In studying Environmental Science, learners develop their investigative, analytical and communication skills.
Learners apply these skills to their understanding of ecology and environmental issues in order to engage in public debate, solve problems and make evidence-based decisions about contemporary environmental issues in society.
TASC. Environmental Science. Level 3, ESS315118, 2020.
Course Information for TASC Environmental Science level 3 can be found here.
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Natural disasters can also be known as "acts of God" because they can strike with little or no warning and without any human involvement.
Natural disasters can kill many thousands of people each year. They roughly fall into three broad groupings:
These disasters can occur separately or together, and are generally, although not always, unrelated.
Coenraads, R, edt, 2008, Natural disasters and how we cope, The Five Mile Press, Rowville, Vic.
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'As old as the hills', 'as solid as rock', are just two of the phrases we use to express the permanence of the world around us. Some of our highest mountains, however, are among the most recent features of the landscape. They have developed and grown because of movements within the earth itself, movements that can crumble rocks and create new ones, and that can displace the very waters of the oceans themselves. Most of these movements are apparent only over the millennia, but sometimes they happen with great suddenness in a particular place, and when they do, their effect on the human beings that live there can be disastrous.
Dixon, Dougal 1996, 'Land and sea on the move', Natural disasters, Reader's Digest, pp. 13
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The atmosphere is in constant turmoil. On a global scale, it acts as a giant heat exchange, in which the hot air in the tropics rises and moves towards the poles, while cooler heavier air rushes in to take its place. Averaged out over the years, these movements form the conditions we call climates. Day-day-day variations in these climatic patterns produce what is known as weather. These variations can be extreme, including hurricanes that cut across the sea - and sometimes the land as well - and deadly tornadoes, which are narrow funnels of extreme low pressure and extraordinary destructiveness.
Dixon, Dougal 1996, 'The Restless air', Natural disasters', Reader's Digest, p. 86
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Flood. Heavy storms may sometimes cause huge volumes of water to depart from a river's natural course and spread over previously dry land. Unstoppable and all-pervasive, the resulting floods can be devastating to human life.
Dixon, Dougal 1996, 'Flood alert', Natural disasters, Reader's Digest, p.110
Tsunami. Imagine a flood of water swirling up the street, lifting cars and flinging them through flimsy buildings as it goes. Then imagine the buildings themselves being washed away, leaving behind little more than scattered piles of rubble.
Dixon, Dougal 1996, 'Tsunami: wave of terror', Natural disasters', Reader's Digest, p. 52
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