Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 11

Environment Quiz - Green Olympiad Practice Questions 11
Green Olympiad sample questions, previous year green Olympiad questions

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1.This islands are famed for their vast number of endemic species and were studied by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle.

Raja Ampat, Indonesia
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Andaman Islands, India
Galapagos islands

2.The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles" is a novella by American author Herman Melville which consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the islands. Which one of the following is referred to as Enchanded Isles?

Andaman Islands, India
Galapagos islands
Coronado Island
Greenland

3.The microbes that are active at low temperatures

thermophiles
Mesophiles
Psychrophiles
neutrophiles

4.Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) describes which phenomenon?

Indoor air pollution
Indoor water pollution
Indoor noise pollution
All the above

5.The energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others

Kinetic energy
Potential energy
Chemical energy
Positional energy

6.The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere or the upper limit of the atmosphere is

Thermosphere
Exosphere
Ionosphere
Mesosphere

7.To be classified as a hurricane in the Saffir Simpson hurricane wind scale (SSHWS), a tropical cyclone must have maximum sustained winds of at least

74 mph
100 mph
50 mph
80 mph

8.The injection of fertilizers, soil amendments, and other water-soluble products into an irrigation system is termed as

Fertilization
Fertigation
Drip irrigation
Foliar feeding

9.What does UNEP stand for?

United Nations Educational Plan
United Nations Environmental Protection
United Nations Environmental Programme
United Nations Environmental Policy

10.The head quarters of UNEP is at

New York
Geneva
Sockholm
Nairobi

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