Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction

Direction: Choose the letter of your choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, properly damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation is called:

• A. Disaster

• B. Emergency

• C. Hazard

• D. Vulnerability

The following are common long term impacts of natural hazards EXCEPT

• A. Destruction of vital infrastructures like roads and bridges

• B. Disconnection of communication lines

• C. Widespread loss of housing

• D. Permanent disability

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses is called

• A. Disaster

• B. Vulnerability

• C. Resiliency

• D. Hazard

Which is NOT a risk driver?

• A. Poverty and inequality

• B. Environmental degradation

• C. Properly planned urban development

• D. Weak governance

The variables that amplify the effects of hazards, affecting the degree or scope of a disaster is called:

• A. Exposure

• B. Elements at risk

• C. Risk drivers

• D. Vulnerability

Which is NOT an effect of disasters on human life?

• A. Food scarcity

• B. Illnesses and diseases

• C. Displaced population

• D. Disturbance of biodiversity

Disasters frequently result in all of the following EXCEPT:

• A. Displacement of populations

• B. Damage to the ecological environment

• C. Destruction of a population's homeland

• D. Adequate supply of goods and services

An event, whether natural or human-induced, becomes a disaster EXCEPT when

• A. It occurs in an area with no exposure

• B. It causes widespread material or environmental losses

• C. Community cannot provide the residents their basic needs

• D. Communities experience severe danger and incur loss of lives

Defines as people, property, systems and other elements present in hazard zones that are thereby subject to potential loss.

• Susceptibility

• Vulnerability

• Exposure

• Capacity

Which of the following is NOT a factor of Vulnerability?

• Poverty

• Religion

• Physical Vulnerability

• Mental state