GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1.What could be the reason people are wearing

mask?
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1.What could be the reason people are wearing
mask?
2.Is it dangerous not to wear mask in this situation?
Why?
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1.What could be the reason people are wearing
mask?
2.Is it dangerous not to wear mask in this situation?
Why?
3.Would you also wear a mask? Why?
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1.What could be the reason people are wearing
mask?
2.Is it dangerous not to wear mask in this situation?
Why?
3.Would you also wear a mask? Why?
4.Based on this activity, what do you think the
meaning of disaster?
 The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
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The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
 The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
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 The Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
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Nature
of
Disaster
Man-made/Human-induced/Anthropogenic Hazards and Disasters
Activity 1. Recalling the Challenging Times

Directions: Read the article provided on this activity about a disaster that
recently happened in the Philippines. Answer the given questions on a
separate sheet.
1. What is the condition determined by physical, social,
economic, and environmental factors or processes that
increases the susceptibility of an individual, a
community, assets or systems to the impacts of
hazards?
A. capacity
B. hazard
C. resilience
D. vulnerability
2. What is a process, phenomenon or human
activity that may cause loss of life, injury or
other health impacts, property damage, social
and economic disruption or environmental
degradation?
A. disaster
B. emergency
C. hazard
D. vulnerability
3. What are the variables that amplify the
effects of hazards, thus affecting the degree
or scope of a disaster?
A. exposure
B. risk drivers
C. vulnerability
D. elements at risk
4. Which is NOT a risk driver?
A. weak governance
B. poverty and inequality
C. environmental degradation
D. properly planned urban development
5. An event, whether natural or human-induced,
becomes a disaster EXCEPT on what situation?
A. it occurs in an area with no exposure.
B. it causes widespread material or environmental
losses.
C. community cannot provide the residents their
basic needs.
D. communities experience severe danger and
incur loss of lives.