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57 Cards in this Set
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How many people died in the L'Aquila Earthquake |
290 Deaths |
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When did the L'Aquila Earthquake happen? |
6th of April 2009 4:30 am |
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What was the magnitude of the L'Aquila Earthquake? |
6.3 on the richter scale |
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What plate boundary caused the L'Aquila Earthquake? |
Destructive- Eurasian and African |
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How many were injured in the L'Aquila Earthquake? |
1'500 injured |
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How many were made homeless I'm the L'Aquila Earthquake? |
65'000 homeless |
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How many medieval buildings were either damaged or destroyed in the L'Aquila Earthquake? |
11'000 buildings damaged |
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What is the capital city of Haiti |
Port au Prince |
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When did the Haiti earthquake happen? |
12th of January 2010 4:55pm |
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What was the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake? |
7.0 on the richter scale |
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What plate boundary caused the Haiti earthquake? |
Conservative- North American and the Caribbean plate |
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How many Kilometres was Port au Prince away from the epicentre |
25km |
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How many died in the Haiti earthquake? |
250'000 deaths |
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How much did the damage total up to in the haiti earthquake? |
$14 billion |
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How many were displaced in the Haiti earthquake? |
1.3 Million people |
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How much did the EU and USA give Haiti in aid? |
$430 million |
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Where do Orphan Aid work? |
Ghana, Western Africa |
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What type of organisation are they? |
Multilateral organisation |
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What type of aid do Orphan Aid give out? |
International aid (NGO) |
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Name the three things that Orphan Aid provide |
Access to education Access to medical care and contraception Sport (team work skills) |
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Which states did Hurricane Katrina affect? |
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama |
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How long did Hurricane Katrina last? |
25th of August- 31st of August 2005 |
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What category storm was Hurricane Katrina? |
Category 5 Wind speeds faster than 157mph Travels faster than 70 m/s |
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How many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina? |
1'800 killed |
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How many homes were destroyed? And what was the cost of damage? |
300'000 homes damaged or destroyed $300 billion in damage |
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How many were left without power due to Hurricane Katrina? |
3 million |
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How many jobs were lost? |
230'000 jobs |
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How much (as a percentage) of the population were evacuated? |
70-80% |
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How many people did the emergency services and the army save? |
50'000 people |
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What caused the most amounts of problems? |
The Levees system failed as they were built to withstand a category 3 storm |
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How high did the storm surges reach? |
27.8 feet high |
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How many documented deaths were there due to Cyclone Sidr |
4000 |
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How many do the British Red Cross believe died due to Cyclone Sidr? |
10'000 |
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How much of the rice was destroyed? |
95% of it |
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How much time did the Bangladesh government have to warn people and how did they do it? |
48 hour warning Waved a red flag |
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How much did Bangladesh get in Aid? |
£250 million |
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How many people were affected? |
1 million |
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How high did the tidal surges reach? |
5m |
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When did Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh? |
15th of November 2004 8:30am |
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How many homes were destroyed? |
500'000 homes |
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What was the population of China in 1949 and why did the Chinese Government encourage families to have more children? |
504 million To build a stronger army and have more people to help on the farms |
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What was China's population in 1970? |
830 million. They couldn't cope because there was a famine from 1958-1961 |
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When did the later, longer, fewer policy come in and when did it finish? |
1970-1979 |
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What did the LLF policy do for the fertility rate? |
5.9 (1970) to 2.9 (1979) |
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When did the One Child Policy come in? |
1979 |
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How many births did the ICP prevent? |
400 million |
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What did the ICP do to the Fertility rate? |
2.9 (1979) to 1.8 (2008) |
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What is the problem that China now faces? |
It will have an ageing population |
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Why does the UK have an ageing population? |
Advances in medicine and improved living standard |
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How much did the life expectancy rise between 1980 to 2006? |
2.6 for women 6.4 for men |
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What can we give to families to make it more affordable to have children? |
Working Tax Credit- makes it more affordable to go back to work |
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What is the current retirement age and what will the government raise it to by 2048 |
60 for Women 65 for men 68 for both |
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Name another way in which the government is trying to help this ageing population? |
Encourages people to take out a private pension |
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Push factors from Poland |
High unemployment Low average wages Housing shortage |
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Pull to the UK |
Ease of migration More work and higher wages Good exchange rate |
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Impacts in Poland |
Shortage of workers Slowing down of Poland 's economic growth Left an ageing population Decrease in unemployment Less of a housing shortage |
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Impacts in UK |
Boost the economy: polish people pay taxes Some may be unhappy with the amounts of migrates Increases our culture as Polish people will open Polish shops |
