Natural Hazards: Causes and Effects - Disaster Management Center ...

Pretest
Multiple Choice
Circle the best answer(s):
1. The best foreign relief to an earthquakestricken
area is:
a) cash
b) food, blankets and clothing
c) medical assistance
d) teams of assessment workers and
other volunteers
e) long-term recovery assistance
2. The largest annual death toll during the
1970s was caused by:
a) floods
b) earthquakes
c) tropical cyclones
d) drought
e) all other disasters
3. The majority of volcanoes are located in:
a) the circum-Pacific belt
b) the mid-Atlantic line
c) East Africa
d) the African Rift Valley
e) Hawaii
4. Active floodproofing is most effective:
a) with long warning lead times
b) in flash flood areas
c) if it is permanent
d) in floodplain areas
e) using volunteers
5. Supplementary feeding programs are:
a) targeted to those people suffering from
severe protein-energy malnutrition
(PEM)
b) targeted to those people suffering from
moderate PEM
c) often used to distribute general food
rations over a wide geographic area
d) of little value in large-scale famine relief
operations
e) a secondary response best handled by
foreign agencies
6. Tropical cyclones often generate:
a) high rates of injured people
b) tidal floods
c) very heavy rainfall
d) agricultural soil erosion
e) countercurrents beneath the ocean’s
surface
7. The first step in desertification of
rangelands is:
a) thinning of vegetation due to grazing
b) severe drought
c) an increase in edible perennial plants
d) water runoff due to sun-hardened soil
e) an increase in groundwater level due to
runoff
8. Tsunamis may strike with a force:
a) greater than other types of disasters
b) that radically alters the landscape
c) that affects only lands along the world’s
oceans
d) that seriously disrupts economic and
social patterns
e) all of the above
9. The major human-made cause of
deforestation today is:
b) fuel
c) wood pulp for papermaking
d) unequal land tenure
e) farming
f) none of the above
True or False
Indicate T or F:
_____ 10. The ingredients of cyclones are a
mixture of heat and moisture.
_____ 11. A natural event such as an
earthquake will always result in a
disaster.
_____ 12. An underwater earthquake in the
ocean near your area is a natural
tsunami warning.
_____ 13. A secondary effect of a volcanic