Environment Quiz 88: Green Olympiad Sample Questions

Environment Quiz 88: Green Olympiad Sample Questions

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1. With which one of the following will you associate "Yellowcake towns"?

Baking Industry
Uranium mining
Floral industry
Health awareness

2. Where is Jharia, famous for its rich coal resources, located?

West Bengal
Bihar
Jharkhand
Uthar Pradesh

3. Which one of the following is used as a bio-fertiliser?

Nostoc
Agaricus
Spirogyra
Acanthus

4. Which of these bio-fertilizers provide phosphorus to the plants?

Nostoc
Oscillatoria
Rhizobium
Mycorrhizae

5. Which one of the following is known as "Marsh gas"?

Propane
Methane
Butane
Carbon monoxide

6. The MMR is a vaccine used widely around the world. What are the diseases that MMR stand for?

Malaria Measles Rabies
Measles Mumps Rickets
Measles Mumps Rubella
Meningitis Malaria Rubella

7. What is the farming management concept based on the usage GPS (global positioning satellite) called?

Technoculture
Modern Agriculture
Precision Agriculture
Global Agriculture

8. What do you call a scientist who researches the earth's underground and surface waters?

Hydrologist
Geologist
Lithologist
Geomorphologist

9. This type of wetland occur where water at the ground surface is acidic and low in nutrients and is characterised by the accumulation of peat mostly sphagnum moss. What is it called?

Swamp
Marsh
Bog
Fen

10. Veerendra Datta Saklani is associated with which one of the following?

Tehri Dam Conflict
Chipko Andolan
Appiko Movement
Silent Valley Movement

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