PRE-TEST: CONCEPT OF DISASTER RISK

A risk that happens when populations severely overextend the carrying capacity of their environment?

• resource growth

• demographic transition

• catastrophic collapse

• increased population growth

What contributes to the steady increased in the number of deaths and monetary losses related to natural disasters?

• There are records of past events.

• The magnitudes of hazard events are increasing.

• More hazardous events are occurring every year.

• Human populations are increasing in areas identified to be at risk.

Carrying capacity refers to _____________.

• The mass of potatoes grown in bogs in Ireland.

• A crisis brought about by population implosion.

• The mass of carbon in individual multicellular organisms.

• The size of a population that can live on available resources.

Which of the following may be done to reduce disaster risk?

• response

• mitigation

• recovery

• preparedness

What is the impact of the steady and rapid increase of human population on natural resources?

• It is good for the environment.

• It is of little interest to science.

• It is a boon to the commodities market

• It results in overexploitation of some resources