The document summarizes the causes, effects, and responses to flooding in Bangladesh, focusing on the 1998 floods. It discusses physical causes like melting Himalayan glaciers filling rivers, human causes like deforestation, primary effects like drowning and destruction of crops, secondary effects like lack of food and disease, immediate responses like search and rescue and aid, and long-term responses such as building dams and shelters to mitigate future floods.

1. Flooding in Bangladesh
Assessment Task:
You are a photo editor for a news organisation
who is putting together a presentation on the
causes, effects and responses to flooding in
Bangladesh. You will be concentrating on one
particular flood event in 1998.
There SHOULD be more than one photo for
each section.
Each photo has to have a caption that
describes and explains the relevance of the
photo.
I.e. it should not be – here is a picture of flat “Bangladesh in mainly low lying flat land with …% being
land, it should be: less than …. Metres above sea level. This means when
rivers flood it covers a large area of land.
Source: www.mrpiersiscoolandhisphotosaregreat.com
•What are the Causes, Effects and
Responses to Flooding in Bangladesh.

2. PHYSICAL CAUSE
Melting glaciers in the
Himalayas are melting very
quickly and running into
rivers which causes huge
flooding problems in
Bangladesh. As the water
rises many homes and
people’s lives will be taken
away.

3. HUMAN CAUSE
A human cause is
deforestation
because people
keep cutting down
trees and that
makes flooding
worse a swell

4. case study 1998 floods
• On the next few pages add the effects of the
flood. You should look at the primary effects
(those that happen straight away) and the
secondary effects (those that may happen
over the next few days and months)

5. PRIMARY EFFECTS
drowning in Bangladesh is a primary effect because if
• Drowning you cant breathe for a certain time you die and the
currant i s really strong..
drowning animals in Bangladesh
• Drowning animals is a primary effect because the
animals cant swim forever.
• Temporary shelter temporary shelter is a primary
effect because people all need to
stay somewhere and then they don't
have enough space for every body
Crops being destroyed crops being destroyed is a
primary effect because when
they get to much water or are
no handled carefully it gets
destroyed.

6. SECONDARY EFFECTS
lack of food in Bangladesh
• Lack of food is a secondary effect
becuase they still have
food for a while but then
they run out.
snake bites in bangladesh
• Snake bites is a secondary effect
because you do not die
strate away and snakes
do not bite you right
away
death in bangladesh is a
• Death secondary effect because
you don't die right away
unless it is drowning,

7. RESPONSES TO FLOODING
• Here you will look at the immediate and
longer term responses of the government
and other organisations
• Think about medical help, food help in the
first instance and some of the longer term
ways people could respond to regular
flooding.

8. IMMEDIATE RESPONSES
boats to rescue people
emergency supplies for food ,water, tents, and medicines
people to re-pare or rebuild houses as well as services such
as sewage etc...
aid from other countries.

9. LONG TERM RESPONSES TO FLOODING
• Here you need to look at different responses such
as flood prevention schemes, shelters and early
warning systems.

10. LONG TIME RESPONSES
reduce deforestation
build seven large dams in bangladesh to store excess water
build 5000 flood shelters to accommodate all the
population
create flood water storage areas
develop an effective flood warning scheme

11. THANK YOU FOR WATCHING MR.PIERS
BY
AMBER
MCKENZIE
MYP 1
2011
22nd FEBUARY