the first 5 case studies
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The five case studies offered by hte first unit - People and the Physical WorldTRANSCRIPT
Case studies – UNIT 1
OCR ‘A’
Category 1
Mt St Helens
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Category 2
KOBE
Category 3
Boscastle
Category 4
Carlise
Category 5
Bangladesh
Question
When did Mt St Helens erupt?
Category 1
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Answer
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18th May 1980
Which plate subducts below the North American plate?
Category 1
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Question
Answer
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Juan de Fuca
Question
How many people were killed by Mt St Helens
Category 1
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Answer
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61
Question
What was the direction of the blast ?
Category 1
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NE
QuestionWhat is a nuée ardente
Category 1
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Gas, steam and dust
Question
Ho many people were killed in the Kobe Earthquake?
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Answer
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5500
QuestionHow many buildings were
destroyed by the Kobe earthquake?
Category 2
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200 000
QuestionUsing the Richter scale how
powerful was the Kobe earthquake?
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7.2
QuestionHow much of the
Hanshin expressway was damaged?
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1km
QuestionWhat is the name of the fault passing
close to Kobe
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Nojima
QuestionHow much rain fell in two hours in
Boscastle
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60mm
QuestionHow many deaths and casualties?
Category 3
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No deaths, one broken thumb
QuestionHow many cars were
removed from the streets of Boscastle?
Category 3
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84
QuestionHow far from Plymouth and
in which direction?
Category 3
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40 kms NW
QuestionWhat is it estimated to have cost North Cornwall District Council?
Category 3
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£2 million
QuestionHow much rain fell in the
36 hours prior to the flood?
Category 4
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220 mm
QuestionWhich flood defences
were the first to be improved and how?
Category 4
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Embankments were widened and heightened
QuestionName 3 areas affected
by the flooding
Category 4
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Warwick road, Botcherby, Willow Holme, Rosehill, Caldewgate, Hardwicke Circus,
Civic centre
QuestionWhich three rivers flooded?
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River Eden, River Petteril [SPELLING!] and Rive Caldew
Question
Category 4
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Which was the only public information service which
remained during the floods?
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Radio Cumbria had its own generator
QuestionHow much land was flooded
in 1998
Category 5
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68%
QuestionHow many were made homeless in the 1998
floods?
Category 5
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25 million
QuestionName 3 diseases the dirty
water bought
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Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Cholera
QuestionOther than rainfall and high tides what other factors caused the
flooding?
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Siltation, snow melt, deforestation and global warming [plus also building on flood plains?]
QuestionWhich three rivers rose?
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Brahmaputra, Meghna and Ganges
Case studies – UNIT 1 OCR ‘A’People and the Physical World
Credits - Mark OLLISSt Bees School, CumbriaThe ‘Aberant Bee’