Disaster Management and Mitigation Mid - II, November - 2014

1.When a disaster has occurred response and relief have to take place immediately; there can be no
  • Response
  • Delay
  • Risk
  • Mitigation
Answer: B
2.Mitigation measures can be categorized as
  • Structural or Non-Structural
  • Vertical or Horizontal
  • Community or Non Community
  • All of the above
Answer: A
3.The following are the most vulnerable groups in disaster
  • Elder's
  • Children
  • Women
  • Diseased
Answer: A
4.Due to ____________, the water or food –borne disease, person to person, Vector borne diseases and complications from wounds.
  • Slow on set hazard
  • Focussing on breaking events
  • Focussing on the sensational and exceptional
  • All of the above.
Answer: B
5.In many countries the community-based approach to emergency response has been the (CERT)
  • Common Emergency Response Team
  • Community Early Response Team
  • Community Emergency Response Team
  • Community Emergency risk Team
Answer: C
6.The media relations are ______________
  • Credibility
  • be Honest
  • be prompt
  • all of the above
Answer: B
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.
  • Measure
  • Provision
  • Disaster
  • Affect
Answer: C
8.Economic vulnerability classifieds as
  • Direct
  • indirect
  • direct & indirect
  • all of the above
Answer: C
9.What is the full form of WHO
  • World Hazard Organization
  • World Health Organization
  • World Health Ministry
  • World Healing Organization
Answer: B
10.Women and children are more vulnerable; in order to reduce this gap _______ specific measure need to be taken.
  • Location and poverty
  • attitudes and preparedness
  • Superstitions and government policies
  • all of the above
Answer: B
11.A kind of informal training given at the community level is the use of mock exercises in reducing disaster __________________.
Answer: Electronic
12.The ______________ has a well established organization setup for observing, detecting, tracking and forecasting cyclones and issuing cyclone warnings.
Answer: India meteorological department
13.__________________must always be used to conduct effective education and public awareness campaigns.
Answer: Mother tongue
14.SEWA is ______________ .
Answer: Self employed women’s association
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
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
17.GIS is able to represent spatial information over a ________________geographic area.
Answer: Wide
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
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
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