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17 Cards in this Set
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Where is Bangladesh?
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Asia, surrounded by India
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What were the human causes?
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Deforestation
Urbanisation |
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What were the physical causes?
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heavy monsoon rainfall
Snowmelt Confluence of .... Flat land |
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How much rain fell, and what did the heavy monsoon rainfall effect?
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900mm fell
saturated soils and increases run off |
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Name the secondary effects of the flooding?
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100,000 people caught water borne diseases
Flooding fields reduced rice production and prices rose by 10% Children lost out on education-4000 schools affected by the flood |
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Name the Primary effects of the flooding?
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Factories closed and livestock killed
Rivers polluted with sewage 10,000km of road destroyed 44 schools destroyed 25 million homeless 2000 deaths |
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What were the immediate responses to the flooding?
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Lack of evacuation so people would have died so there can not have been an emergency plan
Aid - Oxfam and Save the Children sent supplies to Bangladesh |
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What were the long term effects to the flood?
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Having flood wardens to warn villages
Some shelters are now built on stilts Planting vegetation in the mountains International charities have paid for villages to be rebuild Embankments were built but then collapsed and prevent the water flowing back to the river |
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Key words
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Monsoon Deforestation
Urbanistion Confluence Primary Secondary effects |
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How many died?
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2000
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How much did prices increase?
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10%
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How many caught the borne diseases dysentery and diarrhoea?
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100,000
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How many schools were destroyed?
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44
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What year did this happen?
What month did this happen in? |
2007
July and August |
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How many schools were affected?
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4000
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How many became homeless?
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25 million
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What are the names of the rivers?
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Brahmaputra and Ganges
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