Lesson 3.1.5.7
3.1.5.7 Hazards: case studies Quiz: AQA Geography, Unit 1
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The 20 questions
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What enables communities to maintain continuing occupation in multi-hazardous environments?
- Total economic collapse
- Hazard elimination
- Permanent evacuation
- Resilience and adaptation
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Local hazard case studies analyse how a community's social character reflects what?
- Earth's magnetic field
- Regional climate zone
- Plate tectonic speed
- Physical hazard impacts
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What is the primary objective of risk management in hazard case studies?
- Increasing property values
- Reducing hazard impacts
- Maximising tourist numbers
- Eliminating natural events
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Which term describes a community's capacity to absorb shocks and recover from a hazard?
- Fatalism
- Resilience
- Mitigation
- Vulnerability
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Which community factor most directly determines its capacity to prepare for hazards?
- Distance to equator
- Wealth and governance
- Latitude and longitude
- Local rock type
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In a hazard case study, quantitative data is best used to measure what?
- Lived community experiences
- Loss trends
- Individual emotional responses
- Cultural perception shifts
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Which action is an example of long-term human adaptation to a hazard?
- Emergency search rescue
- Clearing storm debris
- Land-use planning
- Distributing food aid
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Which management action is a direct example of physical hazard mitigation?
- Distributing emergency aid
- Evacuating local residents
- Building flood defences
- Broadcasting storm warnings
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A natural event only becomes a natural hazard when it interacts with what?
- Human populations
- Ocean currents
- Solar radiation
- Atmospheric pressure
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Which of these is classified as a secondary impact of a natural hazard?
- Business closures
- Lava flows
- Storm surges
- Ground shaking
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A community with low economic resources and high hazard exposure exhibits high what?
- Vulnerability
- Resilience
- Adaptation
- Mitigation
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Why do geographers evaluate specific local case studies alongside general hazard models?
- Predicting exact dates
- Preventing natural events
- Controlling plate movement
- Testing theoretical models
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What does the Park model illustrate about a community following a hazard event?
- Recovery over time
- Tectonic plate motion
- Volcanic eruption magnitude
- Global climate change
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What term describes multiple hazards occurring together to produce greater combined impacts?
- Tectonic hazards
- Seismic waves
- Cascading hazards
- Primary impacts
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Which data source provides quantitative population data to assess changing local vulnerability?
- Daily weather forecasts
- Eyewitness news reports
- Census records
- Satellite photographs
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Which factor reduces a community's vulnerability to natural hazards?
- High population density
- Steep topography
- Rapid urbanisation
- Early warning systems
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What primary factor causes contrasting impacts from identical hazard events in different places?
- Latitude differences
- Governance capacity
- Distance to equator
- Crustal thickness
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Which action represents a long-term human adaptation to flood risk?
- Land-use zoning
- Emergency aid distribution
- Sandbag deployment
- Temporary evacuation
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Why do geographers compare contrasting places facing similar physical hazards?
- To map geology
- To measure windspeed
- To evaluate governance
- To date rock strata
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Which human quality allows a community to absorb hazard shocks and continue living there?
- Fatalism
- Mitigation
- Resilience
- Vulnerability
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