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Volcanic eruption are closely associated with
A
Heat budget
B
Mountain building and fracturing
C
Deforestation
D
Landslides
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Volcanic eruption are closely associated with
Heat budget
Mountain building and fracturing
Deforestation
Landslides
Urbanization usually results in an increase in flood frequency because...............
Rainfall is greater in urban areas than in rural areas
Less water is able to runoff in streams
Less water is able to infiltrate into the ground, so instead is discharged rapidly into streams
More water is used by humans and then discharged to streams
United Nations Disaster Management Team is responsible for solving problemresulting from disaster in?
In all continents
Asia
Australia
Africa
United Nations Disaster Management Team (UNDMT) is responsible for solving problem resulting from disasters in?
In all continents
Africa
Asia
Australia
U.N. Disaster Management Team UNDMT is responsible for solving problems resulting from disasters in?
India
Iran
Bangladesh
All countries the world
Typhoons cyclone are formed in
India
China
Philipines
Japan
Typhoid causing bacteria
Shigella
Salmonella
HIV
HCV
Tsunamis are waves generated by?
Earthquakes
Volcanic eruptions
Underwater landslides
All the above
Tsunami's can occur only during?
Evening
Afternoon
Anytime in day or night
Morning
Tsunami is:
Earthquake on land mass
Volcanic eruption
Earthquake in ocean crust
None of these
Tsunami is also known as
Tectonic Sea waves
Seismic Sea waves
Plactonic Sea waves
Systonic Sea waves
Tsunami is a
Japanese origin word
Latin origin word
Greek origin word
Portuguese origin word
Tsunami in the Indian Ocean occurred in the year
2003
2004
2005
2006
Tropical cyclones originate within
Intermediate between Polar and temperate zones
Mainly tropical area
Mainly equatorial Zones
Intermediate between Tropics of Capricorn and cancer
Tropical cyclone, drought, wildfire is:
Industrial hazard
Man induced hazard
Meteorological hazard
Hydrological hazard
Tremors that have occurred in Earth's crust are known as
Earthquakes
Volcanic eruptions
Bed eruptions
Volcano
The word Hazards originated from-
Latin word
Greek word
French word.
Indian word
The word disaster owes its origin from
Greek word
Latin word
French word
German word
The typical examples of man-made disasters are
Chemical explosion
Leakage of toxic waste
War and civil strife
All of the above
The type and degree of flooding is influenced by many factors, such as
Climatological
Hydrological and environmental conditions
Local geomorphology of the flood plain
All of the above