Weather Systems
🌪️ This type of storm forms over warm ocean waters and is called a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.
What is a tropical cyclone?
⛰️ These lines join places of equal height above sea level.
What are contour lines?
This national agency is responsible for coordinating disaster preparedness and emergency response in Jamaica.
What is the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM)?
🌊 This specific type of convergent boundary occurs when an oceanic plate is forced beneath another plate, forming a subduction zone.
What is oceanic–continental (or oceanic–oceanic) convergence?
🌡️ This factor increases the rate of evaporation because warmer air can hold more water vapour.
What is temperature?
🌬️ This boundary forms when a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass, often causing heavy rain or thunderstorms
What is a cold front?
🗺️ This type of map uses contour lines to show relief and elevation above sea level.
What is a topographic map?
📡 This regional organization provides early warning information and disaster coordination for Caribbean territories.
What is the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency?
🪨 This dense, iron- and magnesium-rich oceanic crust is primarily composed of this rock type.
What is basalt?
🌧️ This type of rainfall is common in tropical regions like Jamaica and is caused by intense surface heating and rising air.
What is convectional rainfall?
☀️ This weather system is associated with clear skies and sinking air.
What is a high-pressure system?
📏 If a map scale reads 1:50,000, this is the real-life distance represented by 1 cm on the map.
What is 50,000 cm (or 500 metres / 0.5 km)?
🌪️ This 1988 hurricane caused widespread destruction in Jamaica and exposed weaknesses in building standards and preparedness systems.
What is Hurricane Gilbert?
🌋 This “Ring” is a major zone of intense volcanic and earthquake activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
🏔️ When moist air is forced to rise over mountains, cools, and produces rainfall on the windward side, this process is occurring.
What is orographic rainfall?
🌧️ This type of front occurs when a warm air mass slides up and over a cold air mass, usually bringing steady rain.
What is a warm front?
🌊 When contour lines are very close together on a map, this type of slope is shown.
What is a steep slope
🏘️ When people build homes on flood plains or unstable slopes in Kingston and St. Andrew, this type of vulnerability is increased.
What is physical vulnerability?
🌎 This transform plate boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is responsible for frequent earthquakes in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This process occurs when water vapour changes directly into ice without becoming liquid first.
What is deposition?
🌪️ This rotating column of air that touches the ground forms from severe thunderstorms.
What is a tornado?
🧭 The six-figure grid reference is used to give this type of location on a map
What is an exact location?
📊 Risk in disaster management is commonly calculated using this relationship between hazard, vulnerability, and capacity.
What is
Risk = Hazard × Vulnerability ÷ Capacity?
📉 This instrument measures seismic waves produced by earthquakes.
What is a seismograph? (or seismometer)
🪨 In areas with limestone bedrock, this type of drainage system forms because water quickly infiltrates underground instead of flowing on the surface.
What is a karst drainage system?