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ENVIRONVENTAL ISSUES
1. __________ are the agents that bring 7. According to CPCB, particulate size
undesirable changes in physical, ________ are responsible for causing
chemical or biological characteristics the greatest harm to human health
of air, land, water or soil. A) 2.0 micrometers or more in
A) Pollution diameter
B) Pollutants B) 2.0 micrometers or less in
C) Contagion diameter
D) Particulate matter C) 2.5 micrometers or less in
2. Environment (protection) Act was diameter
passed in ________ D) 2.5 micrometers or more in
A) 1990 diameter
B) 1996 8. Catalytic converters, having expensive
C) 1986 metals namely ______ and ______ as
D) 1948 the catalysts are fitted into auto
3. Environment (protection) Act was mobiles for reducing emission of
passed by ________ poisonous gases.
A) WHO A) platinum – palladium and rhodium
B) Forest and environment minister B) osmium – platinum and rhodium
of USA C) silver – platinum and indium
C) Water conservation committee of D) ruthenium – palladium and
world rhodium
D) Government of india 9. In India, the air (prevention and
control of pollution) Act come into
16.1 Air Pollution and Its force in ______
Control A) 1980
B) 1982
4. _________ is the most widely used C) 1988
method of removing particulate matter D) 1981
from air 10. Label the figure correctly using given
A) Wet scrubbers correct option –
B) Venturi scrubbers
C) Fume scrubber
D) Electrostatic precipitator
5. In electrostatic precipitator, _______
attach to dust particle giving them a
net negative charge
A) Proton
B) Negatively charged wire
C) Electron
D) Another dust particles (i) (ii) (iii)
6. CPCB stands for A Discharge Negatively Collection
corona charged wire plate
A) Control pollution central board grounded
B) Central population control board B Electron Nucleus Collection
plate
C) Central pollution control board Negatively Discharge Collection
C
D) Control population central board charged wire corona plate
D Dust Negatively Collection
particles charged wire plate
grounded
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11. Which among the following is used in C) Sulphur be controlled at 370 ppm
scrubber to clean the exhaust air? in diesel
A) Water or lime D) Sulphur be controlled at 360 ppm
B) Chlorine in diesel
C) Platinum 17. Bharat stage II is equivalent to which
D) Molybdenum among the following –
A) Euro – III norms
16.1.1 Controlling Vehicular Air B) Euro – I norms
Pollution : A Case study C) Euro – II norms
of Delhi D) Euro – IV norms
18. (i) Bharat stage III – norms is
12. What does PIL stands for applicable to 4 wheelers, 3 wheelers, 2
A) People Interest Limitation wheelers
B) Public Interest Litigation (ii) Bharat stage III norm is
C) Population Interest Litigation implemented throughout the country
D) Personal Interest Litigation since May 2017
13. Which among the following is best to
use as a fuel for public transport? A) Both (i) and (ii) are correct
A) Petrol B) (i) is correct and (ii) is wrong
B) Diesel C) (i) is wrong and (ii) is correct
C) Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) D) Both (i) and (ii) are wrong
D) Gasoline 16.2 Water Pollution and It’s
14. Statement P : CNG is better than
petrol and diesel Control
Statement Q : CNG burns most
efficiently and left with very little of 19. Water (Prevention and Control of
unburnt residue pollution) Act was passed in which
A) P is correct and Q is wrong year?
B) Both statements are correct A) 1981
C) P is wrong and Q is correct B) 1974
D) Both statements are wrong C) 1989
15. Use of ______ and ________ reduces the D) 1986
vehicular pollution. 20. Choose the correct option –
A) Leaded petrol and low sulphu Impurities in waste water
petrol 1 Suspended i Fecal matter,
B) Unleaded petrol and high sulphur solids bacteria
petrol 2 Colloidal ii Nitrate,
C) Unleaded petrol and low sulphur material Calcium
petrol 3 Dissolved iii Sand, Silt,
D) Leaded petrol and high sulphur material Clay
petrol
16. Which among the following is correct A) 1-i, 2-ii, 3-iii
option – B) 1-ii, 2-i, 3-iii
ACC. to Euro III norms – C) 1-iii, 2-i, 3-ii
A) Sulphur be controlled at 350 ppm D) 1-ii, 2-iii, 3-i
in diesel
B) Sulphur be controlled at 150 ppm
in diesel
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21. Label the given figure A) Assertion is wrong Reason is

correct
B) Both are wrong
C) Assertion is correct but Reason is
wrong
D) Both are correct
25. Free-Floating algae are also called
_______
A) Euglenoids
B) Planktonic-algae
(i) (ii) (iii) C) Hydro algae
A BOD Dissolved Clean D) Dinoflagellates algae
O2 water 26. What is the cause of algal bloom?
B BOD Dissolved Sewage A) Excessive growth of planktonic
O2 discharge algae due to presence of large
amount of nutrient in water
C Dissolved BOD Sewage
O2 water B) Excess of fish mortality in water
C) Discharge of harmful elements like
D Dissolved BOD Clean
lead, mercury, etc in water bodies
O2 water
through industries
D) Nitrogen – fixing bacteria present
22. BOD stands for –
in water bodies fixes nitrogen and
A) Biological Oxygen Demand
results in the spread of vegetation
B) Biochemical Oxygen Demand
27. Which among the following are not
C) Biodegradable Oxygen Demand
consequences of algal bloom
D) Biological Oxygen Dissolved
A) Imprting distinct colors to the
23. (i) Dissolved salts like nitrates,
water bodies
phosphates, toxic metal ions and B) Deterioration of water quality
organic compounds are most easy to C) Fish natality
remove from sewage water D) Toxicity to human being and
(ii) A mere 0.1 % impurities make animals
domestic sewage unfit for human use 28. Scientific name of water hyacinth
(iii) Most of domestic sweage are not A) Eichhornia crassipes
readily decomposed B) Elodeo canadensis
C) Epomoea quamoclit
D) Etroplus surotensis
How many among the above 29. Which among the following is called
statements are correct – ‘ Terror of Bengal ’ ?
A) 0 A) Nelumbo nucifera
B) 1 B) Ceratrophyllum submeresum
C) 2 C) Eichhornia crassipes
D) 3 D) Lemma minor
24. Assertion : It is possible to estimate 30. Which among the following is not true
the amount of non – biodegradable about water hyalinth?
organic matter in sewage water by A) There are the world’s most
measuring BOD. problematic aquatic weed.
Reason : Bacteria and other micro- B) These are introduced in the India
organism multiply using the organic for their rapid growing ability
substances as substrate and utilizes C) They have very beautiful flowers
D) They cause imbalance in the
some of the components of sewage
ecosystem dynamics of the water
bodies
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31. Match the following A) Biomagnification

1 Water i DDT 0.5 B) Eutrophication
ppm C) Euphorbism
2 Zooplankton ii DDT 2 ppm D) Eumagnification
3 Small fish iii DDT 0.003 37. What causes eutrophication?
ppm A) Introduction of nutrients like
4 Large fish iv DDT 25 ppm nitrogen and phosphorus
5 Fish – Eating v DDT 0.04 B) Introduction of harmful elements
birds ppm like lead
C) Introduction of plastic waste
A) 1-iii, 2-v, 3-i, 4-ii, 5-iv D) None of these
B) 1-i, 2-ii, 3-v, 4-iv, 5-iii 38. Which among the following
C) 1-ii, 2-v, 3-iv, 4-i, 5-iii statements are correct?
D) 1-iii, 2-iv, 3-i, 4-v, 5-ii i) Eutrophication is long process
32. Heavy metals like mercury, lead, etc which may even take thousands of
have density greater than ______? years
A) 5 g/cm3 ii) Eutrophication encourages growth
B) 5 mg/cm3 of aquatic organisms
C) 25 g/cm3 iii) Eutrophication leads to the
D) 25 mg/cm3 conversion of fresh lake into polluted
33. Which among the following refers to and deteriorate lake
the increase in concentration of the A) (ii) and (iii)
toxicant at successive trophic level B) Only (i)
A) BOD C) (i) and (ii)
B) Biomagnification D) All
C) Biofrtification 39. Eutrophication finally leads to the
D) Eutrophication conversion of lake into which among
34. Assertion : Toxic substances get the following?
passed on to the next higher trophic A) Deep swampy pond
level B) Land
Reason : Toxic substances get C) Polluted pond
accumulated by an organism cannot D) Lake with silt and organic content
be metabolished or excreted at base
40. Which among the following can
A) Both are correct accelerate the process of
B) Assertion is correct but Reason is eutrophication
wrong A) Organic waste from household
C) Assertion is wrong but Reason is B) Plastic waste
correct C) Sewage and agricultural waste
D) Both are wrong D) Both A & C
35. High concentration of DDT disturb 41. Accelerated aging process of natural
calcium metabolism in bird which lake by pollutants from mans
causes activities are called _______
A) Thinning of eggshell A) Cultural eutrophication
B) Premature breaking of eggshell B) Man-made eutrophication
C) Decline in bird population C) Accelerated eutrophication
D) All of these D) More than one option is correct
36. Which among the following is a term
used for natural aging of lake
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42. Prime contaminants, that causes C) Marshes constitute of a sanctuary

severe eutrophication and also act as with a high level of biodiversity
plant nutrients are ______ D) Both (i) and (iii)
A) Calcium 47. Who are responsible for the
B) Nitrate safeguarding of integrated waste
C) Phosphate water treatment in Arcata?
D) Both B & C A) FOAM
43. Which of below option is correct? B) POAM
Pollutants from thermal power plants C) COAM
results in – D) DOAM
i) Elimination of organism sensitive to 48. What does FOAM stands for?
high temperature A) Family of Arcata Marsh
ii) Elimination of organisms sensitive B) Friends of Arcata Marsh
to low temperature C) Family of Arcata Mission
iii) Enhance the growth of organisms D) Friends of Arcata Mission
in extremely cold areas 49. Which among the following is a
iv) Certainly has no effect on the sustainable system for handling
organisms human excreta using dry composting
A) Only i toilets?
B) ii and iii A) Recycle sanitation
C) i and iii B) Biological sanitation
D) only iv C) Ecological sanitation
D) None of these
16.2.2 A case study of 50. Name of dry composting toilets used
Integrated waste water in many areas of Kerala and Sri
Treatment Lanka
A) Bio san
44. Arcata is situated along the B) Com san
A) North coast of California C) Chem san
B) Eastern part of Europe D) Eco san
C) Southern part of Germany
D) Middle zone of France 16.3 Solid Wastes
45. The series of six connected marshes
spread over how much area in the
51. Municipal solid waste include waste
integrated waste water treatment?
from
A) 600 hectares
A) Homes and schools
B) 60 hectares
B) Hospitals
C) 600 Acre
C) Stores and office
D) 60 Acre
D) All of these
46. Which among the following is true
52. _______were adopted as the substitute
about the second stage of the Arcata
for open - burning dumps
integrated waste water treatment?
A) sanitary landfills
A) It comprises of marshes which
B) decomposing pit
contain algae, fungi and bacteria,
C) shallow pit
which neutrises absorb and
D) none of these
assimilate the pollutants
B) Marshes go with conventional
sedimentation filtering and
chlorine treatment
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53. Problems with landfills to dump 16.3.1 Case Study of Remedy for
wastes are-
Plastic Waste
A) large amount of garbage results in
rapidly filling of landfills
59. Which among the following is
B) seepage of chemicals causing soil
produced by Ahmed Khan’s company?
contamination
A) Bitumen
C) Contamination of groundwater
B) Polyblend
D) all of these
C) Karlit
54. Waste that is generated is categorized
D) Qualinite
into the following type-
60. Polyblend is obtained by which of the
i) bio-degradable
following?
ii) nonbiodegradable
A) By making a paste of recycled
iii) contaminated waste
modified plastic
iv) recyclable waste
B) By making a powder of recycled
A) only i and ii
modified plastic
B) i, ii and iii
C) By making a paste of non-recycled
C) i, ii and iv
unmodified plastic
D) All of these
D) By making a powder of non-
55. What is incinerators?
recycled unmodified plastic
A) Chemicals used for degradation of
61. Polyblend is mixed with which among
waste
the following to lay roads?
B) Micro-organisms that degrade
A) Karolinite
waste
B) Allinite
C) Area where waste products are
C) Bitumen
dumped
D) Dalinite
D) Furnace wear waste are burned
62. What are the factors by which khan
56. Crucial step for safe disposing
prove that his innovation is better way
hospital waste is
to lay road
A) disinfecting the waste products
A) Enhanced water repellent
B) using off incinerators
properties
C) disposal in water bodies
B) This increases the road life by a
D) none of these
factor of 3
57. What are irreplarable computers and
C) Accumulation of plastic waste
electronic wastes are called?
reduced
A) E – waste
D) All of these
B) C – waste
63. Ahmed khan collaborated with -
C) A – waste
A) R.V. College of Engineering
D) B – waste
B) Jawaharlal Medical College
58. How E – waste are treated without
C) Bangalore City Corporation
damage to environment and human
D) Both A and C
life?
A) Recycling
B) Buried in pit / landfills
C) Incinerated
D) All of these
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16.4 Agro – Chemicals and their i) he included Bee - keeping dairy,

water harvesting, composting and
Effects
agriculture in his farm
ii) he uses cattle dung as manure to
64. What are the effects of Green
crops
Revolution?
iii) he uses crop waste only to generate
A) Increased crop production
natural gas but not for compost
B) widely used inorganic fertilizer and
formation
pesticides
iv) he uses chemical fertilizer for crops
C) increased toxicity to soils
A) 1
ecosystem
B) 2
D) all of these
C) 3
65. Which among the following is correct?
D) 4
i) Increase the use of chemical
69. Who was the founder of Haryana
fertilizer can be biomagnified in
kisan welfare club?
terrestrial ecosystem and can be
A) Suresh Dagariya
toxic
B) Raju Chandra Bhushan
ii) increased used of chemical fertilizer
C) Ahmad Khan
is useful for aquatic ecosystem as it
D) Ramesh Chandra Dagar
undergoes Eutrophication in faster
rate 16.5 Radioactive Wastes
A) only (i)
B) only (ii) 70. Three Mile Island and Chernobyl
C) (i) and (ii) incidents are related to which among
D) None of these the following?
A) Leakage of chemical gas
16.4.1 Case Study of Organic
B) Leakage of radioactive gas
Farming C) release of contaminated
wastewater
66. What is the key point of integrated D) none of these
organic farming? 71. How radiation given off by nuclear
A) Preference of mixed farming waste is damaging to organisms?
B) Waste product from one process A) They cause mutation at very high
are cycled in as nutrient for other rate
process B) They cause disorders by altering
C) Minimizing the use of chemical the gene sequence
fertilizer C) they causes cancer
D) All of these D) all the above
67. What are the results of integrated 72. What is the best method to dispose
organic family? nuclear waste?
A) Maximum utilization of resources A) Bury then deep down in Atlantic
B) Increased efficiency of production Ocean
C) Higher profitability to farmer B) after pre-treatment bury within the
D) All of these rock in shielded container 500
68. How many among the following are meter deep below the earth
true for Dagar’s idea of integrated C) taking these wastes to the other
organic farming planet and disposing there
D) all of these
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16.6 Greenhouse effect and 3 CFC III 60%

4 N2O IV 6%
Global Warming

73. From where does term ‘Greenhouse A) 1-II, 2-III, 3-IV, 4-I
effect’ has been derived? B) 1-III, 2-II, 3-IV, 4-I
A) From Green Terrestrial Surface C) 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III
B) Phenomena occurring in green D) 1-III, 2-I, 3-II, 4-IV
plants 79. Assertion : greenhouse gasses are
C) phenomena occurs in greenhouse responsible for greenhouse effect.
D) scientist named Greenhouse Reason : Earth receives incoming
74. Why greenhouse is actually used for solar radiation in short wave radiation
plants? some radiation get reflected back,
A) It is used to maintain the soil some get fall in Earth’s surface
health for growing plant heating it, earth again re-emits heat
B) It is used to grow plants especially in form of infrared rays and get
in winter as it’s warm from inside absorbed by greenhouse gases these
providing plants good temperature gases again radiate them and cycle
to grow get repeated many times and keep
C) It provide plants cool temperature earth surface warm
and environment to grow A) Assertion is correct and Reason is
D) all of these wrong
75. Which among the following B) Both are correct
phenomena is responsible for natural C) Assertion is wrong and Reason is
heating of Earth’s surface and correct
atmosphere? D) Both are wrong
A) Absorption of heat (sun) rays 80. What is the result of increased level of
B) Greenhouse effect greenhouse gasses?
C) Emission of radioactive raise from A) Global warming
nuclear plant B) melting of ice glaciers in Polar
D) Doppler’s phenomena region
76. Earth receives incoming solar C) abnormal weather phenomena (El
radiation in the form of _______. Nino effect)
A) Long wave radiation D) all of these
B) Short wave radiation 81. What portion of incoming solar
C) Electronic wave radiation radiation get reflected by clouds and
D) Magnetic wave radiation gases without reaching to the earth’s
77. In which form earth’s surface re-emits surface?
heat, that does not escape into space? A) 1/3 rd
A) Infrared radiation B) 1/4 th
B) UV rays C) 2/3 rd
C) PAR D) 1/2 nd
D) All of these 82. What would be the average
78. Match the following- temperature of earth if there would be
Relative contribution of various no greenhouse effect?
greenhouse gasses to total global A) 0°C
warming B) 15°C
1 CO2 I 20% C) -18°C
2 Methane II 14% D) -105°C
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16.7 Ozone Depletion in the 90. Full Form of CFCs is

A) Chlorofluoro cation
Stratosphere
B) Chlorofluroscent carbon
C) Chlorofluoro carbon
83. Bad ozone is found in which layer?
D) Cationicfluoroin carbon
A) Upper Stratosphere
91. Which among the following is true
B) Thermosphere
about CFCs?
C) Troposphere
i) It degrades the ozone layer
D) Ionosphere
ii) By the action of UV ray CFCs
84. Good ozone is found in which layer ?
releases Cl atom
A) Upper Stratosphere
iii) Cl bind with ozone and releases
B) Thermosphere
molecular oxygen and act as merely
C) Troposphere
catalysts
D) Ionosphere
iv) Cl atom are consumed in the
85. The thickness of ozone layer is
reaction
measured by
A) Only i and ii
A) Fukin unit
B) Only i and iii
B) Delberg unit
C) i, ii and iii
C) Dobson unit
D) all of these
D) Colleit unit
92. what are the effects of UV – B rays?
86. The area where, ozone layer is thin is
A) Damages DNA by causing
known as
mutation
A) Ozone reduced area
B) Causes inflammation of Cornea,
B) Ozone hole
snow-blindness,
C) Spare ozone area
C) causes cataract
D) Zero ozone
D) All of these.
87. At which area, ozone hole is
93. Which among the following
prominent?
international treaty was signed to
A) Above antarctica
control emission of ozone depleting
B) Above north Pacific ocean
substances?
C) Above Atlantic ocean
A) Kyoto Protocol
D) Above whole Asia
B) Nagoya Protocol
88. What is the time period at which
C) Earth summit
ozone hole area Antarctica develops
D) Montreal Protocol
each year?
94. In which year Montreal Protocol was
A) Late August – early October
signed?
B) January – Feburary
A) 1990
C) Early March – Late March B) 1985
D) Mid December – Mid January C) 1986
89. How ozone gas are formed? D) 1987
A) By action of UV rays on molecular
oxygen 16.8 Degradation By Improper
B) By action of infrared rays on Resources Utilization And
molecular oxygen Maintainance
C) By action of PAR on molecular
oxygen 95. What cause soil erosion?
D) none of the above A) Un-restricted grazing
B) Deforestation
C) Poor-irrigation practices
D) All of these
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96. What are the effect of water logging? 100. The process of restoration of forest
A) It result in soil salinity as it draws that once existed, but was removed
salt from underground and deposit at some point of time in past is
on land surface as thin crust. called _______ .
B) It results in accumulation of acid A) Deforestation
on soil surface. B) Repeated forestation
C) It results in desertification. C) Reforestation
D) All of these. D) All of these

16.9 Deforestation 16.9.1 Case Study of Peoples

participation in
97. When was National Forest Policy
conservation of Forests
came?
A) 1987
101. Amrita devi was a lady from which
B) 1985
community?
C) 1988
A) Garwhal
D) 1986
B) Bajpah
98. Another name of slash and burn
C) Bishnoi
agriculture is _______.
D) Barwal
A) Sling cultivation
102. Chipko movement was performed in?
B) Donum cultivation
A) Diwanans Gujarat
C) Jhum cultivation
B) Bishnoi Gir forest
D) Fiala cultivation
C) Garhwal Himalayas
99. Assertion: Jhum cultivation also
D) Deoni Delhi
causes deforestation
103. When was Chipko movement
Reason: It include cutting down of
observed?
trees in forest and burned the
A) 1972
remaining plant. Ashes used as
B) 1971
fertilizer and land is used for
C) 1973
cultivation, then same process is
D) 1974
repeated to another area due to
104. What does JFM stand for?
increased population time-gap given is
A) Junior Federation of Management
limited for recovery and results in
B) Junior Forest Manager
deforestation.
C) Joint Fellowship Management
D) Joint Forest Management
A) Assertion and Reason both are
correct 105.Which among the following award is
B) Assertion is correct but Reason is given to the individual community
wrong for their extraordinary courage and
C) Both are wrong dedication in protecting wildlife?
D) Assertion is wrong but reason is
correct A) Chipcombent award.
B) Amrita Devi Bisnoe wildlife
protection award.
C) Garval wildlife protection award
D) none of these.
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ANSWER KEY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Q 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Ans B C D D C C C A D A
Q 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Ans A B C B C A C B B C
Q 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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Ans C B B A B A C A C B
Q 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Ans A A B A D B A C B D
Q 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Ans D D C A B D A B C D
Q 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
Ans D A D C D B A A B B
Q 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Ans C D D D A D D B D B
Q 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Ans D B C B B B A D B D
Q 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
Ans B C C A C B A A A C
Q 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
Ans C D D D D A C C A C
Q 101 102 103 104 105
Ans C C D D B