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p1 3rd Edition By Sandler, All 13 Chapters Covered
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Chapter 1: Hazards and Disasters
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Chapter 2: Preparedness, Hazard Mitigation, and Climate Change
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p 1 Part 1 Introduction
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Chapter 3: Meteorological and Hydrological Hazards: Hurricanes, Sea Level Rise, Floods,
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Drought, Wildfire, Tornadoes, Severe Winter Weather, and Extreme Heat
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Chapter 4: Geological Hazards: Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Landslides, Coastal
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Erosion, and Land Subsidence
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Chapter 5: Human-Made Hazards: Terrorism, Civil Unrest and Technological
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Chapter 6: Role of the Federal Government in Disaster
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p1 Management Chapter 7: Mitigating Hazards at the State Level
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Chapter 8: Local Government Powers: Building Resilience from the Ground Up
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p 1 Chapter 9: Community Resilience and the Private Sector
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Part 3 Introduction
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Chapter 10: Risk Assessment: Identifying Hazards and Vulnerability
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Chapter 11: Preparedness Activities: Planning to Be Ready When Disaster Hits
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p 1 Chapter 12: Hazard Mitigation Planning: Creating Strategies to Reduce
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p1 Vulnerability p 1 Part 4 Introduction p1 p1




Chapter 13: Disaster Resilience: Living With Our Environment
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, Answers at the end of each chapter p1 p1 p1 p1 p1 p1



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1. The typical costs associated with hazards that affect the built environment include:
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a. economic
b. social
c. environmental
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2. After a hazard event, ecosystems:
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a. can cause human-made disasters
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b. fail to sustain further plant life
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c. can regenerate and plant and animal life can begin anew
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d. lose their ability to regenerate animal life
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3. Over the long-term, volcanic lava and ash:
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b. form fertile soils that stimulate new plant growth
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c. do not produce any beneficial results as compared to other natural hazards
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d. remain unchanging components in the delicate balance of nature
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4. The following are not considered types of geophysical processes involved in natural hazards:
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a. extraterrestrial
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d. meteorological


5. Systems of hazard measurement used by meteorologists, hydrologists, and other scientists
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c. Modified Mercalli scale p1 p1




d. all of the above
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6. Natural hazards may appear to be increasing in frequency because of all of the
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a. heightened media exposure p1 p1




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c. strong building codes p1 p1




d. the effects of climate change
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7. We are experiencing more disasters than ever before in our Nation’s history because
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a. Disasters tend to occur in 50 year cycles p1 p1 p1 p1 p1 p1 p1




b. Developers are motivated more by profit than by building environmentally friendly
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c. The population doesn’t take disaster preparation seriously
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d. More development and more people are in harm’s way than ever before
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8. Who finances activities of local, state, and federal governments before, during, and after a
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