To start, answer this exam style question:Explain how human activities affected the impact of a named climatic hazard (4)

Learning Objective:To understand how Myanmar and the USA

managed against tropical storms and how they might sustainably manage against them in the

future

Learning Objective:To understand how Myanmar and the USA

managed against tropical storms and how they might sustainably manage against them in the

future

Country How they managed/ prepared for the storm well

How they managed/ prepared for the storm badly

USA (Katrina, 2005)

Myanmar (Nargis, 2008)

Using the case study pages in the text book, and your own notes, complete the table below. Use a whole page for the table.

Use the pictures below to draw a spider diagram of how countries can manage against tropical storms. You must write down how they will help the country (“this means that…”)

Write a sentence to explain which one you think is the most sustainable for New Orleans then for Myanmar

Write a sentence to explain which one you think is the most sustainable for New Orleans then for Myanmar

1. Stick your map in the centre of a page2. Label The Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River3. Annotate brief notes to show what the government

have started to update in New Orleans to try to prevent another Katrina disaster

4. Some say that the new levees in New Orleans will withstand a maximum Category 3-4 storm. Why could the new levees be called unsustainable?