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Environmental Studies

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Environmental studies focus on the complex interactions between human societies and the natural world, emphasizing sustainability and conservation. Core topics include climate change adaptation, ecological footprint reduction, and habitat restoration strategies. This hub offers targeted practice questions for students preparing for general awareness and environmental science sections.

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Environmental Studies Questions

Multiple choice

Which one of the following is not a biosphere reserve?

  1. Agasthyamali

  2. Nallamalai

  3. Nilgiri

  4. Panchmarhi
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Nallamalai is not a biosphere reserve. It is a hill of Eastern Ghats which stretches over Kurnool, Mahabubnagar, Guntur and Kadapa districts of the state of Andhra Pradesh.

Multiple choice

What is the term used for the disappearance of forests?

  1. Afforestation

  2. Deplantation

  3. Deforestation

  4. Deprivation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Deforestation is the permanent removal or destruction of forest cover, often for agriculture, urbanization or resource extraction. It leads to loss of biodiversity, climate change and soil erosion, making it a major environmental concern. Afforestation is the opposite process of planting trees.

Multiple choice

What are the economic or social benefits that forests provide?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follow:

Forests provide a wide range of goods and services. Goods include timber, fuel wood, as well as food products (berries, mushrooms, etc.) and fodder. As regards important services, forests and trees play a role in the conservation of ecosystems, in maintaining quality of water, and in preventing or reducing the severity of floods, avalanches, erosion, and drought. Forests provide a wide range of economic and social benefits, such as employment, forest products, and protection of sites of cultural value. Forests, like other ecosystems, are affected by climate change. The impact due to climate change may be negative in some areas, and positive in others. However, forests also influence climate and the climate change process mainly by effecting the changes in the quantum of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. They absorb CO2 from atmosphere, and store carbon in wood, leaves, litter, roots and soil by acting as “carbon sinks”.

  1. They play a role in the conservation of ecosystems.

  2. They play a role in maintaining the quality of water.

  3. They play a role in the protection of sites of cultural value.

  4. They act as carbon sinks.

  5. .
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as the passage informs us that forests provide a wide range of economic and social benefits, such as employment, forest products and protection of sites of cultural value.

Multiple choice

National Parks and wildlife sanctuaries are established for the purpose of

  1. preservation of wildlife

  2. conservation of wildlife

  3. destruction of wildlife

  4. hunting and killing animals
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Wildlife conservation  is the science of analyzing and protecting the Earth's biological diversity, which is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem.Biodiversity on the Earth today consists of many millions of distinct biological species. Wildlife conservation is the process of individuals and organization to protect and preserves these species through conservation education, preservation of habitat and management of fish and wildlife.

Multiple choice

Who is a Wildlife conservationists?

  1. One who studies plants and animals

  2. An Ecologist

  3. A geologist

  4. A zoologist
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B Correct answer
Explanation

An ecologist is a person who studies the relation between organisms and their environment and aims to conserve the ecology.  

Multiple choice

'Rally for Valley' programme in India was organised to highlight the problem of

  1. environment degradation

  2. biodiversity

  3. resettlement to displaced people

  4. loss of agricultural land
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The 'Rally for the Valley' was a protest movement organized by the Narmada Bachao Andolan. It aimed to highlight the social and environmental costs of large dams, specifically focusing on the inadequate resettlement of displaced tribal and rural populations.

Multiple choice

Which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. Eco-efficinecy means use of high technologies for economic growth

  2. Eco-efficiency is economic development with full employment opportunities

  3. Eco-efficiency implies industrial development with incompatible ecological protection

  4. Eco-efficiency means technology for economic growth with minimal environmental costs
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Eco-efficiency is a management concept that encourages businesses to create more goods and services while using fewer resources and generating fewer environmental impacts, effectively coupling economic growth with reduced environmental costs.