Preparing for disasters Flashcards
(19 cards)
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- Helps humans to understand natural hazards better
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Science
2
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- Help to protect communities from tsunamis
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2
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- Preparing for disasters can be
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3
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- A natural or man-made event that threatens humans
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4
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- The number of disaster has been … In recent decades
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Rising
5
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- Helps to minimize the impact of disasters
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6
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The chance that a certain event happens at a certain time
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6
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- There are no such things as … (2 words)
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8
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- What we should be (2 words
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8
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- Bouncing back well from a disaster
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10
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- Main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming (2 words)
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11
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- Earthquakes, storms, volcano eruptions, floods, landslides are … (2 words)
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12
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- The probability that a hazard will turn into a disaster, based on vulnerability and adaptive capacity (2 words)
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13
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- Period in which six of the ten hottest years happened
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14
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- Global atmospheric system that determines our weather
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15
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- A natural hazard caused by wind
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16
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- When a hazard impacts human beings - their life, health or possessions
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