Tag: man made disaster

Quizzes (0) Questions (109)

Questions Related to man made 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.

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

Why do we need disaster management?

  1. To reduce loss of property

  2. To protect people

  3. To reduce trauma among people

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D 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. Disaster management is very important to survive in case of natural or man-made disaster. Disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and damage in the event of disaster. Disaster management measures can help removing people and property from a threatened location by facilitating timely and effective rescue, relief and rehabilitation at the place of disaster thereby reducing loss of property, protecting people and reducing trauma among people.

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

Which of the following does not include the task of disaster management?

  1. Assess secondary social problems such as health epidemics, displaced persons

  2. Counsel those who have suffered trauma and bereavement

  3. Control rumors, provide accurate information

  4. Provide security; prevent looting, protect person and property
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Disaster management is very important to survive in case of natural or man-made disaster. Disaster management activities are aimed to minimize loss of life and damage in the event of disaster. Disaster management forces can help by removing people and property from a threatened location and by facilitating timely and effective rescue, relief and rehabilitation at the place of disaster thereby reducing loss of property, protecting people, but it does not provide further counselling to the people who have suffered trauma and bereavement.

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

Hazard and vulnerability studies 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
A Correct answer
Explanation

Risk identification process involves activities related to hazard identification i.e to identify location, nature, intensity and likelihood (probability or frequency) of a threat and vulnerability analysis  to determine the existence and degree of vulnerabilities and exposure to a threat. Vulnerability is a set of prevailing or consequential conditions arising from various physical, social, economic and environmental factors which increase the susceptibility of a community to the  impact of hazards.

Multiple choice geography disaster management: responding to disasters man made disaster disaster and management disaster management and precautionary measures

The fire accidents are not likely to occur in which of the following places.

  1. Chemical industries.

  2. Forest in dry period

  3. Petrol banks.

  4. None of the above.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Fire accidents can occur in any environment where flammable materials and ignition sources are present. None of the listed options are inherently immune to fire risks.

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

The response to the disaster management includes ______, 

  1. Alert people

  2. Respond to the grave situation

  3. Arrange the essential items for people

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

The main aim of disaster management is to reduce or avoid the potential losses from hazards. It assures prompt and appropriate assistance to victims of disaster, and achieves rapid and effective recovery. The response to the disaster management includes efforts to minimize the hazards created by a disaster. It includes to alert people, to respond to grave situation, search and rescue, emergency relief, arrange the essential items for people.