Question Booklet for TDP (General)/TDP (Honours)
6th Semester Exam., 2021
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
(Soft Study Course)
Full Marks : 80 ] [ Time : 3 Hours
Question Booklet
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1. Hazards and disasters are mainly 5. The scientific study of earthquake is
classified as called
[A] physical and chemical [A] seismograph
[B] natural and human induced [B] seismology
[C] social and cultural [C] barometer
[D] None of the above [D] None of the above
2. A hazard is a situation where there is 6. What is the name of instrument used
for measuring earthquake intensity?
[A] threat of natural calamity
[A] Modified Mercalli scale
[B] threat to property and lives from
calamities [B] Meteorological scale
[C] threat for consequences of [C] Vernier scale
disasters
[D] Hygrometer
[D] All of the above
3. The typical example of man-made 7. The primary result of earthquake is
disasters is
[A] building and bridge collapsed
[A] chemical explosion
[B] rupture of water and gas pipelines
[B] leakage of toxic waste
[C] change in course of river and
[C] war and civil strife creation of new islands
[D] All of the above [D] All of the above
4. What is the consequence of disaster on 8. What is the major consequence of
a society? tropical cyclones?
[A] Loss of life [A] Fierce wind
[B] Damage of property [B] Heavy rain
[C] Environmental Damage [C] Storm surge
[D] All of the above [D] All of the above
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9. The major man-made cause of floods is 13. A point on the surface of the earth
vertically above the focus is known as
[A] deforestation
[A] hypocenter
[B] siltation
[B] epicenter
[C] bursting of dam
[C] special focus
[D] All of the above
[D] None of the above
10. Mass killing diseases can be referred to
as 14. Which instrument is used for recording
the occurrences of the earthquake?
[A] biological disaster
[A] Richter scale
[B] industrial disaster
[B] Seismology
[C] chemical disaster
[C] Seismograph
[D] All of the above
[D] None of the above
11. The role of which agency is important
in disaster prevention? 15. Which is the major controlling system
for reduction of volcanic disaster?
[A] Media
[A] Prediction for early warning of
[B] Police eruption
[C] Government officials [B] Timely evolution and relief work
[D] Public [C] Both [A] and [B]
[D] None of the above
12. What is the important measure to be
taken in community level of disaster
preparedness? 16. Which of the following disasters can be
triggered by an earthquake?
[A] Increased awareness
[A] Tsunami
[B] Provision of early and timely
warning [B] Intense ground shaking
[C] Land-use planning [C] Landslide
[D] All of the above [D] All of the above
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17. Which of the following statements is 20. The centre of cyclone is characterised
false? by
[A] high pressure
[A] Earthquakes occur in plate
boundaries.
[B] low pressure
[B] The time and location of most [C] very high pressure
major earthquakes can be
predicted several days in advance. [D] All of the above
[C] Earthquake can be caused by
normal faulting.
21. Which of the following agencies is the
national disaster risk reduction
[D] P waves travel faster than both S stakeholder?
waves and surface waves.
[A] Central Government
[B] National disaster offices
18. Volcanic eruptions are closely
[C] Private sector
associated with
[D] All of the above
[A] mountain building and fracturing
[B] deforestation
22. What are the main prescribed
procedures for standard operating?
[C] landslides
[A] Search and rescue
[D] heat budget
[B] Medical assistance
[C] Casualty management
19. Where does Tropical cyclones originate? [D] All of the above
[A] Intermediate between polar and
temperate zones 23. Disaster management includes
[B] Mainly tropical area [A] mitigation
[B] rehabilitation
[C] Mainly equatorial zones
[C] reconstruction
[D] Intermediate between tropics of
capricorn and cancer [D] All of the above
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24. Disaster management is aimed at 27. The National Highway no. 8 is affected
mostly by which hazard?
[A] resettling people in the closest
[A] Flood
unaffected urban area
[B] Earthquake
[B] collection of valuable data for
future management objectives [C] Landslide
[C] strengthening sewage and drinking [D] None of the above
water treatment facilities to resist
the impact of a future disaster
28. ‘Kalbaisakhi’ is a kind of thunderstorm
[D] restoring a community services, witnessed in the States of
facilities and residences to pre-
disaster levels [A] Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim
[B] Mizoram, Assam, Manipur
25. The first phase of environmental health [C] Assam, Tripura, West Bengal
management begins
[D] West Bengal, Manipur, Mizoram
[A] long before a disaster strikes
29. Which body in the State of Tripura can
[B] when a disaster strikes declare emergency in case of State level
disaster?
[C] within the first three hours after
disaster has struck [A] TDMA
[B] SEC
[D] after the warning period
[C] Department of Public Works
[D] Department of Ministers
26. The most essential item that the
disaster stricken populations must be
provided with is
30. What are the major disaster
management-related activities?
[A] shelter materials
[A] Preparedness
[B] drinking water
[B] Response
[C] fuel
[C] Recovery
[D] None of the above [D] All of the above
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31. What are the roles of NGOs in disaster- 35. The human factor which causes floods
related preparedness stage? is
[A] Public awareness and education [A] deforestation
[B] Vulnerability and risk assessment [B] heavy rainfall
[C] Forming and training DNTs, [C] cloud burst
introducing alternative technology
[D] large catchment area
[D] All of the above
36. Pandemic disease is defined as
32. Who shall be the first responders in
disaster management situation?
[A] outbreak of a disease beyond the
area of disease
[A] Central Government
[B] outbreak of a disease in
[B] Community international scale
[C] Local Government [C] congestion in urban areas
[D] State Government [D] None of the above
33. Mock drills exercise to create awareness
among people are conducted at 37. Industrial hazards come under the
category of
[A] State level
[A] natural hazard
[B] District level
[B] human-induced hazard
[C] GP/Village level
[C] meteorological hazard
[D] All of the above
[D] wildfire hazard
34. The example of anthropogenic hazards
is 38. Tropical cyclone, drought, wildfire are
[A] chemical explosion [A] industrial hazard
[B] earthquake [B] man-induced hazard
[C] flood [C] meteorological hazard
[D] wildfire [D] hydrological hazard
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39. Earthquake is a 43. Raima and Sarma are the tributaries of
[A] geophysical disaster [A] Muhuri
[B] hydrological disaster
[B] Gomati
[C] meteorological disaster
[C] Khowai
[D] compound disaster
[D] Haora
40. Disaster at Chernobyl and Fukusima
are all related to
44. The Chairman of the Tripura Disaster
Management Authority is
[A] disaster caused by earthquake
[B] disaster caused by tsunami [A] Chief Secretary
[C] nuclear disaster [B] District Magistrate
[D] epidemic disaster [C] Chief Minister
[D] BDO
41. Engineering disaster is simply referred
to those disaster when it is caused by
an engineering failure like
45. The total geographical area of Tripura is
[A] design flaws or material failure
[A] 1835·53 sq km
[B] insufficient knowledge or under-
estimations [B] 10491 sq km
[C] carelessness or negligence
[C] 8152 sq km
[D] All of the above
[D] 1200 sq km
42. The epicenter of the earthquake of the
magnitude of 5·7 which occurred on 46. The National Institute of Disaster
3rd of January, 2017 in Tripura was Management is at
located at
[A] Punjab
[A] West district
[B] North district [B] Hyderabad
[C] Dhalai district [C] Pune
[D] Gomati district [D] New Delhi
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47. The Asian Disaster Preparedness 51. The main objective of First Aid is
Centre is at
[A] to preserve life
[A] Kerala
[B] to prevent the victims’ condition
[B] Bangkok from worsening
[C] Tokyo [C] to promote recovery
[D] None of the above [D] All of the above
48. The term ‘tsunami’ is coined from 52. From where earthquake waves are
generated?
[A] Chinese term
[A] Focus
[B] Indian term
[B] Epicenter
[C] Japanese term
[C] Solid inner core
[D] German term
[D] All of the above
49. Landslides occur because of
53. Earthquakes occur most frequently at
[A] intensity of rainfall
[A] plate surface
[B] steep of slopes
[B] plate boundaries
[C] deforestation
[C] plate vacuum
[D] All of the above
[D] ocean beds
50. For coordinating disaster management
activities for all natural hazards, the
Nodal Agency at the Central 54. Tremors that have occurred in earth’s
Government is the crust are known as
[A] Ministry of Home Affairs [A] earthquakes
[B] Ministry of Rural Development [B] volcanic eruptions
[C] Ministry of Communication [C] bed eruptions
[D] Ministry of Urban Development [D] volcanoes
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55. What does the acronym ISDR stand 59. Poles are the regions of _____ pressure.
for?
[A] high
[A] International significant disaster
resources
[B] low
[B] International sustainable develop-
[C] medium
ment report
[C] International strategy for disaster [D] All of the above
reduction
[D] Intergovernmental strategy for
developing recreation 60. The term ‘cyclone’ means
[A] coil of tiger
56. Warm air is _____ than cold air.
[B] coil of snake
[A] heavier
[C] coil of lion
[B] lighter
[D] coil of pig
[C] No difference
[D] very heavy
61. The full form of NGO is
57. A cyclone is called a _____ in Japan. [A] non-government organization
[A] hurricane [B] non-government organ
[B] typhoon [C] non-government office
[C] thunderstorm [D] None of the above
[D] tsunami
62. TB disease generally affects
58. Equator is a region of _____ pressure.
[A] kidney
[A] high
[B] stomach
[B] low
[C] lungs
[C] medium
[D] skin
[D] All of the above
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63. The name of the chemical leakage in 68. Which zone is considered as the highest
Bhopal Gas Tragedy is vulnerability zone of the seismic
zonation map of India?
[A] carbon dioxide
[B] methyl isocyanate [A] Zone I
[C] hydrogen [B] Zone IV
[D] sulphur oxide
[C] Zone V
64. The full form of DDMA is [D] Zone II
[A] district disease management
authority
[B] district dam management 69. Which volcanic belt is commonly called
authority ‘Ring of Fire’?
[C] district disaster management
authority [A] The mid-continental belt
[D] None of the above [B] The circum-pacific belt
65. Name the wildlife sanctuary in Tripura. [C] Mid Atlantic belt
[A] Gomati [D] None of the above
[B] Paratia
[C] Sipahijala
70. Hazard due to blasting is treated as
[D] Tepania
[A] chemical hazard
66. ITCZ stands for
[B] biological hazard
[A] intra-tropical convergence zone
[B] inter-tropical convergence zone [C] physical hazard
[C] international temperature [D] None of the above
convergence zone
[D] inter-tectonic convergence zone
71. Which one is the effect of flood?
67. When magma reaches the surface of
the earth, it is called
[A] Snow melting
[A] clay
[B] High wind
[B] geyser
[C] fissure [C] Loss of biodiversity
[D] lava [D] None of the above
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72. A natural hazard due to long period 77. Which statement is correct?
with less or no rain is termed as
[A] The Wildlife (Protection) Act was
[A] desert passed in 1972
[B] semi-desert
[B] Grazing is not allowed in
[C] drought sanctuaries
[D] None of the above [C] National park is primarily focused
on a particular species
73. What does ‘Sahel Region’ mean? [D] All of the above
[A] Sub-Saharan Africa
[B] South-East Asian Country 78. Name the agency which is harnessed to
strengthen the communication and
[C] Asia Minor
information database.
[D] South Asian Hydroelectric Zone
[A] NDRF
[B] NIC
74. What does CRF mean?
[C] WHO
[A] Crisis relief fund
[B] Calamity relief fund [D] None of the above
[C] Contingency for resource fund
[D] None of the above
79. Ebola virus diseases made its first
appearance in
75. Capacity building of the community [A] 1978
takes place through
[B] 1976
[A] awareness
[C] 1979
[B] mock exercise
[C] individual effort [D] 2000
[D] All of the above
80. HIV-AIDS has its origin in
76. The world’s rainiest inhabited place is
[A] North America
[A] Cherrapunji
[B] Australia
[B] Shillong
[C] Africa
[C] Nilgiri
[D] None of the above [D] Asia
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