Disaster and Emergency Management
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Disaster and Emergency Management is a multidisciplinary course that explores the principles, practices, and strategies used to prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural and man-made disasters. Students will examine the phases of emergency management mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery while analyzing the roles played by government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and community stakeholders. The course covers risk assessment, crisis communication, emergency planning, and policy development, equipping students with the skills needed to manage diverse hazards effectively and enhance community resilience in the face of disasters.
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Natural Disasters 1st Canadian Edition by
Patrick Leon Abbott
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Chapter 1: A Global and Canadian Outlook on Natural Disasters
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Q1) The rapid increase in human population during the past several centuries is an example of ________________ growth.
A) linear
B) algebraic
C) parabolic
D) integrated
E) exponential
Answer: E
Q2) Today,the world growth rate for human population is rapidly declining.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Van der Vink's study compared deaths by natural disaster to the levels of _______ and _______.
A) world population;food production
B) industry production;food production
C) water usage;medical care
D) democracy;country preparedness
E) democracy;economic development
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: Earths Internal Energy and Plate Tectonics
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Q1) Increasing temperature causes rock to expand in volume and become denser and more capable of flowing under pressure.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Himalayas are located at which of the following tectonic plate boundaries?
A) Divergent
B) Subduction
C) Transform
D) Convergent
E) A hot spot
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following is attributed to the Canadian geophysicist J.Tuzo Wilson?
A) Theory of continental drift
B) Theory for hot spot volcanoes
C) Discovery for slab-pull mechanism
D) Discovery of magnetic reversal of the poles
E) Sea floor spreading hypothesis
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Earthquake Geology, Seismology, and Engineering
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Q1) The moment magnitude is more accurate than the classical Richter scale because it is tied directly to physical parameters such as fault-rupture area,fault slip,and energy release,and because other earthquake scales use indirect measures such as how much a seismograph needle moves.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The frequency of a wave is ____________________.
A) the amount of displacement of the medium through which the wave is passing B) the number of full wave cycles passing a given point per unit time
C) the time between successive waves
D) the energy of the wave
Answer: B
Q3) For magnitudes above about 6,the bigger earthquake magnitude means that more people in a larger area and for a longer time will experience the intense shaking.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: When the Earth Shakes in Canada
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Q1) Natural Resources Canada recognizes and earthquake as significant when the magnitude is equal to or greater than 6 or the modified intensity is VI or stronger.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There have been no observed megathrust earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone since the year 1700 because _________________.
A) subduction has ceased
B) the plates slip aseismically past each other
C) the fault is currently locked
D) our seismographs aren't sensitive enough
Q3) The Haida Gwaii earthquake (2012),British Columbia,triggered a tsunami but not mass movements.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Geological evidence indicates that 53 large earthquakes have occurred in the Cascadia Subduction Zone over the last 6,000 years.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Volcanic Eruptions and Landforms
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Q1) In the last 200 years,three catastrophic eruptions have occurred at Yellowstone at about 100 years ago,50 years,and last year.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gas bubbles decrease in number and volume as magma keeps rising upward to lower pressures,helping to propel magma upward through fractures or pipes toward an eruption.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rock may melt by _________________.
A) lowering the pressure on it
B) raising its temperature
C) increasing its water content
D) all of the choices are correct
E) none of the choices are correct
Q4) At oceanic spreading centres,magmas are rhyolitic in composition.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Volcano Case Histories : Killer Events
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Q1) The greatest volcanic hazard to the city of Vancouver is due to ______________.
A) Mount St Helens
B) Mount Baker
C) Mount Meager
D) Mount Garibaldi
Q2) The majority Earth's volcanic activity occurs in which of the following tectonic settings?
A) Hot spots
B) Transform faults
C) Spreading centres
D) Subduction zones
E) Continent to continent collision zones
Q3) In March 1991,Mount Pinatubo awoke after 500 years,causing the following:
A) thousands of small earthquakes
B) emitting thousands of tonnes of SO<sub>2</sub> rich gas
C) creating three small steam-blast craters
D) none of these choices are correct
E) all of these choices are correct
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Chapter 7: Tsunamis
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Q1) Tsunami generated from a megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone could devastate the cities of Vancouver and Victoria.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Tsunamis have long wavelengths and very short wave heights in the open ocean.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Buoys are used to trigger tsunami warnings because the large wave passing under them lifts them much higher than wind generated waves,signaling a tsunami wave.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The most common trigger for tsunami are ________.
A) earthquakes
B) volcanoes
C) mass movements
D) hurricanes
E) meteor impacts
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Chapter 8: The Ever Changing Climate
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Q1) In the continental annual cycle of carbon exchange most of the carbon (measured in gigatonnes)is returned in the atmosphere during ___________.
A) fossil fuel burning
B) photosynthesis
C) wildfire
D) land cleaning
E) decaying of organics
Q2) The energy that flows from the Earth's interior is relatively huge when you compare with radiant energy received from the Sun.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of these choices are potential effects of a warmer climate on Ontario except for:
A) longer and more severe heat waves.
B) potential for worse air pollution in the form of smog and acid precipitation.
C) reduced water levels in Great Lakes and St.Lawrence River.
D) melting permafrost weakening and undermining infrastructure.
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Chapter 9: Severe Weather
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Q1) The deadliest tornado in Canadian history was the Regina cyclone,on 30 June 1912 that claimed 28 lives.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The energy source for severe weather including thunderstorms is derived from
A) strong winds
B) the release of latent heat due to condensation
C) the release of latent heat due to evaporation
D) the absorption of heat due to melting
E) none of these are correct
Q3) Thunderstorms occur where warm,moist air has absorbed enough heat and moisture to be significantly ____________ than the surrounding air.
A) less dense
B) more dense
C) less energetic
D) drier
E) none of these are correct
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Chapter 10: Hurricanes
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Q1) The deadliest hurricane in Canada's history was the ________________ hurricane in 1900 which killed 80-100 people.
A) Galveston
B) Katrina
C) Freda
D) Sandy
E) Juan
Q2) Why do so few of the Pacific Ocean hurricanes strike the west coast of North America?
A) The trade winds blow most hurricanes westward away from land.
B) The California current carries cold water from Alaska down the along the west coast.
C) The Coriolis force is greater in the Pacific,which tends to break apart tropical cyclones.
D) All of these are correct.
E) Both the trade winds blow most hurricanes westward away from land and the California current carries cold water from Alaska down the along the west coast.
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Chapter 11: Floods
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Q1) "The Barrier," located in Garibaldi Provincial park in British Columbia,was formed when massive rock debris filled the valley up to 300 m high (also called landslide dam).
A)True
B)False
Q2) A large number of flash flood deaths __________________________.
A) are related to people swimming across flooded rivers
B) are related to people watching floods from bridges
C) are related to people trying to retrieve pets from flooded homes
D) are vehicle-related
E) are boat-related
Q3) Floods in Canada cause few deaths but extensive damage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pictograms prepared by the City of Calgary after the 2013 Calgary flood show hydrograms and water levels at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow Rivers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Fire
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Q1) Fire is the photosynthesis reaction in reverse.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In Mediterranean climates frequent wildfire is necessary for the health of natural plant communities for a number of reasons,which of the following statements is false?
A) Many of the plant species must have the smoke and/or heat of fire to germinate their seeds.
B) Fire helps to control parasites.
C) Fire influences insect behaviour.
D) None of these because wildfire is not necessary to maintain a healthy Mediterranean-type ecosystems.
Q3) Several climate-change studies predict that forest-fire activity will intensify in the future.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Forest fire intensity is ranked according to _____.
A) the wind speed in metres per second.
B) the Duff Moisture Index.
C) the amount of heat energy released per second for a metre of fire front.
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Chapter 13: Mass Movements and Snow Avalanches
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Q1) The presence of talus slopes indicate that _______ have occurred in the past.
A) snow avalanche
B) rotational slump
C) creep
D) rock fall
Q2) Many hill slope masses are weak due to preexisting geologic conditions such as
A) structures within the rocks,such as fractures,ancient faults,and soft rock layers
B) rock layering dipping at angles greater than the hill slope
C) low water tables
D) all of these are correct
Q3) External processes that increase the odds of a slope failure include
A) adding mass high on a slope,as in sediment deposition
B) steepening the slope,as by fault movements
C) removing support from low on a slope,as by stream or ocean-wave erosion
D) all of these are correct
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Chapter 14: Hazards From Space
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Q1) The major types of meteorites are either iron-rich or stony.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding asteroids is false?
A) Ceres,Pallas and Vesta are the three largest asteroids.
B) The orbital path of Trojan asteroids pass near the Earth but cross the orbital path of Mars.
C) Double-impact sites may be the result of an asteroid and its moon colliding with another celestial body.
D) Some asteroids are multiple bodies bound together by gravitational attraction.
Q3) When the north magnetic pole was discovered in 1831 its position was in Nunavut Territory (Canada).
A)True
B)False
Q4) A solar wind can be deflected by Earth's magnetic field.
A)True
B)False
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