The five case studies offered by hte first unit - People and the Physical World

1. Challenge Board Case studies – UNIT 1 OCR ‘A’

2. Category 1 Mt St Helens £100 £100 £100 £100 £100 £200 £200 £200 £200 £200 £300 £300 £300 £300 £300 £400 £400 £400 £400 £400 £500 £500 £500 £ 500 £500 Category 2 KOBE Category 3 Boscastle Category 4 Carlise Category 5 Bangladesh

3. Question When did Mt St Helens erupt? Category 1 For £100

4. Answer Back to Game 18 th May 1980

5. Which plate subducts below the North American plate? Category 1 For £200 Question

6. Answer Back to Game Juan de Fuca

7. Question How many people were killed by Mt St Helens Category 1 For £300

8. Answer Back to Game 61

9. Question What was the direction of the blast ? Category 1 For £400

10. Answer Back to Game NE

11. Question What is a nuée ardente Category 1 For £500

12. Answer Back to Game Gas, steam and dust

13. Question Ho many people were killed in the Kobe Earthquake? Category 2 For £100

14. Answer Back to Game 5500

15. Question How many buildings were destroyed by the Kobe earthquake? Category 2 For £200

16. Answer Back to Game 200 000

17. Question Using the Richter scale how powerful was the Kobe earthquake? Category 2 For £300

18. Answer Back to Game 7.2

19. Question How much of the Hanshin expressway was damaged? Category 2 For £400

20. Answer Back to Game 1km

21. Question What is the name of the fault passing close to Kobe Category 2 For £500

22. Answer Back to Game Nojima

23. Question How much rain fell in two hours in Boscastle Category 3 For £100

24. Answer Back to Game 60mm

25. Question How many deaths and casualties? Category 3 For £200

26. Answer Back to Game No deaths, one broken thumb

27. Question How many cars were removed from the streets of Boscastle? Category 3 For £300

28. Answer Back to Game 84

29. Question How far from Plymouth and in which direction? Category 3 For £400

30. Answer Back to Game 40 kms NW

31. Question What is it estimated to have cost North Cornwall District Council? Category 3 For £500

32. Answer Back to Game £2 million

33. Question How much rain fell in the 36 hours prior to the flood? Category 4 For £100

34. Answer Back to Game 220 mm

35. Question Which flood defences were the first to be improved and how? Category 4 For £200

36. Answer Back to Game Embankments were widened and heightened

37. Question Name 3 areas affected by the flooding Category 4 For £300

38. Answer Back to Game Warwick road, Botcherby, Willow Holme, Rosehill, Caldewgate, Hardwicke Circus, Civic centre

39. Question Which three rivers flooded? Category 4 For £400

40. Answer Back to Game River Eden, River Petteril [SPELLING!] and Rive Caldew

41. Question Category 4 For £500 Which was the only public information service which remained during the floods?

42. Answer Back to Game Radio Cumbria had its own generator

43. Question How much land was flooded in 1998 Category 5 For £100

44. Answer Back to Game 68%

45. Question How many were made homeless in the 1998 floods? Category 5 For £200

46. Answer Back to Game 25 million

47. Question Name 3 diseases the dirty water bought Category 5 For £300

48. Answer Back to Game Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Cholera

49. Question Other than rainfall and high tides what other factors caused the flooding? Category 5 For £400

50. Answer Back to Game Siltation, snow melt, deforestation and global warming [plus also building on flood plains?]

51. Question Which three rivers rose? Category 5 For £500

52. Answer Back to Game Brahmaputra, Meghna and Ganges

53. Challenge Board Case studies – UNIT 1 OCR ‘A’ People and the Physical World Credits - Mark OLLIS St Bees School, Cumbria The ‘Aberant Bee’