Lesson

Question 1

can determine the ability of a person or a group to predict, cope with, resist and recover from the effects of a natural or human-induced threat

Answer 1

Vulnerability

Question 2

a state of being at risk

Answer 2

vulnerability

Question 3

defined as the characteristics and circumstances of a community system or resource that make it susceptible to the damaging effect of a hazard

Answer 3

vulnerability

Question 4

refers to the number of individuals inhabiting in a particular space at the same time

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Population

Question 5

refers to the number of individuals living in an area in relation to the size of an area

Answer 5

Population Density

Question 6

vulnerabilities of different elements exposed to hazards

Answer 6

• physical vulnerability
• social vulnerability
• economic vulnerability
• quantifying vulnerability

Question 7

Give atleast one reason why the Philippines has high vulnerability

Answer 7

• It lies in the pacific typhoon belt and we are visited by an average of 20 typhoons per year
• rugged nature of the landscape makes it vulnerable to landslide mud flows and other disasters
• it is an archipelagic country with many small islands where some areas are at below sea level
• it has the longest shoreline in the world
• It is still a primary agricultural and fishing economy.
• With poor institutional and social capacity to manage, respond, and recover from natural hazard events.
• With high level of poverty
• Aside from typhoon, it is also at risk to volcanic eruptions, quakes, and floods.

Question 8

includes population, density levels, place of a settlement, the site design, and materials used for infrastructures and housings

Answer 8

Physical Vulnerability

Question 9

happens due to inability of people organization and societies to prevent severe effects from hazards because of the expected behavior in social interactions, institutions, and system of cultural values

Answer 9

Social Vulnerability

Question 10

the poorer the country, the more vulnerable to disasters because they lock the funds or budgets to build sturdy structures and put other engineering measures in place which protects them from being affected by disasters

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Economic Vulnerability

Question 11

Caused by natural resources depletion and destruction

Answer 11

Economic Vulnerability

Question 12

used in estimating how much mitigation and preparedness measures will be applied

Answer 12

Quantifying vulnerability

Question 13

Modify True or False, if the statement is false correct the word or phrase that made it wrong.

If a specific province is prone to earthquake, it means that all locality is on that province is vulnerable to it.

Answer 13

False, if a specific province is prone to earthquake, it does NOT mean that all localities on that provinces vulnerable to it

Question 14

Modify True or False, if the statement is false correct the word or phrase that made it wrong.

to lessen vulnerability means to make the community prepared and ready for the possible damaging effects of the hazard.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Modify True or False, if the statement is false correct the word or phrase that made it wrong.

In a community that is vulnerable to earthquake hazard mean that it is also vulnerable to typhoons

Answer 15

False, In a community that is vulnerable to earthquake hazard does not necessarily mean that it is also vulnerable to typhoons