Air and Weather

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Air and Weather: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Noise Pollution, Nuclear and Radiation Disaster, Man made & Cyclone etc.

Important Questions on Air and Weather

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Air is:

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______________disasters occur when disasters occur as a result of human carelessness or the mishandling of dangerous equipment.

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Which of the following statement(s) regarding the man-made disasters is/are correct?

A. Human-instigated disasters are the consequence of technological or human hazards.

B. Examples include war, social unrest, stampedes, fires, transport accidents, industrial accidents, conflicts, oil spills, terrorist attacks, nuclear explosions/nuclear radiation.

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The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 exposed approximately 125,000 square miles of land in Ukraine, _____, and Russia to radiation.

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The immediate impact of the Chernobyl disaster was an uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment, which lasted about _____ days.

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What was the death casualty of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?

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Which of the following incident was not a nuclear disaster?

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Many tropical cyclones eventually move far enough away from the equator to enter areas dominated by _____ winds.

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Which of the following is a characteristic of a tropical cyclone?

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of a tropical cyclone?

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In tropical cyclone, _____ centre and the Earth's rotation both play a role in the rotation of the winds.

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At the heart of tropical cyclones, the _____ is a region of mostly calm weather.

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Natural disasters are major adverse events caused by natural _____ processes.

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Which of the following is an example of a natural disaster?

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Which of the following disaster can be both natural and human made?

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Which of the following is a type of natural human-made disaster?

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Disaster can be generally classified into how many types?

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The United States' primary target for the second nuclear bombing in Japan during World War II was the city of _____, but it was circumstantially dropped in another Japanese city.

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The incidence of _____among survivors increased noticeably five to six years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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What was the name of the bomb that USA dropped in Nagasaki town of Japan during WWII?