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Destructive Change: Desirable Change Productive Change Developmental Change

1. The document contains questions about different types of hazards and disasters including examples of natural, human-made, geologic, atmospheric, biologic, and human hazards. It also asks questions to distinguish between hazards, risks, risk ratings of low, moderate, high, and extreme. 2. Key points covered include examples of different types of disasters like floods, earthquakes, fires, and epidemics. Factors that determine risk level are likelihood of occurrence and potential consequences. Proper risk management is important to reduce threats and minimize impacts of disasters. 3. The document tests understanding of hazard and risk concepts through multiple choice questions with examples like increased dengue cases, erosion, coronavirus spread, and hypothetical risk

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Destructive Change: Desirable Change Productive Change Developmental Change

1. The document contains questions about different types of hazards and disasters including examples of natural, human-made, geologic, atmospheric, biologic, and human hazards. It also asks questions to distinguish between hazards, risks, risk ratings of low, moderate, high, and extreme. 2. Key points covered include examples of different types of disasters like floods, earthquakes, fires, and epidemics. Factors that determine risk level are likelihood of occurrence and potential consequences. Proper risk management is important to reduce threats and minimize impacts of disasters. 3. The document tests understanding of hazard and risk concepts through multiple choice questions with examples like increased dengue cases, erosion, coronavirus spread, and hypothetical risk

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1. Which of the following best describes a disaster?


Desirable Change
Destructive Change
Productive Change
Developmental Change
2. Which of the following is an example of manmade disaster?
Flood
Tornado
Volcanic eruption
Fire
3. It is a disaster cause or related to the weather or changes in the Earth's atmosphere.
Topological
Tectonic
Accidents
Meteorological
4. The following are examples of topological disaster, except:
Flood
Avalanche
Landslide
Earthquake
5. Which of the following is an example of slow onset disaster?
Landslide
Tsunami
Train crash
Insect infestation
6. A large insect found in hot areas that flies in large groups and destroys plants and crops.
Epidemic
Locust swarms
Drought
None of the answers is correct.
7. The waiter accidently threw the water causing the floor to get wet. He immediately placed a warning sign to
avoid someone getting harmed by slipping and falling. Which of the following is the hazard on the situation?
Wet floor
Placing warning sign
The possibility of someone slipping or falling
The waiter who threw the water
8. The waiter accidently threw the water causing the floor to get wet. He immediately placed a warning sign to
avoid someone getting harmed by slipping and falling. Which of the following is the risk on the situation?
Wet floor
Placing warning sign
The possibility of someone slipping or falling
The waiter who threw the water
9. Which of the following best describes geologic hazard?
Hazards to human health and wealth that are created in the atmosphere.
Hazards originating from solid earth.
Hazard caused by the exposure to living organisms and/or toxic substances.
Hazards caused by humans.
10. Which of the following best describes biologic hazard?
Hazards to human health and wealth are created in the atmosphere.
Hazards originating from solid earth.
Hazard caused by exposure to living organisms and/or toxic substances.
Hazards caused by humans.
11. The following are examples of secondary hazards, except:
Fires ignited as a result of an earthquake
A building collapsed as a result of a tornado
Avalanche caused by a tsunami
Death and injury caused by a volcanic eruption
12. It is the chance or probability of a person being harmed if exposed to any damaging source.
Hazard
Risk
Disaster
Risk Management
13. It is any source of potential damage or harm to an individual’s health or life under certain conditions.
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Hazard
Risk
Disaster
Risk Management
14. Which of the following is an example of intangible measurement of risk?
The number of lives lost from a disaster.
The repair cost of all the properties damaged by a disaster.
The trauma experienced by the people affected of the disaster.
The damage caused by the disaster.
15. The following are ways to identify risk in a tourism business, except:
Checking the past records of the business.
Hiring consultants and experts.
Conceptualizing and deliberating
Identifying the business drivers
16. What step in the risk management answers the question, “Is the risk being managed by existing measures?”
Evaluate Risks
Analyze Risks
Identify Risks
None of the answers are correct.
17. Which of the following best describes hazard?
Dangerous phenomena caused by human/environment.
Something that can cause harm.
The chance, high or low, can cause somebody harm.
None of the answers are correct.
18.  Why is Risk Management important? 
It reduces the number of threats that materialize into problems and minimize the effects of those that do
occur.
Failing to manage risk will result in more problems, higher benefits and a higher chance of project success.
It results in more opportunities being captured proactively and turned into positive benefits for the project.
Minimizes threats, maximizes opportunities and optimizes the achievement of project objectives.
19. Which of the following standard risk treatment practice can reduce the consequences of occurrence?
Buying insurance.
Building evacuation plan.
Modifying risk plan.
None of the answers are correct.
20. Super typhoon Yolanda is an example of:
Natural Event
Natural Hazard
Natural Risk
Natural Disaster
21. What element would be not affected if there is a human epidemic?
Visitors
Reputation
Facilities
Employee
22. What element would be not affected if there is a political conflict?
Visitors
Reputation
Facilities
All of answers.
23. Water pollution is an example of what hazard?
Human
Atmospheric
Biologic
None of the answers are correct.
24. Which of the following risk should the business prioritized?
A risk that is expected to occur in most circumstances with short term disruption to destination and services.
A risk that can cause severe financial losses and mass cancellation of bookings that may occur in exceptional
circumstances.
A risk that is expected to occur in most circumstances with minimal disruption to destination and visitors.
None of the answers.

II. Identify what type of hazard are the examples below. Choose the best answer on the box and shade the letter of
your choice on the answer sheet provided.
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A – Atmospheric Hazard C – Biologic Hazard

B – Geologic Hazard D – Human Hazard


25. Dengue cases increased in the country.
26. Many died because of extreme bacterial pathogens.
27. Large meteor impacts the surface of the earth.
28. Erosion caused by excessive movement of sediments.
29. Spread of Coronavirus.

III. Identify what risk rating are the examples below. Choose the best answer on the box and shade the letter of
your choice on the answer sheet provided.

A - Extreme risk C – Moderate Risk

B – High Risk D - Low Risk


30. The business is almost certain that the typhoon will occur and has moderate consequence to the operations.
–E
31. The earthquake is likely to occur with catastrophic impact to the business. - E
32. The tornado is unlikely to happen but may have major consequence to the business. – H
33. The landslide can rarely occur, but it could have catastrophic consequence to the operations. – h
34. The human epidemic can rarely occur but has major consequence to the business. – m
35. The flood is unlikely to occur but has minor consequence to the business. – L
36. The insect infestation could possibly occur but has moderate consequences to the business. – H

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