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UGC NET Paper 1: Natural Hazard and Disasters Questions
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1. The most recurring natural hazard in India is
2. Which of the natural hazards have big effect on Indian people each year?
3. Water is always involved with landslides. This is because it:
4. Which type of natural hazards cause maximum damage to property and lives?
5. Which of the following phenomena is not a natural hazard?
6. Assertion (A) : Indoor air pollution is a serious health hazard. Reason (R) : The dispersal of air pollutants is rather limited in indoor environment. Choose the correct answer from the code given below:
7. Which among the following natural hazards has relatively slow onset?
8. In case of earthquakes, an increase of magnitude 1 on Richter Scale implies
9. Which one of the following is appropriate for natural hazard mitigation?
10. Match the following environmental disasters with the words or phrases associated them. List I List II
(A) Bhopal gas tragedy (i) Dumping of Hazardous substances
(B) Chernobyl disaster (ii) Peroxyaoetyl Nitrates (PAN)
(C) Love Canal tragedy (iii) Nuclear Accident
(D) Los Angeles smog (iv) Methyl Isocyanide Choose the correct option from those given below :
11. Which of the following types of natural hazards have the highest potential to cause damage to humans ?
12. Which of the following disasters belongs to the category of nuclear disasters?
(1) Fukushima disaster
(2) Chernobyl disaster
(3) Three mile Island incident
(4) The love canal disaster Choose your answer from the options given below:
13. Given below are two statements — one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R). Assertion (A): The impact of natural disasters does not depend on socio-economic factors. Reason (R): Natural disasters do not discriminate between people of a society and other communities. In the light of the above two statements. choose the correct option :
14. The cyclone 'Hudhud' hit the coast of which State ?
15. Which one of the following is not associated with earthquakes?
16. Which of the following natural hazards is not hydrometeorological ?
17. Which of the following is a meteorological hazard?
18. Occurrence of natural hazards is affected by :
(A) Land use changes
(B) Drainage and construction
(C) Ozone depletion
(D) Climate change Choose the correct answer from the code given below :
19. World Meteorological Organisation's (WMO) objective has been to reduce the number of deaths due to hydrometeorological disasters over the decade 2010-2019 by (with reference to the decade 1994-2003)
20. Which of the following is not a natural hazard ?
21. In the last few years, India has been affected by which of the following tropical cyclones?
22. Which of the following sequences of disposal options for low hazardous solid waste from industrial and urban sources is in order of increasing desirability?
23. Volcanic eruptions affect
24. Which of the following types of natural disasters has no definite beginning and end
25. Statement I: Earthquake 'A' is 5 on Richter scale and Earthquake 'B' is 8 on the same scale. Earthquake 'B' has 1000 times the wave amplitude compared to 'A'. Statement II: The energy released in 'B' is three times that of 'A'. Choose the correct option:

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