Ecological Hazard
Deforestation, urbanisation, and climate change can increase the frequency and severity of these events.
What are ecological hazards?
This adverb describes an unequal or unfair impact, especially when vulnerable populations are more severely affected.
What is disproportionately?
This type of graph is best used to show change in the number of bushfires in Australia over the last 10 years.
What is a line graph?
This map element shows the relationship between distance on the map and distance in real life.
What is the scale?
This is the term for the likelihood that a hazard event will cause harm to people or the environment.
What is risk?
A key factor contributing to increased bushfire risk in Australia due to longer dry seasons and hotter temperatures.
What is climate change?
This noun refers to how common or widespread something is, especially in the context of disease or hazard events.
What is prevalence?
This is the trend shown by the graph if the number of people affected by a disease increases steadily over five years.
What is an upward trend or increase?
This type of map uses shading or colours to show the intensity or concentration of a hazard, such as drought severity.
What is a choropleth map?
This term describes the degree to which a person, group or place is likely to be negatively affected by a hazard.
What is vulnerability?
This term refers to the ability of an environment or society to absorb impacts and recover from ecological hazards.
What is resilience?
This verb means to make a problem or situation worse, often used when describing the effects of human activity on natural hazards.
What is exacerbate?
This must be checked when evaluating a graph to ensure the visual data is not misleading or distorted.
What is the scale? (or what is proportional spacing of the axes?)
This term describes a pattern where ecological hazards are concentrated around certain areas.
What is a clustered distribution?
This term refers to the introduction of a species to an environment where it is not native, often causing ecological disruption.
What is an invasive species?
The level of risk to ecological hazards increases significantly for these types of settlements
This noun refers to a systematic plan or course of action designed to achieve a particular goal, especially in managing hazards.
What is strategy?
The acronym SALTS
What is scale, axis, label and source?
This digital tool helps geographers map and analyse ecological hazards by layering different data sets.
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
This is the term for strategies designed to reduce or prevent the effects of an ecological hazard before it occurs.
What is mitigation?
This geographic tool is used to predict and monitor the spread of ecological hazards such as oil spills or disease outbreaks
What is GIS (Geographic Information Systems)?
This noun means a factor or condition that contributes to a particular result, often causing ecological hazards to occur or worsen.
What is a determinant?
This term describes a sudden, sharp increase in a graph showing the number of dengue fever cases after a cyclone.
What is a spike?
When interpreting a map of disease outbreaks, this physical geographic factor often helps explain higher case numbers near rivers or wetlands.
What is proximity to water sources (which may act as breeding grounds for disease vectors like mosquitoes)?
This is the term for a large-scale outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly across countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?