DP Geography Questionbank

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Describe the methods used to quantify the spatial extent and intensity of disasters.

Explain the causes and impacts of any one disaster resulting from a natural hazard.

Explain the causes and impacts of any one recent human‑induced hazard event or disaster.

Examine the ways in which the intensity and impacts of disasters vary in space and have changed over time.

Directly related questions

• .2.bp.7c: Referring to examples, examine why the geographic impacts of disasters vary in space and time.
• 16N.2.bp.7b:

  Briefly explain two geographical consequences of a recent human-induced (technological) hazard.

• 16N.2.bp.8a:

  (i) Describe the change in the total number of reported disasters between 1971 and 2010.

  (ii) State the type of natural hazard that has not increased in frequency since 1981.

  (iii) Estimate the total economic losses due to storms and floods between 1971 and 2010.

• 18N.2.bp.7b:

  Explain two reasons for the increase in the numbers of people affected by disasters in recent years.