Disasters in Music
This song features thunder and rain noises and has a particular place in the band’s heart because it was their final recording with Jim Morrison.
“Riders On The Storm” by The Doors
Who released the National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan in 2002? FEMA and Corps of Engineers or EPA and Corps of Engineers
EPA and Corps of Engineers
What decade was FEMA established?
1970s (1979)
Hurricanes are called what in the southern hemisphere?
Tropical cyclones
WUI
Wildland Urban Interface
What is the name of the song that remixed the laffy taffy tune with FEMA terminology
"What is your FEMA number"
The Executive Order to form FEMA merged how many programs? Less than 100 or more than 100
More than 100
This program educates volunteers about disaster preparedness and professional responders can rely on them during disaster situations.
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
This scale is used to measure the strength of an earthquake
Richter Scale
PAPPG
Public Assistance Program and Policy Guide
This classic blues piece, also done as a rendition by Led Zeppelin, was about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
"When the Levee Breaks"
What type of disaster is more deadly? Heat or Floods
Heat
What are the four phases of Emergency Management?
Prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery
What radioactive gas forms naturally when radioactive metals breakdown in rocks, soil, and groundwater?
Radon
HSEEP
Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program
The song was released in 2011 on Rihanna’s album “Good Girl Gone Bad”, and topped the charts for consecutive ten weeks.
Umbrella
Who is in charge of the Strategic National Stockpile? FEMA or ASPR
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) of the Department of Health and Human Services
This Act allowed federally recognized Indian tribal governments to have the option of pursuing a declaration directly from the President.
Sandy Recovery Improvement Act
What is a standing wave oscillating in a body of water?
Seiche
JIS/JIC
Joint Information System/Joint Information (Intelligence) Center
This 2011 song on the album called "21" is a powerful song with an energy that resembles the atmosphere of the storm.
"Set Fire to the Rain"
The first legislative act of federal disaster relief in U.S. history followed which disaster? A fire in Portsmouth New Hampshire in 1802 or Hurricane Audrey in 1957
A fire in Portsmouth New Hampshire in 1802
In an emergency evacuation, _________ lane reversal roughly doubles the number of lanes available for evacuation traffic.
Contraflow
Unlike tsunamis triggered by seismic activity, ____________ are driven by air-pressure disturbances often associated with fast-moving weather events, such as severe thunderstorms, squalls, and other storm fronts.
Meteotsunamis
EDF 01
Transportation