Unit 10: Option D — Geophysical Hazards
Topic 10.4: Future resilience and adaptation Questions
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Explain how one action taken after an earthquake reduces human vulnerability.
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Resilience to a geophysical hazard is best described as a community's ability to...
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Which of these is a post-event response, not a pre-event action?
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Communications technology helps post-event management mainly by...
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A reason mass-movement risk may rise in the future is...
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Pre-event hazard management aims mainly to…
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Hazard maps failed to save lives at Nevado del Ruiz (1985) because…
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Which hazard generally cannot be reliably predicted?
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Land-use zoning reduces hazard risk by…
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Explain how resilient building design reduces deaths in an earthquake, using a real example.
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The table shows four geophysical disasters, their approximate death tolls and the main management lesson recorded for each.
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Chile 2010 killed far fewer people than Haiti 2010 because Chile…
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Explain how new technology may reduce mass-movement risk in the future.
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Explain two ways land-use zoning reduces earthquake risk.
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Explain how barriers can reduce the risk from lava flows.
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State two ways a community can prepare for an earthquake.
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Explain two non-engineering strategies that reduce vulnerability to fast mass movements.
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Explain one reason why landslide risk may increase in the future.
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Explain how GPS measurements of ground movement help to protect people living near a volcano.
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Explain two strategies that reduce people’s vulnerability to rock falls and avalanches in mountain areas.
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