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A detailed illustration showing a diverse group of people responding to a disaster, including emergency responders, citizens using technology, and humanitarian volunteers, set in an urban environment with visible natural disaster elements.

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.

38 Questions10 MinutesCreated by HelpingHand47

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

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.

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

.. ………... 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

___________ is the opposite of vulnerability, a measure of propensity to avoid losses.

Resilience

Resistance

Response

___________ 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

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

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