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18 Cards in this Set
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The greatest disaster in human history was:
a. the Black Death b. the Holocaust c. WWI d. Rawanda |
a. the Black Death
(p. 529) |
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The Black death claime ___% of the European population:
a. 0% b. 25% c. 50% d. 75% |
b. 25%
(p. 529) |
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The first worldwide disaster relief effort begun:
a. October 1912 b. October 1913 c. October 1914 d. October 1915 |
c. October 1914
(p. 529) |
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Recently the largest tolls have occurred in:
a. Africa b. Asia c. Europe d. Central America |
d. Central America
(p. 529) |
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A ___ requires some natural or human agent affecting a human population and/or property:
a. disaster b. tradgety c. depression d. Armageddon |
a. disaster
(p. 529) |
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Which of the following is not a "sub-group" of disasters according to Schlager:
a. natural b. paranormal c. man-made d. technological |
b. paranormal
(p. 530) |
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Which of the following is not a way to measure disasters:
a. property damage b. loss of life c. social upheaval d. psychiatric impairment |
c. social upheaval
(p. 530) |
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Sociologists tend to use __ as a kind of test of the existing social structure:
a. human response b. social cohesiveness c. macro economics d. disasters |
d. disasters
(p. 531) |
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Which of the following is not one of Kreps core elements of disasters:
a. they involve individuals b. they are events c. they have impacts d. there are responses |
a. they involve individuals
(p. 531) |
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When people are confronted by ___, they react rationally and in an adaptive fashion:
a. probable danger b. imminent danger c. possible danger d. theoretical danger |
b. imminent danger
(p. 532) |
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The concept of ___ in fires is overemphasized and often confused with flight behavior:
a. panic b. stress c. fear d.calm |
a. panic
(p. 532) |
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In most disaster situations, people ___ behave in the appropriate manner:
a. don't b. do c. sometimes d. sometimes don't |
b. do
(p. 532) |
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Psychological impairment is directly related to the magnitude of:
a. loss of social structure b. loss of property c. loss of life d. loss of self |
c. loss of life
(p. 533) |
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Natural disasters are more harmful then technological ones in part because it is also harder:
a. to prevent them b. to rebuild c. to come to terms d. to blame someone else |
d. to blame someone else
(p. 534) |
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The worlds worse nuclear disaster occurred at:
a. Chernobyl b. Gell c. Baggs d. Hiroshima |
a. Chernobyl
(p. 534) |
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The Russians choose the ___ reactor because it produces nuclear energy and plutonium:
a. RBMJ b. RBMK c. RMBL d. RBMO |
b. RBMK
(p. 534) |
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Fallout from Chernobyl was so extensive that Lapland raindeer herders in Norway were told:
a. to leave their homes b. to leave their herds c. to not eat from their herds d. to not allow new births |
c. to not eat from their herds
(p. 534) |
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Chernobyl was most significant on:
a. environmental factors b. social factors c. people's health d. people's attitudes on nuclear energy |
d. people's attitudes on nuclear energy
(p. 534) |
