Preparedness
Mitigation
Response
Recovery
Name that Natural Disaster
100

Any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, loss of human life, deterioration of health and health services on a scale sufficient to warrant an extraordinary response from outside the affected community

What is a disaster?

100

No longer a hurricane "watch," this is issued 36 hours in advance of an anticipated onset of tropical-storm-force winds to allow for important preparation

What is a hurricane warning?

100

If you are in this type of structure during a tornado, the safest thing to do is get out immediately and go to the lowest floor of a sturdy, nearby building or a storm shelter.

What is a trailer or mobile home?

100

Basic services such as electricity, gas, water, sewage treatment and telephones may be cut off for days or even a week, or longer. This item should be kept in the event those services are out.

What is disaster supply kit?

100

This natural disaster appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with whirling winds that can reach 300 miles per hour.

What is a tornado?

200

November 15, 2017

When did the CMS Emergency Preparedness mandate become effective?

200

Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.

What is a biological threat?

What is an epidemic?

200

If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.

What is a safe room?

200

You should keep one gallon per person per day of this item.

What is water?

200

A tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 111 mph (96 knots) or higher, corresponding to a Category 3, 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.

What is a hurricane?

300

Hazard Identification

Hazard Mitigation

Preparedness

Responses

Recovery

What are the 5 Phases of Emergency Management?

300

By doing this mitigation action on houses, windows are best protected from hurricanes.

What is installing permanent storm shutters or boarding them with plywood?.(Both are correct)

300

Pet Owners should familiarize themselves with these locations before a disaster strikes in case of a potential evacuation.

What is identify pet-friendly hotels or shelters?

300

Immediately following a disaster, a community can become easily overwhelmed by the amount of generous people who want to help. This is the best way to help.

What is donating cash or affiliate with existing non-profit organizations before coming to the disaster area? (either answer is correct)

300

This occurrence gathers steam within six hours of the events that spawned them. They are characterized by a rapid rise of fast-moving water.

What is a flash flood?

400

Natural Disasters that affect the community but not the provider, and as a result interrupt necessary utilities, supplies, staffing

What is an Indirect Hazard?

400

Hazard Mitigation does this to the probability of an event.

What is eliminate or reduce?

400

The best disaster supply kits will have food, water, and other supplies to for at least this many hours.

What is 72 hours?

400

This is the first and most important step to take before entering a structure after a disaster.

Assess safety of structure.

400

These items have no return address, have inappropriate or unusual labeling such as threatening language, have protruding wires or aluminum foil, are of unusual weight given their size, or are lopsided or oddly shapped, have strange odors or stains, or have excessive postage or packaging material, such as masking tape and string.

What are suspicious packages and letters?

500

The best course of action for this direct hazard is to call the Police Bomb Squad.


What is a Suspicious Package?

What is a Bomb Threat?

500

This program was created by Congress through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and enables property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance against losses from flooding from the government.

What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?

500

Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the responders.

What is self-deploy?

500

Recovery from this 2005 weather-related event in Louisiana cost a staggering $108 Billion.

What was Hurricane Katrina?

500

This summertime natural hazard caused the most fatalities in the US in 2012 with 155 and also has the highest 30-Year Average (1988-2017) with 134 fatalities according to the National Weather Service. 


What is a heat wave or extreme heat?

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