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151. |
What is the transmigratory policy in Indonesia? |
A. | Reduced Biodiversity and extinction |
B. | To stop deforestation |
C. | to relieve overcrowding in big cities |
D. | All of these |
Answer» D. All of these | |
152. |
Texture is the balance of mineral particles in |
A. | Soil |
B. | clay |
C. | Sand and Silts |
D. | silt |
Answer» B. clay | |
153. |
What was the estimated amount of deforestation in 1990s in Indonesia? |
A. | 4000,000 Hectares per year |
B. | 3000,000 Hectares per year |
C. | 2000,000 Hectares per year |
D. | 1000,000 Hectares per year |
Answer» E. | |
154. |
What types of crops are grown in the plantation farming? |
A. | Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Sugarcane |
B. | Wheat, Rice, Corn |
C. | Maize, Sugarcane |
D. | Wheat, Coffee, Maize |
Answer» B. Wheat, Rice, Corn | |
155. |
Bt reduce the use of |
A. | Fertizers |
B. | Pesticides |
C. | seeds |
D. | Manure |
Answer» C. seeds | |
156. |
Most of the nutrients in the tropical rain forests are stored in the |
A. | Stems |
B. | Living Tissues |
C. | Leaves and bushes |
D. | Flowers |
Answer» C. Leaves and bushes | |
157. |
What is the impact of deforestation on soils? |
A. | Increase soil erosion and leaching |
B. | Decrease soil erosion and leaching |
C. | Increase rainfall and CO₂ |
D. | decrease temperature |
Answer» B. Decrease soil erosion and leaching | |
158. |
Name the elements of abiotics? |
A. | climate |
B. | soil |
C. | water and air |
D. | All of these |
Answer» E. | |
159. |
Why monoculture creats soil erosion? |
A. | Nutrients are lost |
B. | Less Water |
C. | Overgrazing |
D. | overcultivation |
Answer» B. Less Water | |
160. |
Which element is present in all the living organism? |
A. | Calcium |
B. | Carbon |
C. | Phosphorus |
D. | Sodium |
Answer» C. Phosphorus | |
161. |
Which two animals are threaten by poachers and traders |
A. | Elephants ivory |
B. | Rhino horns and Elephant Ivory |
C. | Ibex Horns |
D. | Crocodile and Cheetah Skin |
Answer» C. Ibex Horns | |
162. |
Which biomes are very hot during summers more than 40 °C? |
A. | Tiaga |
B. | Savanna |
C. | Deserts |
D. | Monsoon |
Answer» D. Monsoon | |
163. |
Organisms which obtain their food from plants, having similarality in number of steps, known as |
A. | Same trophic levels |
B. | Different trophic levels |
C. | Biodiversity |
D. | Grazing food chain |
Answer» B. Different trophic levels | |
164. |
Which state in India is the home to a large population of one of the endangered species in India Asiatic Lion? |
A. | Karnataka |
B. | West Bengal |
C. | Rajasthan |
D. | Gujarat |
Answer» E. | |
165. |
Who discovered a critically endangered species of tarantula Rameshwaram parachute spider? |
A. | James Scottish |
B. | Andrew Smith |
C. | Nicholas Anderson |
D. | Leonardo Thomson |
Answer» C. Nicholas Anderson | |
166. |
Blackbuck is one of the endangered species found in India. |
A. | True |
B. | False |
C. | May be True or False |
D. | Can't say |
Answer» B. False | |
167. |
The friction between the wind and the surface causes |
A. | Currents |
B. | Drifts of water |
C. | Volcano |
D. | earthquakes |
Answer» C. Volcano | |
168. |
Categorically, a common feeding behavior is regarded as |
A. | Parasitism |
B. | Predation |
C. | micropredation |
D. | All of above |
Answer» E. | |
169. |
What is the impact of deforestation on atmosphere? |
A. | Increase rainfall, increase CO₂ and reduced O₂ |
B. | High Temperature |
C. | Desease rainfall, increase CO₂ and reduced O₂ |
D. | All of these |
Answer» C. Desease rainfall, increase CO₂ and reduced O₂ | |
170. |
Which is the only surviving member used to be considered of an amphibian family called the Nasikabatrachidae until 2006? |
A. | Indian yellow frog |
B. | Indian white frog |
C. | Indian green frog |
D. | Indian purple frog |
Answer» E. | |
171. |
Which is the only representative of artiodactyls mammals Porcula? |
A. | Pygmy hog |
B. | Red river hog |
C. | Giant forest hog |
D. | Bearded hog |
Answer» B. Red river hog | |
172. |
What are released after death, decay and decomposition of plants? |
A. | Nutrients |
B. | Leaves |
C. | Stems |
D. | Carbon |
Answer» B. Leaves | |
173. |
The hot desert plants does not compete for scare resource like |
A. | Food |
B. | Soil |
C. | Water |
D. | Nutrients |
Answer» D. Nutrients | |
174. |
Which countries gives subsidies to their farmers to modernize and mechanize the farming system? |
A. | USA and EU |
B. | Middle East and Pakistan |
C. | South Africa |
D. | Europe |
Answer» B. Middle East and Pakistan | |
175. |
In cacti why the leaves are reduced to spines? |
A. | Store water |
B. | To maximise transpiration |
C. | To minimise transpiration |
D. | evapo-transpiration |
Answer» D. evapo-transpiration | |
176. |
Which animal in a desert adopts to both physical and psychological factors? |
A. | Camel |
B. | Horse |
C. | Cows |
D. | Dogs |
Answer» B. Horse | |
177. |
Which feature of the camel reserve energy giving food in the form of fats? |
A. | Stomach |
B. | Legs |
C. | Hump |
D. | Head |
Answer» D. Head | |
178. |
How many percent of potassium is found in Africa? |
A. | 90% |
B. | 80% |
C. | 70% |
D. | 60% |
Answer» B. 80% | |
179. |
Which forests are ever green forests? |
A. | Founa and Flora |
B. | Tropical rain forest |
C. | Mosoon |
D. | Coniferous Forests |
Answer» E. | |
180. |
In which country 1000,000km² of rainforest has been cleared for ranching of cattles? |
A. | America |
B. | Brazil |
C. | Mexico |
D. | Pakistan |
Answer» C. Mexico | |
181. |
What is the diameter of sand grain? |
A. | 0.00-0.01 mm |
B. | 0.05-0.1mm |
C. | 0.02-2.00mm |
D. | 1.00-1.5mm |
Answer» D. 1.00-1.5mm | |
182. |
How are mineral particles formed? |
A. | Weathering of sand |
B. | Weathering of organic matters |
C. | Weathering of Tropical areas |
D. | Weathering of Rock |
Answer» E. | |
183. |
Which species found in abundance ? |
A. | Species Evenness |
B. | Species Dominance |
C. | Species Diversity |
D. | Species Richness |
Answer» C. Species Diversity | |
184. |
In 1990s, an average forest plantations grew, approximately |
A. | 1000 km²per year |
B. | 3000 km²per year |
C. | 7000 km²per year |
D. | 8000 km²per year |
Answer» C. 7000 km²per year | |
185. |
Thick furry hide insulates its body against |
A. | Heat and temperature |
B. | Climatic hazards |
C. | Disasters |
D. | Water |
Answer» B. Climatic hazards | |
186. |
What is the diameter of Clay particles? |
A. | 0.001-0.004 mm |
B. | less than 0.002mm |
C. | 0.05-0.1mm |
D. | 0.02-2.00mm |
Answer» C. 0.05-0.1mm | |
187. |
Which nutrient does not have a gaseous phase on earth? |
A. | Carbon |
B. | Nitrogen |
C. | Phosphorous |
D. | Calcium |
Answer» D. Calcium | |
188. |
In tectonic cycle, creation and destruction of solid outer layer, known as |
A. | Lithosphere |
B. | Crust |
C. | Core |
D. | Mantle |
Answer» B. Crust | |
189. |
What is the temperature during winter in Tropical rain forests? |
A. | 1-4 °C |
B. | 1-2 °C |
C. | 1-3 °C |
D. | 1-5 °C |
Answer» D. 1-5 °C | |
190. |
What is the life cycle of plants in tundra biome? |
A. | 30 to 60 days |
B. | 50 days |
C. | 70 to 80 days |
D. | 10 to 30 days |
Answer» B. 50 days | |
191. |
The UNEP provides the world community with meaningful environmental data and information, rather itself taking the |
A. | Work |
B. | Problem |
C. | Issue |
D. | Initiative |
Answer» B. Problem | |
192. |
Why tropical rain forest has diversed plants? |
A. | Hot and wet climate |
B. | Wind and Light |
C. | Weather |
D. | Rain and Wind |
Answer» B. Wind and Light | |
193. |
In which soil the nutrient are in short supply? |
A. | Sandy soils |
B. | loamy soil |
C. | topsoil |
D. | Subsoil |
Answer» B. loamy soil | |
194. |
Weeds that would compete with the crop for light and nutrients can be killed by using |
A. | Herbicides |
B. | Fertilizers |
C. | Pesticides |
D. | Pesticides and Fertilizers |
Answer» B. Fertilizers | |
195. |
Which one of the following is the major threat for biodiversity? |
A. | Reduction in the cutting of trees |
B. | Increase in the number of trees |
C. | Climate change |
D. | Balance in the predator and prey in forests |
Answer» D. Balance in the predator and prey in forests | |
196. |
The top soil is known as the |
A. | A horizon |
B. | B horizon |
C. | C horizon |
D. | D Horizon |
Answer» B. B horizon | |
197. |
Which is the largest unit of the Great Plain of India? |
A. | Brahmaputra plain |
B. | Punjab-Haryana plain |
C. | Gangetic plain |
D. | Godavari plain |
Answer» D. Godavari plain | |
198. |
What is GM crops? |
A. | Genetically Modified Crops |
B. | Genetically poor crops |
C. | Gene Pool |
D. | Nomadic Crops |
Answer» B. Genetically poor crops | |
199. |
Overcultivation is often seen in which areas? |
A. | Multicultures |
B. | Monocultures |
C. | Agro-forest |
D. | Grazing of cattles |
Answer» C. Agro-forest | |
200. |
What controls the amount of precipitation is lower or greater than the rate of evapo-transpiration? |
A. | air |
B. | climate |
C. | soil |
D. | water |
Answer» C. soil | |