Disaster Preparedness (Unit 1) Vocabulary Test

An event that produces greater loss than a community can handle, including casualties, property damage, and significant environmental damage.

• Disaster
• Resource
• Facility
• Mitigation

A terrible disaster, a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin.

• Recovery
• Catastrophe
• Assessment
• Fortify

A supply of something that someone has and can use when it is needed.

• Response
• Recovery
• Disaster
• Resource

Assets of physical and logical systems that are essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government.

• Infrastructure
• Vulnerability
• Compromised
• Fortify

The act of being ready for something; the state of being prepared.

• Preparedness
• Recovery
• Mitigation
• Disaster 

Something that is built, installed, or established to serve a particular purpose.

• Recovery
• Mitigation
• Facility
• Wildfire

Hazard management strategy that has the goal of protecting the population, limiting damage from the impact of an event, and minimizing damage from secondary impacts.

• Response
• Recovery
• Compromised
• Assessment

Hazard management strategy that has the goal of restoring the normal functioning of a community.

• Assessment
• Fortify
• Recovery
• Wildfire

An inherent weakness in a system or its operating environment that may be exploited to cause harm to the system.

• Vulnerability
• Public Utilities
• Infrastructure
• Liaison 

To make something less severe, harmful, or painful.

• Compromised 
• Mitigation
• Recovery
• Resource