Geo Climate Topic 3

Question 1

short-term events

Answer 1

• flooding+ tropical cyclones
• brief+sudden
• form+last for short term (days => weeks)
• immediate impacts
• destruction of buildings
• loss of lives
  -disruptions of services
• e.g: torriential rain
  (2021)

Question 2

long-term events

Answer 2

• form+ last for longer term(months to years)
• take time to develop
• drought+ sea level rise
  drought: change and tem+ ppt over decades
  => droughts
• sea level rise> occurs incrementally over decades, last for several months+ year
• community: ample time to desal with

Question 3

Poverty

Answer 3

+droughts+ floods
=> crop failure
=> decrease in food supply
=> prices of food increases
- those who in poverty
=> unable to cope with the price increases
=> more vulnerable to food shortages
- e.g: Afghanistan drought=> 2018-2019=> 10 million people facing severe food crisis
+not able to afford health resources( diseases caused by climate change)

Question 4

LAck of access to piped water

Answer 4

-cyclones and floods
- contaminate water sources (wells)
- In rurual area, not connected to piped water systems, depends pm rivers and wels
- may not have excess to clean water
- drink contaminated wayer
=> spread of diseases(cholera)

Question 5

proximity to coastal environment

Answer 5

communities live near the coasts are more likely to be exposed to hazards like strom surges and sea level rise

Question 6

proximity to dry enviroment

Answer 6

town located in arid or dry environment are more likely to experience droughts