DIRR-112 Week 1-9
Q1. Critical facilities and lifelines are usually affected by a high magnitude hazard:
Answer: True
Q2. Disasters can cause death, diseases, destruction, and displacement:
Answer: True
Q3. A disaster has occurred because a hazard hit an area without people and their assets:
Answer: False
Q4. Hazards and disasters are one and the same:
Answer: False
Q5. A hazard is not a dangerous event or substance:
Answer: False
Q6. Armed conflicts and wars are natural hazards:
Answer: False
Q7. Fire is an example of a natural hazard:
Answer: False
Q8. Fire is an example of a human-sourced hazard:
Answer: True
Q9. The Marawi armed political conflict is an example of a natural hazard:
Answer: False
Q10. Earthquakes are natural hazards resulting from geological processes:
Answer: True
Q11. An earthquake is a human-sourced hazard resulting from geological processes:
Answer: False
Q12. An earthquake may be classified as either tectonic or volcanic:
Answer: True
Q13. A hazard, as it is, is not a disaster, but can cause massive and complex disasters:
Answer: True
Q14. People in disaster-affected areas do not suffer from psychological trauma:
Answer: False
Q15. Elements at risk can be tangible and intangible, with intangibles including social cohesion and cultural losses:
Answer: True
Q16. Physical risk factors, like the strength of a building, can lessen or aggravate vulnerability to hazards:
Answer: True
Q17. Exposure is one of the key determinants of disaster risk:
Answer: True
Q18. The Philippine DRRM Act of 2010 defines exposure as 'the degree to which the elements at risk are likely to experience hazard events of different magnitudes':
Answer: True
Q19. Aside from physical exposure, livelihoods and economic assets can be considered in measuring the exposure of elements at risk:
Answer: True
Q20. People living in poor developing countries have more vulnerabilities than those living in developed countries:
Answer: True
Q21. Gender and age are risk factors that make recovery more difficult:
Answer: True
Q22. Women, poor people, and people with disabilities are usually included in marginalized and most vulnerable groups:
Answer: True
Q23. A complex web of interlinked conditions including physical, social, economic, and environmental factors:
Answer: Vulnerability
Q24. Susceptibility, weakness, and fragility are other terms for vulnerability:
Answer: True
Q25. People living in rich developed countries have more vulnerabilities than those living in poor developing countries:
Answer: False
Q26. A key disaster risk reduction measure is to reduce exposure to hazards:
Answer: True
Q27. The understanding of vulnerability and capacity can be best done through a vulnerability and capacity assessment:
Answer: True
Q28. Savings, good governance, and life-saving skills are examples of capacity:
Answer: True
Q29. Measures to increase capacity and reduce vulnerability include training, sustainable livelihood, and adequate food supply:
Answer: True
Q30. Participatory tools for capacity and vulnerability assessment include resources mapping, transect walk, and livelihood analysis:
Answer: True
Q31. A country's development efforts are affected by disasters because funds may be diverted to relief efforts:
Answer: True
Q32. A developmental perspective considers disasters a challenge to development as they negate years of progress:
Answer: True
Q33. The intense vibration of the ground is known as ground shaking:
Answer: True
Q34. The deformation on the ground that marks the intersection of the fault plane with the earth's surface is known as ground rupture:
Answer: True
Q35. The process where water-saturated sand particles are rearranged, creating a 'quick sand' condition, is called liquefaction:
Answer: True
Q36. Landslides and liquefaction due to ground shaking are considered secondary effects of an earthquake:
Answer: True
Q37. Ground rupture is known as a primary effect of earthquakes:
Answer: True
Q38. Fires, spills of hazardous chemicals, and flooding are considered collateral effects of an earthquake:
Answer: True
Q39. In interpreting earthquake hazard maps, the color code for high-risk areas is red:
Answer: True
Q40. The color code for no-risk areas is white:
Answer: True
Q41. The color code for medium-risk areas is orange:
Answer: True
Q42. The color code for low-risk areas is yellow:
Answer: True
Q43. After an earthquake, always be prepared for aftershocks:
Answer: True
Q44. "Drop, Cover, and Hold" is a 'must do' after an earthquake:
Answer: False
Q45. After an earthquake, you should not use matches, candles, or any flame because of possible broken gas lines:
Answer: True
Q46. Three things to do before an earthquake are: learn first aid, learn how to turn off utilities, and make a family meeting plan:
Answer: True
Q47. During an earthquake, you should not panic, and if in a car, you should stop driving:
Answer: True
Q48. Don't use elevators during an earthquake:
Answer: True
Q49. A tsunami is a phenomenon that produces giant sea waves generated by the vertical displacement of the ocean floor:
Answer: True
Q50. All submarine earthquakes can cause tsunamis:
Answer: False
Q51. If you experience signs of an impending tsunami, the best action is to immediately move to higher ground:
Answer: True
Q52. The signs of an impending tsunami include a felt earthquake, unusual sea-level change, and a roaring sound from the sea:
Answer: True
Q53. Provinces at risk to tsunami include Sulu, Tawi-tawi, Basilan, and Batanes:
Answer: True
Q54. For locally-generated tsunamis, you may only have a few minutes to move to higher ground after an earthquake:
Answer: True
Q55. Lava flows are streams of molten rock that pour or ooze from an erupting vent:
Answer: True
Q56. An increase in the frequency of volcanic quakes with rumbling sounds is a sign of an impending volcanic eruption:
Answer: True
Q57. Ballistic projectiles are rocks that an erupting volcano may hurl into the air:
Answer: True
Q58. Lahars are a specific kind of mudflow made up of volcanic debris:
Answer: True
Q59. Pyroclastic flows contain a high-density mix of hot lava blocks, pumice, ash, and volcanic gas:
Answer: True
Q60. Both ashfall and pyroclastic flows can destroy agricultural lands:
Answer: True
Q61. Hazard maps are used to understand areas that may be affected by specific volcanic eruption phenomena:
Answer: True
Q62. Volcano hazard maps illustrate potential for ground-based volcanic impacts like lava flows, ashfall, and lahars:
Answer: True
Q63. The legend in a map tells you what different colors and signs mean:
Answer: True
Q64. The framework for assessing disaster risk is DR = H x E x V (Disaster Risk = Hazard x Exposure x Vulnerability):
Answer: True
Q65. Hazard maps show dangerous areas:
Answer: True
Q66. The color red on a hazard map signifies very high risk:
Answer: True
Q67. The color white on a hazard map signifies no risk:
Answer: True
Q68. A map is an important tool that shows which places in a country are at risk to earthquakes:
Answer: True
Q69. A map can show the places in the country which are at risk to tsunamis:
Answer: True
Q70. Hazard maps show places at risk to hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis, or landslides:
Answer: True
