Hazard Key terms

What catergory name is given to hazards caused by earth processes. They can be caused by internal earth processes of tectonic activity, or by external processes of geomorphological origin involving mass movement.

Perception of hazards as natural events which are accepted and losses are regarded as inevitable.

• Adaptation

• Prediction

• Fatalism

• Fear

How many elements of a hazard are represented on a hazard profile?

• 5

• 6

• 7

• 8

On the Hazard Management Cycle, there is a recovery stage, a preparation stage, a mitigation stage, but what is the fourth stage?

Who has defined vulnerability?

• Park

• Skinner

• UN

• Swiss Bank

How many stages does the Park's Disaster Curve Model have?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

What is multiplied by vulnerability in the Disaster Risk Equation?

Which of the following is an atmospheric hazard (maybe more than one)?

• Snow blizzard

• Typhoon

• Tsunami

• Tornado

In the UN definition of a disaster, how many deaths or injured must there be?

• 10+killed or 100+injured

• 100+killed or 100+ injured

• 10+ killed or 10+injured

• No deaths but 1000 injured

What category of hazard is sea level rise flooding?

• atmospheric

• geophysical

• hydrological

• fire-associated