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MCQ 11 Mark
Which is the ‘best contraceptive’ to save environment according to author?
  • A
    Sustainable Development
  • B
    Pollution reduction
  • C
    Control on population
  • D
    Both [A] and [C]
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MCQ 21 Mark
What does UN’s study on environment made through aerial photography says?
  • A
    Antarctica’s glaciers melting rapidly
  • B
    Earth’s health has reached ‘critical’ stage
  • C
    Four fold increase in passenger vehicles
  • D
    Wide hole in Ozone layer
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MCQ 31 Mark
What does Article 48A of Indian Constitution says?
  • A
    World awareness on Global Warming
  • B
    Reduction of green house gases
  • C
    Protection and improvement of environment
  • D
    Compulsory plantation of trees by States.
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MCQ 41 Mark
How much forest land is vanishing from the earth every year?
  • A
    Fifty to sixty million acres
  • B
    Forty to fifty million acres
  • C
    Thirty to forty million acres
  • D
    Hundred million acres
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MCQ 51 Mark
Which factor does the author find most strong in spoiling the environment?
  • A
    Plastic usage
  • B
    Industrial Revolution
  • C
    Government’s ignorance
  • D
    Population Explosion
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MCQ 61 Mark
What is the meaning of holistic and ecological view?
  • A
    Preservation of environment
  • B
    Controlling population
  • C
    Conservation of resources
  • D
    All of the above
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MCQ 71 Mark
According to the author, who is using wood the most for cooking purposes?
  • A
    Illiterate people
  • B
    Rural India
  • C
    Africans
  • D
    Poor Nations
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MCQ 81 Mark
What will happen to crops if the productivity of biological ecosystem hampers?
  • A
    Cop lands will convert into barren wasteland
  • B
    Croplands deteriorate
  • C
    Croplands wills disappear
  • D
    Croplands will collapse
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MCQ 91 Mark
According to Mr Brown, which one of the following is not a biological ecosystem of Earth?
  • A
    Islands
  • B
    Grasslands
  • C
    Forests
  • D
    Croplands
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MCQ 101 Mark
Who says these words “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children”?
  • A
    Mr Edgar S Woolard
  • B
    Margaret Thatcher
  • C
    Mr Lester Brown
  • D
    James Speth
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MCQ 131 Mark
Where is it written on Zoo’s cage “The World’s Most Dangerous Animal”?
  • A
    India
  • B
    New Zealand
  • C
    Zambia
  • D
    Antarctica
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MCQ 141 Mark
What is the transcending concern?
  • A
    Survival of humans
  • B
    Survival of planet
  • C
    Population explosion
  • D
    Rise in pollution
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MCQ 151 Mark
What is the focus of the “World Commission on Environment and Development”?
  • A
    Cut carbon emissions
  • B
    Sustainable development
  • C
    Maintain earth’s temperature within limits
  • D
    Environmental awareness
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MCQ 161 Mark
According to the author, how is the world looking at Earth today?
  • A
    Living organism
  • B
    Last hope
  • C
    Materialistic happiness
  • D
    Second home
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