Deck 5: Principal Hazards in the United States

Question 1

What are corrosives?

Answer 1

Substances that destroy living tissue at the point of contact because they are either acidic or alkaline

Question 2

An arbitrary standard of safety that reflects a compromise between the goals of providing long-term safety and developing economically valuable land is:

A) 100-year flood
B) 50-year flood
C) 25-year flood
D) 10-year flood

Answer 2

A

Question 3

An increased number of tornadoes have been reported during recent years, suggesting that some long-term changes in climate are also involved. True or False?

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Wildland fires:

A) Burn natural vegetation
B) Burn built structures
C) Create their own weather
D) Are virtually impossible to extinguish

Question 5

The impacts of volcanic eruption tend to be strongly directional because ashfall and gases disperse downwind. True or False?

Question 6

An important temperature for Hazmat chemicals that has an effect on the potential for releases, is the:

A) Maximum temperature
B) Strike point
C) Explosive point
D) Ignition temperature

Question 7

Natural hazards originate in human-controlled processes but are released into the air and water. True or False?

Question 8

Flood risk areas in the US are defined by the 100-year flood, an event that is expected to have a 100-year recurrence interval and, thus, a 5% chance of occurrence in any given year. True or False?

Question 9

Firestorms are distinguished from other wildfires because they burn so intensely. True or False?

Question 10

Severe storms has wind speeds exceeding 58 mph. True

Question 11

Three types of automated devices that detect imminent flooding are radar, rain gages, and stream gages. True or False?

Question 12

______________is a widespread problem in the United States that accounts for three-quarters of all presidential disaster declarations.

Question 13

________________produce four specific threats including high winds, tornadoes, inland, flooding, and storm surge.

Question 14

_______________can immobilize travel, isolate residents of remote areas, deposit enormous amounts of snow on roofs that collapse long-span roofs, and bring down telephone and electric power lines.

Question 15

What is an apparent temperature?

Question 16

A condition of weakness or dizziness caused by heat is:

A) Heat cramp
B) Heat synocope
C) Heat stroke
D) Heat exhaustion

Question 17

Hazmat shipments result in an average of 280 liquid spills or gaseous releases per year, the majority occurring in transport. True or False?

Question 18

Most biological agents that might be used in deliberate terrorist attacks do not exist as natural hazards. True or False?

Question 19

Tsunamis are common events. For every earthquake a tsunami is generated. True or False?

Question 20

Airborne dispersion of toxic industrial chemicals can produce serious inhalation exposures at distances up to:

A) 1 mile
B) 10 miles
C) 100 miles
D) There is no limit

Question 21

There are seven types of flooding. Name and define two of them.

Question 22

What are the four characteristics of a toxic chemical release that determines its dispersion pattern and rate of dispersal?