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QUESTIONS

1. It refers to a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and ther pollutants.
2. Which of the following is a geological hazard? 
3. Which of the following are natural drivers of climate change? 
4. Answer true or false: Tropical cyclones form at the lowest latitude.
5. These hazards are caused by human action or inaction.
6. Hazards that usually involve natural actions in space
7. This are activities and measures to avoid existing and new disaster risks
8. Tiny particles of carbon released as a result of the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels and biomass.
9. The act of lessening or limiting the adverse impacts of hazards and related disasters.
10. Which of the following is a biological hazard?
11. It refers to a change in the climate that persists for decades or longer, arising from either natural causes or human activity. 
12. It refers to an increase in the average long-term level of the world's seas/oceans due to the effects of global warming.
13. Answer true or false: In the Philippines, tropical cyclones are usually formed when the SW Monsoon is at its peak.
14. Which of the following is a climatological hazard?
15. Refers to the warming of the ocean in the eastern equatorial and central Pacific.
16. Hazard is caused by movements in the structure of the earth.
17. Refers to the potential disaster losses in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets and services, which could,occur in a particular community or society over some specified future time period.
18. Enumerate five impacts of climate change
19. Hazards that are caused by immediate and violent changes in the earth's environment or by the earth's atmosphere. 
20. It refers to the concept and practice of lessening the damage caused by natural hazards.
21. Answer true or false: The normal condition is the absence of El Niño or La Niña.
22. Hazards arising from organisms or a derivative thereof that poses a threat to the health of other living organisms, primarily humans.
23. An extreme event associated with water occurrence, movement, and distribution. 
24. Hazards that are of atmospheric, hydrological or oceanographic origin.
25. Which of the following can contribute to sea level rise?
26. An intense weather disturbance with very low pressure and strong wind circulation blowing in a counter-clockwise direction toward the center or "eye" with minimum winds of 35 kilometers per hour.
27. It refers to the knowledge and capacities of institutions, organizations, communities and individuals to effectively anticipate, respond to, and recover from the impacts of hazards.
28. A general term for gases that trap heat in the atmosphere thereby warming the planet.
29. Answer true or false: Easterly winds are stronger in periods when El Niño events .
30. Answer true or false: Ozone is a greenhouse gas
31. Answer true or false: Northern Luzon is seldom hit by typhoons. 
32. These are the direct or indirect results of hazards.
33. The process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another. 
34. A natural process or phenomenon that may pose negative impacts on the economy, society, and ecology. 
35. It refers to the changes in atmospheric pressure associated with El Niño events
36. Events that are caused by extreme weather conditions.