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The IMF and the World Bank were conceived for ?

  1. Strengthening international economic co-operation and to help create a more stable and prosperous global economy

  2. IMF promotes international monetary cooperation

  3. The World Bank promotes long term economic development and poverty reduction
  4. All of $1, 2$ and $3$
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are institutions in the United Nations system.
They share the same goal of raising living standards in their member countries.
Their approaches to this goal are complementary, with the IMF focusing on macroeconomic and financial stability issues and the World Bank concentrating on long-term economic development and poverty reduction.

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ISO 14000 deals with quality standard for _________________.

  1. Environmental Management

  2. Technology Management

  3. Knowledge Management

  4. Information Management
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

ISO 14000 is a series of environmental management standards developed and published by the International Organisation for Standardisation ( ISO ) for organisations.
The ISO 14000 standards provide a guideline or framework for organisations that need to systematise and improve their environmental management efforts.

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What are the functions of environment?

  1. It supplies resources

  2. It assimilates waste

  3. It sustains life by providing genetic and biodiversity

  4. Supports life without human actions

  5. All of the above
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The environment consists of the air, water, land, and all the conditions that surround living organisms. It is important to note that all the systems in the environment are interrelated such as the interactions of animals and humans on the ecosystems. Environmental functions refer to environmental services, including spatial functions, waste disposal, natural resource supply and life support.

The environment is an important issue even when society is faced with economic crises, wars, and unending social problems. It matters because Earth is the only home that humans have, and it provides air, food, and other needs.

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The environment is able to perform its functions without any interruption as long as their demand is within its _______.

  1. absorptive capacity

  2. carrying capacity

  3. production capacity

  4. regeneration capacity
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The carrying capacity is a measure of how many individuals can a given ecosystem provide for. An individual and its population is dependent on various components of its ecosystem for necessities such as food, habitat, etc. An ecosystem can only successfully support a given population

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The priority environmental issues identified in India are _________________.

  1. land degradation

  2. biodiversity loss

  3. air pollution with special reference to vehicular pollution in urban cities

  4. all of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Land degradation, biodiversity loss, and urban air pollution are all major environmental challenges identified in India's environmental policy framework.

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_________ means the ability of the environment to absorb degradation

  1. Absorptive capacity

  2. Load bearing

  3. Carrying capacity

  4. None of these
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A Correct answer
Explanation

Absorptive capacity is a firm's ability to identify, assimilate, transform, and apply valuable external knowledge. Put another way, absorptive capacity is a limit to the rate or quantity of scientific or technological information that a firm can absorb. Absorptive capacity, the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovativecapabilities. Its a function of the firm's prior knowledge

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_________ resources are those which get exhausted with extraction and use

  1. Renewable

  2. Non-renewable

  3. Limited

  4. Wasting
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B Correct answer
Explanation
Non-renewable resources are those which get exhausted with extraction and use, for example, fossil fuel, petroleum etc.
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Some of the longer-term results of global warming are ______________.

  1. melting of polar ice with a resulting rise in sea level

  2. disruption of drinking water supplies dependent on snow melts

  3. extinction of species as ecological niches disappear

  4. all of these
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Global warming leads to melting ice caps, rising sea levels, water supply disruption, and biodiversity loss, making all listed options correct.

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What are some of the most pressing environmental concerns of India?

  1. Air pollution

  2. Water contamination

  3. Soil erosion

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Air pollution, water contamination, and soil erosion are all critical environmental issues currently facing India.

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What leads to an environmental crisis?

  1. Extinction of animals

  2. When Resource extraction > rate of regeneration

  3. Waste generated is not within assimilating capacity

  4. Death of marine life

  5. All option are correct
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E Correct answer
Explanation

An Environmental Crisis as a dramatic, unexpected, and irreversible worsening of the environment leading to significant welfare losses.

So according to me, all the options lead to environmental crisis