Hazards and Emergency Management Exam
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Course Introduction
Hazards and Emergency Management explores the principles, frameworks, and practices involved in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with natural and human-made hazards. The course examines disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery strategies while highlighting the roles of government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and community stakeholders. Students learn to apply emergency management concepts to real-world scenarios, develop hazard mitigation plans, and evaluate effective communication and decision-making during crises. The curriculum prepares students for professional roles in emergency planning, disaster response, and public safety management.
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Natural Disasters 9th Edition by Patrick Leon Abbott
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Chapter 1: Natural Disasters and the Human Population
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Q1) After initial settlement about 1500 years ago,the population of Easter Island
A)grew steadily from initial settlement until the Dutch arrived in 1722
B)had all died by the time the Dutch visited the Island in 1722
C)reached a peak and then declined before the Dutch arrived in 1722
D)all died from a smallpox epidemic brought by the Dutch in 1722
E)grew steadily from initial settlement until the Dutch arrived in 1722and all died from a smallpox epidemic brought by the Dutch in 1722 are correct
Answer: C
Q2) Most of the more-developed countries have _________________.
A)low death rates and low birth rates
B)low death rates and high birth rates
C)high death rates and low birth rates
D)high death rates and high birth rates
Answer: A
Q3) Today,the world growth rate for human population is rapidly declining.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Internal Energy and Plate Tectonics
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Q1) The grand recycling of the upper few hundred kilometers of the Earth is called the tectonic cycle.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The rates of plate movement are comparable to those of human fingernail growth.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The heat that transformed the Earth early in its history came primarily from all but which of the following?
A)impact energy
B)gravitational energy
C)magnetic energy
D)decay of radioactive elements
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Earthquake Geology and Seismology
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Q1) The time of day of an earthquake is not a critical factor affecting loss of life from earthquakes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Lisbon earthquakes of 1755 are historically significant because
A)it was the first time anyone had ever successfully predicted an earthquake
B)the reconstruction efforts after the earthquakes stimulated the Portuguese economy,leading to a century of prosperity for the country
C)they changed the prevailing philosophies of the era,producing a more pessimistic view of the world
D)they resulted in more deaths than any other earthquake,before or after Answer: C
Q3) The shallower the hypocenter,the more P- and S-wave energy will hit the surface,thus putting less energy into Rayleigh waves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes
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Q1) The greatest earthquakes in the world occur _____________.
A)where plates collide with each other
B)where plates separate from one another
C)where plates slide past each other
D)in the interiors of individual plates
Q2) Shallow subduction zone earthquakes occur __________________.
A)in the upper portion of the down-going plate
B)at the bend in the subducting plate
C)in the overriding plate
D)All of these are correct.
E)None of these are correct.
Q3) The deadliest earthquake in history occurred in 1556 when about 830,000 Chinese were killed in and near Xi'an on the banks of the mighty Huang River.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The primary cause of deaths in earthquakes in modern times is people being swallowed alive by the Earth,rather than by building collapse.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Earthquakes Throughout the United States and Canada
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Q1) In the last 30 million years,the region between the eastern Sierra Nevada in California and the Wasatch Mountain front in central Utah has contracted in an east-west direction,so Nevada is now half of its former width.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Earthquakes below Kilauea volcano are dominantly deep events in the mantle.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The state (other than Alaska)most likely to have a magnitude 9 or larger earthquake in the next several hundred years is ______________.
A)California
B)Washington
C)Missouri
D)Nevada
E)South Carolina
Q4) The duration of strong ground shaking in the 1964 Alaskan Good Friday earthquake was 3 to 4 minutes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas
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Q1) Slow flowing,more viscous basaltic lava commonly has a rough,blocky texture called
A)aa
B)bb
C)cc
D)pahoehoe
E)poi
Q2) The presence of water ________ the melting point of rock.
A)raises
B)lowers
C)does not change
D)may raise or may lower
Q3) The number of "hot spots" worldwide is ________________.
A)only 4
B)about 20
C)about 50
D)more than 100
E)no more than 10
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Chapter 7: Volcano Processes and Deadly Events
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Q1) Violent causes of death from volcanic eruptions include _______________.
A)pyroclastic flows
B)tsunami
C)lahars
D)poison gases
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q2) Active volcanoes today in Oregon and Washington,including Mt.St.Helens,result from _________________.
A)heat generated by friction on the San Andreas Fault
B)the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath North America
C)
The subduction of the Pacific plate beneath North America
D)spreading of the Juan de Fuca ridge
E)continent-continent collision
Q3) The plate-tectonic process responsible for volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest region of North America is identical to the cause of the region's great earthquakes-subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Tsunami Versus Wind-Caused Waves
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Q1) The sloshing of a swimming pool during an earthquake is called a seiche.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most tsunami travel at speeds of ____________ miles per hour.
A)4.2-4.8
B)42-48
C)420-480
D)4200-4800
E)42,000-48,000
Q3) Tsunami typically have _________________________ relative to wind-blown waves.
A)short periods and short wavelengths
B)short periods and long wavelengths
C)long periods and short wavelengths
D)long periods and long wavelengths
E)long periods and no measurable wavelength
Q4) The English language term tidal wave is a good description of a tsunami because of their relationship to ocean tides.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: External Energy Fuels Weather and Climate
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Q1) Water has the highest heat capacity of all solids and liquids,except liquid ammonia.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The polar jet stream flows from west to east,under the influence of the Earth's rotation,in ____________________.
A)only the Southern Hemisphere
B)only the Northern Hemisphere
C)both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
D)neither hemisphere
E)one hemisphere in summer and the other in winter
Q3) There are two main jet streams in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres,
A)a polar jet and a subtropical jet.
B)a temperate jet and a tropical jet.
C)a polar jet and a temperate jet.
D)a slow jet and a fast jet.
E)an eastward jet and a westward jet.
Q4) The Coriolis effect is greatest at the equator and least at the poles.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Tornadoes, Lightning, Heat, and Cold
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Q1) The "White Hurricane" of 1993 was an immense winter cyclone that covered the eastern United States,causing $800 million in damage and 238 deaths.The hardest hit area was ______________.
A)New York
B)Pennsylvania
C)Florida
D)Ohio
E)Maine
Q2) Conditions necessary to turn an ordinary thunderstorm into a tornado-spinning monster include _______________.
A)a low-altitude,northerly flow of warm,humid,tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico
B)a cold,dry air mass moving down from Canada or out of the Rocky Mountains at > 50 mph
C)jet-stream winds racing east at speeds in excess of 150 mph
D)All of the choices are correct.
E)a low-altitude,northerly flow of warm,humid,tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico and a cold,dry air mass moving down from Canada or out of the Rocky Mountains at > 50 mph only
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Chapter 11: Hurricanes
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Q1) Which of the following variables has been of assistance in forecasting the number of named tropical storms in the North Atlantic region?
A)when the western Sahel region of Africa is wet with an abnormally large number of thunderstorms
B)abnormally warm sea-surface temperatures west of the Sahel region of Africa
C)the presence of an El Ni-o which tends to disrupt and break apart tropical cyclone
D)low atmospheric pressure in the Caribbean region
E)All of the choices are correct.
Q2) In Bangladesh in November 1970,during the high tides of a full moon,a typhoon arrived with a surge of 23 feet height and winds of 155 mph,killing about 400,000 people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Most U.S.hurricane deaths have been associated with sea surges occurring when a hurricane moves on land.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Climate Change
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Q1) One of the greatest weather disasters in U.S.history occurred during the ______,when several years of drought turned grain-growing areas in the center of the nation into the "Dust Bowl."
A)1920s
B)1930s
C)1940s
D)1950s
E)1960s
Q2) Which of the following greenhouse gases accounts for 60% of global warming?
A)Carbon Dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>)
B)Methane (CH<sub>4</sub>)
C)Nitrous Oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O)
D)Ozone (O<sub>3</sub>)
E)Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC's)
Q3) The major factor in glacial periods lasting tens of millions of years appear to be changes in the sun's heat output,rather than changes in shapes,sizes,and orientations of the continents and oceans.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Floods
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Q1) Most flood-related deaths in the United States are caused by flash floods,and about 50 percent of these deaths are vehicle-related.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The weather pattern was remarkably similar for the big floods of 1927,1973,and 1993 in the upper Mississippi River basin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) United States Geological Survey stream-gauging stations measure all but which of the following?
A)water depths
B)channel width
C)water velocity
D)amount of sediment being carried by the stream
E)All of these choices are correct.
Q4) A braided stream has ____________.
A)too much sediment to carry
B)too little sediment in suspension,causing erosion in a braided pattern
C)no relationship to the amount of sediment being transported
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Chapter 14: Fire
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Q1) Wet wood becomes extremely difficult to ignite because ____________________.
A)the water in wet wood has a high capacity to absorb heat
B)its temperature must be raised considerably
C)the water displaces oxygen (necessary for ignition)in pores in the wood
D)Both the water in wet wood has a high capacity to absorb heat and its temperature must be raised considerably are correct
E)the water in wet wood has a high capacity to absorb heat,its temperature must be raised considerably,and the water displaces oxygen (necessary for ignition)in pores in the wood are correct
Q2) Wildfires that race through the treetops are known as _________________.
A)crown fires
B)bough fires
C)slash fires
D)hyperthermal fires
Q3) In the late 1900s,U.S.civilian fire deaths ________________________.
A)increased and dollar damage decreased
B)decreased and dollar damage increased
C)increased and dollar damage increased
D)decreased and dollar damage decreased
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Chapter 15: Mass Movements
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Q1) The Houston-Galveston,Texas,area has been sinking.This is related to the
A)withdrawal of groundwater by pumping
B)dissolution of limestones
C)emptying of a magma chamber
D)weight of all the high-rise buildings and houses
E)dissolution of a salt layer
Q2) Water molecules can attach their positive sides against clay minerals because clay surfaces are also positively charged.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The orientation of rock layering within a hill can either enhance or hinder the chances of slope failure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Creep is an ultra-slow,almost imperceptible upslope movement of the soil and uppermost bedrock zones.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Coastal Processes and Hazards
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Q1) The sun and the moon each exert a tidal force.These are highest:
A)at the winter apogee
B)once a week
C)twice a month
D)during the summer solstice
E)during the winter solstice
Q2) As a wave approaches man made obstructions along the coast at an angle:
A)Sand is deposited on the near side and eroded in the wake
B)Sand is deposited on the wake side and eroded on the near
C)Sand remains constant
D)The beach is in equilibrium
E)The beach is in a state of negative feedback
Q3) Longshore drift:
A)acts like an offshore river
B)is reduced by beach construction
C)is enhanced by beach restoration
D)is too far off shore to be a concern
E)does not exist in cliffy regions
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Chapter 17: Impacts With Space Objects
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Q1) Stony meteorites are less commonly collected than iron meteorites because
A)they break up more readily while passing through the Earth's atmospheric filter
B)those that reach the ground are weathered and destroyed more rapidly
C)they are not as easily recognized
D)All of these choices are correct
E)None of these choices are correct
Q2) Clusters of asteroids such as the Apollos have orbits that intersect Earth's orbit;there are more than a thousand mountain-sized Apollo asteroids that could hit the Earth.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Statistically,your risk of being killed by a meteoroid impact is greater than that of dying by flood or tornado.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The nearer an icy comet approaches the Sun,the smaller its tail becomes.
A)True
B)False
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