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Disaster management sequence assessment: Determine the relationship between Statements I and II — 'Many residents in low-lying areas were evacuated to safer places over the last few days' and 'Government rushed relief supplies to people in the affected areas' — classifying them within the cause–effect framework.

Difficulty: Easy

Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect
Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
Both the statements I and II are independent causes
Both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes
Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause

Correct Answer: Both the statements I and II are effects of some common cause

Explanation:

Given data

I: Evacuation of people from low-lying areas to safer places.
II: Government rushing relief supplies to affected areas.

Concept/Approach

Both actions typically respond to a disaster trigger (e.g., floods/cyclone). We identify a common antecedent cause.

Step-by-step evaluation

1) Natural calamity in low-lying areas → evacuation (I).2) The same calamity → relief operations (II).3) Therefore, I and II are parallel effects of a common cause.

Verification/Alternative

Neither evacuation directly causes relief dispatch, nor relief dispatch causes evacuation; both are coordinated responses to the same event.

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