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Question 2 Hazards (Nov 2007)
(a) Study Figure 2(a) which shows the area of India affected by a cyclone
(tropical storm)
in October 1999.
(i) What evidence is there to suggest that this was a particularly strong storm?
(4)
(ii) Suggest why the storm lost strength as it crossed the state of Orissa. (2)
(iii) A storm surge flooded part of Orissa. Explain why. (3)
(b) This is a pie chart of how the money
has been spent from donations from the UN,
many individual countries and charities
such as the Gates Foundation, as of July
1sy 2010 as a result of Tropical Storm
Agatha that hit Guatemala in May 2010
The actual amount in US Dollars are
400,000
1,210,000 ,
280,000,
6,650,000
430,000
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(i) Which of these refer to food and which to tents and blankets?
(ii) Which of these types of aid is not immediate or emergency aid? Explain.
(iii) 10% of the rapid response aid is in the form of equipment loan, such as
helicopters from the US to help with rescue and distribution. How much will that
amount to? (5)
(c) (i) Give one name, other than cyclone, by which tropical storms are known.
(1)
(ii) Referring to examples, explain why the impacts of storms are greater in LICs
than in HICs (6)
(d) Study Figure 2(b) which is a simplified section through a tropical storm.
Describe and explain the weather associated with the passage of such storms.(9)
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