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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 geography understanding disaster hazards and types of hazards introduction to disaster hazards

Consider the following statement regarding disasters:
1. These are caused due to faulty human activities.
2 These originate from human planning errors or negligence.
Identify the disaster.

  1. Natural disaster

  2. Man-made disaster

  3. Hybrid disaster

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

Disasters caused by human error, negligence, or faulty planning are classified as man-made disasters.

Multiple choice geography understanding disaster hazards and types of hazards introduction to disaster hazards

If you were at the beach, how would you know there may be a tsunami? 

  1. An alert comes over the radio

  2. There may be a warning

  3. There is a drop in the level of the ocean

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

Tsunami warning signs include official alerts, radio broadcasts, and natural indicators like a significant, rapid recession of the ocean water from the shoreline.

Multiple choice geography understanding disaster hazards and types of hazards introduction to disaster hazards

Intense damage was caused in Ladakh in 2010 due to which natural calamity ?

  1. Cloudburst

  2. Landslide

  3. Earthquake

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

The floods occurred in 2010 across a large part of Ladakh, a region of the northernmost Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. 71 towns and villages were damaged, including the main town in the area, Leh. At least 255 people are reported to have died, after a cloudburst and heavy overnight rains triggered flash foods, mudslides, and debris flows.

Multiple choice geography environmental economics study of water pollution threats to water resource major hazards in india and prevention

It is said, the Tajmahal may be destroyed due to ________________.

  1. Flood in Yamuna river.

  2. Decomposition of marble as a result of high temperature.

  3. Air pollutants released from oil refinery of Mathura.

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

The Mathura refinery was in the news for allegedly causing the white marble of the Taj Mahal to yellow. The Indian government hired a panel to examine the effects of the refinery. The panel found that the air has high levels of suspended articulate matter, caused by factory emissions, dust, construction and exhaust from automobiles. These are causing the Taj Mahal to change colour.

Multiple choice organization of commerce and management social responsibility of management and csr concept of social responsibility social responsibility social responsibility - concept corporate social responsibility

Discretionary responsibility means ______.

  1. Providing charitable contributions to educational institutions

  2. Helping the affected people during floods

  3. Helping the affected people during earthquakes

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

Discretionary responsibility refers to purely voluntary obligations that an enterprise assumes.It is the responsibility of the company management to safeguard the capital investment by undertaking only healthy business ventures which gives good returns on investment.It includes charitable contributions, helping people during floods and earthquakes and many such activites.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

The collection, compilation, and dissemination of relevant knowledge and information on hazards, vulnerabilities, and capacities are included in which of the following steps of disaster management ?

  1. Preparedness

  2. Recovery

  3. Rehabilitation

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The first phase of disaster management is preparedness which involves collection, compilation, and dissemination of relevant knowledge and information on hazards, vulnerabilities, and capacities to respond to a disaster or other emergency situation. The preparedness phase is designed to structure the disaster response prior to the occurrence of a disaster. During the preparedness phase, governments, organizations, and individuals develop plans to save lives, minimize disaster damage, and enhance disaster response operations.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Decisions and actions taken after a disaster with a view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the stricken community is called __________.

  1. Reduction of risk

  2. Preparedness

  3. Recovery

  4. Prevention
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Recovery is defined as decisions and actions taken after a disaster with a view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the stricken community, while encouraging and facilitating necessary adjustments to reduce disaster risk. This process of recovery from the impact of disaster must be across various sectors, namely shelter, infrastructure, healthcare services, agriculture, economic and social rehabilitation. 

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

The conceptual framework of elements considered with the possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society is _______.

  1. DRR

  2. UNDP

  3. UNISDR

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The most commonly cited definition of DRR is one used by UN agencies such as UNISDR, also known as the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, and UNDP: "The conceptual framework of elements considered with the possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation and preparedness) the adverse impacts of hazards, within the broad context of sustainable development

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Odisha often face natural disasters due to _________.

  1. cyclones

  2. earthquakes

  3. landslides

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

Cyclones,

Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa often face natural disasters due to Cyclones. India is highly vulnerable to natural hazards especially earthquakes, floods, drought, cyclones and landslides. Four States (Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal) and one UT (Pondicherry) on the East Coast and One State (Gujarat) on the West Coast are more vulnerable to cyclone disasters.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

The preparation for disaster management includes ______, 

  1. Strengthening of basic information

  2. Identifying disaster-prone local areas

  3. Prepare schemes to deal with disasters

  4. Involvement of local people

  5. All of the above mentioned
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster management preparation is a comprehensive process that requires information, identification of risks, planning, and community involvement.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

To effective disaster management, the government must be ______.

  1. Repaired

  2. Prepared

  3. Responsible

  4. Neglecting
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Preparedness is the cornerstone of effective disaster management, as it allows for a faster and more organized response when a disaster occurs.

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Which of the following activities is covered by Disaster Management before, during and after a disaster?  

  1. Reconstruction and Rehabilitation

  2. Mitigation

  3. Emergency response

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

Disaster management is a cycle that includes mitigation (before), emergency response (during), and reconstruction/rehabilitation (after).

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Natural disasters such as _____ usually occur without warning.

  1. Earthquakes

  2. Fires

  3. Terrorist attacks etc

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

A.  Earthquakes

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can be violent enough to toss people around and destroy whole cities. The seismicity or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. In modern popular culture, the portrayal of earthquakes is shaped by the memory of great cities laid waste, such as Kobe in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906.Fictional earthquakes tend to strike suddenly and without warning

Multiple choice geography for a safer future disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster tsunami and floods

Generation of disaster warning is a _____ effort.

  1. Multi-institutional

  2. Organisational

  3. Multi-branded

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Generation of disaster warning is a multi-institutional effort, which has direct application in disaster mitigation and management, urban development, planning, design and construction, and risk assessment to existing life and property, defense installations, heavy industry and public utilities and services, etc. During the last few years’ efforts have been made to take up microzonation studies for Delhi, Guwahati, Sikkim and Bangalore