1. pick one of the natural disasters facing the portland area and create your own assessment of the risk that it poses. your assessment should be a paragraph of at least 5 sentences including: likelihood of the event. statistics on history of events in the pacific northwest. risk that the disaster poses to you. measures you can take to be prepared. 2. what sources of media do you rely on to be informed of potential emergencies or disasters? will you be able to get information if the power is out? research options that are available to you and list five possible ways you can get information during an emergency. 3. write a short paragraph about how you dealt with an emergency in the past such as a snowstorm or any of the disasters listed above. describe what you did and what you could have done be be better prepared. 4. what would you do in the case of a winter storm warning? 5. what would you do in the case of a flood watch?

Which of the following is a health risk associated with ground-level ozone? a. cataractsb. skin cancerc. respiratory illnessd. all of the above

Which action encourages homophobia? tolerating others’ opinions welcoming someone into a group respecting others' differences accepting inappropriate terminology

Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to people by deer ticks. deer ticks are almost never born infected with the bacterium, but they can pick it up from feeding on an infected host in any of the tick's three successive stage of development: larva, nymph, adult. once infected, a tick remains infected through any subsequent developmental stages, but since a tick feeds on only one host in each stage, it follows that . people can be infected only by being bitten by a tick that is either in larval stage or in the nymph stage b. people cannot be infected by a tick that picked up the lyme disease bacterium in the adult stage c. it is not possible for a person to be infected by a tick that is in the nymph stage or by a tick that was infected with the bacterium while in the nymph stage d. people infected with the lyme disease bacterium cannot transmit bacterium to adult deer ticks e. only deer ticks that are adults can transmit the lyme disease bacterium to people