Intro to Emergency Management Test 1
questions and answers 2024\2025 A+
Grade
What is an emergency?
- correct answer Predictable day to day events (house/building fires), resources are available for
response and recovery, relatively predictable, based on community data
What is a disaster?
- correct answer Events that disrupt day to day activities within a community (local floods/tornadoes),
resources are stretched to the limit where state regional and or federal resources are necessary for
response and recovery
What is a catastrophe?
- correct answer Events that disrupt day to day activities beyond the community, extending wide
geographic region, resources become difficult to obtain and aid is slow to arrive coming from beyond
political boundaries, federal role is central, activities of all social groups and social systems are disrupted
What is preparedness?
- correct answer Getting ready for disaster, enhancing operations
What is response?
- correct answer Dealing with the impact of the disaster
What is recovery?
- correct answer Getting life back to normal
What is mitigation?
- correct answer Activities to eliminate or decrease disaster impact
, Disaster Relief Act (1950/1974)
- correct answer After WWII
Homeland Security (2002)
- correct answer After 9/11
What is Hazard Tradition?
- correct answer A disaster waiting to happen in your community
What is Disaster Tradition?
- correct answer A disaster that has occurred in your community
What is Risk and Perception Tradition
- correct answer The odds that something bad is going to happen in your community
What is Organization Theory
- correct answer Necessity, reciprocity, efficiency, stability
What did National Governors Association Report (1978) do?
- correct answer Suggested improvements to federal disaster management
What did President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) do?
- correct answer Recognized the need to centralize the nations emergency services
Who named James Lee Witt as the FEMA director?
- correct answer Clinton (first state emergency manager to hold the same post for the country)
What did the Stafford Act of 1988 do?
- correct answer Established a disaster declaration process, eventually changed declaration of
emergency
What are the dual tracks of Emergency Management?
- correct answer Civil defense, natural and technological disasters
questions and answers 2024\2025 A+
Grade
What is an emergency?
- correct answer Predictable day to day events (house/building fires), resources are available for
response and recovery, relatively predictable, based on community data
What is a disaster?
- correct answer Events that disrupt day to day activities within a community (local floods/tornadoes),
resources are stretched to the limit where state regional and or federal resources are necessary for
response and recovery
What is a catastrophe?
- correct answer Events that disrupt day to day activities beyond the community, extending wide
geographic region, resources become difficult to obtain and aid is slow to arrive coming from beyond
political boundaries, federal role is central, activities of all social groups and social systems are disrupted
What is preparedness?
- correct answer Getting ready for disaster, enhancing operations
What is response?
- correct answer Dealing with the impact of the disaster
What is recovery?
- correct answer Getting life back to normal
What is mitigation?
- correct answer Activities to eliminate or decrease disaster impact
, Disaster Relief Act (1950/1974)
- correct answer After WWII
Homeland Security (2002)
- correct answer After 9/11
What is Hazard Tradition?
- correct answer A disaster waiting to happen in your community
What is Disaster Tradition?
- correct answer A disaster that has occurred in your community
What is Risk and Perception Tradition
- correct answer The odds that something bad is going to happen in your community
What is Organization Theory
- correct answer Necessity, reciprocity, efficiency, stability
What did National Governors Association Report (1978) do?
- correct answer Suggested improvements to federal disaster management
What did President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) do?
- correct answer Recognized the need to centralize the nations emergency services
Who named James Lee Witt as the FEMA director?
- correct answer Clinton (first state emergency manager to hold the same post for the country)
What did the Stafford Act of 1988 do?
- correct answer Established a disaster declaration process, eventually changed declaration of
emergency
What are the dual tracks of Emergency Management?
- correct answer Civil defense, natural and technological disasters
