Geography Skills
Blackburn High School
Responses to Hazards
Characteristics of Hazards
Tourism
100

The "O" in BOLTSS stands for...

Orientation

100

Music students from BHS recently travelled to which city?

New York City

100

5 letter word that means flood barrier

Levee

100

A Tsunami is categorised as what type of hazard?

Geological

100

Common definitions of tourism define the duration of travel as more than a day and less than a _______

Year

200

Contour lines run along points of equal...

Elevation

200

What is the first name of the person who Hollows house is named after?

Fred

200

Name of structure which can control river flow and prevent fluvial flooding

Dam

200

This type of flood is also called surface flooding. 

Pluvial Flooding

200

Mr Butler's 4 broad types of tourism include dark tourism, cultural tourism, natural environments and ______

Built Facilities

300

The name of lines that run horizontally around the earth

Lines of Latitude

300

Which BHS staff member is the STEM leader?

Ms Love

300

Frequency generally has a/an ___________________ Relationship with Magnitude

Inverse

300

There have been two notable nuclear disasters. Chernobyl and _________

Fukushima Daichii

300

There have been three notable disruptions to tourism in the 21st century. Covid 19, SARS and _________

The global financial crisis

400

A map that uses colour gradients to display data

Choropleth Map

400

When was that last year that a Unit 3/4 geography class ran at BHS?

2022

400

This flood management process involves returning rivers to a natural flow state, by altering the path of the river to include more bends.

River re-meandering

400

What year was the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated parts of Indonesia and Thailand?

2004

400

The largest growing origin country of tourists is...

China

500

The name of the line you would find at 0 degrees longitude

The Prime Meridian

500

What is the name of the charity associated with Melba House

Eastern Emergency Relief Network

500

Considering a disaster an "act of god" would be considered what type of perspective on disaster management?

Acceptance

500

The name of all types of volcanic material ejected during an eruption

Tephra

500
The country with the lowest number of tourist arrivals is...

Tuvalu

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