1. To start, answer this exam style question:
Explain how human activities affected the
impact of a named climatic hazard (4)
Learning Objective:
To understand how Myanmar and the USA
managed against tropical storms and how they
might sustainably manage against them in the
future
Learning Objective:
To understand how Myanmar and the USA
managed against tropical storms and how they
might sustainably manage against them in the
future

2. Country How they managed/
prepared for the
storm well
How they managed/
prepared for the
storm badly
USA (Katrina, 2005)
Myanmar (Nargis, 2008)
Using the case study pages in the text book, and your own notes,
complete the table below. Use a whole page for the table.

3. Use the pictures below to draw a spider diagram of how countries can manage against
tropical storms. You must write down how they will help the country (“this means that…”)
Write a sentence to explain
which one you think is the
most sustainable for New
Orleans then for Myanmar
Write a sentence to explain
which one you think is the
most sustainable for New
Orleans then for Myanmar

5. 1. Stick your map in the centre of a page
2. Label The Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River
3. Annotate brief notes to show what the government
have started to update in New Orleans to try to
prevent another Katrina disaster
4. Some say that the new levees in New Orleans will
withstand a maximum Category 3-4 storm. Why
could the new levees be called unsustainable?