Floods(cockermouth + India)

Question 1

What is the difference in the amount of rainfall between 2009 and 2015?

Answer 1

25mm

Question 2

What were some of the responses to the 2009 flood?

Answer 2

1.) People were rescued from their houses.
2.) The environment agency had to build walls and flood gates along the cocker-mouth river.
3.) The army built Various things to help protect against floods
(Bridges,gates and flood walls)

Question 3

What is the definition of response?

Answer 3

How a group of people (such as a community,organisation or the government) react to an event.

Question 4

What were the effects of the cockermouth flood 2009?

Answer 4

1. ) grave stones were knocked over by the powerful currents.
2. ) Two major bridges collapsed.