Sample Quiz

This is a process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation.

• Risk

• Disaster

• Hazard

• Calamity

This is the conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards.

• Hazard

• Exposure

• Vulnerability

• Risk

This is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts.

• Calamity

• Disaster

• Risk

• Danger

This is the situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas

• Risk

• Disaster Risk

• Vulnerability

• Exposure

A people-centered early warning system includes all the following, EXCEPT:

• Risk Knowledge

• Preparedness

• Response Capability

• Dissemination and Communication

_________ refers to the systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster. (5 words)

It refers to the potential disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, which could occur to a particular community or a society over some specified future time period.

• Hazard

• Exposure

• Vulnerability

• Risk

What is EAP?

_________ is a set of actions taken to prevent or mitigate potential disaster impacts before a shock or before acute impacts are felt. (2 words)

_________ provides the information needed to act before disasters to minimise the socio-economic costs of weather and climate hazards.