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Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

What to do in flood situations?

  1. Collect your precious and personal requirement and take refuge at a safer place.

  2. Do not keep the children hungry

  3. Be aware of snakes. they come to dry places. Keep a bamboo stick to drive them away.

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

All listed actions are recommended safety measures during flood situations. Preparing personal items, ensuring children are fed, and being cautious of snakes are standard safety protocols.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

What not to do in cyclonic situations?

  1. Use pure and safe drinking water

  2. Take shelter near bigger hoardings or large trees

  3. Stay away from rumours

  4. Keep provisions of food and safe drinking water
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Explanation

Taking shelter near large trees or hoardings is dangerous during a cyclone due to the risk of them falling or being uprooted by high winds. This is a clear 'what not to do' action.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

What not to do in flood situations?

  1. Eating food prepared in flood water.

  2. Drinking boiled water

  3. Putting matchbox and dry breakfast in a plastic bag

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

Eating food prepared with flood water is dangerous because flood water is contaminated with pathogens, sewage, and chemicals. Drinking boiled water and keeping dry items in plastic bags are actually recommended safety practices during floods.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

_____ irrigation could be attempted where water is scarce.

  1. Drip

  2. Sprinkle

  3. Surface

  4. Subsurface
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Explanation

Drip irrigation is a form of irrigation that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of many different plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters. It is done through narrow tubes that deliver water directly to the base of the plant. It is chosen instead of surface irrigation for various reasons, often including concern about minimizing evaporation.

Drip irrigation is used in farms, commercial greenhouses, and residential gardeners. Drip irrigation is adopted extensively in areas of acute water scarcity and especially for crops and trees such as coconuts, containerized landscape trees, grapes, bananas, pandey, eggplant, citrus, strawberries, sugarcane, cotton, maize, and potatoes.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

The following should be avoided during floods:

  1. Do not try to swim.

  2. Don't go for a tour during flooding.

  3. Do not connect the electric wire which is cut off from the main line.

  4. All of these.
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Never try to walk or swim through flowing water. Don’t go for tour in sea during flooding. If flowing water is above your ankles, then stop and turn around and go another way. If it is moving swiftly, water 6 inches deep can knock you off your feet. Be aware that people have been swept away wading through flood waters.

Turn off utilities at the main switches or valves if instructed to do so. Disconnect electrical appliances. Do not touch electrical equipment if you are wet or standing in water. Avoid floodwaters; water may be contaminated by oil, gasoline, or raw sewage. Water may also be electrically charged from underground or downed power lines.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

In what ways students can respond to drought?

  1. Harvest rainwater at home and school

  2. Plant trees

  3. Conserve water

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

Harvesting rainwater at home and school generally help in using it up in times of scarcity.

Trees, especially drought-tolerant, native species, also provide critical services that directly attack some of the consequences of drought. Native trees send out deep, water-seeking roots into the soil to tap into local groundwater and draw it to the surface.

Conserving water makes us use the water the less so that water is not wasted and could put in use during droughts.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

Contagious diseases like cholera, malaria etc spread after a ________.

  1. earthquake

  2. volcano

  3. draught

  4. flood
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Explanation

Floods often lead to the contamination of water sources and the creation of stagnant water, which are ideal conditions for the spread of waterborne and vector-borne diseases like cholera and malaria.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

What to do in drought situation?

  1. Drip irrigation in agriculture should be intensified

  2. Food rationing and use of water should be planned after estimating their availability

  3. Construction activity should be stopped except for the inevitable work

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

All listed actions are appropriate strategies for drought management: drip irrigation saves water, rationing ensures fair distribution, and stopping non-essential construction saves resources.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters floods, droughts and landslides and cyclones major hazards in india and prevention tsunami and floods

What not to do in drought situation?

  1. Hoard food grains

  2. Hoard fodder

  3. Holding large scale dinner parties

  4. All of the above
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Explanation

Hoarding food and fodder, or holding large parties, exacerbates the scarcity of resources during a drought. These are all actions that should be avoided.