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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

What is the first aid given for a heart attack?

  1. Bandage

  2. Injection

  3. CPR

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

If a person suffers a heart attack and their heart stops, CPR is the standard first aid procedure to maintain blood circulation until professional help arrives.

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 vehicle which government is providing to render immediate medical help is _________.

  1. bus

  2. ambulance

  3. aeroplane

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

An ambulance is a medically equipped vehicle designed to transport patients to treatment facilities and provide emergency care during transit.

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 activity that involves immediate assistance, continuing assistance and restoration of infrastructure.

  1. Preparedness

  2. Response

  3. Recovery

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

The response phase of emergency management involves immediate assistance, relief operations, and initial restoration of critical infrastructure. Mitigation aims to prevent hazards, preparedness focuses on planning, and recovery involves long-term rebuilding.

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

Only thing we can do about disasters which are inevitable is ___________.

  1. Avoidance

  2. Preparedness

  3. Obstructing

  4. Facing as it is
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster is a sudden, calamitous and unfortunate event that brings with it great damage, loss, destruction and devastation to human life as well as property. Disasters are inevitable, we cannot do anything to prevent these but disaster preparedness is only in our hand. Disaster preparedness or disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and property in the event of disaster.

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 given statements are true?

Disaster management is essential because:

A. They have huge effects on humans and environment.

B. Disasters are inevitable.

  1. Only A

  2. Only B

  3. Both A and B

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

Disaster management is very important to survive in case of the natural or man-made disaster as it has huge impact on humans and environment. Disasters are inevitable, we cannot do anything to prevent these but disaster preparedness is only in our hand. Disaster preparedness or disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and property in the event of disaster.

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

Prevention, mitigation, transfer, and financing are included under which of the following aspects of risk management?

  1. Risk identification

  2. Risk reduction

  3. Adverse event management

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

Disaster risk management involves activities related to prevention i.e relocating exposed people and assets away from a hazard area, mitigation i.e. preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects for instance constructing flood defences, planting trees to stabilize slopes and implementing strict land use and building construction codes, transfer i.e. it is the process of formally or informally shifting the financial consequences of particular risks from one party to another whereby a household, community, enterprise or state authority will obtain resources from the other party after a disaster occurs, financing i.e. Disaster risk analysis was born out of the financial and insurance sector's need to quantify the risk of comparatively rare high-impact natural hazard events.

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 is the best way to reduce the effect of disaster?

  1. Preparedness

  2. Avoiding

  3. Escaping

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

Preparedness involves proactive measures taken before a disaster occurs to minimize its impact, making it the most effective way to reduce disaster effects.

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

Disaster management requires which of the following? 

  1. Mitigation

  2. Rescue

  3. Relief

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

Disaster management requires mitigation i.e preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects and it includes any activities that prevent an emergency, reduce the chance of an emergency happening, or reducing the damaging effects of unavoidable emergencies. Mitigation activities take place before and after emergencies. Disaster management requires rescue, relief activities, which includes protecting people from threatened situations, relocation, providing food and water, providing temporary shelter and emergency health care.