vargas tragedy
Venezuela tragedy
What is the name of Alfred Wegener's theory?
Continual drift
Continental drift
Continental Mass
Pangea
He states that the world used to be together 200 million years ago. This is called:
Earth
Laurasia
Gondwana
Pangea
How many theories did Alfred Wegener proposed?
2
4
3
5
Tick the theories Alfred Wegener stated:
Records in Rock
Fossil Fuels
Complimentary coasts
Remnants in rock
List the cross section of the earth in the proper order from top to bottom.
Mantle, Inner core, Outer Core, Crust
Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core.
Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust
Crust, Core, Inner Mantle, Oceanic crust
Earthquakes produce 3 types of seismic waves: these are the: primary, secondary and the ---?--- waves.
(a)
Inside the mantle there is extreme heat that causes movement in circles. These are called the: ----------- -----------
(a)
There are 2 types of crust. These are:
Crusty crab & oceanic sea
Oceanic crust & Continental crust
Constructive
Destructive
Conservative
Collision
Conservative
Destructive
Collision
Constructive
Destructive
Collision
Conservative
Constructive
Collision
Conservative
Constructive
Destructive
Forms fold mountains with continental crusts
Forms ridges such as the Mid- Atlantic ridge in Iceland
It only happens in one place in the world and this plate boundary forms faults such as the San Andreas Fault
This formed the Ring of fire and Mariana's Trench in the Pacific Ocean
