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Questions Related to management of natural resources

On the average, about what percentage of the solar energy that strikes the outer atmosphere eventually reaches the earth's surface?

  1. 5%

  2. 15%

  3. 30%

  4. 50%


Correct Option: D

The main energy source for the environment is ___________

  1. Solar energy

  2. Chemical energy

  3. Bioelectric energy

  4. Electrical energy


Correct Option: A

Most of the natural gas used in the United States is consumed by

  1. industry

  2. residential use

  3. electrical utilities

  4. transportation


Correct Option: B

Renewable energy resources are mostly based on

  1. Biomass

  2. Fossil fuels

  3. Nuclear power

  4. E- waste


Correct Option: A

What is auxiliary natural source of energy in solar system?

  1. Thermal energy

  2. Tides, waves and currents

  3. Solar Energy

  4. Nuclear energy


Correct Option: B

The first oil well was drilled in the United States in

  1. 1829

  2. 1859

  3. 1929

  4. 1959


Correct Option: B

Conning occurs in neutral atmosphere, when wind velocity is greater than

  1. 32 km per hour

  2. 42 km per hour

  3. 52 km per hour

  4. 72 km per hour


Correct Option: A

In an unsubsidized natural solar powered ecosystem, source of energy is known as

  1. Solar Energy

  2. Nuclear energy

  3. Wind energy

  4. fossil fuels


Correct Option: A

What is input of naturally subsidized solar powered ecosystem

  1. 10, 000 to 90, 000kcal/m2per year

  2. 10, 000 to 80, 000kcal/m2per year

  3. 10, 000 to 40, 000kcal/m2per year

  4. 20, 000 to 40, 000kcal/m2per year


Correct Option: C