Natural/ Human Caused Events
Defined as a wide variety of land-based conditions that have the ability to cause loss of life or property, often with little or no warning
What are Geological hazards?
Traditional chemicals are categorized according to this
What are physiological effects?
Drugs that make people unable to think clearly or that cause an altered state of consciousness (possibly unconsciousness).
What are Incapacitating agents?
Light (infrared to ultraviolet), radiofrequency emissions, and microwaves
What is nonionizing radiation?
Large explosive devices fused to detonate under specified conditions.
What are bombs?
Earthquakes are measured using this scale - between 1 (barely felt) and 10 (total destruction)
What is the Richter Magnitude Scale?
Levels of symptoms from exposure to nerve agents
What is mild, threshold, and severe?
Choking (lung damaging) agents, are chemical compounds that attack lung tissue, primarily causing this.
What is pulmonary edema (fluid accumulation in the lungs)?
Primary concerns of a nuclear detonation
What are blast/shock, thermal radiation (heat), ionizing radiation, and ballistic debris?
Rockets are unguided with one set of fins, consisting of a ___ and ___.
What are rocket motor and warhead?
Measured using the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale that estimates damages and wind to produce a rating between 1 and 5
What are tornadoes?
Blood agents are chemical compounds that affect bodily functions by preventing the normal utilization of ___ by body tissues
What is oxygen?
Groups Chemical Materials are divided into
What is traditional chemical warfare agents (CWAs), nontraditional agents (NTA), military chemical compounds, and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs)?
Three subcategories of Toxic Industrial Materials (TIMs)
What are Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TIC), Toxic Industrial Biologicals (TIB), and Toxic Industrial Radiologicals (TIR)?
Refers to materials, weapons, or devices that are intended to cause (or are capable of causing) death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people
What is Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)?
The international measurement of Hurricane intensity
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale?
Blister agents are used to produce casualties (injured/incapacitated personnel), to degrade fighting efficiency, and to restrict use of ___ and ___.
What are terrain and equipment?
Nerve, Blood, Blister, Choking, and Incapacitating Agents
What are Traditional Chemical Warfare Agents (CWAs)?
Types of ionizing radiation and their description
What are Alpha radiation (larger particles that are harmful if internalized), beta radiation (small particles that may cause skin burns and is harmful if ingested), gamma radiation (high energy rays that destroy living cells), and neutron radiation (emitted only during nuclear detonation and 20 times more harmful than Gamma)
4 various altitudes nuclear weapons can be detonated
What are at sub-surface, surface, airburst, or high altitude?
Notification as a result of a HAZMAT release action
What is “Shelter in Place”?
Severe symptoms from exposure to nerve agents?
What are difficulty breathing, twitching, jerking, staggering, convulsions, and coma?
Nerve agents were originally produced in a search for ___, but because of their toxicity, they were developed for military use, and have been used in wars and by terrorists.
What are insecticides?
Types of biological agents and their description
What are pathogens – disease producing organisms, toxins – poisonous substances naturally produced by bacteria, plants, fungi, snakes, insects and other living organisms, bio-regulators – biochemical compounds that regulate cell processes and physically active compounds and prions – proteins that can cause neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals
Primary threat against an Air Force installation
What is a theater ballistic missile (TBM) warhead filled with a V-series nerve agent?