Green Olympiad Sample Questions: Environment Quiz 93

Green Olympiad Sample Questions: Environment Quiz 93

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1. Love Canal is one of the most appalling environmental tragedies in American history. What type of environmental disaster occurred at Love Canal?

Nuclear disaster
Earthquake
Landfill
Flood

2. "The Grapes of Wrath" is a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel by a Nobel Laureate which is set in the natural calamity on the prairie lands of the United States and Canada called "Dust Bowl". Do you know the author?

John Galsworthy
John Steinbeck
Pearl S. Buck
Hermann Hesse

3. Purna Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in the Western Ghats mountain range lying in two states. Name the states

Gujarat and Maharashtra
Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

4. Who gave the concept of the debt-for-nature swaps to deal with the problems of developing-nation indebtedness and its consequent deleterious effect on the environment?

Alyssa Adler
Malaika Vaz
Thomas Lovejoy
David Lama

5. Which one of the following give turmeric its yellow colour?

Curcumin
Carotene
Capsaicin
Chalcone

6. Which one of the following is used as a biofertiliser?

Nostoc
Agaricus
Spirogyra
Acanthus

7. The fastest and deadliest snake found native to sub-Saharan Africa is the second-longest venomous snake. Can you name this snake?

Jararaca
Inland taipan
Tiger Snake
Black mamba

8. Which one of the following have a compound eye with 30, 000 lenses per eye?

Elephant
Dragon fly
Owl
Blue whale

9. Which is the only bird with external nostrils at the tip of its long beak?

Parrot
Kiwi
Flamingo
Ostrich

10. Wih which one of the following will you associate "Yellowcake towns"?

Baking Industry
Uranium mining
Floral industry
Health awareness

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