NATURAL HAZARDS e.g earthquakes and volcanoes

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NATURAL HAZARDS e.g earthquakes and volcanoes
Can be fun to study but not funny to experience
in the real world.
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A crater in a salt marsh in the Indian desert
state of Gujarat after an earthquake in 2001.
A NATURAL EVENT here why?
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An INDIRECT IMPACT On people A HAZARD here
Japan - Tsunami 2011 after an earthquake
occurred offshore
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Earthquake victims reach for food from a truck at
the outskirts of Bhuj on January 31, 2001
LONGER TERM EFFECTS on people cold, hunger,
lack of hygiene or medical care. (HAZARDS)
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Divyesh Mansukh Lal weeps after placing his
45-day-old nephew Shiv Kumar on the funeral pyre.
PSYCHO-SOCIAL IMPACT and LONGER TERM (HAZARD)
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GEOLOGICAL HAZARD Tsunami
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GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARD Landslide, Avalanche
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Florida flights halted ahead of hurricane 8.25AM,
Fri Sep 3 2004Flights from the UK to Florida
have been cancelled as Hurricane Frances bears
down on the state
ATMOSPHERIC HAZARD Hurricanes
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The symptoms were enlarged and inflamed lymph
nodes (around arm pits, neck and groin).
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS e.g. crocodile attack. plague
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We will mainly study volcanic hazards.
Nevada del Ruiz
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• We will study
• The nature, causes and effects of volcanic
  activity
• where volcanoes are found in the world
• the link between volcanoes and Plate Boundaries
• how humans respond to volcanic hazards. (see
  picture!)

Iceland the country is Europe's biggest banana
grower!
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• How will your work be marked?
• Acknowledgment marking checking that the work
  has been completed.
• Knowledge exercises/tests Wrong or right.
• Quality teacher marking identifies
• Strengths (S) Target (T) Next step (N).
• Quality marking by other students in the class
  or as a group.

S part of your work that was successful
(Strength)  T part of your work that was not
successful (Target for improvement)  N what you
need to do to improve (Next step in learning)