INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

Insights Revision Plan for Prelims 1. Consider the following statements:

2016: Test 2
1. Under the Wildlife (protection) Act
1972, Nilgai and Wild Pig have been
Questions declared as vermins

TIMETABLE 2. If an animal is declared as vermin

state authorities can carry out an
extermination of such animals on a
large scale without attracting penal
03 June 2016 provisions of the Wildlife
(Protection) Act, 1972

Please Read before you Proceed to Which of the above statements is/are
Take Todays Test: correct?

(a) 1 Only

Please note that you should not worry (b) 2 Only

about scores in these tests. Questions
are mainly intended not to test your (c) Both 1 and 2
knowledge, but show which areas to
focus when you study and how to (d) Neither 1 nor 2
study them. Its more a learning
process than testing process.

If you have any doubt, please discuss 2. The binturong, also known as
them in comment section. We are bearcat, is a small mammal native to
not giving explanations for CSAT South and Southeast Asia and has
questions (Yes, we have included them been assessed as vulnerable on the
too!), please someone from you explain IUCN Red List. In which of the following
them in comment box. As of now we are National Parks, you are likely to find
posting previous year CSAT questions. them?

(a) Anamudi Shola National Park

Note: As sources are numerous, we can
not cover all of them within 20-25 (b) Jim Corbett National Park
questions. Even then, please try to
complete 100% of targets. You will never (c) Manas National Park
know from which topic question might
(d) Silent Valley National Park
come!

3. The Ministry of Environment, Forests

and Climate Change has constituted
30 state/UT level environment
assessment authorities under which of
the following laws?

(a) The Forest (Conservation) Act,

1980

(b) The Environment (Protection) Act,

1986

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

1
 INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

(c) The National Environment 6. The pollution caused by burning fossil

Appellate Authority Act, 1997 fuels can be somewhat reduced by

(d) The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 1. Increasing the efficiency of the
combustion process

2. The use of catalytic converters

4. Consider the following statements: Select the correct answer using the
codes given below:
1. PM 10 poses greater threat to (a) 1 Only
health than PM 2.4 particles
(b) 2 Only
2. According to WHO, PM10 particles
can lodge deeply into the lungs,
(c) Both 1 and 2
hence pose greater threat to health

Which of the above statements is/are (d) Neither 1 nor 2

incorrect?

(a) 1 Only
7. Which of the following conventions
(b) 2 Only deals with the Control of
Transboundary Movements of
(c) Both 1 and 2
Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal?
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
(a) Stockholm Convention

(b) Rotterdam Convention

5. With reference to Fly ash, consider the (c) Basel Convention

following statements:
(d) Minamata Convention
1. It is is one of the coal combustion
products

2. Due to stringent rules, in India,

8. Consider the following statements:
thermal power plants have
achieved 100% fly ash utilization
1. It is the shortest classified river
target
draining into the Bay of Bengal
Which of the above statements is/are
2. It was earlier known as the
correct?
Triplicane river
(a) 1 Only
3. It is one of the highly polluted river
(b) 2 Only in Tamil Nadu

To which of the following rivers does

(c) Both 1 and 2
above description refer?
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (a) Adyar River

(b) Cooum River

(c) Amaravati River

(d) Bhavani River

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

2
 INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

9. Consider the following statements: 11. Which of the following matches is/are
correct?
1. World Wetlands Day is celebrated
on February 2 marking the date of 1. Rain Forest Research Institute Jorhat

the adoption of the Convention on 2. Arid Forest Research Institute Jodhpur

Wetlands on 2 February 1971
3. Tropical Forest Research Institute Jabalpur

2. Wetlands occur naturally on every Select the correct answer using the
continent including Antarctica codes given below:
3. A wetland is a land area that is (a) 1 and 3 Only
always permanently saturated with
water (b) 2 and 3 Only
Which of the above statements is/are
(c) 2 Only
correct?

(a) 1 and 2 Only (d) 1,2 and 3

(b) 1 Only

(c) 1 and 3 Only 12. Consider the following definitions:

(d) All 1. Bioaccumulation is the increasing

concentration of a substance, such
as a toxic chemical, in the tissues
of organisms at successively higher
10. Consider the following statements: levels in a food chain

1. The autotrophs or the producers 2. Biomagnification occurs within a

are at the first trophic level in food trophic level, and is the increase in
chain concentration of a substance in
certain tissues of organisms bodies
2. There are generally a greater due to absorption from food and
number of individuals at the lower the environment
trophic levels of an ecosystem
3. Bioconcentration is defined as
3. Food chains generally consist of occurring when uptake from the
only three or four steps, but they water is greater than excretion
can have more than five trophic
levels too Which of the above definitions is/are
incorrect?
Which of the above statements is/are
correct? (a) 1 and 2 Only

(a) 1 and 2 Only (b) 2 and 3 Only

(b) 2 and 3 Only (c) 1 and 3 Only

(c) 1 Only (d) All

(d) All 3 are correct

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

3
 INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

13. Consider the following statements 15. In which of the following Biosphere
Reserves, you are likely to find the
1. To save the environment, Reuse tropical and subtropical moist
strategy is a better option than broadleaf forests, tropical moist
Recycling forests, the subtropical dry broadleaf
forests and tropical dry forests within
2. Recycling of plastic is more its boundaries?
lucrative than recycling of metals
or glass (a) Gulf of Mannar
Which of the above statements is/are (b) Simplipal
correct?
(c) Nilgiri
(a) 1 Only (d) Pachmarhi
(b) 2 Only

(c) Both 1 and 2 16. The Third UN United Nations World

Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 was held in March 2015 in

(a) Yokohoma

14. With reference to natural vegetation in (b) Sendai

the Himalayas, consider the following
statements: (c) Tokyo

1. Deciduous forests are found in the (d) Kyoto

foothills of the Himalayas

2. Oak and chestnut trees belong to

evergreen broad leaf forests 17. Which of the following region does not
3. Deodar, an endemic species grows fall under Severe Drought Prone Area
mainly in the eastern part of the category in India?
Himalayan range
(a) Northern parts of Rajasthan
Which of the above statements is/are
correct? (b) Eastern parts of Maharashtra

(a) 1 and 3 Only (c) Interior parts of Andhra Pradesh

(d) Northern parts of interior Tamil

(b) 2 and 3 Only
Nadu
(c) 3 Only

(d) 1 and 2 Only 18. The effectiveness of any given GHG

molecule will depend on which of the
following factors?

1. The magnitude of the increase in its

concentration

2. Its life time in the atmosphere

3. The wavelength of radiation that it

absorbs

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

4
 INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

Which of the above statements is/are 21. There are 100 students in a particular
correct? class. 60% students play cricket, 30%
student play football and 10% student
(a) 1 and 2 Only play both the games. What is the
number of students who play neither
(b) 2 and 3 Only
cricket nor football ?
(c) 1 and 3 Only
(a) 25
(d) All
(b) 20

19. Consider the following statements: (c) 18

(d) 15
1. Groups of individual organisms
having certain similarities in their
physical characteristics are called
species
22. A village having a population of 4000
2. Genetic biodiversity refers to the requires 150 liters of water per head
variation of genes within species per day. It has a tank measuring 20 m
x 15 m x 6 m. The water of this tank
3. Areas rich in genetic biodiversity will last for
are called hotspots of diversity

Which of the above statements is/are (a) 2 days

correct?
(b) 3 days
(a) 1 only
(c) 4 days
(b) 1 and 3 only
(d) 5 days
(c) 1 and 2 Only

(d) 1,2 and 3

23. Consider the following argument:

In, order to be a teacher one must

20. With reference to International Union graduate from college. All poets are
for Conservation of Nature and Natural poor. Some Mathematicians are poets.
Resources (IUCN), consider the No college graduate is poor.
following statements: Which one of the following is not a valid
conclusion regarding the above
1. It is an international NGO argument?
2. Its headquarters is located in (a) Some Mathematicians are not
Germany teachers.
Which of the above statements is/are (b) Some teachers are not
correct? Mathematicians.
(a) 1 Only (c) Teachers are not poor.
(b) 2 Only (d) Poets are not teachers.

(c) Both 1 and 2

(d) Neither 1 nor 2

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

5
 INSIGHTS REVISION TESTS FOR PRELIMS 2016

24. A student on her first 3 tests receives

on an average score of N points. If she
exceeds her previous average score by
20 points on her fourth test, then what
is the average score for the first 4 tests?

(a) N + 20

(b) N + 10

(c) N + 4

(d) N + 5

25. In a group of persons, 70% of the

persons are male and 30% of the
persons are married. If two sevenths of
males are married, what fraction of the
females is single ?

(a) 2/7
(b) 1/3
(c) 3/7
(d) 2/3

Insights Active Learning. | All rights reserved. www.insightsonindia.com

6