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Weather Hazards and Climate Change 2

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Revise

This week you will revise weather hazards and climate change. It would help if you covered the following:

  • How the global circulation of the atmosphere leads to tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) in source areas and the sequence of their formation.
  • Characteristics, frequency and geographical distribution of tropical cyclones and how these change over time.
  • Reasons why tropical cyclones are natural weather hazards (high winds, intense rainfall, storm surges, coastal flooding and landslides).
  • Different social, economic and environmental impacts that tropical cyclones can have on a named developed and a named emerging or developing country.
  • Different responses to tropical cyclones of individuals, organisations and governments in a named developed and a named emerging or developing country.
  • Characteristics of arid environments compared to the extreme weather conditions associated with drought.
  • Different causes of the weather hazard of drought: meteorological, hydrological, and human (agricultural, dam building, deforestation).
  • Why the global circulation makes some locations more vulnerable to drought as a natural hazard than others and how this changes over time.
  • Reasons why droughts are hazardous.
  • How the impacts of drought on people and ecosystems can vary for a named developed and a named emerging or developing country.
  • Different responses to drought from individuals, organisations and governments in a named developed and a named emerging or developing country.

Use one of the three strategies below to revise these areas.

Quiz

Have a go at the quiz activities below.

Tropical Cyclones

What are the characteristics, frequency and geographical distribution of tropical cyclones?

What are the causes of tropical cyclones and what is the sequence of their formation?

Why are tropical cyclones natural weather hazards? 

What were the social, economic and environmental impacts of Hurricane Sandy on Cuba and the USA?

What were the different responses of individuals, organisations and governments in Cuba and the USA to Hurricane Sandy?

Drought

What are the characteristics of arid environments compared to the extreme weather conditions associated with drought?

What are the different causes of the weather hazard of drought?

Why does global circulation make some locations more vulnerable to droughts as a natural hazard than others? 

Why are droughts hazardous? 

Impacts and responses to drought

Namibia (2013)

California (2014)

Exam Questions

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