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C. Answer the following questions.
1. Explain the term epidemics.
2.
What do you mean by drought?
3.
What is a natural disaster?
4.
What is an earthquake?
5.
What happens during cyclones?
6.
When do floods occur?
Answers
Answer:
1)A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
2)A drought is defined as "a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area."
3)a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life.
4)An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
5)The effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges near landfall, and tornadoes. ... Tropical cyclones remove forest canopy as well as change the landscape near coastal areas, by moving and reshaping sand dunes and causing extensive erosion along the coast.
6)Floods can occur anytime during the year. However, many occur seasonally after winter snow melts or heavy spring rains.
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