Environment & Ecology Mixed Quiz: Set 65

The Great Himalayan area in Himachal Pradesh is a national park, not a biosphere reserve. The Great Himalayan National Park lies in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

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.

This is false: the north-east has several tiger reserves. Manas, Kaziranga, Nameri and Orang in Assam, Namdapha, Pakke (Pakhui) and Kamlang in Arunachal Pradesh, and Dampa in Mizoram are all tiger reserves.

The London Convention of 1972, formally the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, controls the deliberate disposal of waste at sea from ships, aircraft and platforms, prohibiting the most hazardous categories outright and allowing others only under permit; its later Protocol tightened…

Among the gases listed, carbon dioxide is present in by far the largest amount, about 0.04 per cent of the air, which is roughly two hundred times the amount of methane.

All three appliances carry the BEE Star Label. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency was set up in 2002 under the Energy Conservation Act, 2001, and launched its Standards and Labelling programme in 2006.

The Forest Rights Act defines critical wildlife habitat, and the Baigas were the first community to receive habitat rights, but the Environment Ministry does not grant those rights.

Under the notification of 2006, a Category A project is appraised by the Expert Appraisal Committee constituted at the centre, and the ministry grants or refuses the prior environmental clearance on that committee's recommendation.

Nitrogen oxides and sulphur dioxide are the two gases that turn rain acidic. When coal and oil burn in power plants, factories and vehicles, they release sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.

In 2017 Kanha in Madhya Pradesh became the first tiger reserve in India to adopt an official mascot, a cartoon barasingha named Bhoorsingh.

Neodymium and dysprosium are rare earth elements used mainly in strong permanent magnets, not in solar cells, while tellurium and gallium are used in photovoltaic cells.

Its central feature is the nationally determined contribution, written by each country itself and revised every five years, together with the goal of holding warming well below two degrees Celsius.

Mild to cold seasons, good rainfall, broad-leaved deciduous trees like maple and oak, and animals like raccoons and squirrels mark the temperate deciduous forest.

It was created by the amendment of the Wild Life (Protection) Act in 2006, which gave Project Tiger a statutory footing, and it approves tiger conservation plans, notifies core and buffer areas with the states and conducts the national tiger estimation.

NPOP is run by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, not Rural Development, while the statements about APEDA and Sikkim are correct.

NDMA is the apex body for disaster management in India, created under the Disaster Management Act of 2005 and chaired by the Prime Minister; it frames policies and plans for prevention, mitigation and preparedness.

Pakhui Wildlife Sanctuary, also called Pakke, lies in the East Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh and is also a tiger reserve.

Greta Thunberg, born in Stockholm in 2003, is a Swedish climate activist who became the face of the youth climate movement.

Global warming is the long-term rise in the average temperature at the earth's surface, and it is driven mainly by the growing amount of greenhouse gases in the air, so Statement II explains Statement I. Sunlight warms the ground, which gives off heat as infrared radiation.

Sulphur and nitrogen oxides from industries in the Great Lakes region and the US Midwest are carried by westerly winds and fall as acid rain and snow over eastern Canada.