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1. Natural disasters are harmful events caused by natural hazards that impact human communities. Some examples are flooding, drought, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis. The damage depends on a population's resilience and infrastructure. The term "natural disaster" may be replaced with just "disaster" and specifying the hazard type, as human activities can exacerbate disasters. 2. Cabanatuan City is moderately vulnerable to floods and drought but low vulnerability to typhoons. Four crops are suitable given current and future flood and landslide hazards. Heavy rain, clogged drainage, and poor waste management likely cause Cabanatuan City's floods. 3. There are two types of minerals: macrom

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Earth Science Assignment

1. Natural disasters are harmful events caused by natural hazards that impact human communities. Some examples are flooding, drought, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis. The damage depends on a population's resilience and infrastructure. The term "natural disaster" may be replaced with just "disaster" and specifying the hazard type, as human activities can exacerbate disasters. 2. Cabanatuan City is moderately vulnerable to floods and drought but low vulnerability to typhoons. Four crops are suitable given current and future flood and landslide hazards. Heavy rain, clogged drainage, and poor waste management likely cause Cabanatuan City's floods. 3. There are two types of minerals: macrom

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Search the Different Calamities on Earth

A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. Some examples
of natural hazard events include: flooding, drought, earthquake, tropical cyclone, lightning, tsunami, volcanic activity,
wildfire.A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves economic damage in its wake. The
severity of the damage depends on the affected population's resilience and on the infrastructure available.Scholars have
been saying that the term natural disaster is unsuitable and should be abandoned. Instead, the simpler term disaster could
be used, while also specifying the category (or type) of hazard. A disaster is a result of a natural or human-made hazard
impacting a vulnerable community. It is the combination of the hazard along with exposure of a vulnerable society that
results in a disaster.In modern times, the divide between natural, human-made and human-accelerated disasters is quite
difficult to draw.Human choices and activities like architecture, fire,resource management and climate change potentially
play a role in causing natural disasters. In fact, the term natural disaster has been called a misnomer already in 1976.

Natural disasters can be aggravated by inadequate building norms, marginalization of people, inequities, overexploitation of
resources, extreme urban sprawl and climate change.The rapid growth of the world's population and its increased
concentration often in hazardous environments has escalated both the frequency and severity of disasters. Extreme climates
(such as those in the Tropics) and unstable landforms, coupled with deforestation, unplanned growth proliferation and non-
engineered constructions create more vulnerable interfaces of populated areas with disaster-prone natural spaces.

What are the 10 most natural disasters

World's 10 Worst Natural Disasters


Haiti Earthquake of 2010

Hurricane Katrina of 2005

Hurricane Andrew of 1993

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Tsunami of 2011

Tangshan Earthquake

Cyclone Nargis

2008 China Earthquake

2003 Iran Earthquake

2005 Pakistan Earthquake

2.Search the Different Calamities in Cabanatuan

Cabanatuan City attained moderate vulnerability to floods and drought while low vulnerability to typhoon. There were four
crops suitable to grow in the current condition with flood and landslide hazards and in the two projected
future scenarios (RCP 4.5 with good conditions and RCP 8.5 with the worst conditions).Heavy and prolonged rainfall, clogged
river, canals, creeks and streams, lack of preventive infrastructure and facilities and poor implementation of waste
management system were the possible leading causes of flooding in Cabanatuan City.

3.Search for Different Minerals

There are two kinds of minerals: macrominerals and trace minerals. You need larger amounts of macrominerals. They
include calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, potassium, chloride and sulfur. About 99 percent of the minerals in the
Earth's crust are made up of eight elements, including oxygen, silicon, copper, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium and
magnesium. Popular minerals include quartz, feldspar, bauxite, cobalt, talc and pyrite. Some minerals have a different
coloured streak than their body colour.The major minerals, which are used and stored in large quantities in the body, are
calcium, chloride, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and sulfur. The trace minerals are just as vital to our health
as the major minerals, but we don't need large amounts.

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