AS Unit 1 –

Global Challenges
Global hazards, global hazard trends, global
hazard patterns

WORLD at RISK Climate change and its causes, global

warming impacts and options
The challenge of global hazards for the
future

Globalisation, global groupings, global networks

GOING GLOBAL Population and roots, on the move, world cities
The challenge of a globalising world Slide 1
GCE 2008
GCE 2008 Geography
• 1 ½ hour
Assessment for Unit 1 – Global Challenges
examination
including resource
booklet

• Combination of:

• data response /
short questions
• objective items
• longer / guided Slide 2

essay questions
GCE 2008
 Using Figure 4(a):

GCE 2008 Geography (a) Which EU country was the source of most
immigrants to the UK?
(1)
Assessment for Unit 1: data response (i) Suggest reasons for this flow.
(2)
Figure 4(b) (b) Which EU country was the destination for most
UK emigration?
(1)
(i) Suggest reasons for this flow.
(2)
(c) Which of the following population movements is
best described as economic migration?

Tick the most appropriate box

People forced to leave a country to escape from famine
Figure 4(a) Those who arrive claiming to be victims of persecution
Migrations to and from the People travelling abroad to find work elsewhere
EU People entering a country unofficially
Those who retire to ‘a place in the sun’
(1)
Using Figure 4(b):
(d) Explain why the UK is a ‘global hub’ for the
movement of people.
(4)
(11 marks)
GCE 2008 Geography 10. Study Figure 10.
(a) Suggest why the various
groups shown hold differing
Assessment for Unit 1: guided essays views about this global
trade
(10)

(b) Explain how people can

manage the environmental
and social costs of
globalisation for a better
world.

(15)

UK customers are generally happy but some businesses and workers are less pleased
Millions of Chinese people and their government support this venture
Maersk shipping lines has offices in 150 countries, and 500 large container ships
Critics of this world-wide commercial activity see this as ‘globalisation gone mad’
Slide 4
GCE 2008
 Learning Objectives
• K-Know some key terms in relation to
topic
• U- Understand how to classify
different hazard types
• S-Recognise the difference between
a natural hazard and a disaster
Learning Outlook for this topic

• Look at the following sheet for an

idea at what you will be doing this
topic
 Key Terms
• Try to define what the following
terms mean
• Natural Hazard
• Disaster
• Risk
• Vulnerability
• Hydro- meteorological hazard
• Geophysical Hazard
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Natural Hazard
• A naturally occurring process or event
which has the potential to cause loss of life
or property.

• Without people it is just a natural event

not a hazard, it needs the interaction of
people to make it a hazard!
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Disaster
• “The realisation of hazard, although
there is no universally agreed
definition of the scale on which loss
has to occur in order to qualify as a
disaster”(Smith 1996)
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Risk
• The exposure of people to a
hazardous event which may present a
potential threat to people or their
possessions, including buildings and
structures.
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Vulnerability
• is to be susceptible to physical or
emotional injury or attack.
What is the connection between the
pictures in each group
Group A
• Cyclone Thunderstorms Wildfire

Group B
• Floods Drought
What is the connection between the
pictures in each group
Group C
• Tsunami Earthquake Landslide
 Answers
Group A
Cyclone Thunderstorms Wildfire
ALL 3 ARE CLASSED AS HYDRO-
METEOROLOGICAL

Group B
• Floods Drought
• THESE COULD FIT INTO EITHER GROUP A OR C!!!!!

Group C
• Tsunami Earthquake Landslide
• ALL THESE ARE CLASSED AS GEOPHYSICAL
HAZARDS
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Hydro-meteorological Hazard
• Natural processes or phenomena of
atmospheric, hydrological or
oceanographic nature, which may
cause the loss of life or injury,
property damage, social and economic
disruption or environmental
degradation.
 Key Terms
• Copy the 1st 3 down from this list of
hazards
• Hydro-meteorological Hazard
Cyclones, droughts, floods, storm surges,
thunder/hailstorms, rain and wind storms,
blizzards and other severe storms;
desertification, wildland fires,
temperature extremes, sand or dust
storms; permafrost and snow or ice
avalanches. Hydrometeorological hazards
can be single, sequential or combined in
their origin and effects.
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Geophysical Hazard
• Includes natural hazards where the principal
causal agent is climatic and meteorological (e.g
floods, hurricanes and droughts) or natural
hazards where the principle causal agent is
geological, geomorphological (e.g. landslides,
tsunamis, volcanoes and earthquakes). They do
not include biological hazards, both floral and
faunal, such as fungal diseases, poisonous plants,
viral diseases and infestations or locusts
 Key Terms
• Write down the correct definition
• Chronic Hazard
• A hazard that is long term-term and
persistent e.g. El-Nino or Global Warming.
 Put the title: The disaster
equation- draw the following
• No hazard or disaster

Hazardous No Vulnerable
geophysical interaction population:
Event e.g flood or of human susceptible to human
earthquake and physical And economic loss
systems
Make a copy of the following
diagram
• Hazard
Interaction of human and
physical systems

Hazardous Vulnerable
geophysical population
Event

Disaster
Look at the following images
and decide if it is a hydro-
meteorological/Geophysical
hazard or both