This lesson contains 32 slides, with text slides and 3 videos.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
3.3 Sometimes too much
Part 1
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Learning outcomes 3.3
- You know which areas have greater flood risks.
- You understand why floods have major consequences for the inhabitants of those areas.
- You can name a number of measures that reduce flood risks.
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Flood risk areas
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Areas that are at high risk of flooding
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1. River and coastal plains.
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2. Areas at the foot of a mountain range with rocky surface (peak discharge).
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Peak charge
Piekafvoer
If the water level rises sharply in a short period of time, this is called a peak discharge.
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Peak discharge
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Flooding
In the Yangtze, rain and melt water in spring and summer cause a high peak discharge (=Extremely high water discharge in a river). People make the problem worse through deforestation (=Cutting down forests).
Better absorption of water by vegetation = lower peak discharge.
Less vegetation = higher peak discharge
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3. Areas where snowmelt coincides with heavy rainfall in summer.
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4. Areas where hurricanes occur.
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5. Areas where deforestation is taking place upstream.
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6. Areas which have a lot of urban development. (petrification, urbanization)
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7. Areas with soil subsidence due to the pumping of groundwater.
Find a specific place where this takes place in each of the 7 areas.
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3.3 Sometimes too much
Part 2
Make groups existing of 3-4 students
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The number of floods is increasing
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How is it possible that the number of floods is increasing?
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Warming of the atmosphere -> warming of the oceans -> warm sea water -> more water vapor (especially in warm air) -> more heavy storms and heavy precipitation
River deltas: extreme storms with heavy precipitation, sea level rise due to expanding seawater, melting polar caps, glaciers and subsidence due to drinking water extraction
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Consequences and measures
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What could be the consequences of a flood?
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What can be a measure in the short term and in the long term?
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Short term
- Construction of dikes, dams and buffer basins.
- Monitor the weather throughout the watershed.
- Inform and train citizens (evacuation exercises).
- Securing drinking water and food after possible flooding.
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Long term
- Make room for the river (provide flood plains).
- Reduce the enhanced greenhouse effect.
- Create a location policy in which people are excluded or moved from risk areas as much as possible.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
