Which one of the following combinations is incorrect?

• Rio convention - Air pollution

• Kyoto protocol - Climate change

• Montreal protocol - Ozone depletion

• Ramsar convention - Wetland conservation

Select the correct statement (s) pertaining to Chipko movement.

• It was led by Sunderlal Bahuguna

• It was a tree hugging movement

• It commenced in the Tehri-Garhwal district.

• It received global attention on environmental protection.

Select the non-degradable pollutant (s) from the followings

• Plastic

• Organochlorine pesticides

• Heavy metals

• Domestic sewage

Read the following about pollution and identify the correct matching combinations.

Column I	Column II	Column III
I. Chernobyl	Accidental leakage	Radioactive wastes
II. El nino effect	Global warming	Causing climatic changes
III. Chloroflurocarbons	Ozone degradation	Fluorine atoms released
IV. Snow blindness	UV- B radiation	Inflammation of cornea

• III, II, I

• IV, III, II

• I, II, IV

• I, III, IV

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Water pollution is best assessed by determining

• DO and BOD

• BOD and turbidity

• DO and acidity

• Hardness and alkalinity

Tectonic is the study of

• volcanoes

• sand dunes

• earthquakes

• earth's crust

The maintenance of internal favourable conditions by a self-regulated mechanisms in spite of the fact that there are changes in environment, is known as

• entropy

• enthalpy

• homeostasis

• steady state

Minamata disease is pollution related disease. It result from

• oil spills in sea

• DDT pollution

• release of industrial waste containing mercury in fishing water

• accumulation of arsenic

Deforestation causes

• soil erosion

• soil pollution

• noise pollution

• air pollution

Ozone depletion in stratosphere would result in

• forest fires

• global warming

• skin cancer incidence

• None of the above