CASE STUDY - Pakistan 2010, flooding event in a LEDC

This is the introduction and causes of flooding.  The impacts will be in a separate quiz.  I recommend reading through the Pakistan Case Study notes that I have before doing the quiz.  Or if you have the CCEA text book you can reads pages 38 - 41 

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What were the annual rain totals in Pakistan?
250mm
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What climate does Pakistan have?
Monsoon
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What did the summer 2010 monsoon bring?
Exceptionally heavy rainfall
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What does the word inundation mean?
Flooding
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What was the name of the river that was mainly effected?
Indus
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What blocked the normal flow of the jet stream?
unusual flows in the upper atmostphere
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What have meteroglists linked this unusual pattern to?
La Nina
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What is an La Nina?
reversal of the normal
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How did the embankments contribute to the flooding of the Indus?
The water overtopped the embankments and could not retreat back into the river
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What was the population of Pakisan?
191 million people
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How many people is the population increasing by each year?
3 million
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What does increasing population lead to?
Urbanisation
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