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How to access 1) The Vardah cyclone developed in SE of Bay of Bengal due to _______________. 1 point
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build up of intense low pressure zone
Week 1
build up of intense high pressure zone

Week 2 coriolis effect

the gravitational pull of sun and moon

Week 3
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build up of intense low pressure zone
Lecture-21:
2) The Kaikoura earthquake occurred at the plate boundary of ___________ and 1 point
Introduction to
Geological ___________, which on colliosion has made the Alpine fault system in New Zealand.
Hazards and
Enviromental Indian Plate, African Plate
Impact (part- 1)
Australian Plate, Pacific Plate
Lecture-22:
Introduction to Pacific Plate, North American Plate
Geological Nazca Plate, South American Plate
Hazards and
Environmental No, the answer is incorrect.
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Introduction to Australian Plate, Pacific Plate
Geological
Hazards and 3) A natural process when poses a threat to human life or property, it is termed as a 1 point
Environmental
__________; whereas a natural event that kills or injures large numbers of people or causes extensive
Impact (Part- 3)
damage to the property, it is called a ____________.
Lecture-24:
Active Faults Catastrophe, disasters
and its Related
Hazards in Catastrophe, natural hazard
India (Part-1)
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A project of Disasters, catastrophe In association with
Active Faults
and its Related No, the answer is incorrect.
Hazards in
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India (Part-2)
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Assignment 5 Natural hazard, catastrophe

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Week 5

Assignment 5 Fault plane

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Fractures
Week 6 Normal fault

Fault scarps
Week 7
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5) The sudden release of energy when there is a stress release on the quick movement of a 1 point
fault along the fault plane is termed as:

Tsunami

Earthquake

Volcanism

Cyclones

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Earthquake

6) Vulnerability to disasters has increased due to the extensive aggradation of people in urban 1 point
centers, environmental degradation, and a lack of _______________.

Risk

Probability

Planning and preparedness

Threat

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Planning and preparedness

7) The 2008 major flood in north India was the result of river __________ changing its course 1 point
and capturing its own paleochannels due to the heavy rainfall and breaching of the dam in the upper
reaches of the river.

Ganga

Ghaghra

Kosi

Indus

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Kosi

8) The _________ provides the information regarding 2013 Kedarnath cloudburst event that 1 point
such events also took place in the past but this time huge loss of life and property was involved which
characterized it as a catastrophe.

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past earthquakes

sedimentary succession

flood events

civil structures

No, the answer is incorrect.

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sedimentary succession

9) The successive steps build alongside the rivers are known as ____________, which are 1 point
the result of river incision or deposits.

fault scarps

terraces

floodplains

alluvail fans

No, the answer is incorrect.

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terraces

10)The earthquakes at ____________ depths are more dangerous because they will result in 1 point
fracturing or faulting on the surfaces due to ______________ stresses.

shallower, differential

greater, uniform

shallower, uniform

greater, differential

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shallower, differential

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