ORAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Senior High School Department

Oras, Eastern Samar

Second Periodical Examination

2nd Semester

DISASTER READINESS AND RISK REDUCTION

Directions: Read the questions carefully and write the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is Landslide? 6. What term completes the statement below?

A Super Typhoon is a Tropical Cyclone
A. It is a processes or phenomena of with maximum sustained wind speed
atmospheric nature that may cause exceeding 220 kph where
loss of life. _______________ is a Tropical Cyclone
B. It is a common situation where the with maximum wind speed of 62 to 88
rock below and the land surface is kph.
limestone.
C. It is a massive outward and downward A. Typhoon
movement of slope-forming materials. B. Tropical Storm
D. The slow downward erosion C. Severe Tropical Storm
eventually forms D. Tropical Depression

2. Which type of sinkholes tends to develop

gradually where the covering sediments are
permeable and contain sand?

A. Cover-collapse Sinkholes
B. Cover-subsidence Sinkholes
C. Dissolution Sinkholes
D. Human-induced Sinkholes

3. Which type of sinkholes that may develop Fire Triangle

abruptly and cause catastrophic damages?
For items no. 7 – 9. Read the statement below.
A. Human-induced Sinkholes
B. Dissolution Sinkholes
C. Cover –subsidence Sinkholes Part A.
D. Cover-collapse Sinkholes  During our experiment. We lighted the
candle using the match. Then you have
4. How do landslides occur? observed what happened to the candle.
Then, slowly we put the jar on top of the
A. It occurs where the covering candle and closed the jar. You have
sediments contain a significant witnessed that the fire on the candle
amount of clay. disappear.
B. It occurs when there is not enough Part B.
support from the land above the  We soaked the tip of the candle in water
spaces. then we tried to light it up using the
C. It occurs when the rock dissolves, match. And you observed that it does
spaces and caverns develop not light up easily. Afterwards, we tried
underground. to dry up the tip of the candle using a
D. It occurs when the slope changes tissue and again tried to light the candle
from a stable to unstable condition. and it lights up easily.
Part C.
5. What term completes the statement below?  Using the same candle in Part B, we
A Typhoon is a large, powerful and also tried to light the bottom of the
violent Tropical Cyclone with maximum candle and it does not light up.
sustained wind speed of 118 to 220 kph
where ___________ is a Tropical 7. In the Part C of the experiment, what could
Cyclone with maximum sustained wind be needed for the candle to light up?
speed up to 61 kph.
A. Heat
A. Severe Tropical Storm B. Fuel
B. Tropical Depression C. Oxygen
C. Tropical Storm D. Chemicals
D. Super Typhoon

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8. In the Part B of the experiment once the
candle is soaked in water, it will not be able
to produce enough _______ to sustain a
fire. What element in the fire triangle is
needed for the candle to produce a fire?
A. Fuel
B. Oxygen
C. Heat
D. Chemicals
9. In the Part A of the experiment as the fire is
being enclosed in the jar, the ______ is
being used up. What element of the fire
triangle is needed to sustain a fire?
A. Chemicals
B. Oxygen
C. Fuel
D. Heat
10. What is Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)?
A. It is the provision of emergency
services and public assistance during
or immediately after a disaster in order
to save lives, reduces health impacts,
ensure public safety and meet the
basic subsistence needs of the people
affected.
B. It is the lessening or limitation of the
adverse impacts of hazards and
related disasters.
C. It is the outright avoidance of adverse
impacts of hazards and related
disasters.
D. It is a term used for reducing and
preventing disaster risks.
11. Which signs of impending Geological
Hazards (e.g., landslide) are an observable
movement and deformation of things?
A. A water doing something different
B. Earlier landslide Indicator
C. Tension Cracks
D. Things Moving
12. What term completes the statement below?
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of
geomorphic low-lying areas like washes,
rivers, dry lakes and basins while
_________ is the inundation of land
areas which are not normally covered by
water.
a. La Niña
b. Storm Surge
c. Tsunami
d. Flood
13. In the key concept of Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR), Why DRR is said to be
as a matter of choice?
A. Because it relates to how people grow
their food, where and how they build
their homes, and what kind of
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government they have. What people
make are determinants as to whether
they are vulnerable to disasters or
more resilient to them.
B. Because it includes disciplines like
disaster management, disaster
mitigation and disaster preparedness,
but DRR is also part of sustainable
development.
C. Because it is the concept and practice
of reducing disaster risks through
systematic efforts to analyze and
reduce the casual factors of disasters.
D. All of the above
14. As a Senior High School Student, how are
you going to apply mitigation strategies to
prevent loss of lives and properties in case
of landslide?
A. Help check with the caution injured
and trapped persons within the
landslide area and direct rescuers to
their locations;
B. Stay away from the path of landslide
debris, or seek refuge behind a sturdy
tree or boulder;
C. Participate in regular drills on
evacuation procedures.
D. All of the above
15. The Basic Response Procedures was
adopted from University of Chicago Fire
Response Plan. It was summarized by an
acronym RACER. How are you going to
apply the last “R” of the acronym during
the fire incident?
A. Recessed down lights are not properly
insulated from wood paneling or
ceiling timbers.
B. Response or take an action during an
emergency to save lives.
C. Rescue people from immediate area
of smoke and/or fire
D. Relocate to a safe area
16. A typhoon is a large, powerful and violent
tropical cyclone. As a Senior High School
student taking up this subject, how are you
going to apply your learning on making
appropriate measures/interventions before,
during, and after hydro-meteorological
hazards like typhoon?
I. When house is no longer safe,
evacuate immediately to safer place
like evacuation centers or house of
relatives that are proven stable and
can withstand strong wind and rain.
II. Ensure that house can withstand
heavy rain and strong winds.
III. Recommend trimming and removal of
dead or rotting trees that could fall and
may cause damage or injury.
IV. Coordinate with the Barangay Officials
and LGU’s for assistance.
 A. I,III,IV,II B. Super Typhoon
B. II,I,IV, C. Tornado
C. III,I,II,IV D. Severe Tropical Depression
D. I and II only
21. What do you call a name that is embodied
17. When the rain is constant and the 92 mph in a single and unified project that the
drives it horizontally. The sea surface a Philippine Government’s initiative for
whitish mass of spray. This is a sign that a scientific forecasting, monitoring,
typhoon is at how many hour before its assessment and information services
landfall? regarding natural hazards?

A. 24 hours before landfall A. Project NOAH

B. 18 hours before landfall B. DOST
C. 12 hours before landfall C. PAGASA
D. 6 hours before landfall D. PHIVOLCS

18. Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management (CBDRM) is defined as
“a process in which at-risk communities are
actively engaged in the identification,
analysis, treatment, monitoring and
evaluation disaster risks in order to reduce
their vulnerabilities and enhance their
capacities” (ADPC 2003). There are four
phases of emergency planning, namely
mitigation, preparedness, response, and
recovery. This continuum serves as guide
in designing an emergency plan for the
family and the community. In these four
phases of emergency planning,
Preparedness serves as what?
22. Storm surge is a rise of seawater above
normal sea level on the coast, generated
by the action of weather elements. How are
you going to apply measures/interventions
before, during, and after hydro-
meteorological hazards like storm surge?
I. Ensure that everyone is familiar with
the identified escape routes of the
family to higher grounds.
II. Stay on the inland side away from the
potential flow of water.
III. Check house for electrical damage
and open live wires.
IV. Avoid affected areas

A. It is an action taken during an A. II,III,I,IV

emergency to save lives, property, B. I,II,III
and the environment. C. IV,II,I,III
B. It is an action taken prior to an D. I and III only
emergency to facilitate response and
promote readiness. 23. Which of the following Fire Emergency and
C. Actions taken after an emergency to Evacuation Plan where a competent person
restore and resume normal who is responsible to safeguard the safety
operations. of students to implement certain fire safety
D. Efforts to reduce the effects or risks measures?
associated with hazards.
A. Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan
19. How Disaster Risk Reduction is important B. Liaison with Emergency Services
to one’s life? C. Fire Evacuation Strategy
D. Fire Wardens/Marshalls
A. It is a key factor for socio-economic
survival in these times that natural 24. How are you going to apply precautionary
disasters are getting worse and measures in case of sinkhole?
becoming more frequent due to the
effect of climate change. I. Restrict access to the hole
B. It is very important to prevent loss of II. Don’t get too close to or go down into
life and material properties. the hole
C. It is vital for building a more equitable III. Watch for signs of water disappearing
and sustainable future. from the surface
D. All of the above IV. Do not allow unauthorized or
inexperienced persons to investigate
20. What term completes the statement below? the sinkhole
A thunderstorm is a weather condition
that produces lighting and thunder, A. II,I,III,IV
heavy rainfall from cumulonimbus B. IV,I,III,II
clouds and possibly a tornado, while C. III,I,III,IV
______________ is described as a D. IV,III,I,II
violently rotating column of air extending
from a thunderstorm to the ground. 25. Which signs of impending Geological
Hazards (e.g., landslide) are created by the
A. Cyclone stress of geological material pulling apart?

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 A. Water Doing Something Different A. 12 hours before landfall
B. Earlier Landslide Indicator B. 6 hours before landfall
C. Tension Cracks C. 1 hour before landfall
D. Things Moving D. During Landfall

26. Which of the following is NOT a signs of 30. When the rain squalls are more frequent
impending Geological Hazards (e.g., and the winds don’t diminish after they
Sinkhole)? depart. The cloud ceiling is getting lower,
and the barometer is falling at 1 millibar per
A. Cracked tiles hour. This is a sign that a typhoon is at how
B. Tension Cracks many hours before its landfall?
C. Cracks in the ground
D. Foundation that slant A. 24 hours before landfall
B. 18 hours before landfall
C. 12 hours before landfall
D. 6 hours before landfall

31. There are four phases of emergency

planning, namely mitigation, preparedness,
response, and recovery. What action is
taken during Mitigation?

A. Actions taken prior to an emergency

to facilitate response and promote
readiness.
B. Actions taken during an emergency to
save lives, property and the
environment.
C. Actions taken after an emergency to
restore and resume normal
operations.
D. Actions or efforts to reduce the effects
or risks associated with hazards.
For item no. 27 and 28 refer to the picture
above. 32. What appropriate environmental
management can reduce the risk of
27. Which of the following number on the disasters?
picture below is slowly widening cracks
appear on the ground or on paved areas A. Improving coastal management and
such as paved streets, driveways and flood risk reduction
concreted path ways? B. Reducing risk of drought, sand storm
and hazardous fires
A. 8 C. Regulating flood waters
B. 6 D. All of the above
C. 9
D. 4 33. Among the components of DRR, where
does the concept of “building back better”
28. Which of the following number on the belong?
picture are cracks appear on the ground or
in the foundation of houses, buildings and A. Preparedness
other structures? B. Mitigation
C. Response
A. 3 D. Recovery
B. 4
C. 5 34. What theme in disaster risk reduction
D. 6 management framework is the provision of
emergency services and public assistance
29. Every typhoon is different and there are during or immediately after a disaster in
many factors that contribute to its order to save lives, reduce health impacts,
development. However, there is a general ensure public safety and meet the basic
sequence of event that could occur during subsistence needs of the people affected?
the development of a typhoon approaching
a coastal area (Herald Tribune, 2011): A. Disaster Response
When the rain becomes heavier. Low areas B. Disaster Prevention
inland become flooded. This is a sign that a C. Disaster Preparedness
typhoon is at how many hours before its D. Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery
landfall?

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35. What is the ability to face and manage services, social and economic
adverse conditions using available disruption, or environmental damage.
resources and skills? C. A combination of all the strengths,
attributes and resources available
A. Risk Management within a community, society or
B. Responsiveness organization that can be used to
C. Awareness achieve agreed goals.
D. Capacity D. A characteristics and circumstances of
a community, system or asset that
36. What theme in disaster risk reduction make it susceptible to the damaging
management framework is the knowledge effects of a hazard.
and capacities developed by governments,
professional response and recovery
organizations, communities and individuals
to effectively anticipate respond to, and
recover from, the impacts of likely,
imminent or current hazard events or
conditions?

A. Disaster Response
B. Disaster Prevention
C. Disaster Preparedness
D. Disaster Rehabilitation and Recovery

37. What items are vital to a disaster kit?

A. First aid kit

B. Food and Water
C. Documents and money
D. All of the above

38. In the basic response procedure of the

University of Chicago. What does the
Acronym RACER stands for?

A. Recognize, Alert, Cover, Exit and Run

B. Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish,
Relocate
C. Relocate, Abandon, Create, Endure
and Relax
D. Reinforce, Action & Call for
Emergency Response

39. What theme in disaster risk reduction

management framework is the outright
avoidance of adverse impacts of hazards
and related disasters?

A. Disaster Preparedness
B. Disaster Prevention
C. Disaster Mitigation
D. Disaster Recovery

40. Which of the following statement defines a

disaster?

A. A serious disruption of the functioning

of a community or a society involving
widespread human, material,
economic or environmental losses and
impacts, which exceeds the ability of
the affected community or society to
cope using its own resources.
B. A dangerous phenomenon,
substance, human activity or condition
that may cause loss of life, injury or
other health impacts, property
damage, loss of livelihoods and