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Description
Mind Map by hannah.pickard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hannah.pickard
over 11 years ago
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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
- Buildings and infrastructure are destroyed
- Secondary
- Homelessness
- Lack of sanitation; diseases spread
- Unemployment
- Food shortage because of damaged crops
- Psycological problems
- Homelessness
- Primary
- Drought
- Primary
- Vegetation dies
- People and animals die from dehydration
- Aquatic animals die because lakes dry up
- Soil erodes because it is dried out
- Vegetation dies
- Secondary
- Animals and people die from starvation
Annotations:
- because there are no crops; they have all died
- Food shortage
- Soil erosion increases
- causes desertification
- causes desertification
- conflict over water
- migration to water sources
- unemployment for farmers
- psycological problems
- wildifres
Annotations:
- vegetation dries up and is easily ignited by the high temperatures
- Animals and people die from starvation
- Primary
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