Lesson 3.5.4

3.5.4 What are the implications of living in tectonically active locations? Quiz: OCR Geography, Unit 9

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The 20 questions

  1. Why do farmers frequently settle near active volcanoes?

    • Fertile volcanic soils
    • Low pest numbers
    • High groundwater tables
    • Flat farming terrain

  2. Digging channels to redirect flowing magma is an attempt to mitigate against what?

    • The event
    • Exposure
    • Losses
    • Vulnerability

  3. Constructing earthquake-resistant buildings with rubber shock absorbers mitigates against what?

    • Frequency
    • Losses
    • Vulnerability
    • The event

  4. In the disaster risk equation, risk equals hazard times vulnerability divided by what?

    • Total population
    • Capacity to cope
    • Economic development
    • Hazard frequency

  5. What type of impact is long-term loss of trade due to damaged port infrastructure?

    • Political impact
    • Environmental impact
    • Economic impact
    • Spatial impact

  6. Preventing construction on unstable soft soils using local planning controls is called what?

    • Insurance pooling
    • Lava diversion
    • Land-use zoning
    • Community preparedness

  7. What renewable energy source is commonly exploited in tectonically active locations like Iceland?

    • Hydroelectric power
    • Geothermal energy
    • Solar radiation
    • Biomass energy

  8. Distributing emergency food supplies and search teams immediately after an earthquake mitigates against what?

    • Hazard frequency
    • Losses
    • Vulnerability
    • The event

  9. If a country increases its disaster response capability, what happens to overall disaster risk?

    • It increases
    • It decreases
    • It remains unchanged
    • It doubles

  10. Ash clouds forcing the closure of international airspace for weeks is primarily which impact?

    • Economic impact
    • Political impact
    • Biological impact
    • Social impact

  11. Conducting regular emergency earthquake drills in schools is an example of mitigating against what?

    • The event
    • Losses
    • Vulnerability
    • Probability

  12. Why do Low-Income Countries typically suffer higher death tolls from equivalent earthquakes?

    • Lower coping capacity
    • Higher hazard magnitude
    • Stronger tectonic forces
    • Greater land area

  13. Which strategy reduces earthquake risk by prohibiting hospital construction near active fault lines?

    • Financial mitigation
    • Retrospective retrofitting
    • Land-use zoning
    • Structural reinforcement

  14. Extracting valuable minerals like sulfur and copper near active volcanoes provides what benefit?

    • Environmental protection
    • Economic incentive
    • Political stability
    • Demographic relief

  15. Over recent decades, global fatalities from tectonic hazards have generally decreased due to what?

    • Decreased coastal population
    • Lower hazard frequency
    • Weakened earthquake intensity
    • Better preparedness

  16. Providing government-subsidised financial cover for structural property damage is an attempt to mitigate against what?

    • The event
    • Losses
    • Vulnerability
    • Frequency

  17. Civil unrest following government corruption during emergency aid distribution is classified as what impact?

    • Environmental impact
    • Tectonic impact
    • Geophysical impact
    • Political impact

  18. In the disaster risk equation, what variable does the letter V represent?

    • Variance
    • Vulnerability
    • Velocity
    • Volcanic activity

  19. If hazard magnitude doubles while vulnerability and coping capacity stay constant, risk does what?

    • It doubles
    • It quadruples
    • It remains constant
    • It halves

  20. Acid rain caused by sulfur dioxide emissions during a volcanic eruption is what impact?

    • Structural impact
    • Political impact
    • Tectonic impact
    • Environmental impact

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