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1 Explain the difference between an accident and a catastrophe.

2 Define the term disaster and note its relation to hazards and vulnerability.

3 What is an emergency manager and what does he or she do?

4 What are the four phases or functional areas of emergency management? How do these relate to homeland security?

5 List the major categories of hazards.

6 Provide one or two examples of hazards under each category identified in question 5.

7 Explain why Covid‐19 could be considered a complex disaster.

8 What are the major changes an emergency manager can expect after a disaster?

9 What are the goals of disaster response and recovery?

10 What is an agent‐generated demand?

11 What is a response‐generated demand?

12 What is a normalcy‐generated demand?

13 What is a mitigation‐generated demand?

14 What is a preparedness‐generated demand?

15 What is resilience?