Previous Year Questions
2025
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
Answer any five questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 5
1. What is meant by risk and vulnerability?
2. Define capacity building.
3. What items should be kept in an emergency kit?
4. What is an aftershock?
5. What do you mean by hazard paradigm?
6. How does the forest fire destroy local ecosystem?
7. What is soil creep?
Category - B
Answer any four questions (each within 150 words).
5 × 4
8. What are the stages of the disaster management cycle?
9. State the functions of NDRF.
10. Suggest some management procedures to reduce the impact of cyclones in coastal regions.
11. Distinguish between hazard and disaster.
12. What are the major causes of land subsidence in urban areas?
13. State the social and environmental impacts of riverbank erosion in West Bengal.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
10 × 2
14. Discuss with examples the different types of hazard responses highlighting the techniques of resilience and capacity building in hazard management.
15. Explain the factors responsible for landslides in Himalayan West Bengal with a note on their possible management.
16. Identify the flood-prone zones of India and comment on the causes and consequences of their occurrence.
17. Classify bio-hazards and discuss their consequences with examples.
2024
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
1. What is meant by hazard preparedness?
2. Explain resilience in hazard management.
3. Define epicentre of an earthquake.
4. Define bio-hazards.
5. What is rock fall?
6. What is storm surge?
7. Differentiate between epidemic and pandemic.
Category - B
8. State the major types of earthquakes and their causes.
9. Mention the NDMA guidelines for flood management in India.
10. What is hazard mapping and how far is it important in capacity building?
11. What are the different sources of fire hazard?
12. Discuss the different hazard paradigms.
13. Suggest some management procedure to reduce the impact of landslide in hilly regions.
Category - C
14. Discuss risk perception and vulnerability assessment as approaches to hazard study.
15. Explain the factors responsible for land subsidence with suitable examples.
16. Describe the different pre-cyclone, during-cyclone and post-cyclone management techniques.
17. Discuss the causes and consequences of river bank erosion with examples.
2023
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
1. What do you mean by hazard continuum?
2. What is meant by risk and vulnerability?
3. What is meant by landfall in cyclones?
4. Identify the causes of landslides in the Himalayan region.
5. Define flash flood.
6. What is a fire triangle?
7. What is soil creep?
Category - B
8. Discuss the importance of vulnerability assessment in hazard preparedness.
9. Differentiate hazards from disaster with suitable examples.
10. State the factors for the development of tropical cyclones.
11. What are the causes of land subsidence?
12. Enumerate the factors responsible for landslides.
13. Discuss the geospatial techniques adopted for hazard management.
Category - C
14. Discuss with examples the different types of hazard responses highlighting the techniques of resilience and capacity building in hazard management.
15. Explain the common causes of major fires in urban areas with a note on fire risk reduction and control.
16. Classify and explain the earthquake prone regions of India with a note on NDMA guidelines for their management.
17. Classify bio-hazards and discuss their consequences with examples.
2022
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
1. How is disaster different from hazard?
2. What is meant by the term ‘resilience’ in hazard management?
3. What is hazard preparedness?
4. What is meant by the epicentre of an earthquake?
5. What is rock fall?
6. What are the different hazard paradigms?
7. Define bio-hazard.
Category - B
8. What is meant by capacity building in hazard management?
9. How do geospatial techniques help in hazard mapping?
10. Discuss the precautionary measures to control landslides.
11. What are the different sources of fire hazard?
12. State the precautionary measures to mitigate riverbank erosion.
13. Mention the NDMA guidelines for flood management in India.
Category - C
14. Discuss risk perception and vulnerability assessment as approaches to hazard study.
15. Explain the factors responsible for land subsidence with suitable examples.
16. State the factors favouring the development of tropical cyclones and describe their impacts on environment and livelihood.
17. Identifying the flood prone zones of India comment on the causes and consequences of floods in the country.
2021
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : CC-14
(Hazard Management)
Full Marks : 50
Category - A
1. What is a storm surge?
2. What is meant by the aftershock of an earthquake?
3. What is hazard continuum?
4. What is trauma of hazard?
5. What are the causes of forest fires?
6. Distinguish between hazard and disaster.
7. What is pandemic?
Category - B
8. What is the meaning of hazard mapping and how important is it for disaster preparedness?
9. Which areas of India are prone to flash flood and why? 2+3
10. Discuss the geospatial techniques adopted for hazard management.
11. State the precautionary measures to mitigate land subsidence.
12. Classify floods and mention the basis of classification.
13. What are the factors which favour the development of tropical cyclone?
Category - C
14. Identify the landslide prone regions of India. Comment on the consequences of landslides and suggest the measures to mitigate them.
15. Define and classify bio-hazards. Discuss their consequences with examples.
16. How does earthquake affect the natural and cultural landscapes? Illustrate with suitable examples.
17. Explain the mechanism of riverbank erosion with special reference to West Bengal.
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