CERTIFIED FLOODPLAIN MANAGER
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
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✔✔Human Intervention - ✔✔Actions that must be taken by one or more persons before
floodwaters arrive in order for a building to be floodproofed
✔✔Hydrodynamic Force - ✔✔The force of moving water, including the impact of debris
and high velocities
✔✔Hydrologic Cycle - ✔✔The natural cycle that circulates water throughout the
environment to maintain an overall balance between water in the air, on the surface and
in the ground
✔✔Hydrology - ✔✔The science dealing with the waters of the earth. A flood discharge
is developed by a hydrologic study
✔✔Hydrostatic Pressure - ✔✔The pressure put on a structure by the weight of standing
water. The deeper the water, the more it weighs and the greater the hydrostatic
pressure
✔✔Ice Floe - ✔✔Large chunks of ice that can cause a great deal of damage when a
frozen river or lake begins to melt and break up
✔✔Ice Jam - ✔✔Flooding that occurs when warm weather and rain break up frozen
rivers and the broken ice floats downriver until it is blocked by an obstruction, creating
an ice dam that blocks the channel and causes flooding upstream
✔✔Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) - ✔✔An additional claim payment made to a
flood insurance policy holder to help cover the costs of bringing a substantially damaged
or repetitively damaged building into compliance with the community's floodplain
, ✔✔Individual and Family Grants (IFG) - ✔✔A disaster assistance grant that helps
people with their unmet needs (ie needs not helped by other disaster assistance
program)
✔✔Inverse Condemnation - ✔✔Also known as "Taking". Obtaining private property with
or without compensating the owner. The term also includes reducing the value of private
property to such an extent that the owner is deprived of all economic interest
✔✔ISO - ✔✔The Insurance Services Office Inc an insurance organization that provides
support to FEMA on implementation of the CRS
✔✔Lateral Pressure - ✔✔The amount of pressure imposed sideways by standing water.
Deeper water exerts more lateral pressure than shallower water
✔✔Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) - ✔✔An official revision to a FEMA map done by
describing the property affected. LOMAs are generally issued when properties have
been inadvertently included in the floodplain
✔✔Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) - ✔✔An official revision to a FEMA map done by
describing the property affected
✔✔Limited Map Maintenance Project - ✔✔A small-scale restudy of a FIS
✔✔Lowest Floor - ✔✔The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement)
of a building
✔✔Manufactured Home - ✔✔A building that is transportable in one or more sections,
which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a
permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. It includes mobile home
and "double wides"
✔✔Market Value - ✔✔The price a willing buyer and seller agree upon
✔✔Mitigation Division - ✔✔The FEMA office that sets national policy for the NFIP and
administers the mapping program
✔✔Movable Bed Streams - ✔✔A type of flooding that features uncertain flow paths
✔✔Mudslide - ✔✔Also known as Mudflow. A condition where there is a river, flow, or
inundation of liquid mud down a hillside
✔✔Multi-Objective Management (M-O-M) - ✔✔An approach to planning and funding
local programs that involves a variety of local interests and concerns
COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET
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✔✔Human Intervention - ✔✔Actions that must be taken by one or more persons before
floodwaters arrive in order for a building to be floodproofed
✔✔Hydrodynamic Force - ✔✔The force of moving water, including the impact of debris
and high velocities
✔✔Hydrologic Cycle - ✔✔The natural cycle that circulates water throughout the
environment to maintain an overall balance between water in the air, on the surface and
in the ground
✔✔Hydrology - ✔✔The science dealing with the waters of the earth. A flood discharge
is developed by a hydrologic study
✔✔Hydrostatic Pressure - ✔✔The pressure put on a structure by the weight of standing
water. The deeper the water, the more it weighs and the greater the hydrostatic
pressure
✔✔Ice Floe - ✔✔Large chunks of ice that can cause a great deal of damage when a
frozen river or lake begins to melt and break up
✔✔Ice Jam - ✔✔Flooding that occurs when warm weather and rain break up frozen
rivers and the broken ice floats downriver until it is blocked by an obstruction, creating
an ice dam that blocks the channel and causes flooding upstream
✔✔Increased Cost of Compliance (ICC) - ✔✔An additional claim payment made to a
flood insurance policy holder to help cover the costs of bringing a substantially damaged
or repetitively damaged building into compliance with the community's floodplain
, ✔✔Individual and Family Grants (IFG) - ✔✔A disaster assistance grant that helps
people with their unmet needs (ie needs not helped by other disaster assistance
program)
✔✔Inverse Condemnation - ✔✔Also known as "Taking". Obtaining private property with
or without compensating the owner. The term also includes reducing the value of private
property to such an extent that the owner is deprived of all economic interest
✔✔ISO - ✔✔The Insurance Services Office Inc an insurance organization that provides
support to FEMA on implementation of the CRS
✔✔Lateral Pressure - ✔✔The amount of pressure imposed sideways by standing water.
Deeper water exerts more lateral pressure than shallower water
✔✔Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) - ✔✔An official revision to a FEMA map done by
describing the property affected. LOMAs are generally issued when properties have
been inadvertently included in the floodplain
✔✔Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) - ✔✔An official revision to a FEMA map done by
describing the property affected
✔✔Limited Map Maintenance Project - ✔✔A small-scale restudy of a FIS
✔✔Lowest Floor - ✔✔The lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement)
of a building
✔✔Manufactured Home - ✔✔A building that is transportable in one or more sections,
which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a
permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. It includes mobile home
and "double wides"
✔✔Market Value - ✔✔The price a willing buyer and seller agree upon
✔✔Mitigation Division - ✔✔The FEMA office that sets national policy for the NFIP and
administers the mapping program
✔✔Movable Bed Streams - ✔✔A type of flooding that features uncertain flow paths
✔✔Mudslide - ✔✔Also known as Mudflow. A condition where there is a river, flow, or
inundation of liquid mud down a hillside
✔✔Multi-Objective Management (M-O-M) - ✔✔An approach to planning and funding
local programs that involves a variety of local interests and concerns
