Directions: Choose the letter of your choice. Write your answers on the answer sheet provided. 1. What is a motivating concept that guides emergency management efforts throughout the
world
A. reduction in harm to life
B. reduction in harm to property
C. reduction in harm to environment
D. reduction in harm to life, to property, and to environment
2. Populations and their movements through time are considered to be components of
A. social vulnerability
C. physical vulnerability
B. economic vulnerability
D. environmental vulnerability
3. People are more likely to fear hazard that are
A. equitable
C. controllable
B. observable
D. not easily reduced
4. What could be a good reason for the drop in the number of earthquake deaths in developing
countries in the last century?
A. Building codes
C. Nonstructural mitigation
B. Public education
D. Tax implementation
5. It refers to the physical, social, economic, and environmental factors which increase
susceptibility to hazards.
A. Relief operations
C. Life-saving efforts
B. vulnerability
D. risk reduction
6. What type of vulnerability does the family that can't afford to live in a safer area belong?
A. social vulnerability
C. physical vulnerability
B. economic vulnerability
D. environmental vulnerability
7. This is the result if the hazard meets vulnerability.
A. danger
C. disaster
B. problem
D. relief operation
8. What type of vulnerability does the exploitation of Pag-asa Islands of some Chinese
fishermen belong
A. social vulnerability
C. physical vulnerability
B. economic vulnerability
D. environmental vulnerability
9. Philippines is prone to a lot of hazards due to its
A. presence of volcanoes
C. surrounded by bodies of water
B. tropical climate
D. location