Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid
Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid
1. When a disaster has occurred response and relief have to take place immediately; there can be no
A. Response
B. Delay
C. Risk
D. Mitigation
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A. Structural or Non-Structural
B. Vertical or Horizontal
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A. Elder's
B. Children
C. Women
D. Diseased
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4. Due to ____________, the water or food borne disease, person to person, Vector borne diseases
and complications from wounds.
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5. In many countries the community-based approach to emergency response has been the (CERT)
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A. Credibility
B. be Honest
C. be prompt
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7. The production and viewing of videos on past ____________ can also be shown to communities to
highlight important issues in preparation for or in response to disaster.
A. Measure
B. Provision
C. Disaster
D. Affect
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A. Direct
B. indirect
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10. Women and children are more vulnerable; in order to reduce this gap _______ specific measure
need to be taken.
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11. A kind of informal training given at the community level is the use of mock exercises in reducing
disaster __________________.
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Electronic
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12. The ______________ has a well established organization setup for observing, detecting, tracking
and forecasting cyclones and issuing cyclone warnings.
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13. __________________must always be used to conduct effective education and public awareness
campaigns.
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Mother tongue
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15. After a disaster most people go through a stressful time. Parents, children, heads of both the
government and private sectors, and basically the whole community suffer some kind of
_______________.
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Trauma
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16. Government may not want ____________ directly involved in the process, but should be urged to
link them into the overall objectives of the proposed plan.
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Ngos
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Wide
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18. A national ______________ for dealings with contingencies arising in the wake of natural disasters
has been formulated by the govt., of India as it had been periodically updated.
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19. GIS is a tool that allows users to create interactive queries (user created searches), analyze the
_____________ information, edit data, maps, and present the results of all these operations.
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Spatial
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20. The __________ UN agency, which is offered by modern information exchange provide unparallel
reasons to faster more collaboration in hazards research and risks posed to modern society.
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IDNDR
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Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid - I, September - 2014
A. Chennai
B. Manglore
C. Amritsar
D. Puri
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A. Avalanches
B. cyclones
C. earthquakes
D. floods
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A. Seismograph
B. Richter scale
C. barometer
D. thermostat
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4. Drought occurs
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A. August
B. September
C. October
D. November
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6. A natural hazard is
C. People located in a natural environment that may disrupt or threaten their safety and property
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B. severe drought
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9. Technology can identify hazards and estimate their impact on an area, this permits
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A. Volunteers
B. govt. agencies
C. emergency agencies
D. pre-disaster planning
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Typoons
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P-waves
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13. Besides earth, what other planets show evidence of stream erosion = ___________
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Mars
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14. Nuclear weapon which produce a large amount of its energy through nuclear fusion is known as =
________________________
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Hydrogen bomb
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15. Inventories and maps of storage locations of toxin or hazardous substances is known as =
___________
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Hazard Mapping
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16. All the eight battalions of ________________ are equipped and trained for all natural disasters
including four battalions in combating nuclear, biological and chemical disasters.
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17. Long term drought can cause ____________________ changes in social and living patterns.
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Permanent
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18. The occurrence of a sudden or major misfortune which disrupts the basic fabric and normal
functioning of a society (or community) is known as Disaster. The above definition is given by
=______________.
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19. According to the United Nations, between 1992 and 2000 there were approximately _________
disasters per year throughout the world.
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500
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