Unit 10: Option D — Geophysical Hazards
Topic 10.4: Future resilience and adaptation Questions
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Land-use zoning reduces hazard risk by…
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Explain how lava-diversion measures can reduce people's vulnerability to a volcanic hazard.
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Communications technology helps post-event management mainly by...
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Give one reason mass-movement hazard risk might grow in the future and explain how that reason raises the risk.
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A coastal area is prone to liquefaction during earthquakes. Outline one strategy for adapting to this hazard and develop how it lowers the risk.
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Give a different reason mass-movement hazard risk might fall in the future and explain how it lowers the risk.
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Resilience to a geophysical hazard is best described as a community's ability to...
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A reason mass-movement risk may rise in the future is...
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Chile 2010 killed far fewer people than Haiti 2010 because Chile…
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The table compares two earthquakes that struck in 2010 and how each place had prepared.
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Explain how one strategy used after an earthquake can lower human vulnerability to it.
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Explain how one strategy used before an earthquake can reduce human vulnerability to it.
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Why is Nevado del Ruiz 1985 a case study of failed response?
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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 of these is a post-event response, not a pre-event action?
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Explain how GPS monitoring of a volcano's crater can reduce people's vulnerability to a volcanic hazard.
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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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A steep, high-rainfall region is exposed to rapid mass movement. Suggest two strategies used before an event that would lessen the harm from mass movement here, and explain how each works.
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Which hazard generally cannot be reliably predicted?
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