VULNERABILITY & EXPOSURE

1. The World Risk Index emphasizes that:

• Risks are heavily determined by vulnerability & capacity

• VUlnerability alone determines disaster risk.

• Hazards and exposure determine disaster risk.

• None of these.

Which of the following conditions can make people who cannot afford to avail medical insurance at risk of not the surviving the health impacts of Covid.

• Physical

• Social

• Economic

• Environmental

1. Vaccination against Covid is a way of___

• Getting rid of Covid

• Avoiding exposure

• Increasing the capacity

• Lessening the vulnerability

An economic condition which can aggravate the impacts of hazardous events include/s___.

• Low rate of literacy

• Poor beliefs

• Lack of ability to invest in risk reducing measures

• Lack of capacity to build a more sturdy house.

Flooding due to deforestation is ____.

• Natural hazard

• Human-induced

• Socionatural

• Hydrometeorological

Other name for human induced hazards is ____ hazard.

Technological hazard driven by a hydrometeorological hazard is exemplified in which of the following situations?

• Outbreak of water-borne illness due to heavy downpours

• Dam failure due to heavy rainfall

• Landslides due to deforestation

• Flooding due to deforestation

Which of the following is considered a socionatural hazard?

• Flooding due to deforestation

• Landslides

• Transmission of Covid

• All of these.

In terms of probability, the less frequent the hazard occurs, the..

• higher is its strength/intensity

• lesser is its intensity

• lesser is its impacts

• more disastrous it becomes

The ability of an organism to cause disease refers to____.