Environment & Ecology Mixed Quiz: Set 47

Rhizobium lives inside the nodules on the roots of legumes such as gram, pea, groundnut and arhar. The bacterium converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, a form the plant can absorb and build into proteins, while the plant supplies the bacterium with shelter and with sugars made in photosynthesis.

Cuscuta, known as dodder or amarbel, is a flowering plant that has lost its chlorophyll and its leaves and cannot make its own food.

Eco-Sensitive Zone notifications sort activities into three lists, and the permitted list encourages exactly these practices along with the agriculture and horticulture that local people already carry on, the use of renewable energy and the adoption of green technology, because the purpose of the zone is to limit damaging industry…

The Western Ghats were added to the World Heritage List in 2012 as a serial natural property, that is, a single listing made up of thirty-nine separate sites scattered through Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra rather than one continuous block of land.

In amensalism one species is harmed while the other neither gains nor loses, a pattern written as minus and zero.

Mining waste carrying cadmium entered the Jinzu river in Toyama Prefecture and reached people through irrigated rice and drinking water.

Anamudi rises to 2,695 metres in the Anaimalai or Elephant hills of Idukki district in Kerala and is the highest point not only of the Western Ghats but of the whole of peninsular India, higher than anything south of the Himalayas.

The IPCC was created in 1988 so that governments would have an authoritative, regularly updated assessment of climate science; its secretariat is at Geneva, and it shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore.

Brood parasitism is the habit of laying eggs in the nest of another species and letting the host bird incubate them and feed the young.

The tribunal was created by the National Green Tribunal Act of 2010, its principal bench sits at New Delhi, and it hears appeals against the grant or refusal of environmental clearance as well as disputes under other environmental laws.

The first Coastal Regulation Zone notification was issued in February 1991 under the Environment (Protection) Act, declaring the coastal stretches and the waters influenced by the tide as a regulated zone and classifying them for the first time.

India's net zero target announced at COP-26 is the year 2070, not 2047. At COP-26 in Glasgow in November 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced five commitments called the Panchamrit (five nectar elements).

In a mycorrhiza the threads of a fungus grow around or inside the fine roots of a plant and greatly extend the surface from which minerals, especially phosphorus, can be absorbed from the soil.

INDCs were the climate pledges countries announced before the Paris climate conference of 2015. Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, each country was asked to state what it intended to do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change after 2020.

That strategy asked that land falling within ten kilometres of the boundaries of National Parks and Wildlife Sanctuaries be notified as ecologically fragile, and the National Wildlife Action Plan carried the same thought forward, which is how the ten kilometre figure entered the discussion on Eco-Sensitive Zones.

The correct answer is A, the Gir forest of Gujarat, the last refuge of the Asiatic lion, which once ranged from west Asia to eastern India; the Asiatic Lion Conservation Project was launched in 2018 for it, and the Barda sanctuary nearby has been developed as a second habitat.

Connell showed in the field that on the intertidal rocks of the Scottish coast the larger and faster-growing barnacle Balanus physically crowds out the smaller Chathamalus wherever the two settle together, so that Chathamalus survives only higher up the shore where Balanus cannot tolerate the exposure.

The correct answer is A, the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park at Darjeeling, the highest altitude zoo in India, which runs recognised conservation breeding programmes for the red panda, the snow leopard and the Himalayan wolf, and has released captive-bred red pandas into the Singalila landscape.

It was constituted under the Environment (Protection) Act to advise the central government on coastal matters and to work with the State and Union Territory Coastal Zone Management Authorities, which examine proposals and prepare the Coastal Zone Management Plans that draw the High Tide Line and the zone boundaries on…

The Palghat gap, about thirty kilometres wide in Palakkad district of Kerala, is the broadest break in the whole chain and carries the road and the railway line that join Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to Palakkad and Thrissur in Kerala.