GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Floods can also have medium-and long-term health impacts, including: water-and vector-borne diseases, such as cholera, typhoid or malaria. injuries, such as lacerations or punctures from evacuations and disaster cleanup. chemical hazards.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detrimental environmental effects of flooding can include soil and bank erosion, bed erosion, siltation or landslides. It can damage vegetation and pollutants carried by flood water can impact on water quality, habitats and flora and fauna. Flooding can however play a beneficial role in natural habitats.

Detailed explanation-3: -Floods are caused by rise in the water level in ponds and lakes due to heavy rainfall. The excess rain water flows on to land causing floods. Floods make the soil water-logged. Floods affect normal life by disturbing everything which comes in its way.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some flood tend to wash up animals and humans especially if the water is very deep. They’re not killed by drowning but they’re mostly killed by incoming debris. A loss of life, destruction of habitat and soil erosion are the effects of flooding, if the water is deep.

Detailed explanation-5: -Extreme floods not only lead to the death of individual plants (Dixon, 2003; Kui et al., 2014), but also reduce the biodiversity of plants (Lambeets et al., 2008; Wright et al., 2015; Maxwell et al., 2019).