Explore topic-wise MCQs in Civil Engineering.

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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