You don’t really know if you have learned something until you put it to the test.
In my last post on the topic of natural hazards and risks, you found definitions of the terms hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and risk (see the post here: http://bit.ly/4k0z9zK). Let’s see if you can apply them to some concrete examples.
Which of the following sentences uses the terms in italics correctly?
San Francisco is more vulnerable to hurricanes than Denver because it is a coastal city.
Elderly people are more exposed to heatwaves than young people.
The ground-motion hazard is stronger for my house than for the school in my village because my house was built before resistance to earthquakes was made part of building legislation.
In my village, the flooding-depth hazard is small because floods over 3 cm depth occur on average more than 300 years apart.
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