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Disaster Preparedness for Class 7 Students

This document contains a question bank about natural disasters and man-made disasters from the Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures module of the 7th semester Civil Engineering department at New Horizon Institute of Technology & Management. It includes 32 questions covering a wide range of topics related to different types of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, cyclones, droughts, as well as man-made disasters like industrial and technological hazards. Example questions address classifying disasters, describing specific natural hazards like tsunamis and landslides, mitigation measures for earthquakes and fires, and the relationships between development, climate change, and disaster risk.

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Disaster Preparedness for Class 7 Students

This document contains a question bank about natural disasters and man-made disasters from the Disaster Management and Mitigation Measures module of the 7th semester Civil Engineering department at New Horizon Institute of Technology & Management. It includes 32 questions covering a wide range of topics related to different types of natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, cyclones, droughts, as well as man-made disasters like industrial and technological hazards. Example questions address classifying disasters, describing specific natural hazards like tsunamis and landslides, mitigation measures for earthquakes and fires, and the relationships between development, climate change, and disaster risk.

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NEW HORIZON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT


7TH SEM
DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION MEASURES
Question Bank: Module 2.
NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN MADE DISASTERS

1. Classify different types of disasters.


2. Describe natural disasters and man-made disasters
3. Discuss manmade disaster with suitable example.
4. Differentiate: Natural Disaster & Man-made Disaster.
5. What precaution can be taken for Fire Hazard in residential and industrial area.
6. Enlist various work place fire hazards.
7. How climate change can affect disaster ?
8. State various consequences of earth quake and also write about the preventive/mitigation
measures that can be taken.
9. What is epicenter? How is the magnitude of earthquake measured?
10. Discuss about
(1) Predicting Earthquake (2) Consequences of Volcano.
11. Enlist various losses due to Flood and Earthquake.
12. Explain the term Urban Flooding and its impacts.
13. Enlist various indications of possible flooding.
14. Describe the following natural disasters:
a) Flash Floods
b) Cloud Burst
c) Avalanches
d) Mudflow
e) Storm Surge
f) Sea Level Rise
15. Describe various hydro-meteorological disasters.
16. Give adverse effects of tsunami. Also discuss the tsunami mitigation measures.
17. Enlist various causes of Tsunami.
18. Enlist and categorized various categories of cyclone as per IMD.
19. Describe initial development stage of Cyclone and mature tropical Cyclone.
20. What is Drought ? Explain various types of Droughts in brief.
21. Write a brief note on effects of cold waves and heat waves.
22. What are geological hazards and explain them in brief.

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NEW HORIZON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
7TH SEM
DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND MITIGATION MEASURES
Question Bank: Module 2.
NATURAL DISASTERS AND MAN MADE DISASTERS

23. Name the technological disasters. Discuss any one such disaster.
24. Discuss the causes of forest fire.
25. Describe the Kerala Floods, 2018 Disaster.
26. Enlist various mega disasters of India and explain any one in brief.
27. How disaster can influence the development ?
28. How Economic and Social development increases disaster risk ?
29. Justify the statement “ Development process modify natural hazard “.
30. Justify the statement “Disaster can effect various developments at considerable extent”
with suitable examples. Support your answer with various risks associated with
disaster
31. State the contribution of development planning in incorporating disaster risk
with suitable example.
32. Write a note on Disaster and development.

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