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What do you call a source or a situation with the potential for harm in terms of human injury or ill-health, damage to property, and damage to the environment?
Disaster
Hazard
Vulnerability
All of the above
What effect of hazard is the possibility of causing injury or death to an individual?
Effects of Hazard to Environment
Effects of Hazard to Human Activity
Effects of Hazard to People
Effects of Hazard to Property
What effect of hazard is the possibility of causing devastating damage to houses, equipment, and livelihood?
Effects of Hazard to Environment
Effects of Hazard to Human Activity
Effects of Hazard to People
Effects of Hazard to Property
What effect of hazard is the possibility of causing obstruction to daily routines?
Effects of Hazard to Environment
Effects of Hazard to Human Activity
Effects of Hazard to People
Effects of Hazard to Property
What effect of hazard is the possibility of causing destruction to our natural resources?
Effects of Hazard to Environment
Effects of Hazard to Human Activity
Effects of Hazard to People
Effects of Hazard to Property
What refers to the totality of circumstances that causes the harm to people, animals, and property?
Hazard Assessment
Hazard Event
Hazard Evaluation
All of the above
What refers to the process of identifying potential threat, determining the possibility of its occurrence and appraising its possible effect?
Hazard Assessment
Hazard Event
Hazard Evaluation
All of the above
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those which are caused by forces in our environment that disrupts human activity, or that may cause damage or injury to life and property?
Natural Hazards
Quasi-natural Hazards
Technological Hazards
All of the above
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those arising from industrial conditions like accidents and equipment malfunction which may cause loss of lives of people, animals, and properties?
Natural Hazards
Quasi-natural Hazards
Technological Hazards
All of the above
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those which resulted from natural process and intervention of human activities?
Natural Hazards
Quasi-natural Hazards
Technological Hazards
All of the above
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those which resulted from natural process and intervention of human activities?
Atmospheric Hazards
Hydrologic Hazards
Geologic Hazards
Biohazards
Technologic Hazards
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those organic substance like bacteria, virus, birds and the like which may cause potential threat or danger to other living organisms like humans and animals?
Atmospheric Hazards
Hydrologic Hazards
Geologic Hazards
Biohazards
Technologic Hazards
In the Classifications of Hazards, what are those that may refer to equipment malfunction in industries that poses threat to lives and properties?
Atmospheric Hazards
Hydrologic Hazards
Geologic Hazards
Biohazards
Technologic Hazards
In the Classifications of Hazards, what pertains to anything in connection with earth surface resembling to soil, lands, and minerals?
Atmospheric Hazards
Hydrologic Hazards
Geologic Hazards
Biohazards
Technologic Hazards
In the Classifications of Hazards, what refers to anything which has a connection with water in any forms or properties and its distribution?
Atmospheric Hazards
Hydrologic Hazards
Geologic Hazards
Biohazards
Technologic Hazards
In the impact of disasters, what is the psychological challenges caused by both direct and indirect losses that individuals suffer from a disaster?
Direct Losses
Indirect Losses
Intangible Losses
None of the above
In the impact of disasters, what include physical effects such as destruction and changes that reduce the functionality of an individual or structure?
Direct Losses
Indirect Losses
Intangible Losses
None of the above
In the impact of disasters, what affect society by disrupting or damaging utility services and local business thereby requiring additional effect, or action from individuals?
Direct Losses
Indirect Losses
Intangible Losses
None of the above
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
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
What type of vulnerability is this: People who are poor often live on marginal lands, don’t have any savings or insurance, suffer from poor health, and have physical and material resources that are miserable.
Vulnerability
Physical/Material Vulnerability
Most Vulnerable Sectors
Capacity
Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
They are the community members whose capacities are low and not sufficient to withstand and overcome the damaging and adverse effects of disasters.
Vulnerability
Physical/Material Vulnerability
Most Vulnerable Sectors
Capacity
Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
It refers to all the strengths, attributes, and resources available within a community, organization, or society that can be used to achieve an agreed goal.
Vulnerability
Physical/Material Vulnerability
Most Vulnerable Sectors
Capacity
Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
In what category of vulnerability do fatalism, discouragement and despondency fall?
Vulnerability
Physical/Material Vulnerability
Most Vulnerable Sectors
Capacity
Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
It is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions that adversely affect the community’s ability to prevent, mitigate, prepare for, and respond to hazardous events.
Vulnerability
Physical/Material Vulnerability
Most Vulnerable Sectors
Capacity
Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability
Which type of house is less likely to collapse during earthquake but can easily caught on
fire?
5-storey building
Condominium
Wooden house
Bungalow
Which of the following situation best describe that a disaster caused by hazard would
likely to happen?
A family is watching TV in their living room.
A community living near an active volcano
Friends swimming in a beach
A mother cooking for dinner.
Which among the situations is the most prone to acquiring COVID-19?
A mother and child hugging each other.
An elderly cleaning his/her garden without mask
A family in living room without mask but following quarantine protocols.
A party goer without mask
All of the following may contribute to the cause of fire hazard EXCEPT
Use of octopus socket
drought
Open electrical wiring
presence of circuit breaker
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