Environment & Ecology GK Questions with Answers – Page 8

GACSA is a voluntary alliance whose members take on no binding obligations, but it was not born in Paris and India did not drive its creation.

All three are listed in Schedule I of the Act, so none of them can be hunted except in the narrow cases the Act itself allows.

All three statements are correct. Methane hydrate, also called gas hydrate or "fire ice", is methane trapped inside a cage of frozen water molecules.

All five release benzene, either by burning carbon-based material or by giving off fumes from solvents and synthetic materials. Benzene is a volatile organic compound and a known human carcinogen linked to leukaemia.

From south to north the order is Bhadra (Karnataka), Simlipal (Odisha), Pachmarhi (Madhya Pradesh) and Shikari Devi (Himachal Pradesh). Bhadra lies in the Western Ghats of Chikkamagaluru district, Karnataka, at about 13.5°N, and is a tiger reserve.

The ozone hole is a sharp seasonal thinning of the stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica, caused mainly by chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons.

Net metering lets a home with rooftop solar panels sell its surplus power to the grid. Under net metering, a bidirectional meter records both the electricity a consumer draws from the grid and the electricity their rooftop solar system pushes back into it.

Microbeads are tiny plastic particles that wash into rivers and seas, where they persist and are eaten by marine life.

The blue-finned mahseer occurs in the Cauvery and the rusty-spotted cat in the Eastern Ghats, but the Irrawaddy dolphin does not live in the Chambal.

Each of these everyday items is made partly or wholly of synthetic polymers, which is what plastic is. A cigarette filter is made of cellulose acetate, a plastic that takes years to break down, which is why butts are among the most common litter found on beaches.

After years of protest against the reservation of hill forests, the colonial government allowed Kumaon villages to manage part of the civil forest themselves through elected Van Panchayats under rules framed in 1931.

At Arabari in the Midnapore district, a forest officer stopped treating villagers as encroachers and offered them a share of the sal harvest in return for protecting the degraded forest.

Nallur, near Devanahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru, is an old stand of tamarind trees, some of them several centuries old, and Karnataka declared it the first Biodiversity Heritage Site of the country under section 37 of the Biological Diversity Act.

It builds a three tier system: the National Biodiversity Authority at the centre, State Biodiversity Boards, and a Biodiversity Management Committee in every local body, which keeps a People Biodiversity Register of the plants, animals and traditional uses of its area.

Until then the Act of 1972 knew only national parks and sanctuaries, both of which need state ownership and control.

Jambheshwar, known affectionately as Jambhoji, founded the Bishnoi sect in 1485 in the Bikaner desert. He laid down twenty nine rules of conduct, and the name Bishnoi comes from bis, twenty, and noi, nine.

Khejri, the Prosopis cineraria of the Thar, is the tree the Bishnois hold sacred, and it is the state tree of Rajasthan.

Mawphlang lies in the Khasi hills south of Shillong and is the best known sacred grove of India.

An Oran is a patch of desert vegetation in western Rajasthan dedicated to a folk deity, made up of khejri, kair, jaal and rohida trees and the grass between them.

In Kerala a sacred grove is called a Kavu, and a grove kept for the serpent deities, which almost every old family compound of the state once had, is called a Sarpa Kavu.