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All In Your Head
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100
This is what vibrates inside your ear when sound reaches it.
What is the eardrum?
100

This word describes how loud or quiet a sound is

What is volume?

100

The central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level during an emergency. 

What is an EOC (Emergency Operations Center)?

100
Sound travels in waves because these bump into one another in the air.
What are particles?
100
This word is used to describe how high or low a sound is.
What is pitch?
200
These cause the eardrum to vibrate.
What are sound waves?
200

You must have this to have sound, or you won't hear anything.

What is air?

200

The EOC's ability to remain operable for an extended period of time refers to its ___________?

What is Sustainability?

200
This word describes what we call a sound that has bounced off of a hard surface, and travels back to us.
What is an echo?
200
The sound waves of high pitches travel in this way.
What is fast?
300
A signal of the eardrum vibrating is sent to the brain through this.
What is a nerve?
300
This is what happens to a ringing alarm clock if there is nothing around it, including air.
What is not ring or make a sound?
300

An EOC that is fully equipped with the utilities working and has the shortest start-up period required is referred to as what.

What is a Hot EOC?

300
Sound travels faster through this form of matter.
What are solids?
300
Sound waves of low pitches travel in this way.
What is slow?
400
If you have an earache, you might place this soft, fluffy material in your ear to absorb the sound waves.
What is cotton?
400

What are the two key NIMS (National Incident Management System) requirements for communications and information?

What are Interoperability and Redundancy?

400

Heating& air conditioning, Water, Electricity, Gas, Telephone, IT Support & Capability are referred to as the EOC's _____________.

What are systems capacities?

400
This affects the speed of sound.
What is temperature?
400
These are two of three things that would cause a change in pitch.
What is length, thickness, or size?
500
This sticky stuff might prevent sound from reaching your eardrum.
What is earwax?
500
The wheels on a train screech when stopping. This causes that loud noise.
What is friction, or the wheels rubbing the track?
500

In terms of EOC Safety hazards, cascading events, and ___________ need to be considered.

What is Security?

500
Sound travels about this fast.
What is 700 miles per hour?
500
You would do this to the strings of a guitar to make the pitch higher.
What is tighten the string?