Environmental Issues

Multiple Choice Questions

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For a clean environment, which one following is not essential?

  • Producer

  • Consumer

  • Decomposer

  • Polluter

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Polluter

Pollution is any undesirable change in the physical, chemical or biological characteristics of the environment that has the potentiality to harm human life, useful resources and assets. Substances, chemical or factors causing pollution are called pollutants.

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    The true statement about 'green-house effect' is that it is caused by :

    • CO2 only

    • SO2 only

    • CO2 and SO2

    • CO2, CFC, CH4 and NO2 gases

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    Which of the following diseases is related to cadmium pollution?

    • Minamata

    • Pneumoconiosis

    • Anaemia

    • Itai- Itai

    Answer

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    What is bioaccumulation?

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    Multiple Choice Questions

    Which of the following is not a Green-house gas?

    • N2O

    • CFC

    • O3

    • CO2

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    Soil carried by gravity is

    • alluvial

    • eolian

    • colluvial

    • glacial

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    SO2 pollution is indicated by

    • Desmodium (grasses)

    • Sphagnum (mosses)

    • Usnea (lichens)

    • Cucurbita (climbers)

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    Freon gas causing stratospheric O3 depletion is mainly released from

    • refrigerator

    • automobile

    • thermal power plant

    • steel industry

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    Which one of the following is mainly responsible for green houses effect?

    • SO2

    • CO2

    • CO

    • O2

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    Nutrient enrichment of a lake will cause

    • eutrophication

    • stratification

    • biomagnification

    • bioaccumulation

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