These are five examples of social media that supports disaster mitigation-minimizing risks. Must correctly guess 2 of 5, or more.
What is the Facebook?
What is Twitter?
What is YouTube?
What is Smartphone Application?
What is a Blog?
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? or
What is a cardboard box?
100
When basic services such as electricity, gas, water, and telephones are cut off for days, weeks, or longer. What item should every home have ready and accessible?
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
This program educates people about disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact their area and trains them in basic disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations.
What is the Citizen Emergency Response Team (CERT) program?(Citizen Corps is also a correct answer)
200
Ensuring all required or suggested immunizations are up to date is one way to mitigate this hazard.
What is a biological threat?
200
If you are unable to evacuate during a tornado, this is the best place to go.
What is a safe room, basement, cellar? or
What is a submarine?
200
You should keep one half-gallon per person, per day, of this item.
What is water?
200
To prepare for this natural disaster, secure your water heater, refrigerator, furnace, and gas appliances by strapping them to the wall studs and bolting to the floor.
What is an earthquake?
300
Your family may not be together when a disaster strikes. It is important to write and have this in advance.
What is an Emergency Preparedness Plan or a Family Communications Plan?(Both are correct)
300
By doing this mitigation action on houses, windows are best protected from hurricanes.
What is installing permanent storm shutters or boarding widows 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. What is the best way to indirectly help when you are not able to be the "boots on the ground"?
What is a donation?
300
Changes in landscape such as patterns of storm-water drainage on slopes (especially the places where runoff water converges), land movement, or progressively leaning trees are all signs of this natural disaster potentially occurring.
What is a landslide?
400
Name 3 of five places where you might find water to drink in the event of disaster. Hint: the store shelves are empty.
What is the water heater?
What is the back of the toilet?
What is my neighbors house?
What is a swimming pool?
What is a river, stream, lake, or creek.
400
To reduce damage during high wind events, this should be installed to securely fasten your roof to the frame structure.
What are wind straps or clips?
400
The best disaster supply kits will contain food, water, and other non perishable supplies. How many days, or hours, of supplies should each person in the household have at the ready?
What is 72 hours? or What is 3 Days?
400
This guide provides effective recovery support to disaster-impacted States, Tribes, Territorial and local jurisdictions. It provides a flexible structure that enables disaster recovery managers to operate in a unified and collaborative manner.
What is the National Disaster Recovery Framework?
400
This natural disaster can be accompanied by other natural hazards, including earthquakes, mud flows and flash floods, rock falls and landslides, acid rain, fire, and (under special conditions) tsunamis.
What is a volcanic eruption?
500
Businesses should consider having this type of plan in place to ensure operations continue following a disaster.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP)?
500
This program was created by Congress in 1968 and enables property owners, in participating communities, to purchase government issued insurance against losses from flooding.
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?
500
Volunteers should never do this after a disaster, otherwise they can overwhelm the First Responder's.
What is self-deploy?
500
This is operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reuniting children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.
What is What is the National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)?
500
This natural hazard caused the most fatalities in 2012 with 155. This hazard also has the highest 10-Year Average (2003-2013) with 117 fatalities according to the National Weather Service.