Year 10 - Geography
Factors affecting hazard risk
Natural and tectonic hazards
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Unit Summary
This unit teaches pupils about natural and tectonic hazards, their location, causes and effects. Pupils learn about the different types of hazard before focusing on earthquakes and volcanoes. Pupils will learn about tectonic processes, hazard impacts and the options for mitigation and adaptation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain that several factors affect hazard risk.
Key Notes
- Hazard risk is the likelihood of being affected by a natural event.
- Physical factors affect risk, such as climate change.
- Human factors affect risk, including poverty, urbanisation and climate change.
Vocabulary To Learn
- hazard risk: the likelihood that people or property will be harmed by a natural hazard
- natural hazard: a natural event that has the potential to cause damage, loss of life or economic disruption
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- The bigger the hazard event is, the higher the hazard risk will be.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Hazard risk is the likelihood of being affected by a natural event. Physical factors affect risk, such as climate change.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'hazard risk'
the likelihood that people or property will be harmed by a natural hazard.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: The bigger the hazard event is, the higher the hazard risk will be. Correction: The size of the hazard event is not the only factor that affects hazard risk. For example, a higher income country may have a lower hazard risk for a magnitude 6.5 earthquake than a lower income country, even though the earthquakes have equal power.
More Lessons In This Unit
- An example of effects and responses to a tectonic hazard in an HIC Study Guide
- An example of effects and responses to a tectonic hazard in an LIC Study Guide
- An introduction to natural hazards Study Guide
- Global distribution of earthquakes and volcanoes Study Guide
- Plate tectonics theory Study Guide
- Primary and secondary effects and responses to tectonic hazards Study Guide
- Processes at conservative plate margins Study Guide
- Processes at constructive/divergent plate margins Study Guide
- Processes at destructive/convergent plate margins Study Guide
- Reducing risks from earthquakes and volcanoes Study Guide
- Using GIS to visualise physical processes at different types of plate margin Study Guide
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