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Question 1

Benefits of the Sadar sarova dam

Answer 1

Hydro electric power, 3.5 bil litres water, irrigate 1.8 mil hectares

Question 2

Negatives of sadar sarova dam

Answer 2

Flood 234 villages, some can’t afford electricity, can cause earyhquakes

Question 3

Maharashtra

Answer 3

Urban, second largest port, Bollywood,services and construction industry.

Question 4

Behar

Answer 4

86% Rural, subsistence farmers, low skilled and payed jobs, literacy rate 47%, landlocked

Question 5

TNCs

Answer 5

Increase GDP, cheap labour, increase FDI, job opportunities

Question 6

How do tropical cyclones form

Answer 6

Low pressure, warm ocean, 26.5*, storm, spins form Coriolanus effect

Question 7

Hurricane katrina

Answer 7

Cat 5, storm surge 6 m, New Orleans, 1200 drowned, 1 mil homeless, 80% flooded, oil factories flooded, 70,000 dead

Question 8

Cyclone aila

Answer 8

Cat 5, storm surge 3 m, Bangladeshi, 750000 homeless, 190 dead.

Question 9

Warnings for cyclones

Answer 9

Broadcast, sirens, evacuation routes, education, hazard mapping

Question 10

Nepal earthquake

Answer 10

11.26am, 7.8 mag, 4 mil homeless, 9000 died, earthquake made avalanches on mt Everest, charities helped

Question 11

New Zealand earthquake

Answer 11

12.02pm, 7.8 mag, 2 died, 60 emergency homes, power restores after a few hours

Question 12

Why was nz better than nepal

Answer 12

Better infrastructure, more evacuation, Nepal was shallower, better electricity

Question 13

Top down approaches

Answer 13

Mumbai monorails (ran out of funding), Gorai garbage scheme site closure project (19 hectare park, collect and vent landfill gas)

Question 14

Bottom up approaches

Answer 14

Agora micro finance India (people couldnt afford the loans), SPARk community toilets( provided privacy for girls in slums, 800 toilets built)