Living With Climate Risk · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Why one storm hits twice

Geography · People & Environments · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What does adaptation mean?

    • Changing how we live so climate shocks hurt less
    • Removing all weather hazards for good
    • Moving every coastal city inland at once

  2. What three parts make up disaster risk?

    • Rain, wind, and temperature
    • Hazard, exposure, and ability to cope
    • Money, maps, and satellites

  3. Countries that emitted least are often among the most exposed to climate harm.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. A city moves clinics out of the flood zone and buys backup generators. What is it cutting?

    • The hazard itself
    • Exposure and weakness in coping
    • Global emissions this year

  5. One flood hits two towns. Town A loses little; town B loses homes and harvests. What best explains the gap?

    • The two towns faced different planets
    • Exposure and coping power differed between them
    • Floods always spare the richer town magically

  6. A farmer switches to a dry-tolerant crop, saves water, and insures the harvest. Which idea is she using?

    • Cutting the global hazard to zero
    • Denying that the climate is shifting
    • Adaptation that cuts her losses

  7. Two islands face the same rising seas. One is wealthy with strong services; the other is poor with weak services. A fund can protect only one fully. Which argument is fairest?

    • Protect neither, since hazards cannot be cut
    • Protect the wealthy one, since it emitted more
    • Weigh who suffers most against who caused the hazard

  8. A mayor says only emission cuts matter, so sea walls and warnings are a waste. What is wrong?

    • Walls and warnings cut exposure while emissions fall slowly
    • Emission cuts work instantly on next week's storm
    • Poor towns already cope better than rich ones
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Answer key

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Why one storm hits twice W1-mt_B4xy4Bs3DR-s1

  1. Changing how we live so climate shocks hurt less · Adaptation is sea walls, shade trees, hardier crops, warnings, and recovery funds.
  2. Hazard, exposure, and ability to cope · Risk is the hazard plus who stands in its path plus how well they recover.
  3. True · Many low emitters sit where heat, seas, and storms strike fiercest.
  4. Exposure and weakness in coping · Clinics out of the water plus backup power mean less stands exposed and coping rises.
  5. Exposure and coping power differed between them · Housing, warnings, savings, and services decide losses more than the water alone.
  6. Adaptation that cuts her losses · New crops, saved water, and insurance all soften the same failed rains.
  7. Weigh who suffers most against who caused the hazard · Fair responses weigh suffering against responsibility, and the poor island is more exposed.
  8. Walls and warnings cut exposure while emissions fall slowly · Cutting the hazard takes decades, while defences and warnings save lives now.
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