Geography · Environmental Studies

Natural Hazards and Disasters

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Natural hazards and disasters involve the study of extreme natural events like earthquakes, floods, and cyclones, alongside their management and mitigation strategies. This geography and environmental studies topic is heavily tested in civil services and state public service examinations. Use these questions to prepare for inquiries on disaster response, community recovery, and tremor causes.

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Natural Hazards and Disasters Questions

Multiple choice evs when there is a disaster disaster and its types disaster and types disasters

Landslide occur because of:

  1. Heavy rainfall

  2. Steep slope

  3. Deforestation

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Landslides occur when the stability of a slope is compromised. Heavy rainfall, steep terrain, and the removal of vegetation (deforestation) are all primary contributing factors to slope failure.

Multiple choice evs when there is a disaster disaster and its types disaster and types disasters

Which of the following are components of disaster management?

  1. Preparedness

  2. response

  3. Mitigation

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster management involves a cycle of phases including preparedness, response, and mitigation. All these are fundamental components of an effective disaster management framework.

Multiple choice evs when there is a disaster disaster and its types disaster and types disasters

We can greatly reduce the impact of disaster by?

  1. Better planning

  2. Better preparedness and awareness

  3. Better mitigation measures

  4. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Reducing the impact of disasters requires a multi-faceted approach. Planning, preparedness, awareness, and mitigation measures are all essential strategies to minimize loss of life and property.

Multiple choice safety precautions to be taken while handling electricity electric charge and electric current physics ohm's law current electricity

Earthing is provided in buildings to protect it from:

  1. lightning.

  2. leakage of electric current.

  3. cyclone.

  4. thunderstorm.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Earthing is provided in the building to protect us from electrical shocks due to any leakage of electrical current. It is done to provide safety by minimizing the shock, if someone accidentally touches the faulty wire.

Multiple choice chemistry air and water pollution ways to prevent air pollution ways to reduce air pollution reducing air pollution

Which of the following pose threat to historical monument Taj Mahal?

  1. Floods in Yanuna river

  2. Temperature mediated spoilage of marble

  3. Air pollutants from Mathura refinery

  4. Weathering of marble
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The Mathura Refinery, owned by Indian Oil Corporation, is located in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. The Mathura oil refinery releases toxic gases and disposes waste into the rivers making the area dirty and unhealthy. Even the Taj Mahal is getting affected because of this. The India government hired a panel to examine the effects of the refinery on the Taj Mahal. The panel found that the air has high levels of suspended particulate matter, caused by factory emissions, dust, construction, and exhaust from automobiles. These are causing the Taj Mahal to change colour.

Multiple choice resonance oscillations physics

Destruction of buildings during an earthquake is an example of:

  1. mechanical resonance

  2. beats

  3. damped vibration

  4. critical vibration
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

During earthquake, when the frequency of earthquake becomes equal to the natural frequency of building, resonance (mechanical) occurs due to which amplitude of vibration of building increases and building get destroy.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods hazards disasters - case studies

Which natural disaster forces people to migrate to other areas?

  1. Drought

  2. Floods

  3. Landslide

  4. Volcanic eruption
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Droughts is expected to result in increased displacement is the area of so-called slow-onset disaster in which climate change has specific long-term environmental effects over time such as desertification and other changes in weather patterns, which means that people’s livelihoods are no longer sustainable and they are forced to migrate to other places.

Multiple choice geography pressure belts and winds climate and seasons winds atmospheric pressure and winds

In which countries the term Western Disturbance is used to describe an extra tropical storm originating in the Mediterranean Sea?

  1. India

  2. Pakistan

  3. Afghanistan and Nepal

  4. All the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Western disturbance is an extra tropical storm originating in Mediterranean Sea and that brings sudden winter rain to Indian subcontinent. These are one of the reason for cyclonic disturbances. Western disturbance are called by the name in India, Nepal, Afghanistan, Pakistan.