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Mapa Mental por rosetinley, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por rosetinley
aproximadamente 11 anos atrás
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September 2012
Floods
- Causes
- Global Warming
- Torrential Rain
- There was also a lot of
rain in a short amount of
time
- 20mm of rain fell in the
course of an hour
- There was also a lot of
rain in a short amount of
time
- 70mph winds
- An accelerating jet stream causes
air to rise upwards through the
atmosphere and creates low
pressure centres
- The jet stream was
six miles high of
which a fast wind is
blowing around the
planet and moves
our surface pressure
system
- The jet stream was
six miles high of
which a fast wind is
blowing around the
planet and moves
our surface pressure
system
- An accelerating jet stream causes
air to rise upwards through the
atmosphere and creates low
pressure centres
- Global Warming
- Effects
- Primary effects
- Physical damage (e.g.
damage to structures
including bridges)
- Physical damage (e.g.
damage to structures
including bridges)
- Secondary Effects
- Water Supplies
- Contamination
of water
- Contamination
of water
- Diaseses
- Crops and Food Supplies
- Shortage of food crops can
be due to loss of entire
harvest
- Shortage of food crops can
be due to loss of entire
harvest
- Trees
- Non-tolerant
species can fie
from
suffocation
- Non-tolerant
species can fie
from
suffocation
- Transport
- Transport links destroyed
- Hard to get
emergency aid to
those who need it
- Hard to get
emergency aid to
those who need it
- Transport links destroyed
- Water Supplies
- Tertiary and Long Term
Effect
- Economic
- Economic hardship
due to temporary
decline in tourism
- Rebuilding costs
- Shortage in food leading to
price increase
- Economic hardship
due to temporary
decline in tourism
- Psycological
- Flooding can be
highly traumatic for
induviduals
- Inparticular where deaths,
serious injuries and loss of
property occur
- Inparticular where deaths,
serious injuries and loss of
property occur
- Flooding can be
highly traumatic for
induviduals
- Economic
- Primary effects
- Responses
- People rebuilt their
communities and
pumped all the water
out of their houses
- The fire brigade
helped people pump
out the water in the
villages
- The RNLI came to save
stranded people and
take them to safety
- Up to 500 properties
were flooded in
Lancashire and West
Yorkshire
- People rebuilt their
communities and
pumped all the water
out of their houses
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