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Mitigation
General Knowledge
100

These are the two oceans where we see hurricanes in America.

What is the Pacific and Atlantic oceans?

100

Efforts to prevent or reduce property damage or loss of life caused by a natural disaster.

What is Mitigation?

100

A way to generate ideas for solving an engineering problem. 

What is brainstorming?

200

The place where most tornados occur in the United States.

What is Tornado Alley?

200

This is needed to help scientists understand the problems of natural hazards to create a mitigation plan. 

What is data?

200

" Reinforce an existing barn to protect 50 cows from a medium-strength tornado without spending more than $100,000" is an example of what?

What is a precisely stated engineering problem?
300

Sudden, short-term, geologic events in which the ground shakes violently.

What is an earthquake?

300

This is a part of mitigation that you do before the natural hazard occurs.

What is preparation?

300

Two things that you need to look at when looking at an engineering design problem.

What is criteria and constraints?
400

When a natural hazard causes widespread injury or death.

What is a natural disaster?

400

Name something that you can do during the recovery phase of the mitigation plan.

Provide temporary shelter, help repair the community, provide food and water, provide medical support, reviewing and revising the mitigation plan.

400

A type of engineer that assesses a building site based on the properties of soil and rock and assists builders on construction sites.

What is a geotechnical engineer?

500

This is the acronym for Global Positioning System.

What is GPS.

500

What role does technology play in mitigation?

Technology helps scientists analyze data collected to help refine and create mitigation plans. It also will help scientists evaluate the efficiency of mitigation plans.

500

This is the name of the chart used to rank different solutions for a natural hazard/disaster.

What is a decision matrix?

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