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Chipko Movement was started in _______.

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  1. Rajasthan

  2. Haryana

  3. Uttar Pradesh

  4. Gujarat

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Uttar Pradesh . 

The first Chipko Movement goes back to the eighteenth century. An enormous gathering of individuals from the Bishnoi people group in Rajasthan opposed felling of trees by embracing them. In current India, Chipko Movement began in April 1973 in Uttar Pradesh's Mandal town in the upper Alakananda valley.

Chipko Movement was started on _______.

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  1. September 1983

  2. September 1981

  3. April 1973

  4. April 1981

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Correct Option: C
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1973 . 

The first Chipko Movement goes back to the eighteenth century. An enormous gathering of individuals from the Bishnoi people group in Rajasthan opposed felling of trees by embracing them. In current India, Chipko Movement began in April 1973 in Uttar Pradesh's Mandal town in the upper Alakananda valley.

Chipko Movement in Karnataka was called ________.

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  1. Hug trees

  2. Appiko

  3. Vriksh Bachao

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: B

Who is Sunderlal Bahuguna?

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  1. Freedom Fighter

  2. Noble Prize Winner

  3. Former President of India

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: D
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D. None of the above. 

He was a very generous environmentalist and one of the main contributors of the Chipkoo movement. 

Who started the Chipko movement?

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  1. Sunderlal Bahuguna

  2. Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Subhash Chandra Bose

  4. Rajiv Gandhi

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Sunderlal Bahuguna. 

Chipko Movement, began in the 1970's, was a peaceful development focused on the protection of trees and woods from being decimated. The name of the Chipko movement started from the term embrace as the town people used to embrace the trees and shield them from woodcutters from cutting them.

The Silent valley movement was related to ?

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  1. Cutting of trees

  2. Building of dam

  3. Mining

  4. None

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Save Silent Valley is a social movement launched to protect an evergreen tropical forest in the Palaghat district of Kerala. It started in 1973 to save silent valley reserve forest and stop construction of Dam (Hydroelectric Project) in the Valley. There has been massive environmental debates to save the endangered wildlife having natural habitat in the valley. It was declared as Silent Valley National Park later in 1984.

Which of the following movements were against the cutting of trees ?

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  1. Chipko Movement

  2. Appiko Movement

  3. Silent valley Movement

  4. Both A and B

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Correct Option: D

______________ movements are the scientific movements aimed at preserving the biological system.

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  1. Political

  2. Economic

  3. Environmental

  4. All

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Environment movements are the movements aimed toward the protection of environment, biological system . The environmental movement also including conservation and green politics, is a dissimilar scientific, social, and political movement to address environmental issues. Environmental movement is a type of "social movement that involves an array of persons, groups and coalitions that observe a common interest in environmental protection and act to bring about changes in environmental policies and practices".

UN climate change conference held between $30^{th} Nov, 2015$ to $12^{th} Dec, 2015$ led to the ___________.

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  1. Paris Agreement

  2. French Agreement

  3. EU Agreement

  4. Climate Agreement

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Correct Option: A
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Global warming refers to increase in the average temperature of the globe due to heat that gets trapped in the atmosphere because of which the surface of the earth is heated. Global warming has caused global climatic changes that has hampered the food security as a result of soil erosion and reduced rainfall on agricultural production. There was a United nations climate change conference that was held in the year 2015 in Paris, France which is known as Paris agreement. 

Global climatic changes will affect ___________ in many places, due to affects of soil erosion and reduced rainfall, on agricultural production.

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  1. incomes of people

  2. food security

  3. employment level

  4. demand of goods

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Correct Option: B
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Global warming refers to an increase in the average temperature of the globe due to heat that gets trapped in the atmosphere because of which the surface of the earth is heated. Global warming has caused global climatic changes that have hampered food security as a result of soil erosion and reduced rainfall, or events of extreme rainfall.