Lesson Y8-U01-L09

Y8-U01-L09 Reducing the Risk: Protect, Predict, Prepare Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 7

20 questions

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Lesson Y8-U01-L09, Reducing the Risk: Protect, Predict, Prepare: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 7: Year 8: Restless Earth: Tectonic Hazards, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What do the three Ps of earthquake risk reduction stand for?

    • Protect, Predict and Relocate
    • Protect, Predict and Prepare
    • Protect, Prevent and Repair
    • Predict, Plan and Rebuild

  2. Which of the three Ps means designing buildings and structures to survive earthquake shaking?

    • Protect
    • Prepare
    • Predict
    • Prevent

  3. Which P means giving people a short warning before strong shaking arrives?

    • Protect
    • Predict
    • Prepare
    • Restore

  4. What does the word 'aseismic' mean?

    • Able to forecast the exact date of a quake
    • Designed to survive earthquake shaking
    • Built on a destructive plate boundary
    • Made from recycled building materials

  5. In hazard geography, what is a 'risk'?

    • A natural event, like an earthquake, that can harm people
    • The energy released by the plates at a boundary
    • Action taken to make a hazard's effects smaller
    • The chance that a hazard will hurt people or damage property

  6. What is 'mitigation' in relation to natural hazards?

    • The size of an earthquake on the magnitude scale
    • A natural event, like an earthquake, that can harm people
    • How easily people or places are harmed by a hazard
    • Action taken to make a hazard's effects smaller

  7. What is 'vulnerability' in relation to a hazard?

    • How easily people or places are harmed by a hazard
    • The energy released when plates lock and jolt
    • Action taken to make a hazard's effects smaller
    • The chance that a hazard will hurt people

  8. Which P does a family emergency kit with water and a torch belong to?

    • Protect
    • Predict
    • Restore
    • Prepare

  9. A city near a plate boundary builds its hospital with rubber shock absorbers under the foundations. Which P does this measure show?

    • Protect
    • Prepare
    • Predict
    • Prevent

  10. A seismometer detects the first earthquake waves and an alert is sent to phones before the strong shaking. Which P is this?

    • Predict
    • Protect
    • Prevent
    • Prepare

  11. A school practises a 'duck, cover and hold' drill every year. Which P does this show?

    • Predict
    • Restore
    • Protect
    • Prepare

  12. Two cities of equal size are hit by the same magnitude 7 earthquake. One loses 50 people and the other loses 5,000. What is the most likely reason?

    • The second city has weaker buildings and less preparation
    • The earthquake was stronger on the second city's side
    • The first city had no seismometers at all
    • The second city sits further from the plate boundary

  13. Why does an aseismic building have flexible frames rather than rigid ones?

    • So it can stop the plates from moving
    • So it can give early warning to residents
    • So it can sway with the shaking instead of snapping
    • So it can be built more cheaply on soft soil

  14. Japan's alert system can text people up to 30 seconds before shaking arrives. What is the main benefit of this?

    • Time to drop, cover and hold before the strong shaking
    • It lets engineers forecast the exact date
    • It reduces the magnitude of the quake
    • It stops the earthquake from starting at all

  15. A relative cost chart gives drills a value of 2, a warning system 5 and aseismic building 9. Which strategy costs the most?

    • Aseismic building
    • Drills
    • Warning system
    • Warning system and drills together

  16. Nepal wants to cut earthquake deaths on a small budget. Which strategy should it choose first?

    • Protect, by building a central counterweight tower
    • Protect, by rebuilding every house to be aseismic
    • Predict, by buying the most expensive warning network
    • Prepare, through drills and emergency kits

  17. Why might cheap drills suit a poorer country best?

    • They save many lives for little money, fitting a small budget
    • They remove the need for any warning system
    • They stop buildings from collapsing during shaking
    • They make the magnitude of the earthquake smaller

  18. Why is a mix of all three Ps better than relying on a single P?

    • Predict makes Protect and Prepare unnecessary, as forecasts stop the damage happening
    • A single P is enough, because the three Ps all do exactly the same job
    • Each P covers a different weakness, so together they cut more deaths
    • Mixing the Ps lowers the magnitude of the quake itself before it reaches towns

  19. Why can we not predict the exact day of an earthquake, even though seismometers detect waves?

    • Earthquakes happen only in deep ocean trenches
    • Ground movement is always too small to be detected
    • Seismometers only detect waves seconds before the shaking
    • Plates move too slowly to be measured by any instrument

  20. Which statement is the best evaluation of whether humans can make a tectonic hazard fully safe?

    • No, because the magnitude scale cannot measure risk, so nothing can be reduced
    • Yes, once aseismic buildings are common in a country, the hazard is removed
    • Yes, if seismometers cover every plate boundary, all damage can be prevented
    • No, but the risk can be reduced with a mix of Protect, Predict and Prepare

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