Deck 6: Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Analysis

Question 1

Hazard mitigation practices:

A) Require people to take action when the disaster strikes
B) Usually are physical preventive measures
C) Are preimpact actions that provide resources
D) Support active responses at the time of hazard impact.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Buildings can be vulnerable to environmental hazards because of inadequate designs, inadequate construction materials. True of False?

Answer 2

True

Question 3

One way of identifying areas exposed to multiple hazards is to use a __________________________to overlay the areas subject to these different hazards.

Answer 3

Geographical Information System

Question 4

Long-term social effects of disasters tend to be ___________in the U. S.

Question 5

To assess the risks, an inventory of facilities that use chemicals and the location of vulnerable zones that are likely to be affected by chemical releases can be created. True of False?

Question 6

For human radiological vulnerability a building material that provides the best protection is

A) Wood
B) Fiberboard
C) Vinyl siding
D) Brick

Question 7

Federal and state agencies have generated many hazard analysis documents that are only available in hard copy format. True of False?

Question 8

The poor sometimes remain in severely damaged homes or temporary housing for extended periods of time True of False?

Question 9

True

Question 10

It is always the emergency manager's job to determine how crops and livestock will react to hazards. True of False?

Question 11

What is normalcy bias?

Question 12

Economic impact losses are difficult to measure because:

A) Impacts of disasters are due to immigration and emigration.
B) Psychosocial impacts are usually mild and brief
C) Impacts can create conflict as one group's attempts to solve its problems create problems for others.
D) Not all the information is recorded.

Question 13

Improvised disaster responses are when existing organizations seem incapable of meeting the needs, they expand with new members, extend with new tasks, or new organizations emerge. True of False?

Question 14

Social impacts are primarily reduced by hazard mitigation practices and emergency preparedness practices. True of False?

Question 15

Recovery from a major disaster takes much longer and involves much more conflict than people expect. True of False?

Question 16

Households who have social vulnerability often occupy the areas most likely to be hit by a disaster and also occupy the oldest, poorest maintained buildings. True of False?

Question 17

In ranking the disasters, worldwide data from 1947-1980 shows earthquakes produced the largest number of deaths. True of False?

Question 18

One of the pre-impact conditions is:

A) Hazard exposure
B) Meteorological exposure
C) Geophysical exposure
D) Airborne exposure

Question 19

Buildings should have _________________in the walls and ceiling for shelter in-place.

Question 20

People's susceptibility to death, injury, or illness from extreme levels of environmental hazards is

A) Social vulnerability
B) Human vulnerability
C) Structural vulnerability
D) Hazard vulnerability

Question 21

__________________is a computer program that predicts losses from earthquakes, floods, and hurricane winds.

Question 22

Losing a home due to disaster can start a long process of recovery that passes through four stages. Name the four stages.

Question 23

Name and define the three types of physical vulnerability