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Kindly note that you will be presented with 50 questions randomized from the NOUN question bank. Make sure to take the quiz multiple times so you can get familiar with the questions and answers, as new questions are randomized in each attempt.
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ESM204
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The worst avalanches disaster in the UsA occured in ______ in the cascade range of washington
2 / 50
Snow avalanches are common features of mountainous terrain throughout arctic and ________ regions where snow is deposited on slopes steeper than 20 degrees
3 / 50
The following can be used for volcanic forcasting and warning
4 / 50
Switzerland has a relatively large number of avalanche deaths amounting to some ____ fatalities per year
5 / 50
The strength of landslide materials is the maximum resistance to shear stress and depend on _____
6 / 50
Avalanches deals with the movement of ______
7 / 50
Which of these is a type of landslide
8 / 50
Heat emission was one of the first volcanic features to be sensed remotely and has proved a valuable means of ____
9 / 50
Snow avalanche problems have risen in recent decades due to the greater use of ____ areas of winter recreation
10 / 50
During an eruption of cotopari in ____ , so much ice and snow was melted that enormous lathers, were released about 160km Long.
11 / 50
_______ barrier can be used to diver lava streams away from valuable property if the topography is favourable.
12 / 50
Which is the odd out?
13 / 50
Carbondioxide is dangerous because of the following reasons EXCEPT______.
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Which of these is NOT a cause of Landslide?
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_______ are downslope movement of fluidities soil and other material acting as viscous mass.
16 / 50
The crater lake or Taal Volcanoe is located in_____
17 / 50
After evacuees have reached the required support services which include____
18 / 50
Which of these devices is used to get information on the relative ground displacement?
19 / 50
The worst volcanic disaster in the world since the eruption of mont. pelee occured as a result of lather following the 1985 eruption of the Nevado del Ruz volcano in ______.
20 / 50
The following are types of landslide terrain except____
21 / 50
The US forest service closed public access to the Baker Lake Recreation area in _____
22 / 50
The crater lake or Taal Volcanoe is located in_____.
23 / 50
_______ slides are sometimes known as block glides and debris slide
24 / 50
The most important precausors of volcanic eruptions include the following except
25 / 50
When thermal monitoring as magma rises to the surface, It might be expected to produce an increase in _______
26 / 50
The ____ technique which was first employed to control lava flows durin the 1960 eruption of Kilauca,Hawaii in a sponteous experiment by a local fire chief.
27 / 50
Abnormal seismic activity over a 12month period eventually lead to the evacuation of _____ people from around the Volcanoe in the events at La Soufriere, on the Island of Guadaloupe,Lesser Antilles in 1976.
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The following are classes of landslide movement except_____.
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The following CANNOT be used for volcanic forcasting and warning.
30 / 50
Angles below 20 degrees are generally too low for failure to occur and most slopes above ____ degrees rarely accumulate sufficient snow to pose a major hazard
31 / 50
______ are movement of debris(mainly rocks) transported through the air.
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The first known attempt to divert a lava flow in sicily in ______.
33 / 50
The following are tropical cities at risk of debris flow Except
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The downslope movement of large volume of surface materials under gravitational force is called ____
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The Following are common features of volcanic related ground failure EXCEPT.
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Which of these is NOT a type of Landslides?
37 / 50
The ____ countries are notable for avanlanches related to minning disasters
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The avalanche problem has always been more severe in Europe than north America because ____ is higher in the former than the latter
39 / 50
Heat emission was one of the first volcanic features to be sensed remotely and has proved a valuable means of ____.
40 / 50
Landslide deals with the movement of ______
41 / 50
Which of these is NOT a method of preventing Lava flow
42 / 50
The world's ______ cars(as at 2000) are among the main culprits contributing to the growing problem of acid rain.
43 / 50
Acid rain can be controlled by the following EXCEPT ____
44 / 50
Lather slides andDebar Avalanches are associated with eruption of deictic magma which have the following characteristics EXCEPT
45 / 50
Experts have predicted that the Lake Chad may dry up completely by 2010, this will have the following implications EXCEPT ______.
46 / 50
The landslide disaster which affected the city of Ancona central Italy in 1982 is a good example of _____ Landslide
47 / 50
Part of the problems in studying air pollutants is that they are _________.
48 / 50
The Following are common features of volcanic related ground failure EXCEPT
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The landslide disaster that heat Vaiont Dam in the piavely valley, northern Italy on Oct. 1963 is an example of ____
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Avalanche frequency is thus related to slope angle with most events occuring on intermediate slope gradient of between ______
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