1.4 Disaster occurrence: hazards, vulnerability and resilience Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Geography, Unit 1

The 20 questions

1. In the hazard risk equation, risk equals hazard multiplied by vulnerability divided by what?

   • Economic loss
   • Capacity to cope
   • Community resilience
   • Hazard frequency

2. What is a natural hazard that causes significant loss of life and damage termed?

   • Risk
   • Hazard
   • Disaster
   • Vulnerability

3. In the Pressure and Release model, what combines with a natural hazard to cause a disaster?

   • Resilience
   • Vulnerability
   • Capacity to cope
   • Magnitude

4. Which term describes the susceptibility of a community to the impacts of a hazard?

   • Vulnerability
   • Hazard risk
   • Adaptation
   • Resilience

5. What is a community's ability to withstand, cope with, and recover from a hazard called?

   • Resilience
   • Mitigation
   • Vulnerability
   • Morbidity

6. What term describes the point beyond which a hazard overwhelms a community's capacity to cope?

   • Coping capacity
   • Mitigation boundary
   • Vulnerability limit
   • Resilience threshold

7. Compared to developed countries, developing countries typically experience higher rates of which tectonic impact?

   • Human mortality
   • Insurance claims
   • Economic cost
   • Property damage

8. Two identical earthquakes cause very different damage in two cities. What does this variation illustrate?

   • Secondary hazards
   • Changing magnitude
   • Differing vulnerability
   • Tectonic shifting

9. What type of impact typically dominates when a volcanic eruption affects a developed country?

   • Mass famine
   • Economic disruption
   • Total depopulation
   • High mortality

10. A natural hazard only turns into a disaster when it interacts with which factor?

    • Vulnerable population
    • Constructive plate
    • High magnitude
    • Primary wave

11. Which of the following is classified as a social impact of a tectonic hazard?

    • Business closure
    • Infrastructure damage
    • Financial loss
    • Population displacement

12. In the hazard risk equation, risk is calculated by dividing hazard and vulnerability by what?

    • Coping capacity
    • Economic cost
    • Population density
    • Physical magnitude

13. Which local feature creates the highest human vulnerability to a tsunami hazard?

    • Seawall protection
    • Unplanned coastal housing
    • Early warning sirens
    • High land elevation

14. Which factor most directly increases the total financial cost of earthquake damage in a region?

    • High mortality rate
    • Rural population
    • Dense infrastructure
    • Subsistence farming

15. According to the Pressure and Release (PAR) model, which factor is a root cause of vulnerability?

    • Unequal resource distribution
    • Rapid urbanisation
    • Unsafe building design
    • Volcanic ash fall

16. Which category of volcanic impact includes long-term loss of trade and business closures?

    • Physical impact
    • Social impact
    • Environmental impact
    • Economic impact

17. Which feature is most characteristic of a community with high resilience to tectonic hazards?

    • Densely built slums
    • High poverty levels
    • Informal settlements
    • Early warning systems

18. What occurs when recurring hazard events strike a community before it has fully recovered?

    • Hazard mitigation
    • Cumulative vulnerability
    • Tectonic equilibrium
    • Resilience capacity

19. What happens when a natural hazard exceeds a community's threshold of resilience?

    • Vulnerability disappears
    • A disaster occurs
    • Hazard magnitude drops
    • Risk decreases

20. In the hazard risk equation, which variable decreases overall disaster risk when increased?

    • Population exposure
    • Hazard magnitude
    • Coping capacity
    • Vulnerability

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