(DRRR WEEK 2)

Which of the following is the process or condition, often development-related, that influence the level of disaster risk by increasing levels of exposure and vulnerability or reducing capacity?

• risk factor

• disaster risk

• natural hazard

• man-made hazard

Which of the following is NOT an element which causes disaster?

• exposure

• hazard

• risk

• vulnerability

Which of the following BEST describes hazard?

• loss of life or injury naturally

• a phenomenon or human activity

• potentially damaging physical event

• reduction of vulnerability and exposure

Which of the following risk factors BEST describes the cause of COVID-19 pandemic?

• climate change

• weak governance

• globalized economic development

• poorly- planned and managed urban development

It refers to the changes that can be attributed “directly or indirectly to human activity altering the composition of the global atmosphere and additionally to the natural climate variability observed over comparable periods of time”?

• deforestation

• climate change

• global warming

• carbon footprint

How will reduction of the level of vulnerability and exposure be possible?

• proper knowledge on disaster risk

• potentially damaging physical even

• increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard

• by keeping people and property as distant as possible from hazards

Which of the following risk factors affect with inequality?

• poverty

• climate change

• weak governance

• globalized economic development

Unwillingness to assume their roles and responsibilities in governing disaster risk unit, falls under which of the following risk factors?

• climate change

• weak governance

• poverty and inequality

• environmental degradation

Which among the groups suffer more adverse effects when an earthquake causing disaster occurs?

• men and women

• children and women

• old persons and women

• old persons and children

The occurrence of landslides in the Philippines is increasing. This kind of disaster will fall under which of the following risks?

• poverty and inequality

• climate change and weak governance

• climate change and environmental degradation

• climate change and globalized economic development