Hidden EP Quiz No.25

1. Under RA 8371, this refers to "all areas generally belonging to ICCs/lPs comprising lands, inland waters coastal areas, and natural resources therein, held under a claim of ownership, occupied or possessed by ICCs/lPs, by themselves or through their ancestors, since time immemorial, continuously up to the present"

Tribal land

Cultural heritage

Autonomous region

Ethnic realm

Ancestral domain

2. Which factor increases a population's 'vulnerability' to disaster?

Young-age and old-age dependency

Lack of resources to change physical location

Crowding & congestion

Lack of information

Illness and disability

All of the choices

3. Why do land values at the center of an overpopulated city fall drastically?

Pollution, land degradation, disease

Urban blight, decay, and criminality

Congestion, overcrowding, traffic

Deteriorating quality of life

All of the choices

4. In water supply planning, what classification of water should a residential consumer get from a faucet?

Class AA

Class B

Class C

Class D

Class E

5. The highest and best use of a 30 sq.km freshwater lake based on computation of both monetary and non-monetary values, is best illustrated in the following combination:

Five-star resort hotel that caters to foreign tourists, with boating, wakeboarding, jetski and other sports facilities;

Five-star resort hotel plus high-end Retirement Haven that contributes substantial revenues to the LGU;

Manufacturing park with 20 locators and ready facilities for industrial cooling and dumping of factory wastewater;

Ecotourism plus fisheries, ferry transport, sports, wellness centers, floodholding area, aquatic parks and sanctuaries

6. Since the permitted width of four-wheel vehicle is 2.5 meters and the minimum clearance between two parallel vehicles is 0.50 meters, what should be the ideal width of a two-lane farm-to-market road also called barangay road?

3 meters

6 meters

9 meters

12 meters

7. In classical theories of industrial location by Weber, Losch, and lsard, what are the three factors that firms are most concerned about?

Minerals, electricity, water

Costs of money, taxes, stock exchange growth

Location of raw materials, location of market, transport

Product image, promotion & advertising, public relations

8. Under Kevin Lynch's scheme (1961), what would best describe Rockwell Makati and Ortigas Center?

Landmark

Cosmopolitan

District

Downtown

Estate

9. Which of the following will not reduce vulnerability to hazards

Maintaining 'healthy' natural systems

Restricting development in hazardous areas

Stockpiling emergency goods and disaster relief

Requiring safer building standards

10. In planning public facilities and utilities, 'population density' should be rationally matched with

Materials & machines

Nuts and bolts

Service capacity infrastructure

Investments of government

11. 'Leapfrog development' and 'sprawl' commonly results from what Pierce F. Lewis calls

Circumferential City

Multi-cellular City

Stellar City

Galactic City

12. "Identity, structure, and meaning - Cities that have buildings and natural features with strong identities, street patterns that are easy to comprehend, and other form elements that have functional and symbolic meanings are likely to be more imageable than cities lacking such attributes."

Kevin Lynch

Edward Tollman

John Trawls

Camilo Sitte

13. Which of the following is not a major Heritage Site in the Philippines·as declared by UNESCO?

Baroque churches of Manila, Sta. Maria, Paoay & Miag-ao

Tubattaha Reef Marine Park

Magellan's Cross in Cebu·

Rice Terraces of the Philippines

Puerto Princesa Underground River

Historic Town of Vigan

14. According to the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, the total cumulative housing need According to the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, among nine countries in East Asia being compared, the Philippines has the highest officially-reported poverty incidence at 26.6%, the highest Gini coefficient at 0.448, the lowest rate increase in real per capita income at 2.3% per annum, and among the highest unemployment rates per annum. These figures indicate that

Philippine growth is not broadbased and could not create vast employment opportunities for the majority;

Macroeconomic growth has not been adequately translated into human development and socialprogress.

Public investment favors few competitive sectors in central and urban places to the neglect of the marginal and disadvantaged sectors;

Economic growth in real terms' is often too small to be offset by high population growth.

Bad governance means there are chronic leakages of government resources & low accountability and transparency in the development management.

All of the choices

15. 'Linear regression' is a statistical method used to:

Establish that as supplies increase, prices decrease

Calculate the probability of a sample value being within 1.96 standard-deviations of the mean

Determine the influence of one or more independent variables on a dependent variable

Estimate the degree to which research findings may be generalized

16. The most profitable utilization of property based on what is physically possible, ecologically sound, legally permissible, and financially viable, thus resulting in the optimal value of the property, is called

Maximum Sustainable Yield

Feasibility

Highest & Best Use

Cost-efficiency

17. According to R. Hurd, since land value depends on economic rent, and rent on location, and location on convenience, and convenience on nearness, we may eliminate the intermediate steps and say that land value depends on nearness."

Social connection

Proximity and access

Ease of movement

Free play of market forces

18. According to RA 9367 Renewable Energy Act of 2006, what are the additives to gasoline that are harmful to both people and nature?

Methyl tertiary butyl ether

Isooctane and heptane

Molybdenum oxide

Tetraethyl

19. The logical equation to describe "Risk" would be

Risk = Susceptibility x Vulnerability diveded by Adaptive/Coping capacity

Risk = Exposure x Duration x Extent x Frequency

Risk = Hazard x Population Density + Income

Risk = Exposure x Probability x Coincidence

20. Under RA 7076 People's Small-scale Mining Act of 1991, the following are characteristics of small-scale mining except

Capitalization of not more than 10 million

Use of explosives for excavating and tunneling

Not more than 20 hectares in total size

Gross production not more than 50,000

Artisanal and labor-intensive

21. In William Alonso's Bid-Rent Theory (1960), the most appropriate use of the innermost circle in the diagram is

Farming of the most expensive crops

Terminal for commuters, central rail station

Central park

Shopping & retail services

22. An LGU regulation prohibiting a landowner from using his/her residential lot as a firing range is considered an exercise of the power of the State called

Escheat

Eminent domain

Taxation

Police power

Moral suasion

Sovereignty

23. Which of the following is least effective for controlling soil erosion caused by wind and water?

Planting windbreaks

Planting cover crops

Removing crop stubble from surface

Using conservation tillage

24. According to RA 10066 National Cultural Heritage Act of 2009, this refers to "historical sites or structures hallowed and revered for their history or association as declared by the National Historical Institute"

Epochal Landmark

National Treasure

National Cultural Property

Historic Shrine

Sacred Place

25. A water system composed of a source, reservoir, distribution system, and communal faucets. Usually, one faucet serves 4 to 6 households, generally suitable for rural and urban-fringe areas where houses are clustered densely to justify a simple piped-system.

Level I

Level II

Level III

Level IV

26. 'Republic Act that provides for conservation and protection of wildlife resources and their habitats is numbered as

RA 9147

RA 9714

RA 4791

RA 1479

R.A. 9147 "Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act."

Explanation

R.A. 9147 "Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act."

27. An area within a city or town where the average density is 20 dwelling units per hectare or below, with majority of lot sizes are between 300-800 square meters or more, is zoned as

R-1

R-2

R-3

R-4

Mixed Use Zone

28. 986. An area in most cities ·where regional shopping centers, huge consumer malls, sports stadiums, high-rise hotels, office towers are located, is zoned as

C-1

C-2

C-3

Tourism zone

Financial District

29. In Homer Hoyt's model (1939), where would the elite class place their high-end subdivisions?

Section 'A'

Section 'B1'

Section 'C'

Section 'D'

30. In the equation, Disaster = (Hazard)x (Exposure/Preparedness) x (Vulnerability/Coping Capacity), Disaster can be reduced by

Decreasing vulnerability by eliminating hazard

Training people to cope and cope unceasingly

Preparing people to anticipate and to equip themselves constantly

Changing the equation of exposure by creating a risk-free world

31. According to the Medium Term Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, the total cumulative housing need would reach 6,732,464 by year 2016, but governments capacity to directly provide houses only averages 120,000 units per annum. What would be a more rational strategy for housing development?

Leave to private households the matter of housing development according to the free play of market forces;

Allow big foreign companies with enormous capital to undertake mass shelter projects;

Rationalize taxation of land so that developers can bring down overall cost of house and lot packages;

LGUs should improve CLUP-Zoning so that price of land would be kept low

Stimulate participation of business, civic, religious, and cooperatives sectors in multi-partite housing production.

32. In statistics, this is a value in a set of sample observations which occurs most often or with the greatest frequency

Recurrence

Returns

Mode

Average

Sum

Minuend

33. Under PD198 dated May 25, 1973, if a 'water district' can be created for at least one municipality or cluster of municipalities, what would be the minimum population to be serviced within a water district?

15,000

25,000

35,000

45,000

55,000

34. What does the Gini coefficient measure?

Savings rate

Real estate tax

Income inequality

Poverty

Return on investment

35. In Ernest Burgess' concentric model (1925), factories and workshopswould most likely locate in

The innermost circle

The outermost circle

The second circle from the center

The third circle from the center

36. Which of the following is not a function of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council?

Custodian and keeper of all resources of government related to housing and urban development;

Determine participation and coordinate activities of key housing agencies in national housing program;

Monitor, review and evaluate the effective exercise by government housing agencies of their assigned functions;

Assist in the maximum participation of the private sector in all aspects of housing and urban development;

Recommend new legislation and amendments to existing laws as may be necessary for the attainment of governments objective in housing;

37. Under RA 7076 People's Smallscale Mining Act of 1991, who are the preferred holders of small-scale mining permits?

Guilds

Cooperatives

Sanggunian

NGOs

Micro-scale and cottage enterprises

38. The shifts in perspective from victim as receiver to victim as actor, 'from doleout of goods to capacity building and institution-building,' 'from individual aid to restoration of the social system,' 'from outside response to community initiatives' -all form part of the paradigm of

Quick emergency response

Disaster risk reduction

Disaster recovery management

Search, rescue & rehab

39. The 'multiple nuclei' model of Harris and Ullmann (1945) posits that

Cities have varied natural resources that stimulate progress in different locations

Diversified economic functions of cities cluster around several points of growth

Zoning of cities closely follows the flow or circuits of capital

Air transport, sea transport, land transport facilities are the logical growth zones of cities

40. The following factors combine to cause flashfloods and large-scale flooding, except

Amount of rainfall

Winds and gusts

Loss of tree cover causing erosion & siltation

Waterways clogged with household wastes

Impervious concrete surfaces

Natural topography

41. Which is not one of Natures ecosystemic services and functions as adopted by the United Nations?

Climate regulation

Food and fiber

Nutrient cycling

Soil formation

Physical aberrations and anomalies

Biological treatment of water and storm runoff

42. Which of the following is not a function of the National Economic and Development Authority?

Proper allocation of expenditures for each development activity between current operating expenditures and capital outlays;

Evaluation of the fiscal, monetary and balance of payments implications of major national projects,

Privatization and public accountability of corporations and assets owned, controlled or acquired by the government

Recommend appropriate policies, programs and projects consistent with national development objectives

43. In the conventional land economics by Raleigh Barlowe (1958), what are the three determinants of land value?

Farm harvest, wild growth, usufruct

Scarcity, utility, desirability

Sale, lease, rent

Location, permanence, transferability

44. Which law exempts, in Section 20, cremation, siga, bonfires, traditional cultural practices, etcetera from the total ban on incineration?

RA 8749

RA 9003

RA 6969

RA 9275

45. Under RA 7942 Philippine Mining Act of 1995, a mining enterprise with capitalization of more than 10 million and an operating area of over 20 hectares, can be considered

Medium-scale

Global-scale

Large-scale

Cottage-scale

46. Which of the following data-sets is least needed in Economic Area Analysis?

Population forecasts

Employment trends

Income levels

Cohort survival

Poverty incidence of households

Retail sales of registered enterprises

47. "Environmental Economics" by Randall and Howe calculates the value in use of natural resources by creating them as

Stock resources, flow resources, reproducing resources

Renewable, replenishable, replicable

Extant, extinct, exhaustible

Inputs, throughputs, outputs

48. Under Executive Orders 127, 127-A and 292, which of the following is not a function of the Department of Finance?

Formulation, institutionalization and administration of fiscal policies of government;

Supervision of the revenue operations of all.local government units;

Conceptualization of major government investments on infrastructure and utilities;

Review, approval and management of all public sector debt, domestic or foreign;

Formulation, institutionalization and administration of fiscal and tax policies;

49. In "Ecological Economics" by Daly and Costanza, non-use of ENR has economic value because it can result in greater "environmental protection and security"

Existence value

Insurance value

Bequest value

Vicarious value

All cf the above

50. "Conservation" from the perspective of environmental economics' would include all but one of the following

Society's savings from strict preserves

Elimination of social and economic waste

Orderly and efficient resource use

Maximization of social net returns over time