Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the code given below : List - I (Natural Disaster) : 1. Flood 2. Earthquake 3. Drought 4. Tsunami; List - II (Affected Area/Region) :

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Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer using the code given below : List - I (Natural Disaster) :

1. Flood

2. Earthquake

3. Drought

4. Tsunami; List - II (Affected Area/Region) : i. Himalayan Zone ii. Plains of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar iii. West and Central India Zone iv. Southern Coastal area of India Codes :

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Correct — A (1-ii, 2-i, 3-iii, 4-iv). Floods are most recurrent in the low-lying Ganga plains of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, fed by the heavy monsoon runoff of Himalayan rivers (1-ii). Great earthquakes concentrate along the seismically active Himalayan zone, where plate collision places it in Seismic Zones IV–V (2-i). Chronic drought afflicts the semi-arid west and central India belt — parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra (3-iii). Tsunamis strike the southern coastal areas, as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami did on the Tamil Nadu coast and the Andaman & Nicobar Islands (4-iv). Every pair fits, giving option A.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Swaps flood and earthquake: it places flood in the Himalayan zone and earthquake in the UP–Bihar plains, whereas the great quakes strike the Himalaya and the worst floods hit the plains.  (c) Misplaces flood to the southern coast, drought to the plains and tsunami to west/central India — three wrong pairings.  (d) Gets earthquake–Himalaya and tsunami–coast right, but wrongly ties flood to west/central India and drought to the UP–Bihar plains.

Concept: Each natural hazard maps to the physiography that produces it. Earthquakes → the young, folded Himalaya (an active plate boundary, Seismic Zones IV and V); floods → the low-gradient alluvial Ganga plains fed by perennial Himalayan rivers; droughts → the rain-shadow/semi-arid belt of west and central India; tsunamis → open coasts facing seismic ocean sources (the Bay of Bengal / Indian Ocean).

State PCS 2019 Q98 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q98 — Geography PYQ with Answer