Summative Test Flashcards
Anticipatory measures and actions that seek to avoid future risks as a result of a disaster
Risk Reduction
It can be caused by an increase in the amount of heat being received from the sun.
Global Warming
To understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection.
Environmental Awareness
An Act Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management System, Providing for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Framework and Institutionalizing the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan, Appropriating Funds Therefore and For Other Purposes
Republic Act No. 10121, known as the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (PDRRM) Act of 2010
The steps done to develop human skills or build structures to reduce risks
Capacity Building
The basic law that guides the disaster management programs, projects and strategies implementation in the country.
Presidential Decree 1566
The “average weather” in a place.
Climate
The phenomenon where certain gases in the lower atmosphere absorb the heat radiated by the earth, thereby preventing the heat from escaping to outer space.
Greenhouse effect
It is a process by which the absorption of infrared radiation by atmosphere warms the Earth
Greenhouse effect
The gas that absorbs and holds heat.
Carbon Dioxide
The rich variety of life forms in nature.
Biodiversity
Includes activities which eliminate or reduce the probability of disaster occurrences.
Prevention
It includes action taken to save lives, prevent damage to property, and to preserve the environment.
Response
An ideology that evokes the necessity and responsibility of humans to respect, protect, and preserve the natural world from its anthropogenic afflictions.
Environmentalism
It is an alteration of the atmospheric condition over time natural and human-made factors.
Climate change
