ST209-F
Disaster Management Awareness Quiz
Test your knowledge on disaster management, humanitarian responses, and emergency communication strategies with our comprehensive quiz. This quiz covers important topics aimed at enhancing your understanding and preparedness for real-world situations.
- Learn about key organizations involved in disaster response.
- Understand the impact of disasters on vulnerable populations.
- Evaluate your readiness to handle communication during crises.
UNDP refers to _____
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Displacement Programme
United Nations Development Provision
_____of disaster-related injuries and deaths sustained in countries with per-capita income levels that are below $760 per year.
90%
60%
30%
Poverty and uncontrolled urbanization often force large populations to concentrate in dangerous, high-risk urban areas that contain little or no defense against disasters
True
False
USAID refers to ___
United States Agency for International Development
United States Agency for Internal Development
United States Agency for Internal Displacement
WFP refers to _____
World Food Programme
World Fire Programme
World foundation Programme
According to the UN, _____humanitarian crisis in a country or region where there is total or considerable break-down of authority resulting from the internal and/or external conflict and which requires an international response that goes beyond the mandate or capacity of any single agency.
Complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs).
Compound humanitarian emergencies (CHEs).
Conflict humanitarian emergencies (CHEs).
………… is the largest audience including special groups such as the elderly, those with disabilities, minorities, low income, youths, etc.
General public.
Media.
Business Community.
The mission of an effective disaster communications strategy is to provide timely and accurate information to the public
True
False
Communicating confidence to citizens and delivering on promises are not important issues to be considered in times of crises
True
False
Internal customers include the general public, elected officials at all levels of government, community and business leaders, and the media.
True
False
Potential disaster information sources include the following
Community leaders
Online news sites
Government damage assessment teams
First responders
Television, radio, newspapers, and the internet are all forms of
Traditional media.
New media.
Neighborhood communications network.
Media training should be provided to senior staff who may appear in the media.
True
False
Small to midsize cities and communities are unlikely to have a communications director or staff.
True
False
The most important part of leadership’s commitment to communications is ignoring communications in all planning and operations
True
False
Developing a partnership with the media should not be a standard operating procedure for emergency management operations.
True
False
All customers in a disaster communications are all equal and do not have specific information needs.
True
False
.. ………... Are ordinary citizens armed with a cell phone who can take pictures and/or video at the disaster site and add commentary and post their submissions on the Internet or provide them to CNN or MSNBC or other outlets.
First informers.
First responders.
General public.
Knowing the number of people killed and injured, the level of damage at the disaster site, the condition of homes and community infrastructure, and current response efforts provide decision makers with
The situational awareness.
The available resources.
None of the above.
Business continuity plan (BCP) is the process by which businesses prepare for disasters by identifying the risks to their business processes, their facilities, their employees, and their information, and then take action to reduce that risk.
True
False
Websites, blogs, wikis, and bulletin boards; shared timely photos and videos online are all forms of …
New media.
Traditional media.
Neighborhood communications network.
.................regularly deliver information and messages to the media and the public.
Public information officers.
Media broadcasters.
Emergency managers.
FEMA defines exercise as “a controlled, scenario-driven, simulated experience designed to demonstrate and evaluate an organization’s capability to execute one or more assigned or implicit operational tasks or procedures as outlined in its contingency plan.”
True
False
Part of the process of improving emergency management in the future is to identify the sources of problems in the past.
True
False
The change in hazards and human settlements requires a global response strategy to international disasters.
True
False
Risk management differs from emergency management in its being reactive instead of proactive.
True
False
___________ is the opposite of vulnerability, a measure of propensity to avoid losses.
Resilience
Resistance
Response
Not all nations become victims of a disaster.
True
False
___________ are people forced to flee their homes to escape violence; and to seek refuge abroad.
Refugees
Expatriates
Internally Displaced Persons
___________suffer the greatest impact of nature’s fury, and these same nations are also most often subject to the internal civil conflict that leads to Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (CHEs).
Developing nations
Established economies
None of the answers
Availability of technological, academic, and human resources does not influence the response capacity of individual nations.
True
False
___________ are rooted in traditional ethnic, tribal, and religious animosities.
Civil conflict
Economic instability
Drought
Disasters of all kinds strike literally every nation of the world.
True
False
Enhancing scientific research is not a mechanism adopted in the UN’s international strategy for disaster reduction.
True
False
Countries ranking lower on development indices have placed disaster management very high in budgetary priority.
True
False
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are all examples of ______
International financial institutions
International emergency banks
International money lenders
To be effective, mitigation must be removed from the everyday planning and decisions that individuals and communities participate in.
True
False
Disaster management programs in poor countries tend to be viewed as unnecessary
True
False
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