Study Guide Material: Monday August 26, 2013
1) Know the difference between a hazard, natural disaster and environmental
disaster?
- Hazard are situations natural or man made which pose a level of threat to
life, health, property, or environment.
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RPOS102M Comparative and International Politics, Fall 2016
TTH 10:15_AM-11:35_AM LC0018 Class Number: 9882
Professor: Victor Asal Email: [email protected]
Phone Number: 518 591 8729
Office Hours:
Uptown: Humanities basement 16, Tuesday 1200 to 140 or by ap
Eric Banks
9/3/2013
Natural Disasters
Mr. Landin
The natural disaster that has affected me the most in my lifetime has been
Hurricane Sandy. As the storm was approaching everyone was nervous because they
didnt know what was going to happen. It was either
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17.2: Ch. 17 Impacts with Space Objects
Date: 11/1/2013
Crater-Forming Impacts: Meteroids with weights
greater than 350 tons are not slowed down much by the
atmosphere and impact the ground at nearly their original speed,
explode and excavate large cra
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Topic 1: Pandemic Diseases
Date: 12/2/13
The term bubonic refers to the
characteristic bubues (enlarged
lymph nodes around arm pits, neck
and groin) and the black refers to
the blackening of the skin through
hemorrhaging under the skin.
The first reco
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Topic 3: Solar Storms
Our Sun: a yellow star at the center of our solar system
Mean distance of 150 million km (93 million miles; 1 AU)
from Earth; mean diameter ~1.4 million km (~865,000 miles);
> 1 million Earths could fit inside the Sun
Sunlight r
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Topic 4: Wildfires
Date: 11/18/13
Wildfire: any uncontrolled fire
in combustible vegetation that
occurs in the countryside or a
wilderness area.
The four major natural causes of
wildfires are: lightning, volcanic
eruption, sparks from rockfalls, and s
11/15
Tsunami Chapter:
Almost 250,000 people killed in 13 countries. Last killer tsunami in this region was back
in 1883, cause by Krakatau volcano.
Mass Extinctions:
- Early life:
- 3.8 billion years ago archea (extremophiles) were alive
- 3.5 to 2.5 bil
9/3/2013
Natural Disasters
Surviving through the most destructive and deathliest hurricane in the 2012 Atlantic
hurricane season is something that I can check off my list of things I have done. This category 3
hurricane ripped through several different co
