Natural & Ecological Hazards Pop Quiz!

Name: Owen Lin

 
A. Write the risk equation (1)

RISK = HAZARD TYPE X EXPOSURE X VULNERABILITY

B. List the 8 hazard variables (8)

1. Predictability
2. Duration of impact
3. Frequency and risk
4. Speed of onset
5. Control and human vulnerability
6. Speed of impact
7. Destructive potential
8. Cause

C. Identify the plates involved in the Haiti earthquake of 2010 (3)

North American, Gonave, Caribbean

D. Name the type of plate boundary that caused the Japan earthquake of 2011 (1)

Subduction plate boundary

E. What is latent heat? (1)

Latent heat is the temperature that is released or absorbed by a substance when the state of the substance
is changed. This does not change the temperature of the substance.

F. At what latitudes do cyclones form? (1)

5° to 30° North or South of the Equator where the sea temperature is at least 27°C.
 
 

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