Disaster defined by the United Nations Office for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses and impacts that exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.

2. A community near a volcano can be regarded as exposed to its hazards

3. Disaster is a non-dangerous situation or threat from natural or man-made events that disrupts the functions of individuals in a community

4. Disaster is a threat to life, the environment, or property., it can be considered vulnerable if it poses actual harm to life and the environment.

5. Risk is defined as the measure of the losses – deaths, injuries, and damage to property due to a particular or combination of hazards.

6) Space-related (asteroid collisions)considered as Natural Disasters

7. Wildlife extinction is an example of Man-made Disasters

8. Disasters can be a result of natural or man-made hazards.

9. Disaster continues the functions of a community and causes property, economic, and environmental losses, or even loss of lives.

10. Capacity is a function of hazards, exposure, and vulnerability.

11. Disaster risk can be reduced when you increase the capacity of a community to cope with disasters or when you relocate the people away from the hazard.

12.Which risk factor best explains the Philippines’ volcanic activities?

13.Which causes the reduction of disaster risk?

14. Which natural hazard does not belong to the group?

15. This is the ability of a community to survive a disaster.