Extreme Hazards: video worksheets, differentiated.

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or Extreme Geography: video worksheets, differentiated

An exciting survey explaining rare geographical hazards, research, avoidance and amelioration.

Limnic eruptions. Lake Nyos disaster. Amelioration by degassing , potentially applied to Lake Kivu. Methane production as a side-benefit.

Supervolcanoes: Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai. The Centre for Study of Existential Risk. Potential engineering solutions to prevent eruptions. Potential for geothermal energy.

Pathogens released by melting glaciers, vectors redistributed by climate-change, chikungunya virus. Effects of these viruses slowing down melting.

Can hurricanes be prevented by bubble-rafts? Project Storm Fury. The Mo i Rana bubble-curtain. Difficulties in predicting emerging hurricanes. A permanent bubble-curtain between Florida and Cuba?

Can animals predict seismic activity? Toads disappeared from San Ruffino five days before a major earthquake. Other similar evidence. A possible mechanism explained: ions released by stressed rocks. Birds fitted with GPS trackers o predict cyclones and tsunamis.

Many of the contributors are women, and are positive role-models for girls interested in STEM subjects.

Find the film by searching YouTube’s BBC Earth Science channel for “5 Shocking Earth Phenomenons | This World is Wild: Full Series | BBC Earth Science”.

19 questions for the 45-min film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Good subtitles, typed in by a human, not auto-generated nonsense. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc and .pdf of all sheets, link to film on all sheets.