Air and Weather
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
______________disasters occur when disasters occur as a result of human carelessness or the mishandling of dangerous equipment.
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.
The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 exposed approximately 125,000 square miles of land in Ukraine, _____, and Russia to radiation.
The immediate impact of the Chernobyl disaster was an uncontrolled radioactive release into the environment, which lasted about _____ days.
What was the death casualty of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?
Which of the following incident was not a nuclear disaster?
Many tropical cyclones eventually move far enough away from the equator to enter areas dominated by _____ winds.
Which of the following is a characteristic of a tropical cyclone?
Which of the following is not a characteristic of a tropical cyclone?
In tropical cyclone, _____ centre and the Earth's rotation both play a role in the rotation of the winds.
At the heart of tropical cyclones, the _____ is a region of mostly calm weather.
Natural disasters are major adverse events caused by natural _____ processes.
Which of the following is an example of a natural disaster?
Which of the following disaster can be both natural and human made?
Which of the following is a type of natural human-made disaster?
Disaster can be generally classified into how many types?
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.
The incidence of _____among survivors increased noticeably five to six years after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What was the name of the bomb that USA dropped in Nagasaki town of Japan during WWII?
