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Impacts of Climatic Hazards
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Higher Geography (Natural Hazards) Mind Map on Impacts of Climatic Hazards, created by hannah.pickard on 09/05/2013.
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Impacts of Climatic Hazards
Tropical Storms
Primary
Buildings and infrastructure are destroyed
Rivers flood
People are killed by debris or drowning
Electricity cables are damaged
Crops are damaged
Livestock is killed, coastal habitats eroded or flooded
Heavy rain causes lanslides in unstable hills
Secondary
Homelessness
Lack of sanitation; diseases spread
Unemployment
Food shortage because of damaged crops
Psycological problems
Drought
Primary
Vegetation dies
People and animals die from dehydration
Aquatic animals die because lakes dry up
Soil erodes because it is dried out
Secondary
Animals and people die from starvation
Annotations:
because there are no crops; they have all died
Food shortage
Soil erosion increases
causes desertification
conflict over water
migration to water sources
unemployment for farmers
psycological problems
wildifres
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vegetation dries up and is easily ignited by the high temperatures
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