Acronyms and Abbreviations
Modeling and Data
Reporting
Communications and
Questions
Behavioral Science, Resilience, and Change
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AMP

What is Automated Map Production?

100

While floodway surcharges in a 1D model are evaluated at cross sections, floodway surcharges in a 2D model can be evaluated at these types of lines.

What are Evaluation Lines? (Alternate answer: BFE lines)

100

This MIP Access Level / Role allows users to report cost and schedule for a project task

What is Task + EV (Manager)?

100

This kind of communication is different because it makes people think about threats to their own safety

What is risk communication?

100

This branch of science primarily deals with human action and often seeks to generalize about human behavior in society.

What is behavioral science?

200

QR3

What is Quality Review 3, or the review done prior to the issuance of preliminary products?

200

George Box, a British statistician, often would say that “All models are wrong, but some are ___” this.

What is Useful?

200

This Earned Value Performance Indicator is based on Budgeted Cost of Work Performed divided by Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled

What is SPI?

200

This document is a roadmap for FEMA and CTPs to create collaborative relationships with communities throughout the Risk MAP process

What is the CERC Playbook? (Alternate answer: The Risk Communications and Risk MAP Playbook)

200

According to behavioral science, this percentage of our decisions are not rational.

What is 95%?

300

This required quality (QR) step compares the FIRM panel to the database

What is QR5?

300

Not to be confused with its similarly sounding, prehistoric cousin, this dataset provides insight into areas of a community where flood waters are likely to be fastest moving and is a key component in fully understanding one’s overall flood hazard.

What is the Velocity Raster?

300

This reflects the contributions of CTPs and other non-Federal sources which can be added to MIP tasks

What is Leverage?

300

When answering questions in a presentation, you should not end on Q&A but rather with these

What are prepared remarks?

300

This term describes the phenomenon when we weigh benefits and costs more heavily in the present moment.

What is present bias?

400

This is the name of the compile document containing all standards, technical references and guidance documents

What is the Mega PDF?

400

This type of engineering approach will be a key feature of FFRD and analyzes a wide range of potential flood scenarios and sources rather than just a few

What is Probabilistic?

400

The source for determining values of leverage contributions

What is the CTP Blue Book?

400

There are four ways to answer questions; respond, refer, deflect and this method.

What is redirect?

400

Different organizations utilize the same messaging about a community's need to mitigate is an example of this type of this behavioral tool.

What is Messenger Effect?

500

This computer keyboard function makes finding standards or other information infinitely easier

What is “Control F”?

500

This is one of the two output mapping datasets that were shared that combine the full range of probabilistic outputs to help communicate the graduated nature of flooding across a community (name either one).

What is the Composite Flood Hazard or the AEP of Flooding layer?

500

This the frequency required for CTPs to report on their performance measures in the CTP Performance Tool

What is quarterly?

500

This term is used for drawing attention to important points using phrases like “at the end of the day” and “the most important thing…”

What is flagging?

500

This is the term that means changing a narrative to change how you feel about it.

What is reframing?