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Week 7 Flashcards

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Subsidence

A

A sinking of the ground surface

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1
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Natural disasters has killed maximum number

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Floods

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2
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Causes ground subsidence

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All of the above

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3
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Does not act as slope movement trigger

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Tsunamis

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4
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Not used for addressing unstable slopes

A

Concrete filling

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5
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Not true to judge the severity of floods

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Climatic conditions

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Best conditions leading flash floods

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Intense rain & failure of dams

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7
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Flood protection equipments that allows you to use your doors and protects from flood

A

Free standing door barrier

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8
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Disaster occurred maximally in USA from 1989-2002

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Heat waves and drought

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9
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Effects of floods is detrimental for environment

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Rate of decomposition of organic matter in soil

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10
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Highest area occupied of South African communities probe to suffer due to flood

A

Democratic republic of Congo

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Wrong act during a blizzard

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Drive freely but do not walk

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12
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Why care for sink holes

A

All of the above

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13
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Solutions to sink hole don’t work because

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Soluble impurities

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14
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Wrong effect of lighting on aircraft

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Killing all on board

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15
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Not helpful for lighting to enter building

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Through skylights

16
Q

Highest risk of being struck by lighting

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Water sports

17
Q

Doesn’t caused saltwater intrusion

A

Catfish point control structure

18
Q

Largest asteroid

A

Ceres

19
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Frequency of impacts of asteroids causing mass

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Every hundred million years , once in earth’s history

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