PRE TEST: Vulnerable Sectors

The extent to which a community, structure, services, or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of hazard is termed as___________.

• capacity

• hazard

• risk

• vulnerability

Poor people who often live on marginal lands, do not have any savings or insurance, who suffer from poor health, and have miserable physical and material resources suffer from__________________ vulnerability.

• attitudinal

• motivational

• physical

• social

Community members whose capacities are low and not sufficient to withstand and overcome the damaging and adverse effects of disasters belong to the __________________ sectors.

• less vulnerable

• most vulnerable

• not vulnerable

• poverty

Community members whose capacity are higher than in the vulnerable sector to overcome the adverse effects of disasters belong to the __________________ sectors.

• less vulnerable

• most vulnerable

• not vulnerable

• poverty

In what category of vulnerability do fatalism, discouragement, and despondency fall?

• attitudinal

• motivational

• physical

• social