Name: Sarah MalangaLearning Unit 1: Introduction to Natural Disasters Review QuestionsThis assignment is designed to assess your understanding of Unit 1 and includes some of the Ques-tions for Review at the end of Chapter 1 from your text plus a few additional questions. Each ques-tion can be answered in one to two sentences. Please limit yourself to a maximum of three sen-tences. Access the assignment, complete it with ANSWERS IN A DIFFERENT COLOR FONT/as/a separate file, and send it back for evaluation and grading through the assignment tab by or before the due date./ 1. What are some reasons people live in geologically dangerous areas?Sarah Malanga2. Is the geological landscape controlled by gradual and unrelenting processes or intermittent large events with little action in between? Provide an example to illustrate. 3. Some natural disasters happen when the equilibrium of a system is disrupted. What are some examples?4. Contrast the general nature of catastrophic losses in developed countries versus poor countries. 5. What are the main reasons for the ever-increasing costs of catastrophic events?6. If people should not live in especially dangerous areas, what beneficial use is there for those areas?7. When is a large event such as a major earthquake not a disaster?8. When an insurance company decides on the cost of an insurance policy for a natural hazard, what are the two main deciding factors?9. Describe the general relationship between the frequency and magnitude of an event?10. When people or governmental agencies try to restrict or control the activities of nature, what is the general result?11. What kind of information must be assembled to make hazard predictions?12. What is a precursor event?13. Explain how population growth increases the number of disasters.14. What are the stages of disaster recovery?15. Provide 3 methods of hazard
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