SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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A natural event such as an earthquake, storm, or flood that causes danger to people and property.
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All living things like plants and animals and non-living things like water, rocks, air, light, and soil in a specific area that interact with one other.
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Natural features formed by rivers, the sea, ice, and volcanoes.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Earthquakes can result in the ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires and tsunamis. The extent of destruction and harm caused by an earthquake depends on: magnitude. intensity and duration.
Detailed explanation-2: -A natural disaster may be caused by weather and climate events or by earthquakes, landslides, and other occurrences that originate at Earth’s surface or within the planet itself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Various phenomena like earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, tsunamis, cyclones, wildfires, and pandemics are all natural hazards that kill thousands of people and destroy billions of dollars of habitat and property each year.