DAVID & DESIREE .

SEISMIC ACTIVITY

• Seismic activity refers to earthquakes & volcanos .

TSUNAMI

• Undersea earthquakes cause giant waves or tsunamis .

EL NINO & LA NINA CX

• El Niño: Rising global temperatures,
• Warming Of the surface of the Pacific Ocean leading to El Niño .
• La Niña: The surface of the pacific is cooler, with opposite effects ,
• La Niña brings heavier than usual rains to Southeast Asia .

CLIMATE CHANGE

• The burning of fossil fuels like coal & oil has significantly increase amounts of ,
• Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere .

RENEWABLE RESOURCES

• Some resources, like trees,can renew themselves after a period of time .

NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES

• Other resources , like oil & coal , are non-renewable,
• & can only be used once .

BIODIVERSITY

• Tropical rainforest have the greatest biodiversity ,
• & the greatest concentration of plant life on earth .

G.I.S

• Are spatial information systems that merge information from satellites
• & land based sources .

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

• Using resources to meet future & present human needs .

GREENHOUSE EFFECT

• Will increase amounts of carbon dioxide, less heat will be able to escape
• Leading to the greenhouses .

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