{"id":23672,"date":"2026-08-30T01:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-is-drought-considered-a-slow-onset-hazard\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:01:40","slug":"why-is-drought-considered-a-slow-onset-hazard","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/why-is-drought-considered-a-slow-onset-hazard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is drought considered a slow-onset hazard?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is drought considered a slow-onset hazard?<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"quiz-options\">\n<li>It cannot influence water supplies.<\/li>\n<li>It occurs instantly like an earthquake.<\/li>\n<li>It affects only one afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Its effects build gradually across water, agriculture, ecosystems, and energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[3305,3309,3313],"subject":[1846],"education_level":[1897],"class_list":["post-23672","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-california-facts","topic-california-geography","topic-california-natural-hazards","subject-geography-of-the-united-states","education_level-graduate"],"mcq_note":"<p><strong>Its effects build gradually across water, agriculture, ecosystems, and energy.<\/strong> is correct. Drought is a slow-onset hazard whose effects accumulate across water supply, agriculture, ecosystems, and energy systems.<\/p>","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"It cannot influence water supplies."},{"right":"no","answer":"It occurs instantly like an earthquake."},{"right":"no","answer":"It affects only one afternoon."},{"right":"yes","answer":"Its effects build gradually across water, agriculture, ecosystems, and energy."}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":1846,"title":"Geography of the United States","slug":"geography-of-the-united-states"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":3305,"title":"California Facts","slug":"california-facts"},{"id":3309,"title":"California Geography","slug":"california-geography"},{"id":3313,"title":"California Natural Hazards","slug":"california-natural-hazards"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/23672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=23672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}