q1-pptx.pptx first quiz to be answer by students

DRRR

1. Tell whether the statement is CORRECT or INCORRECT.

2. 1 Hazards are natural processes that can be dangerous, but have not yet caused damage.

3. 2 An event that produces greater loss than a community can handle, including casualties, property damage, and significant environmental damage is called disaster .

4. 3 An inherent weakness in a system or its operating environment that may be exploited to cause harm to the system is called vulnerability.

5. 4 Risk refers to the probability of harmful consequences, or expected loss of lives, people injured, livelihoods, disruption of economic activities and damages to the environment as a result of interactions between natural or human induced hazards and vulnerable/ capable condition.

6. 5 The more severe the geophysical event and/or the more vulnerable the human population, the more the two overlap and the larger the disaster.

7. 6 Quasi-natural hazards are elements of the physical environment, harmful to man and caused by forces extraneous to him; these may include extreme event that occurs naturally and causes harm to humans.

8. 7 Epidemic is a disease outbreak that spreads across countries or continents.

9. 8 Calamity is any phenomenon that has the potential to cause disruption or damage to humans and their environment. Or an event or occurrence that has the potential for causing injury to life, property and environment.

10. 9 Extreme natural events (hazards) always necessarily turn into disasters.

11. 10 Meteorology deals with the physics of the Earth, including weather, winds, tides, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. and their effect on the planet Earth.

12. 11 Disaster risk is expressed as a function/relationship between hazard, exposure and vulnerability

13. 12 Level of vulnerability and exposure can be reduced by: • Keeping people and property away from hazards. • Relocation must come hand in hand with mitigation and prevention measures.

14. 13 Adaptive capacity refers to the size of the population that can survive on available resources.

15. Exposure refers to the extent of the effect in terms of land area or number of persons of a natural hazard towards a community.

16. 15 Resiliency is the ability of a community to resist and adapt upon exposure to hazard.

17. 16 Primary effects refer to the long-term effects that are set off as a result of a primary event. These include things like loss of habitat, changes in the landscape and natural features caused by a flood, permanent changes in the position of river channel caused by flood, crop failure or reduction.

18. 17 The least concern of the recovery phase of disaster management cycle is how fast the community can stand up again and regain their vigor to start anew.

19. 18 The effects of disaster only include physical or infrastructural damages.

20. 19 Stress debriefing is a specific technique designed to assist others in dealing with the physical or psychological symptoms that are generally associated with trauma exposure. Filipinos do not need this kind of psycho-trauma assistance.

21. financial losses •increased debts •altered commerce : these are examples of psychological effects of disaster.  

22. EXPLAIN THIS: