Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid - II, November - 2014

Home Mids Disaster Management and Mitigation

October 25, 2015 VIKRAM 190

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

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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2. Mitigation measures can be categorized as

A. Structural or Non-Structural

B. Vertical or Horizontal

C. Community or Non Community

D. All of the above

Incorrect. The correct answer is : A

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3. The following are the most vulnerable groups in disaster

A. Elder's

B. Children

C. Women

D. Diseased

Incorrect. The correct answer is : A

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4. Due to ____________, the water or food borne disease, person to person, Vector borne diseases
and complications from wounds.

A. Slow on set hazard

B. Focussing on breaking events

C. Focussing on the sensational and exceptional

D. All of the above.

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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5. In many countries the community-based approach to emergency response has been the (CERT)

A. Common Emergency Response Team

B. Community Early Response Team

C. Community Emergency Response Team

D. Community Emergency risk Team

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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6. The media relations are ______________

A. Credibility

B. be Honest

C. be prompt

D. all of the above

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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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

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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8. Economic vulnerability classifieds as

A. Direct

B. indirect

C. direct & indirect

D. all of the above

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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9. What is the full form of WHO

A. World Hazard Organization

B. World Health Organization

C. World Health Ministry

D. World Healing Organization

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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10. Women and children are more vulnerable; in order to reduce this gap _______ specific measure
need to be taken.

A. Location and poverty

B. attitudes and preparedness

C. Superstitions and government policies

D. all of the above

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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11. A kind of informal training given at the community level is the use of mock exercises in reducing
disaster __________________.

Answer:

Electronic

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12. The ______________ has a well established organization setup for observing, detecting, tracking
and forecasting cyclones and issuing cyclone warnings.

Answer:

India meteorological department

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13. __________________must always be used to conduct effective education and public awareness
campaigns.

Answer:

Mother tongue

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14. SEWA is ______________ .

Answer:

Self employed womens association

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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
_______________.

Answer:

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.

Answer:

Ngos

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17. GIS is able to represent spatial information over a ________________geographic area.

Answer:

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.

Answer:

Contingency action plan

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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.

Answer:

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.

Answer:

IDNDR

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Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid - I, September - 2014

Home Mids Disaster Management and Mitigation

August 20, 2015 VIKRAM 1048

1. Which of the following place is unlikely to be affected by a cyclone

A. Chennai

B. Manglore

C. Amritsar

D. Puri

Incorrect. The correct answer is : D

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2. An example for tectonic disaster?

A. Avalanches

B. cyclones

C. earthquakes

D. floods

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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3. Seismic waves are recorded by an instrument called?

A. Seismograph

B. Richter scale

C. barometer

D. thermostat

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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4. Drought occurs

A. When rain fall is very high

B. When rain fall is just average one

C. When rain sets in late

D. When there are not rains to grow crops

Incorrect. The correct answer is : D

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5. The month of cyclone is

A. August

B. September

C. October

D. November

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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6. A natural hazard is

A. A flood, earthquake or similar unpredictable natural event

B. An extreme natural phenomenon that causes death and destruction

C. People located in a natural environment that may disrupt or threaten their safety and property

D. Any natural catastrophe targeted by government agencies as threatening to a population.

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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7. Creating land use planning guide lines is

A. Linked to public acceptance

B. often easier than implementing them

C. Linked to govt., incentives

D. is necessary only in non-nomadic communities

Incorrect. The correct answer is : B

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8. The first step in desertification of rangelands is in

A. Thinning of vegetation due to gravity

B. severe drought

C. An increase in edible perennial plants

D. water runoff due to sun hardened soil

Incorrect. The correct answer is : A

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9. Technology can identify hazards and estimate their impact on an area, this permits

A. Planning evacuating routes

B. applying for govt. aid and setting up monitoring stations

C. Preventing the disasters or reducing its impact

D. reacting to the disasters when they occurs

Incorrect. The correct answer is : C

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10. Effective hazard management will largely rely on

A. Volunteers

B. govt. agencies

C. emergency agencies

D. pre-disaster planning

Incorrect. The correct answer is : D

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11. Cyclones in the pacific ocean are known as = _____________

Answer:

Typoons

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12. The fastest seismic waves are = _________

Answer:

P-waves

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13. Besides earth, what other planets show evidence of stream erosion = ___________

Answer:

Mars

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14. Nuclear weapon which produce a large amount of its energy through nuclear fusion is known as =
________________________

Answer:

Hydrogen bomb

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15. Inventories and maps of storage locations of toxin or hazardous substances is known as =
___________
Answer:

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.

Answer:

National Disaster Response Force

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17. Long term drought can cause ____________________ changes in social and living patterns.

Answer:

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
=______________.

Answer:

The United Nations Organization

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19. According to the United Nations, between 1992 and 2000 there were approximately _________
disasters per year throughout the world.

Answer:

500

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20. ISRO stands for = _________________________

Answer:

Indian Space Research Organization