Assess the effectiveness of strategies used to manage the impacts of glacial processes and landforms on Human activity. Guidance: Candidates: (i)should show knowledge and understanding of the problems arising from the impact of glacial processes and landforms on human activity or from the impact of human activities on glacial environments; (ii)should show knowledge and understanding of the strategies put in place to manage these impacts; (iii)should show an assessment of the effectiveness
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of Volcanic Hazards (40 marks) More than 500 Million people live within 50 miles of a volcano‚ the potential therefore exists for major loss of life and damage to property and infrastructure‚ particularly when urban areas are situated in close proximity. Mitigation of such losses can be achieved through careful preparedness and planning. Preparedness is the process of ensuring that an organization has complied with the preventive
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‘The hazards presented by volcanic and seismic events have the greatest impact on the world’s poorest people’ to what extent do you agree with this view? (40 marks) Volcanic and sesmin events and activities can take place all over the world and therefore both more economically developed countries (MEDCs) and less economically develop countries (LEDCs) can be affected. In the last 30 years there have been masses of examples of where volcanic and seismis event have had an impact on both MEDCs and
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d Character | Evidence | Victory | Defeat | Stephen | ‘She said nothing to Stephen’‘He lay and stared at the night beyond the window. He felt himself grow cold.’ | He finally has Isabelle all to himself. | He loses Isabelle‚ loses his job and has a child he doesn’t know about. | Berard | ‘He gave a glance of complicity to Berard‚ who chuckled.’‘Azaire took over in the stern from Berard‚ who sat perspiring next to his wife.’ | He thinks he knows all about Azaire and Isabelle.He is pompous and
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Raphael Singleton Professor Strawn English 300 2 May 2013 Know your neighbor How well do you know your neighbor? Visiting my cousin in a farming community in Vacaville‚ there is no telling who actually lives next to you. My cousin Albert‚ a tall slender goofy man who is very animated‚ offers me a job helping him take down and trim a neighbors crops. “Hey Raph! You wanna make some money?” Albert asks me knowing I hate it when he calls me “Raph”. “Doing what?” I respond in an irritated tone
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To what extent can preparedness and planning mitigate the effects of a volcanic hazard (40 marks) Volcanic activity happens across the surface of the globe therefore bringing hazards to every affected area. A hazard is any source of potential damage‚ harm or adverse health effects. A volcanic hazard is any threat to life and infrastructure due to volcanic activity and related situations such as a landslide near the volcano. Volcanoes can be very dangerous and therefore present many hazards towards
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With reference to examples‚ discuss the ways in which the nature of volcanic hazards can vary Events that cause death‚ injury and damage to property and infrastructure are known as natural hazards. Volcanic eruptions can swiftly become natural hazards which can quickly lead to major loss of life and widespread damage. Primary hazards that are associated with volcanoes include; pyroclastic flows‚ Tephra‚ Lava flows and volcanic gases. Pyroclastic flows are waves of very hot gases and tephra with
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To what extent does the impact of volcanic eruptions on human activities depend on the scale of the eruption (40). The scale of volcanic eruptions is one factor‚ which can influence their human impact. Massive eruptions such as Pinatubo may cause changes to the global climate‚ i.e global cooling and its implications for food production. Such changes may be short term or long terms‚ in the past massive eruptions have permanently altered global climate and large parts of the Earth’s topography. However
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“Discuss the Extent to which volcanic and seismic activity are evidence for plate tectonic theory” (40) Plate tectonics is the theory that explains the structure and motion of the Earth’s lithosphere. The theory states that the Earth’s crust is split into large sections called tectonic plates‚ and these move relative to one another creating boundaries at which plates converge‚ diverge and move past each other. Alfred Wegener pioneered the theory of continental drift in the early 1900s which he supported
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Volcanic and Seismic events are major pieces of evidence towards proving that plate tectonics theory is valid (40 marks) The theory of plate tectonics states that the Earth’s lithosphere (top layer of the Earth’s crust) is split up into rigid sections called plates that are moving relative to one another as they move on top of the underlying semi-molten mantle. These plates are either continental‚ The North American Plate‚ or oceanic‚ The Nazca Plate. Tectonic plates are powered by convection currents
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