UPSC CSE Disaster Management — practice questions
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Practice UPSC CSE Disaster Management in the app →A gas leak at a factory kills thousands. Bhopal and Chernobyl are examples of which kind of disaster?The World Conference on Disaster Management in May 1994 was held in which city?Which decade did the Yokohama conference declare the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction?Of all natural disasters, which is described as the most unpredictable and destructive?At what speed is the Indian plate moving towards the north and northeast?Gujarat suffered severe earthquakes in 1819, 1956 and which recent year?Scientists suspect a fault line near Latur and Osmanabad along which river?Analysing over 1,200 past earthquakes, India was divided into how many earthquake zones?Which region of India is safest from earthquakes?Sea waves caused by an undersea earthquake are called tsunamis. What does the word mean?A ship in deep ocean barely feels a tsunami, but near the coast the wave can rise to what height?The tsunami of 26 December 2004 killed about how many people?How far up does a tropical cyclone extend vertically?The calm, warm, cloudless centre of a cyclone is called the:Bay of Bengal cyclones mostly develop in which months?Severe cyclonic storms hit India's coasts with an average wind speed of about:The Rashtriya Barh Ayog identified how much land as flood-prone in India?Tamil Nadu sometimes floods in November to January. Why?Majuli in Assam, the world's largest riverine island, benefits from floods how?Low soil moisture causing crop failure is which kind of drought?An area with over 30 per cent of its cropped area irrigated is excluded from which category?About what share of India's total area is identified as drought prone?The radius of the earth is about:Gold mines in South Africa, the deepest mines, reach a depth of about:The deepest drill, at Kola, has reached a depth of:Gravity on the earth's surface is greater near the:The point inside the earth where earthquake energy is released is the:The point on the surface nearest to the focus is the:Which earthquake body waves arrive first at the surface?S-waves can travel only through which kind of material?P-waves vibrate in which direction relative to the wave's travel?Which type of earthquake wave is the most destructive?The shadow zone where neither P nor S-waves are recorded lies between which angles from the epicentre?The S-wave shadow zone covers a little over what share of the earth's surface?The most common earthquakes, caused by rocks sliding along a fault, are called:Earthquakes in the areas of large dams are called:The earthquake magnitude scale, expressed in numbers 0 to 10, is the:The intensity scale of earthquakes is named after which Italian seismologist?The mean thickness of oceanic crust is about:The mantle extends from Moho's discontinuity to a depth of about:The upper mantle layer whose name means weak is the:The core of the earth is mostly made of nickel and iron and is called the:The Hawaiian volcanoes are the most famous examples of which type?The Deccan Traps of Maharashtra are an example of:External forces acting on the earth's surface, powered by the sun, are called:The wearing down of relief by exogenic forces is called:Diastrophism and volcanism are which type of geomorphic process?Mountain building by severe folding of long narrow crustal belts is called:Epeirogeny is described as which kind of building process?Force applied per unit area on earth materials is called:Temperature and which other climatic element control most exogenic processes?Weathering is described as which kind of process, because little material moves?Solution, carbonation, hydration and oxidation are which type of weathering?Most physical weathering is caused by thermal expansion and:The flaking off of curved sheets from rocks, leaving rounded surfaces, is:Weathering that concentrates valuable ores by leaching away other material is called:Mass movements carry rock debris down slopes under the direct influence of:Slipping of rock debris with a backward rotation is called:Debris avalanches and landslides are most frequent in which Indian range?Erosion and transportation are controlled by which form of energy?Karst topography develops only where rocks are permeable and:During deposition, which materials settle out first?Soil formation is also called:How many basic factors control soil formation?Removal of silica from soil in wet equatorial climates is called:Calcium carbonate nodules formed in tropical soils are called:The average atmospheric pressure at sea level is:In the lower atmosphere, pressure falls by about 1 mb for every rise of:Lines connecting places having equal pressure are called:The high-pressure belts along 30 N and 30 S are the:The low-pressure belts along 60 N and 60 S are the:The force from the earth's rotation that deflects winds is the:The Coriolis force deflects wind in which direction in the northern hemisphere?The Coriolis force is maximum at the poles and absent at the:Wind blowing parallel to straight isobars, with gradient force balanced by Coriolis force, is the:Wind circulation around a low-pressure centre is called:The tropical convection cell between the ITCZ and 30 degrees is the:The mid-latitude cell whose surface winds are the westerlies is the:The appearance of warm water off the coast of Peru is known as:The combined phenomenon of the southern oscillation and El Nino is called:Cool air draining from high plateaus and ice fields into a valley is called:A large body of air with little horizontal variation in temperature and moisture is an:The boundary zone between two different air masses is a:A front where the warm air is fully lifted above the land surface is:Tropical cyclones are called what in the Atlantic?Tropical cyclones need a large sea surface with temperature above:The calm centre of a mature tropical cyclone, with subsiding air, is the:Wind in the eye wall of a tropical cyclone can reach up to: