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,Chapter 01 - Natural Hazards and Disasters1. A natural system in equilibrium will never experience a natural disaster.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
2. The uninsured losses caused by a catastrophic events are almost always less than the insured losses caused.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
3. Climate change is expected to increase the magnitude and frequency of natural disasters.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
4. The magnitude of a natural disaster is directly proportional to the frequency of the event.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Predicting Catastrophe
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
5. All natural disasters have detectable precursor events.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Relationships Among Events
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
6. Land-use rules to avoid disaster costs are often easy to implement.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Mitigating Hazards
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
7. Developers and private individuals often oppose land-use restrictions that prevent use of hazardous areas.
a. True
b. False
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,Chapter 01 - Natural Hazards and Disasters
ANSWER: True
REFERENCES: Mitigating Hazards
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
8. Poor families are more likely to be victims of natural disasters if they live in developing, but not developed, countries.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Mitigating Hazards
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
9. Insurance covers all known types of natural hazards.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Mitigating Hazards
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
10. Efforts to control natural hazards are usually successful.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
REFERENCES: Living With Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
11. People choose to live in hazardous areas for a variety of reasons. Which is the LEAST likely reason why a person in a
developing country would decide to live in a hazardous area?
a. More attractive scenery is usually found at hazardous areas
b. Less hazardous areas are unaffordable or unavailable.
c. The location has access to clean water.
d. The location has access to fertile land.
e. The person does not know the history of potential hazards.
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
12. What does it mean to say that a potential hazard is in equilibrium?
a. The cost of a disaster is equal to the value of developing the area.
b. There is a balance in forces that will prevent the hazard from causing a disaster.
c. The probability that a disaster will occur is equal to the probability that a disaster will not occur.
d. The probability of a disaster is constant over time.
e. There is a temporary balance in forces that prevents a disaster at the current time.
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
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13. An event which causes damage to life and property, but does not kill or injure large numbers of people or cause
extensive property damage is called a(n) ____.
a. national disaster
b. natural disaster
c. natural hazard
d. natural catastrophe
e. national catastrophe
ANSWER: b
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Remember
14. In terms of fatalities, the most dangerous natural disasters are caused by ____.
a. sudden seismic events like earthquakes and volcanoes
b. small extreme weather in the form of thunderstorms and tornadoes
c. long-term weather patterns that cause drought
d. ocean processes like tsunamis and storm surges
e. large extreme weather events like hurricanes
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
15. In comparison to developing countries, catastrophic natural disasters in developed countries are most likely to cause
____.
a. more economic damage, but less loss of life
b. less economic damage, but more loss of life
c. equal amounts of economic damage and loss of life
d. very little economic damage or loss of life
e. an unpredictable mix of economic damage and loss of life
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
16. The cost of natural disasters is ____.
a. increasing steadily each year due to population growth
b. increasing steadily each year due to economic growth
c. variable from year to year due to the unpredictability of natural disasters and their effects
d. increasing steadily each year due to population and economic growth
e. decreasing steadily each year due to improved forecasting and public awareness
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: Catastrophes in Nature
KEYWORDS: Bloom's: Understand
17. The cost of natural disasters averaged over the previous ten years has ____ due in part to ____.
a. increased; increased population and economic growth
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