DRRR ONLINE QUIZ 1

The elements at risk from a natural or man-made hazard event.

• Exposure

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

A potentially dangerous physical occurrence, phenomenon or human activity that may result in loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation.

• Exposure

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

The condition determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard.

• Exposure

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

Which one is not a risk factors underlying disaster?

• Age

• Gender and Family

• Mental awareness

Changes to the environment can influence the frequency and intensity of hazards, as well as our exposure and vulnerability to these hazards.

• Climate Change

• Environmental Degradation

• Poverty and Inequality

One of the most immediate effects of natural disasters

• Displaced Populations

• Health Risks

• Food and Scarcity

A serious psychological condition resulting from extreme trauma.

• Schizophrenia

• Dementia

• Post-traumatic Stress disorder

Phenomena that cause great physical damage in a community infrastructure, its people and their properties, e.g. houses and environmental sources of living.

• Calamities

• Disasters

• Hazard

The disturbing effects caused by a prevalent kind of disease or virus in an epidemic or pandemic level is known as ———-.

• Biological disaster

• Environmental disaster

• Virus

The spread of disease throughout a country or the whole world is called———

• epidemic

• pandemic

• prolific