Definitions and basics
sudden movement of the ground from the earth's crust?
What is an earthquake?
Thin, solid outer layer of the earth where we live.
What is the crust?
Position or point of a place on the earth's surface.
What is Location?
What are meteorological Disasters?
What is an emergency kit?
molten rocks that erupts and flows towards the earth's surface.
What is lava?
Very hot, semi-solid layer beneath the earth's crust?
Study of the earth's physical features and relationships between people and their environments?
What disaster are related to the distribution and movement of water.
What is hydrological disasters?
Moving away from a dangerous area to a safer location.
What is evacuation?
Powerful ocean wave caused by underwater earth movement.
What is tsunami?
Central, extremely hot and dense part of the earth.
Zone of transition between two distinct geographic regions or ecosystems
Broad group of hazards originating from earth's internal energy.
What are geophysical disasters?
official emergency that warns people of approaching danger.
What is a warning?
sudden flow of snow, ice, and debris sliding down a mountain slope.
What is an avalanche?
rigid outer part of the earth, made of the crust and upper mantle
What is the Lithosphere?
Arrangement of physical features e.g: Rivers, mountains, and valleys
Type of disaster that can be cause both natural and anthropigenic activity.
What is Environmental disasters?
Structure or features built to hold back water or stabilize ground.
What are protective barriers?
Large, moving sections of earth's outer shell whose interactions cause most major natural disaster.
What are tectonic plates?
The precess by which earth's surface is shaped and changed overtime.
The study of shape and features of the earth's surface and the formation.
What is geomorphology?
A hazard triggered as a direct result of another earlier hazardous event.
What is a secondary hazard?
Designing structures or land use to avoid less damage.
What is mitigation?