DISASTER MANAGEMENT MCQS SET 04

DISASTER MANAGEMENT MCQS SET 04 

1. The extent to which a community ,structure, services or geographic area is likely to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of particular hazard is termed as
a. Capacity
b. Vulnerability
c. Risk
d. Hazard assessment

2. The Richter scale expresses an earthquakes
a. Magnitude
b. Location
c. Duration
d. Depth

3. The point of the earth’s surface directly above the point where an earthquake occurs is called the:
a. Focus
b. Epicenter
c. Fracture
d. Fault

4. Which of the following is a man-made disaster
a. Terrorism
b. Major fire
c. Pollution
d. All of the above

5. Vulnerability analysis comes in which part of the Disaster Management Cycle
a. Mitigation
b. Preparedness
c. Response
d. Recovery

6. Floods can be prevented by
a. Afforestation
b. Cutting the forest
c. Tilling the land
d. Removing the top soil

7. Bhopal Gas Disaster is a kind of

a. Natural disaster
b. Manmade disaster
c. None of the above

8. The word disaster comes from
A) Greek word
B) Latin word
C) French word
D) German

9. High vulnerability and high hazard are associated with
A) Low disaster risk
B) medium disaster risk
C) high disaster risk
D) None of the above

10. Which of the following organization is the apex authority
of disaster management in India?
A) NDA
B) NDMA
C) CDMA
D) INDR