Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction (Midterm Exam)

Name: Strand: Date:

I. Instructions: Identify the answers of the following questions. Two points per item.
____________________1. An Executive Order that mandates the Philippines to commemorate “National Disaster Consciousness
Month” every July.
____________________2. Measured taken in anticipation of a disaster to ensure that appropriate and effective actions are taken in
the aftermath.
____________________3. Measured taken prior to the impact of a disaster to minimize its effect.
____________________4. Measures taken to avert a disaster from occurring, if possible.
____________________5. It is a sustained effort intended to improve or maintain the social and economic well – being of a
community.
____________________6. Permanent measures to repair or replace damaged dwellings and infrastructure and to set the economy
back on course.
____________________7. Actions taken in the aftermath of a disaster to assist victims to repair their dwellings, re – establish
essential services and revive key economic and social activities.
____________________8. The process undertaken by a disaster affected community to fully restore itself to pre – disaster level of
functioning.
____________________9. A disaster management cycle that required in search and rescue of survivors, as well to meet the basic
needs for shelter, water, food and health care.
____________________10. A disaster management cycle that taken immediately following the impact of a disaster when
exceptional measures are required to meet the basic needs of the survivors.

II. Multiple choice. Encircle only the letter of your answer. Any forms/types of erasures correspond to deduction of
points. 2 points each.
1. A serious disruption of the functioning community or a widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses.
a. Vulnerability b. disaster risk c. hazard d. disaster
2. It is the chance or likelihood of suffering harm and loss as a result of a hazardous event.
a. Vulnerability b. disaster risk c. hazard d. disaster
3. It is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions, which adversely affect the community's ability to prevent, mitigate, prepare
for and respond to hazardous events
a. Vulnerability b. disaster risk c. hazard d. disaster
4. Disaster is frequently described as a result of various condition except ________.
a. exposure to hazard
b. conditions of vulnerability at present
c. having enough physical, social, and attitudinal capabilities
d. insufficient capacity or measures to cope with disasters.
5. It is a situation or occurrence with capacity to bring damages to lives, properties, and the environment.
a. Hazard b. Element at risk c. Capacity d. Vulnerability
6. Which can't be prevented but can be anticipated generally?
a. Human-made hazards b. Disasters c. Socionatural Hazards d. Natural Hazards
7. Which is the possible cause of earthquake?
a. Tsunami b. volcanic eruption c. landslide d. typhoon
8. The degree to which a population is affected by a hazard will not merely lie in the physical components of vulnerability but also
on the socioeconomic condition.
a. Physical economic vulnerability b. Socioeconomic vulnerability c. Physical economic capacity
9. It includes notions of who and what may be damaged by natural hazard such as earthquakes or floods.
a. Physical Vulnerability b. Economic Vulnerability c. Natural calamity d. Man-made disaster
10. Hazard that are associated with industries, toxic waste, pollution, civil wars etc.
a. Natural b. Industrial c. Man – made d. Physical

III. Essay. Write your answers at the back of your test paper.
a. How earthquakes occur? ( 5 points)
b. What do you think are factors that the Filipino people possesses that keep them surviving from all the disasters
and calamities happened? (5 points)
c. Explain the different roles of the stakeholders involved in the response, recovery, and rehabilitation of the disaster.
 National government (3 points)
 Local authorities (city / municipality and barangay) (3 points)
 Scientists (3 points)
 Media (3 points)
 Non-government organizations (private sector, civil society, and development groups) (3 points)
 Locals (3 points)