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Landslides
Floods
Wildfires
Disease
Technology
100
greatest form of prevention for landslides
What is engineered responses?
100
kind of flood to occur rapidly allowing little warning
What is a flash flood?
100
a fire purposely set and contained within a set area
What is a prescribed burn?
100
wide-travelling, simultaneous epidemics of the same condition
What is a pandemic?
100
titanic/ rare catastrophes are characterized by
What is singular loss and high public viewage
200
internal resistance of a body of rock or sediment to failure.
What is shear strength?
200
irregular ground characterized by numerous mounds and depressions
What is hummocky?
200
transfer of heat through a substance by molecular interactions
What is conduction?
200
the host is
What is the affected people?
200
Technological disaster related deaths are _________ than natural disaster related deaths in the less developed countries.
What is lower?
300
Slide, Fall, and Flow
What is the three types of landslides?
300
1% that a flood will happen on any given year
What is a 100-year flood plan
300
The 4 stages of a wildfire
What is pre-ignition, combustion, heat transfer, and extinction?
300
why most viruses begin in Asia
What is high congestion and contact with animals?
300
nuclear fiasco caused the improvement of nuclear safety in the United States
What is Three Mile Island?
400
conditions to be considered in the prediction and warning of landslides
What is seismic activity, slope, geology, creep, and topography?
400
the two kinds of adjustments to prevent flooding are classified as
What is structural and non-structural?
400
how the Oakland, California fire in 1991 began
What is a house fire, improperly maintained?
400
the original carriers of the bubonic plague
What is rats and fleas
400
INES
What is International Nuclear Event Scale?
500
considered to be one of the main factors in the landslide in the Philippines in 2006
What is deforestation?
500
The flood area studied in Manitoba is called?
What is the Red River?
500
Winds that aid fires are:
What is cold fronts, localized winds with high pressure, and warm, dry winds of 25 degrees
500
how Cholera is spread
What is water?
500
1957 nuclear disaster bigger than Chernobyl although not as well known.
What is Chelyabinsk?