LESSON 1.1: Basic Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
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- Q1
It is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts.
Disaster
Phenomena
Hazard
Risk
15s - Q2
Disasters are often a result of the combination of the ______ to a hazard.
Involvement
Effects
Vulnerability
Exposure
15s - Q3
It refers to the potential (not actual and realized) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services.
Disaster Risk
Vulnerability
Disaster Hazard
Disaster Readiness
15s - Q4
The threat of _____has also increased due to the spread of technologies involving nuclear, biological, and chemical agents used to develop weapons of mass destruction.
Terrorism
Cyberbullying
Humanitarian Emergencies
Disaster
15s - Q5
The term "hazard risk" refers to the potential (not actual and realized) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services which could occur in a community or society over some specified future time
falsetrueTrue or False15s - Q6
In general, _____ is defined as “the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences” (UNISDR, 2009).
Phenomena
Disaster
Hazard
Risk
15s - Q7
This category of disaster are those in which major direct causes are identifiable intentional or unintentional human actions
Hazard
Disasters
Man-made
Natural Disasters
15s - Q8
UNISDR stands for
United Nations Intentional Strategies for Disaster Reduction
Uniform National International Strategies for Disaster Risk
United National Intentional Strategy for Disaster Risk
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
15s - Q9
A preceding definition of disaster stresses that two elements are affected – life (whether human or animal) and property
truefalseTrue or False15s - Q10
The term complex emergency is usually used to describe the humanitarian emergency resulting from an international or _____
World Peace
Civil war
World war
War
15s