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This section includes 434 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Civil Engineering knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
201. |
Ammonia is a compound of |
A. | Oxygen |
B. | Carbon |
C. | Nitrogen |
D. | Calcium |
Answer» D. Calcium | |
202. |
Which deciducous tree has a umbella like top which shades the ground below, reducing the evaporation from the soil? |
A. | Clumps |
B. | Acacia |
C. | Baobab |
D. | Coniferious |
Answer» C. Baobab | |
203. |
What are the main farm sources? |
A. | Fertilier |
B. | Manure,crop stubble, staw |
C. | Water and Manure |
D. | Humus |
Answer» C. Water and Manure | |
204. |
Bacteria's use ammonia as a source of energy and produce |
A. | Nitrates |
B. | Nitrites |
C. | Limestone |
D. | Nitrogenoxide |
Answer» B. Nitrites | |
205. |
How farmers over exploit their land by |
A. | Overgrazing and over cultivation |
B. | Loss of soil erosion |
C. | use of machines |
D. | Human activities |
Answer» B. Loss of soil erosion | |
206. |
What is the temperature at the taiga? |
A. | 10°C |
B. | 12°C |
C. | 14°C |
D. | 16°C |
Answer» D. 16°C | |
207. |
Which biogeographic zone is considered as one of the 25 biodiversity hot-spots globally? |
A. | Deccan plateau |
B. | Western Ghats |
C. | Deserts |
D. | Himalayas |
Answer» C. Deserts | |
208. |
Why trees do not grow in tundra? |
A. | No fertility |
B. | Short summer, two cold winters and strone wind |
C. | No Water resources |
D. | Desert |
Answer» C. No Water resources | |
209. |
What is rock weathering? |
A. | Breakdown of minerals |
B. | breakdown of stones |
C. | breakdown of rocks |
D. | breakdown of weather |
Answer» D. breakdown of weather | |
210. |
What is absorbed by the roots for plant food? |
A. | Soil |
B. | Fertilizers |
C. | Humus |
D. | Food |
Answer» D. Food | |
211. |
In which crops the nitrogen fixing bacteria are increasing the nitrate content of the soil? |
A. | Crop Rotation |
B. | Cattle crunching |
C. | Rice Padi |
D. | All of these |
Answer» B. Cattle crunching | |
212. |
Among the ten different biogeographic zones in India, which zone is the largest biogeographic region? |
A. | Himalayas |
B. | Desert |
C. | Semi-Arid |
D. | Deccan plateau |
Answer» E. | |
213. |
Which horizon is the bottom of soil? |
A. | Horizon C |
B. | Horizon A |
C. | Horizon B |
D. | Horizon D |
Answer» B. Horizon A | |
214. |
Granite is an example of ? |
A. | Hard mineral |
B. | soft mineral |
C. | Both a and b |
D. | A only |
Answer» D. A only | |
215. |
How many types of management techniques of wildlife are there? |
A. | One |
B. | Two |
C. | Three |
D. | Four |
Answer» C. Three | |
216. |
What is the main characteristic of plantation farming? |
A. | Seasonal Crops |
B. | Grow only one crop |
C. | Grow many crops |
D. | Rotational Crops |
Answer» C. Grow many crops | |
217. |
Genetic makeup of individual or group is known as |
A. | Genital tract |
B. | Gene |
C. | Gender |
D. | Genotype |
Answer» E. | |
218. |
The India rivers interlink plan is forwarded by the Indian government to solve the issue of |
A. | Water problem |
B. | Pollution problem |
C. | Industrial Problem |
D. | sewerage problem |
Answer» B. Pollution problem | |
219. |
What are the examples of occasional trees? |
A. | Baobab, Acacia |
B. | Bamboo and Baobab |
C. | Acacia and clumps |
D. | Clumps |
Answer» B. Bamboo and Baobab | |
220. |
Bt Stands for |
A. | Genetically Modified Crops |
B. | Bacterium bacillus Theogin |
C. | Bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis |
D. | Bacteria Bacili thuringien |
Answer» D. Bacteria Bacili thuringien | |
221. |
Tropical rainforest is the natural vegetation cover in |
A. | High land areas |
B. | Lowland areas |
C. | Equatorial |
D. | Tundra |
Answer» C. Equatorial | |
222. |
What method is used in mountain areas for soil conservation? |
A. | Contour ploughing |
B. | Planting trees in line |
C. | Terracing |
D. | Selective logging |
Answer» D. Selective logging | |
223. |
Which one of the following is a way to reduce human-wildlife conflict? |
A. | Killing all the wild animals |
B. | Shifting all the wild animals from natural forests to zoo |
C. | Use of strobe lights |
D. | Kill the animals when they invade outside the forests |
Answer» D. Kill the animals when they invade outside the forests | |
224. |
What allows farming on large scale? |
A. | Mechanization |
B. | Technology |
C. | Machines |
D. | Techniques of crops |
Answer» B. Technology | |
225. |
Which one of the following is the cause for man-wildlife conflicts? |
A. | Reduction in the availability of natural food resources |
B. | Increase in the forest area |
C. | Adequate rainfall |
D. | Curiosity of wildlife animals that leads for the invasion to outside the forest area |
Answer» B. Increase in the forest area | |
226. |
Why international agreement is essential for wild life trade? |
A. | Protection of International trade |
B. | Protection of wild life |
C. | law and order conformation |
D. | Cross boarder trade |
Answer» E. | |
227. |
What are the symptoms of desertification? |
A. | Less crop yield and water availability |
B. | More water and productivity |
C. | More Crop yeild and profit |
D. | Less population increase |
Answer» B. More water and productivity | |
228. |
In dry season of monsoon which trees are dominated? |
A. | Coniferous Trees |
B. | Deciduous trees |
C. | Grasses |
D. | Woody trees |
Answer» C. Grasses | |
229. |
What is important to make aware the local people about the importance of forests? |
A. | Research, education, training about forest |
B. | Manufacturing products from forests |
C. | Deforestation is good |
D. | All of these |
Answer» B. Manufacturing products from forests | |
230. |
Which teeth helps human in tearing flesh ? |
A. | Incisors |
B. | Primary teeth |
C. | permanent teeth |
D. | All of above |
Answer» B. Primary teeth | |
231. |
Why the deciduous trees shed their leaves during dry seasons? |
A. | To reduce water loss |
B. | to reduce nutrient loss |
C. | Stop growing |
D. | Stop lossing water |
Answer» B. to reduce nutrient loss | |
232. |
Why organic matter is aadded to the soil? |
A. | it hold water and stablity to the structure |
B. | Holds nutrients |
C. | Crop yeild |
D. | Profit |
Answer» B. Holds nutrients | |
233. |
What biome has -20°C temperature in winter? |
A. | Tropical Rain Forest |
B. | Tundra |
C. | Tiaga |
D. | Desert |
Answer» C. Tiaga | |
234. |
The Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats meet each other at which hills? |
A. | Ananthagiri hills |
B. | Coonoor hills |
C. | Biligiriranga hills |
D. | Munnar hills |
Answer» D. Munnar hills | |
235. |
What stretagies can be used for the conservation of soil? |
A. | Change in farming practice and community solution |
B. | No change in farming stretagies |
C. | Increasing crop yield |
D. | overcultivation |
Answer» B. No change in farming stretagies | |
236. |
Which biome winters is desprately cold -30C or lower? |
A. | Tundra |
B. | Deserts |
C. | Equatorial |
D. | Mosoon |
Answer» B. Deserts | |
237. |
What is the diameter of Silt grains? |
A. | 0.001-0.004 mm |
B. | 0.002-0.005mm |
C. | 0.05-0.1mm |
D. | 0.02-2.00mm |
Answer» C. 0.05-0.1mm | |
238. |
How tundra is distinguished from other biomes? |
A. | Snow |
B. | Location |
C. | Absences of trees |
D. | All of these |
Answer» D. All of these | |
239. |
Wht is the min dvntge of crop rotation? |
A. | Desertification |
B. | Lower soil fertility |
C. | Increase soil fertility |
D. | Salinization |
Answer» D. Salinization | |
240. |
Rainfall is concentrated in one season and the amount that arrive is very variable from year to year is known as |
A. | Arid region |
B. | Semi arid region |
C. | Savanna |
D. | Tundra |
Answer» C. Savanna | |
241. |
How carbon dioxide is absorbed in the leaves of higher plants? |
A. | stomata |
B. | stem |
C. | roots |
D. | pores |
Answer» B. stem | |
242. |
The carbohydrate is a food for |
A. | animals |
B. | plants |
C. | None of these |
D. | Both a and b |
Answer» C. None of these | |
243. |
What are the characteristics of coniferous plants? |
A. | Due to their colors |
B. | Uniform shape, size and height |
C. | Geographical Location |
D. | Human activities |
Answer» C. Geographical Location | |
244. |
Trees in the savanna grasslands are drought |
A. | Hydropillics |
B. | Absorbent |
C. | Resistants |
D. | All of these |
Answer» D. All of these | |
245. |
Which trees leaves are leathery and many have dripped tips at their points? |
A. | Mosoon trees |
B. | Mosses and Linchens |
C. | Coniferous trees |
D. | Tropical trees |
Answer» E. | |
246. |
The soil in which the sand silt and clay are more evenly distributed is known as |
A. | Sandy soils |
B. | loamy soil |
C. | topsoil |
D. | Subsoil |
Answer» C. topsoil | |
247. |
What is formed by ploughing block the downward movement of water on slops? |
A. | Contour ploughing |
B. | Ridges |
C. | Terracing |
D. | Selective logging |
Answer» C. Terracing | |
248. |
What are the examples of deciduous species? |
A. | Teaks and sal |
B. | conferous trees |
C. | Woody plants |
D. | Tall trees |
Answer» B. conferous trees | |
249. |
What is called for the transitional zone between the desert and the denser forests of the Western Ghats? |
A. | Deccan Plateau |
B. | North-West Desert Regions |
C. | North-East India |
D. | Semi-Arid Areas |
Answer» E. | |
250. |
Wood, coal,oil and natural gas are all fuels, which contains |
A. | Carbon |
B. | Hydrogen |
C. | Phosphorus |
D. | Calcium |
Answer» B. Hydrogen | |