Geography GCSE
Hazard impacts
What Hazard impacts means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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The effects of weather hazards, including flooding damaging homes and businesses, trees brought down and power supplies disrupted, travel disruption and health risks, and water shortages and crop failures.
The devastating impacts tropical storms cause, categorised into primary and secondary effects.
Topics that use Hazard impacts
- Weather hazards (AQA GCSE)
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