PAPER 1: SECTION A: WEATHER HAZARDS

7. SOMERSET LEVEL FLOODSUse your exercise book – this is REVISION

Missing work? Ask your teacher or borrow a book.Tables will need to be made bigger – check before you print.

Somerset Levels Floods 2014Task 1Using the information in your exercise book and the information below, create a summary of the causes, effects and responses for this case study using your book and the information below. You could do it as a spider diagram/mind map/PowerPoint/poster – whatever works best for you. Different colours and pictures usually help you to remember facts.

Task 2 - 4Use your summary page to answer these questions (if you keep having to look at the printed information, improve your summary page):

a) Explain how a recent UK extreme weather event was caused.b) Explain how an extreme event that you have studied has impacted on people

(social), the economy and the environment.Hints:Name your case study.Structure your answer in paragraphs - one paragraph for each type of impact (social, economic, environmental).For each impact write a full sentence including the facts about the impact and then complete the answer by using a linking sentence that starts with ‘This means that….’ and explain why it impacted on people/economy/environment.

c) Describe and explain the responses of people to an extreme event that you have studied.

Hints:Name your case study.Structure your answer in paragraphs - one paragraph for each type of response (immediate and long term).Describe the responses.Explain how the response minimized the impacts of the extreme event.

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