TLE 7

3. Objectives:
•Define disaster
preparedness
•Discuss the types of
disasters

4. •is the discipline of dealing
with and avoiding risks.

5. •It is a discipline that involves
preparing, supporting and
rebuilding when natural or
human-made disasters occur

7. •This is an event with a natural, as
opposed to human cause that
results in large-scale loss of life
or damage to property.

8. • Weather
•Geology
•Biology
•Factors outside the earth

9. •These are defined as “sudden-
onset disasters or accidents
resulting from natural,
technological or human-induced
factors or a combination of these

10. •It causes or threatens to cause
severe environmental damage as
well as loss of human lives and
property.

12. •These are situations of disrupted
livelihoods and threats to life
produced by warfare, civil
disturbance, and large-scale
movements of people.

14. •These are epidemic situations
(infectious illnesses) that spread
across the globe affecting every
continent rather than being
confined to one geographic area.