ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ANSWER BOOKLETFor use with the electronic journal

INSTRUCTIONS

Write your answers to questions within the Flash Floods electronic journal for each Task Set A - I. Answers for each page and task set from the journal has a separate table for writing answers. If completing these answers electronically remember to save the file regularly.

A Geography Kit produced by the Illawarra Environmental Education Centre

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FLASH FLOODS

Geography Stage 5

Geography Stage 5 2 Flash Floods

Student Name __________________________ Class _________________

Task set A from page 7 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. True or False

a. b. c. d. e.

2. Synonyms in the text

a. b. c.d. e. f.

3. Causes of flooding in Australia in order from most likely to least likely.

4. Explanation for your answer to Q. 3.

5. Describe Australia’s rainfall.

6. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.

An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

7. Analysing a cartoon about floods in Australiaa.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.

8. Types of floods in AustraliaFlood Type Region/area effected Speed Damage

Geography Stage 5 3 Flash Floods

Task set B from page 8 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. True or False

a. b. c. d. e.

2. Synonyms in the text

a. b. c.d. e. f.

3. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

4. Conditions that might result in a tropical cyclone causing flooding.

5. The season and weather you would expect to cause flooding in Wollongong.

6. Discussion of how five factors effect flood events.i)ii)iii)iv)v)7. Two factors increasing likelihood of flooding in Wollongong and an explanation.i)ii)

8. Interpreting the synoptic chart on page 8 of the Flash Floods e-journala. The legend for the synoptic chart will need to be prepared on paper.b. The forecast for Sydney on this day isc. The forecast for Darwin on this day is

Geography Stage 5 4 Flash Floods

Task set C from page 9 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. True or False

a. b. c. d. e.

2. Synonyms in the text

a. b. c.d. e.

3. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

4. Table: Average annual costs of natural hazards in Australia.NaturalHazardsCosts

5. Explanation of why the average annual costs of floods in Queensland is greaterthan the Northern Territory.

6. Creative account of being in a flood.

7. Images of Australian floods.a. economic b. environmental c. social

Date: Date: Date:Location: Location: Location:Notes: Notes: Notes:

Discuss the difficulty of classifying the impacts of floods as economic, environmental andsocial.

Geography Stage 5 5 Flash Floods

Task set D from page 10 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. True or False

a. b. c. d. e.

2. Synonyms in the text

a. b. c.d. e.

3. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

4. Effectiveness of flood warnings from most effective to least effective.

5. Information required when a flood warning is issued.

6. Information from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology websitea.

b.

7. Research questions prepared from Emergency Management Australia’s website.

8. Visit Emergency Management Australia’s website to attempt the AustralianNatural Disaster webquest.

Geography Stage 5 6 Flash Floods

Task set E from page 11 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. True or False

a. b. c. d. e.

2. Synonyms in the text

a. b. c.d. e.

3. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

4. Flood evacuation actions from most effective to least effective.

5. Advertisement to volunteers to the SES.

6. Compare and contrast Figures 5 and 6.

7. Items needed in a home emergency kit

Geography Stage 5 7 Flash Floods

Task set F from page 12 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

1. Responsibilities for flood management in NSW.

2. Ways in which a risk management approach reduces possible damage.

3. Classifying approaches to flood risk management.

a is an example of

b is an example of

c is an example of

4. Add the words/terms to your e-journal word bank and write their meanings.

An e-journal word bank is located on the last page of this document.

5. Preparation of flood management plans.

a)

b)

c)

d)

e)

Geography Stage 5 8 Flash Floods

Multiple Choice

Task set G from page 13 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

Write the letter of the most correct answer for questions numbered 1 - 8.

1.2.3.4.5.

6.7.8.Task set H from page 14 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

Write the letter of the most correct answer for questions numbered 1 - 10.

1.2.3.

4.5.6.7.

8.9.10.Task set I from page 15 of the Flash Floods e-journal (complete electronically or on paper)

Write the letter of the most correct answer for questions numbered 1 - 8.

1.2.3.4.

5.6.7.8.

Geography Stage 5 9 Flash Floods

The e-journal word bank

Words and terms fromthe journal

Meanings

FloodErraticStorm surgeCycloneNatural hazardSynoptic chartSpatial distributionCatchmentSocial impactEnvironmental impactEconomic impactAquiferDepositionFlood plainPoliciesDevastatingAverage recurrenceinterval

Generalised flood warningPeak height of a riverAct of parliamentEmergencyImminentEvacuateRisk managementFlood modificationResponse modificationProperty modification

The completion of this booklet was made possible with funding provided by the Local Grants Scheme 2005/06, an Australian Government initiative supporting volunteers who make our communities safer.

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11/12/06

NSW Department of Education and Training

Geography Stage 5 [40] Flash Floods