Oklahoma History Risk Assessment & Management 4

Question 1

Which risk posed the greatest long-term threat to Oklahoma's water supply that was identified in the state's Comprehensive Water Plan?

Accepted Answer

Declining aquifer levels due to over-extraction

Answer

Oklahoma's Comprehensive Water Plan identified the depletion of major aquifers like the Ogallala as the most critical long-term water supply risk.

Question 2

After the Moore, Oklahoma tornado of 2013, which school construction risk management measure was debated but ultimately left to local districts?

Accepted Answer

Mandatory underground storm shelters in new school buildings

Answer

Despite the tornado killing students at Plaza Towers Elementary, the Oklahoma Legislature left underground shelter requirements to individual school districts rather than mandating them statewide.

Question 3

Oklahoma's Indian Removal era (1830s) created significant public health risks for the Five Civilized Tribes primarily through which mechanism?

Accepted Answer

Crowding in temporary camps causing disease outbreaks

Answer

The forced relocation concentrated thousands of people in temporary camps with inadequate sanitation, creating conditions for cholera, dysentery, and other disease outbreaks.

Question 4

How does Oklahoma's Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan prioritize which risks receive the most funding and attention?

Accepted Answer

By probability of occurrence multiplied by potential impact severity

Answer

Risk prioritization in Oklahoma's mitigation plan uses a standard risk formula that weighs both how likely an event is and how severe its consequences would be.

Question 5

During Oklahoma statehood negotiations in 1907, which risk to the Five Tribes' sovereignty was most formally documented and debated?

Accepted Answer

Dissolution of communal land ownership under allotment

Answer

The Dawes Allotment Act's dissolution of communal tribal lands into individual parcels represented the most formally contested sovereignty risk during statehood negotiations.

Oklahoma History Practice Test

Oklahoma History Practice Test

Oklahoma History Risk Assessment & Management 4