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Natural Hazards Questions
Climate Change Questions
- Natural Hazards Explain the increasing frequency of hydro-meteorological hazards (such as hydro-meteorological hazards (such as cyclones, storms, droughts or floods).
- Explain the distribution of the world’s major geophysical hazards. Explain how global warming and El Niño events may lead to increasing natural hazards.
- Explain why the economic losses caused by natural hazards have generally risen over time whereas the number of lives lost has fallen.
- Explain why the Philippines and California multiple hazard hotspots are affected by disasters in different ways. Explain why the human and economic costs of global hazards have increased rapidly over time.
- Explain the global distribution of two major hydro-meteorological hazard types Explain how physical factors lead to a range of hazard risks in the Philippines.
- Examine the global patterns of cyclone and storm risk. Explain why both California and the Philippines expereience geophyscial hazards
Climate Change Questions
- Explain why some governments are more willing than others to help tackle climate change.
- Explain how different players can attempt to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
- Examine the possible economic impacts of projected climate change for the African continent.
- Examine the ecological impacts of global warming for Arctic areas.
- Examine the evidence used to investigate long, medium and short-term climate change Explain the natural causes of climate change.
- Explain why many scientists believe that human, rather than natural causes, may be more to blame for recent climate change. Explain why the impacts of global warming are predicted to be uneven and unfair.
- Examine how the economic impacts of climate change may vary within the African continent.
- Explain why some nations will suffer more than others from the impact of global predicted sea level rises.