The document outlines statements related to hazards, disasters, vulnerability, and risk, defining each term and their interrelations. It discusses factors influencing disaster severity, the role of meteorology, and the importance of adaptive capacity and resilience in communities affected by natural events. Additionally, it emphasizes the need for mitigation, recovery considerations, and addresses psychological impacts associated with disasters.

1. Tell whether the statement is
CORRECT or INCORRECT.

2. 1
Hazards are natural processes
that can be dangerous, but have
not yet caused damage.

3. 2
• An event that produces
greater loss than a community
can handle, including
casualties, property damage,
and significant environmental
damage is called disaster.

4. 3
• An inherent weakness in a system or its
operating environment that may be
exploited to cause harm to the system is
called vulnerability.

5. 4
• Risk refers to the probability of harmful
consequences, or expected loss of lives,
people injured, livelihoods, disruption of
economic activities and damages to the
environment as a result of interactions
between natural or human induced hazards
and vulnerable/ capable condition.

6. 5
• The more severe the geophysical
event and/or the more vulnerable
the human population, the more the
two overlap and the larger the
disaster.

7. 6
• Quasi-natural hazards are elements of
the physical environment, harmful to
man and caused by forces extraneous to
him; these may include extreme event
that occurs naturally and causes harm to
humans.

8. 7
• Epidemic is a disease outbreak that
spreads across countries or
continents.

9. 8
• Calamity is any phenomenon that has
the potential to cause disruption or
damage to humans and their
environment. Or an event or occurrence
that has the potential for causing injury
to life, property and environment.

10. 9
• Extreme natural events (hazards) always
necessarily turn into disasters.

11. 10
• Meteorology deals with the physics of
the Earth, including weather, winds,
tides, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. and
their effect on the planet Earth.

12. 11
• Disaster risk is expressed as a
function/relationship between hazard,
exposure and vulnerability

13. 12
• Level of vulnerability and exposure can be
reduced by: • Keeping people and property
away from hazards. • Relocation must come
hand in hand with mitigation and prevention
measures.

14. 13
• Adaptive capacity refers to the size of the
population that can survive on available
resources.

15. • Exposure refers to the extent of the effect in
terms of land area or number of persons of a
natural hazard towards a community.

16. 15
• Resiliency is the ability of a
community to resist and adapt upon
exposure to hazard.

17. 16
• Primary effects refer to the long-term effects that
are set off as a result of a primary event. These
include things like loss of habitat, changes in the
landscape and natural features caused by a flood,
permanent changes in the position of river channel
caused by flood, crop failure or reduction.

18. 17
• The least concern of the recovery phase of
disaster management cycle is how fast the
community can stand up again and regain
their vigor to start anew.

19. 18
• The effects of disaster only include
physical or infrastructural damages.

20. 19
• Stress debriefing is a specific technique
designed to assist others in dealing with the
physical or psychological symptoms that are
generally associated with trauma exposure.
Filipinos do not need this kind of psycho-
trauma assistance.

21. financial losses •increased debts •altered
commerce : these are examples of
psychological effects of disaster.
•

22. EXPLAIN THIS: