General knowledge of Environment

General knowledge of Environment

No.	Question	Answer
01	The biggest energy source on the surface of the earth is	Solar radiation
02	The acid found in soil is	Humic acid
03	Burning of fossil fuels releases	Carbon-di-oxide
04	The place referred to as the Valley of Death is	Cubatao in Brazil
05	The Valley of Flowers is located at	Garhwal in Himalayas
06	The element found abundant in the crust of the earth is	Oxygen
07	99 percent of the crust of earth is composed of	Elements
08	The crust of the earth is called	Lithosphere
09	The type of soil found in the dessert is	Aridisols
10	Acid rain was discovered by	R.A.Smith
11	The simplest and least polluting way of deriving energy is	Solar energy
12	Junk of appliances and vehicles is known as	Solid Waste
13	Oceans are ecologically divided into how many regions	Five
14	Uranium miners more frequently suffer from	Cancer
15	Textile workers more frequently suffer from	Byssinosis
16	Coal miners more frequently suffer from	Black lung diseases
17	The type of living beings more sensitive to nuclear radiations are	Mammals
18	The most acute pollution problem faced by nuclear power industry is	Disposal of nuclear waste
19	Excessive inhalling of manganese causes	Pnemonia
20	Hay fever is due to the presence of which thing in the air	Pollen
21	The metal which causes systemic poisoning in man is	Lead
22	Dust containing silica causes	Silicosis
23	Intensive use of nitrate fertilizers causes	Methemoglobinemia
24	The most economic and pollution free form of transport is	Bicycle
25	The main source of harmful radiations in our house can be due to	Televisions
26	The most recently discovered ecosystem is	Vent
27	The most biologically productive ecosystem is	Alluvial plains
28	Ecologists divide divide lakes into how many zones	Three
29	Death valley is located in which dessert	Nevada
30	Man first cultivated crops in which age	Neolithic
31	Sheep were initially dpmesticated for	Meat and milk
32	The industrial chemical which increases the chance of developing Leukemia is	Benzene
33	The Royal society for the Protection of Birds was formed in	1889 AD
34	`Man and the Biosphere'an ecological programme was launched by	UNESCO
35	Chemicals which get rid of pests are called as	Pesticides
36	The living beings which are known as teritary consumers are	Meat-eating animals
37	A motor car produces least amount of pollution while	Moving
38	The first living beings who established themselves on rocky slopes were	Lichens
39	Birds evolved on earth during the	Jurassic period
40	Water covers about how many percent of the earth's surface	Seventy
41	Oxygen was discovered by	Joseph Priestley
42	Oxygen was discovered in	August 1774
43	The word `Oxygen'was coined by	Antonie Levoiser
44	When something burns in air, it combines with oxygen and the process is called	Oxidation
45	When we breather,oxygen combines chemically with glucose in the body to create	Energy
46	The two major components of air are oxygen and	Nitrogen
47	The French chemist who showed that air was the same all around the world was	Henri Regnault
48	William Ramsay discovered that air also contained tiny traces of	Inert gases
49	The gases which are slow to react with other chemicals are called	Inert gases
50	The air surrounding the earth is forever on the move because of	Sun's heat
51	A space with nothing in it is called	Vacuum
52	Air pressure is related to density of air. This was discovered by whom in 1662 AD	Robert Boyle
53	Earth's atmosphere has how many layers	Five
54	Moon gets very hot and very cold as it has no	Atmosphere
55	78 percent of the atmosphere is	Nitrogen
56	21 percent of the atmosphere is	Oxygen
57	The atmospheric layer immediately around the earth is called	Troposphere
58	The second atmospheric layer is called	Stratosphere
59	The third atmospheric layer is called	Mesosphere
60	The fourth atmospheric layer is called	Ionosphere
61	The fifth atmospheric layer is called	Exosphere
62	Human beings inhale what and give out what	Oxygen,carbon dioxide
63	Plants inhale what and give out what	Carbon dioxide,oxygen
64	Bubbles in soda water is due to presence of	Carbon dioxide
65	Ozone is actually a form of	Oxygen
66	We are protected from ultraviolet radiation from the sun due to the presence of	Ozone layer
67	The main culprit which is destroying the ozone layer is	CFC gases
68	The main green house gas is	Carbon dioxide
69	As one goes higher in the atmosphere,air pressure	Decreases
70	As per Daniel Bernoulli,whenever air moves,its pressure	Drops
71	The most common compound on earth is	Water
72	Life originally emerged from	Water
73	About how many percent of the world's water is solid	Two
74	Less than how many percent of the world's water is fresh water	Three
75	The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is known as	Humidity
76	Any substance that dissolve in the water vapour it absorbs is said to be	Deliquescent
77	Henry Cavendish proved that water was a compound which included	Hydrogen
78	The french chemist who showed that water was a simple compound of hydrogen and oxygen was	Antoine Lavoiser
79	In case of heavy water,oxygen combines with	Deuterium
80	A special type of hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus is	Deuterium
81	Heavy water can be extracted from ordinary water by the process of	Distillation
82	In every water molecutl,there are how many hydrogen atoms and how many oxygen atoms	Two,one
83	Water expands when it is	Frozen
84	Oxygen condenses at a temperature of	-183.c
85	The ultimate source of nearly all our energy is the	Sun
86	Solar cells turn light energy from the sun into	Electrical energy
87	Two types of basic energy is	Potential energy,kinetic energy
88	Energy that is not doing anything but is simply stored for action is called	Potential energy
89	Energy in the nucleus of an atom is called	Nuclear energy
90	As per the Law of Conservation of energy,energy can neither be nor be	Created,destroyed
91	In all energy conversions,heat is produced as	Waste
92	Coal,Oil,natural gas,etc.are known as	Fossil fuels
93	At the present rate of consumption of coal,it is estimated that it will last about	200
94	At the present rate of consumption of coal,it is estimated that it will last about	40
95	Nuclear energy is released by a process called	fission
96	It is estimated that nuclear power stations are presently producing about how many percent of world's electricity	20
97	Joule proved that heat was a form of	Energy
98	The sun heats the earth by a process called	Radiation
99	Nuclear radiations can cause an eye disease called	Cataract
100	A Landfill produces a pollutant gas,	Methane
101	The gases that produce acid rain are	Sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide
102	Hydrogen bomb was tested on a	Pacific atoll
103	The European river Rhine was till recently called as	Europe's industrial sewer
104	Ultraviolet radiations from the sun can cause	Skin cancer
105	When lakes become acidic,the substance used to counteract the acidity is	Lime
106	Water Resources Institute is located at	Washington D.C.
107	The science of human settlements is called	Ekistics
108	Bhopal Gas tragedy occured in	1984 AD
109	The city which has the highest sulphur dioxide pollution is	Milan
110	CITES is an international law concerned with	Endangered species
111	CITES stands for	Convention on Int.Trade in Endangered Species
112	NCEPC stands for	National Committee on Environmental Planning and Co-ordination
113	Project JAWS deals with	Winds
114	JAWS stands for	Joint Airport Weather Studies
115	Project FAMOUS deals with	Ocean beds
116	FAMOUS stands for	French-American Mid Ocean Under Sea Study
117	Pollution Control Research Institute is located at	Hardwar
118	International Environmental Prize is awarded by	United Nations
119	The use of DDT for agricultural purposes was banned in India in the year	1985 AD
120	The major source of fuel in rural India is	Fuelwood and charcoal
121	Asia's largest slum is located at	Mumbai
122	The Department of Environment was set up in	1980 AD