Natural Hazards Quiz

Is a drought in an uninhabited desert considered a hazard, disaster, or neither?

• Hazard

• Disaster

• Neither

• Both hazard and disaster

What classification is given to a hurricane that kills lots of people?

• Natural hazard

• Natural disaster

• Neither natural hazard nor disaster

• Big natural event

Geological hazards are caused by which processes?

• Weather and climate

• Biological and chemical

• Land and tectonic

• Physical and chemical

Meteorological hazards are caused by which factors?

• Land and tectonic

• Weather and climate

• Biological and chemical

• Physical and chemical

Which hazard is associated with land processes?

• Heat wave

• Earthquake

• Tornado

• Flood

Which risk factor is described as "This is the position of a country or region in the world"?

• Natural factors

• Geographical location

• Magnitude

• Time

What does the risk factor "Magnitude" refer to?

• The size of the event

• The frequency of the event

• The position of a country

• The level of development

Which risk factor is described as "This is the number of people living in a place and the spread of people in an area or country"?

• Natural factors

• Geographical location

• Population density and distribution

• Magnitude

What does the risk factor "Frequency" refer to?

• The size of the event

• The number of people in an area

• How often a hazard occurs

• The position of a country