Science May 21th 2020.

INTERNATIONAL KOREAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

TEACHER: Fátima Castillo.

TOPIC: Prevention and mitigation measures against possible natural disasters.

OBJECTIVE: to know the measures against natural disasters.

The term Mitigation can be comprised in the term Prevention. Mitigation means to reduce the severity of the human and material damage caused by the disaster. Prevention is to ensure that human action or natural phenomena do not result in disaster or emergency.

Awareness, education, preparedness, and prediction and warning systems can reduce the disruptive impacts of a natural disaster on communities. Mitigation measures such as adoption of zoning, land-use practices, and building codes are needed, however, to prevent or reduce actual damage from hazards.

The prevention is the application of measures to prevent an event from becoming a disaster. For example planting trees prevents erosion and lansslides. It can also prevent drought.

Mitigation are measures to reduce vulnerability to certain threats. For example, there are ways of construcction that ensure that our houses, schools or hospitals do not fall with an earthquaque or a hurricane.

A natural disaster is an event that is caused by the natural forces of the Earth where great damage and, sometimes, loss of life occurs. Natural disasters can take many forms, ranging from earthquakes and tsunamis, to floods and volcanic eruptions, to mudslides and wildfires.

Activity: answer the following questions.

what is mitigation and prevention? explain

How can we prevent natural disaster? explain.

Nota: Enviar la asignación el día martes 26 de Mayo.