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Environment

No. Question Answer
01
The biggest energy source on the
surface of the earth is
Solar radiation
02 The acid found in soil is Humic acid
03 Burning of fossil fuels releases Carbon-di-oxide
04
The place referred to as the Valley
of Death is
Cubatao in Brazil
05 The Valley of Flowers is located at Garhwal in Himalayas
06
The element found abundant in the
crust of the earth is
Oxygen
07
99 percent of the crust of earth is
composed of
Elements
08 The crust of the earth is called Lithosphere
09
The type of soil found in the
dessert is
Aridisols
10 Acid rain was discovered by R.A.Smith
11
The simplest and least polluting
way of deriving energy is
Solar energy
12
Junk of appliances and vehicles is
known as
Solid Waste
13
Oceans are ecologically divided into
how many regions
Five
14
Uranium miners more frequently
suffer from
Cancer
15
Textile workers more frequently
suffer from
Byssinosis
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16
Coal miners more frequently suffer
from
Black lung diseases
17
The type of living beings more
sensitive to nuclear radiations are
Mammals
18
The most acute pollution problem
faced by nuclear power industry is
Disposal of nuclear waste
19
Excessive inhalling of manganese
causes
Pnemonia
20
Hay fever is due to the presence of
which thing in the air
Pollen
21
The metal which causes systemic
poisoning in man is
Lead
22 Dust containing silica causes Silicosis
23
Intensive use of nitrate fertilizers
causes
Methemoglobinemia
24
The most economic and pollution
free form of transport is
Bicycle
25
The main source of harmful
radiations in our house can be due
to
Televisions
26
The most recently discovered
ecosystem is
Vent
27
The most biologically productive
ecosystem is
Alluvial plains
28
Ecologists divide divide lakes into
how many zones
Three
29
Death valley is located in which
dessert
Nevada
30
Man first cultivated crops in which
age
Neolithic
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31
Sheep were initially dpmesticated
for
Meat and milk
32
The industrial chemical which
increases the chance of developing
Leukemia is
Benzene
33
The Royal society for the Protection
of Birds was formed in
1889 AD
34
`Man and the Biosphere'an
ecological programme was
launched by
UNESCO
35
Chemicals which get rid of pests
are called as
Pesticides
36
The living beings which are known
as teritary consumers are
Meat-eating animals
37
A motor car produces least amount
of pollution while
Moving
38
The first living beings who
established themselves on rocky
slopes were
Lichens
39 Birds evolved on earth during the Jurassic period
40
Water covers about how many
percent of the earth's surface
Seventy
41 Oxygen was discovered by Joseph Priestley
42 Oxygen was discovered in August 1774
43 The word `Oxygen'was coined by Antonie Levoiser
44
When something burns in air, it
combines with oxygen and the
process is called
Oxidation
45
When we breather,oxygen
combines chemically with glucose
in the body to create
Energy
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46
The two major components of air
are oxygen and
Nitrogen
47
The French chemist who showed
that air was the same all around
the world was
Henri Regnault
48
William Ramsay discovered that air
also contained tiny traces of
Inert gases
49
The gases which are slow to react
with other chemicals are called
Inert gases
50
The air surrounding the earth is
forever on the move because of
Sun's heat
51 A space with nothing in it is called Vacuum
52
Air pressure is related to density of
air. This was discovered by whom
in 1662 AD
Robert Boyle
53
Earth's atmosphere has how many
layers
Five
54
Moon gets very hot and very cold
as it has no
Atmosphere
55 78 percent of the atmosphere is Nitrogen
56 21 percent of the atmosphere is Oxygen
57
The atmospheric layer immediately
around the earth is called
Troposphere
58
The second atmospheric layer is
called
Stratosphere
59
The third atmospheric layer is
called
Mesosphere
60
The fourth atmospheric layer is
called
Ionosphere
61 The fifth atmospheric layer is called Exosphere
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62
Human beings inhale what and give
out what
Oxygen,carbon dioxide
63
Plants inhale what and give out
what
Carbon dioxide,oxygen
64
Bubbles in soda water is due to
presence of
Carbon dioxide
65 Ozone is actually a form of Oxygen
66
We are protected from ultraviolet
radiation from the sun due to the
presence of
Ozone layer
67
The main culprit which is
destroying the ozone layer is
CFC gases
68 The main green house gas is Carbon dioxide
69
As one goes higher in the
atmosphere,air pressure
Decreases
70
As per Daniel Bernoulli,whenever
air moves,its pressure
Drops
71
The most common compound on
earth is
Water
72 Life originally emerged from Water
73
About how many percent of the
world's water is solid
Two
74
Less than how many percent of the
world's water is fresh water
Three
75
The amount of water vapour in the
atmosphere is known as
Humidity
76
Any substance that dissolve in the
water vapour it absorbs is said to
be
Deliquescent
77 Henry Cavendish proved that water Hydrogen
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was a compound which included
78
The french chemist who showed
that water was a simple compound
of hydrogen and oxygen was
Antoine Lavoiser
79
In case of heavy water,oxygen
combines with
Deuterium
80
A special type of hydrogen with an
extra neutron in its nucleus is
Deuterium
81
Heavy water can be extracted from
ordinary water by the process of
Distillation
82
In every water molecutl,there are
how many hydrogen atoms and
how many oxygen atoms
Two,one
83 Water expands when it is Frozen
84
Oxygen condenses at a
temperature of
-183.c
85
The ultimate source of nearly all
our energy is the
Sun
86
Solar cells turn light energy from
the sun into
Electrical energy
87 Two types of basic energy is
Potential energy,kinetic
energy
88
Energy that is not doing anything
but is simply stored for action is
called
Potential energy
89
Energy in the nucleus of an atom is
called
Nuclear energy
90
As per the Law of Conservation of
energy,energy can neither be nor
be
Created,destroyed
91 In all energy conversions,heat is Waste
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produced as
92
Coal,Oil,natural gas,etc.are known
as
Fossil fuels
93
At the present rate of consumption
of coal,it is estimated that it will
last about
200
94
At the present rate of consumption
of coal,it is estimated that it will
last about
40
95
Nuclear energy is released by a
process called
fission
96
It is estimated that nuclear power
stations are presently producing
about how many percent of world's
electricity
20
97
Joule proved that heat was a form
of
Energy
98
The sun heats the earth by a
process called
Radiation
99
Nuclear radiations can cause an
eye disease called
Cataract
100 A Landfill produces a pollutant gas, Methane
101
The gases that produce acid rain
are
Sulphur dioxide and nitrous
oxide
102 Hydrogen bomb was tested on a Pacific atoll
103
The European river Rhine was till
recently called as
Europe's industrial sewer
104
Ultraviolet radiations from the sun
can cause
Skin cancer
105
When lakes become acidic,the
substance used to counteract the
Lime
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acidity is
106
Water Resources Institute is
located at
Washington D.C.
107
The science of human settlements
is called
Ekistics
108 Bhopal Gas tragedy occured in 1984 AD
109
The city which has the highest
sulphur dioxide pollution is
Milan
110
CITES is an international law
concerned with
Endangered species
111 CITES stands for
Convention on Int.Trade in
Endangered Species
112 NCEPC stands for
National Committee on
Environmental Planning and
Co-ordination
113 Project JAWS deals with Winds
114 JAWS stands for
Joint Airport Weather
Studies
115 Project FAMOUS deals with Ocean beds
116 FAMOUS stands for
French-American Mid Ocean
Under Sea Study
117
Pollution Control Research Institute
is located at
Hardwar
118
International Environmental Prize is
awarded by
United Nations
119
The use of DDT for agricultural
purposes was banned in India in
the year
1985 AD
120
The major source of fuel in rural
India is
Fuelwood and charcoal
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121 Asia's largest slum is located at Mumbai
122
The Department of Environment
was set up in
1980 AD


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