Deck 1: Environmental Issues and Conservation Efforts in India

Question 1

World wide Fund for nature - India (WWF-I) was initiated in ------ at first.

A)new delhi
B)madras
C)pune
D)mumbai

Answer 1

mumbai

Question 2

----------- is the effect of undesirable changes in our surroundings that have harmful effects on plants, animals and human beings.

A)pollution
B)degradation
C)deforestation
D)climate change

Answer 2

pollution

Question 3

Indira Gandhi had stated in the Conference in 1972 that poverty was the greatest polluter.

A)summit
B)saraac
C)stockholm
D)world

Answer 3

stockholm

Question 4

------------ Work is mainly concerned with modernity and its effects.

A)giddens
B)marx
C)parson
D)weber

Question 5

Created environment is introduced by ------------ in his work on modernity.

A)weber
B)habermas
C)ulrich beck
D)gidden

Question 6

Contemporary ------------ theory emphasis not only the role of capitalists but also that of the State in fastening ecological destruction

A)marxistian
B)weberian
C)critical
D)structural

Question 7

As carbon dioxide is released by various human activities causing --------

A)global warming
B)acid rain
C)ozone layer depletion
D)nuclear holocaust

Question 8

------------- is a highly poisonous gas with a strong odor

A)ozone
B)carbon
C)acid pollutants
D)sulphur dioxide

Question 9

The destruction of the layer causes increased incidence of skin cancer and cataracts

A)uv
B)ozone
C)carbon

Question 10

Reduce, Reuse, recycle is the new concept in ----------- management

A)environment
B)waste
C)pollution
D)water

Question 11

The implementation forest conservation act is --------------

A)1980
B)1952
C)1974
D)1947

Question 12

The environmental protection Act was passed in the year

A)1986
B)1974
C)1972
D)1976

Question 13

World health day is celebrated on ----------

A)april 7
B)april 18
C)april 22
D)march 21

Question 14

Madhave gadgil is a well known ---------------

A)sociologist
B)ecologist
C)journalist
D)social worker

Question 15

Biological diversity deals with the degree of nature's variety in the

A)biosphere
B)ecosphere
C)hydrosphere

Question 16

-------- as a mega diversity nature

A)america
B)pakistan
C)india
D)japan

Question 17

---------- percent of Indian plants are endemic to the country and found nowhere else in the world

A)25
B)20
C)18
D)10

Question 18

Risk Society is advocated by

A)hebermas
B)ulrich beck.
C)weber
D)ulrich beck

Question 19

____________ call for a 'past exuberant Sociology

A)catton and dunlap
B)giddens
C)haberman
D)parson

Question 20

Economy and Society is Written by

A)weber
B)marx
C)parson
D)durkheim

Question 21

-------- early work the concept of the humanization of nature is proposed

A)weber
B)durkheim
C)marx
D)parson

Question 22

AGIL model is introduced by

A)durkheim
B)gidden
C)murphy
D)parson

Question 23

The author of 'the passing of traditional Society is -------------

A)lerner
B)parson
C)weber
D)ulrich beck