- St. Xavier`s College Ranchi

ST. XAVIER'S COLLEGE, RANCHI
(An Autonomous College of Ranchi University)
B.A./S-V/EVS
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Biotic Components (~ ~) may include
a) Producers
b) Consumers
c) Decomposers
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d) Producers,Consumers and
Decomposers
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d) Not known
93.
Due to EI-Nino for the fi rst time death of Corals were reported in
a) 1995
b) 1997
c) 1998
d) 2000
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Which one of the following is not a green house gas
b) Nitrogen oxide
a) Carbon dioxide
c) Chloro floro Carbon
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d) Nitrogen Dioxide
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10.
d) thorn forest ecosy ste m
97.
d) All of these
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Vilasrao Salunnkhe is associated w ith _ __ _ _ _ _ _ __
a) Saza Kuan
b) Pani Panchayat
c) Conservation of forest resou rce
The Air(Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act was passed for the first time in
b) 1981
c) 1983
d) 1985
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The process of eutrophication is related to
a) Increase of oxygen
b) decrease of oxygen
c) Increase of Carbon Dioxide
d) All of these
Bandipur National Park is in
a) Shimoga
district of Karnataka
b) Mysore
c) Uttar Kanada
d) Bangaluru
The serious threat of Green House effect is _ _ _ _ _ _ __
a) Flooding
b) Drought
d) All of the above
Which animal was the first to be domesticated by man?
a) Horse
b) Sheep
d) Dog
Red Data books are published for protection of wildl ife by
a) WWF
b) WII
If global warming continues all the
year ......... .......
a) 2020
d) UICN
corals(~)
would die by the
b) 2025
d) 2050
Which sector is biggest water user?
a) Agriculture
b) Industry
c) Domestic
d) None of the above
A treaty(~) for Ozone layer protection in 1987 held at... ..... .. ... ..
a) Caior
b) Rio-di-Jenerio
c) Kyoto
d) None of the above
a) 1980
c) Fe,Be,K
c) 2040
Ernst Haekel is associated w ith t he te rm :
a) Environm ent
b) Ecosyst em
c) Ecology
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Highest moisture content would be found in
a) Equatorial rainforest
b) deciduous ecosyst em
c) desert ecosystem
b) Cu,ZN Mo
c) ZSI
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Macro Nutrients(~ 'C'IITCf) are :
a) N,P,K
c) Goat
d) All of the above
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c) Temperature Rise
The flow region of River Damodar is famous for
a) Mineral Resource
b) Agricultural Resource
c) Forest Resource
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Agricultural Activities started on the earth surface around
b) 10000 years ago
a) 1000000 years ago
c) 100000 years ago
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d) Montreal
Desert Ecosystem is found in those areas where the amount of rainfall is
a) less than 50cm
b) less than 25 em
c) less than 100 em
d) none of the above
Blue Cross mark is related to
a) Medical Emergency for men
b) Child Care
c) Physically Challenged
d) Medical Emergency for Animals
d) None of these
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Ecosystem creates
a) Food Chain
c) Any of the two
Ozone layer
a) 1970-71
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d) 1981
depletion(~)
b) Food web
b) Reptiles
c) Animals
d) Birds
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d) 1980-81
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b) Consumers
d) All of the abov e
National Parks and Wildlife Sancturies were decleared by the wildlife Protection '
Act of
a) 1950
b) 1972
c) 1980
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Carnivores are
a) Usually Primary Consumers
c) Usually Secondary or tertiary
Consumers
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b) Elephants
c) Asiatic Lion
d) All of the above
Barbarism(m),hunting(~) and gathering(~) were
t he common features in
) Upper Paleolithic
b) lower Paleolithic
c) Neo lithic
d) Bronze
G ll Burundtland is associated with the concept of
) Mineral Conservation
b) River water cleaning
c) Sustainable Development
b) Usually Secondary Co nsumers
d) Industrial Development
Which plant is the first to be
a) Rice
domesticated(~)
c) Maize
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b) Herbivores
c) All the Animals
d) None of these
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Pottery(~ c):; 0Rt=r) and use of Plough started _ __ _
years BC
a) 7000-6000
b) 6000- 5000
by man:
b) Wheat
d) Sugarcane
Wild life week is celebrated between
a) 8-15 Oct
b) 15- 22 Oct
c) 1-7 Oct
d) 1- 7 Nov
World Environment Day is celebrated on
a) June 01
b) June OS
c) May 11
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d) none of these
Herbivores(~~) are not
a) Autotrops
b) Producers
c) First order consumers
d) Second order consumers
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Gir National Park is famous for
a) Indian Tiger
d) Usually decomposers
In Ecosystem Producers are
a) All the Plants
c) 5000-4000
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d) Producers
d) 2002
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category
b) Sapprophyte
d) Madhav Gadgil
c) Decoposers
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Human being s are in
a) Parasite
c) Hoalozonic
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d) Latehar
d) None of these
Environmental Conservation (~) of Garhwal hills is associated
with
a) M C Mehta
b) Anil Agarwal
Fungi (q;qq:;-)are
a) Producers
River Damodar originates from Pat land of
a) Lohardaga
b) Palamau
Dr. Salim Ali is associated with
a) Environment
was first reported in the year
b) 1973-74
c) Sunderlal Bahuguna
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c) 1974-75
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India's first forest policy was introduced in _ _ _ _ _ _ __
b) 1952
a) 1950
c) 1961
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IPCC stands for:
a) Indian Panel on Climate Change
c) International Panel on Climate
Change
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d) July 11
b) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change
d) None of these
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Centre for Science and Environment(CSE) is situated at
a) Dehradun
b) Mumbai
c) Edaphic
d) All of the above
c) New Delhi
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d) none of these
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74.
d) None of the above
Which one is an example of fresh water ecosystem
a) Pond
b) River
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d) All of these
The two major aspects of an ecosystem are
a) The structure and the function
b) Abiotic and Biotic Components
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d) None of these
Chipko Movement is associated with which state
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Jharkhand
d) Uttarakhand
The Wild Ass is found in
a) Himalaya region
b) Nilgiri Hills
c) Little Rann of Kutch
Thorny Plants have
a) Long root
c) Long or Short root
d) 12%
d) Great Rann of Kutch
Environmental Conservation Act was introduced in India in the year _ _ __
b) 1984
a) 1980
c) 1985
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d) 1986
Numerically (~ ~ ~ *) the producers are more in
numbers in
a) Forest
b) Pond
c) Desert
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80.
d) Grassland
d) It is not certain
d) Reuse
Acid Rain is Uncommon in
a) Norway
b) Denmark
c) India
d) Canada
The term acid rain was first used by
a) Robert Anges
b) Robert Thompson
c) Peter Taylor
d) None of these
The highest no. of active Volcano is in
a) Philippines
b) Japan
d) Souh Andes
The concept of ecological niche( habitat factor-~~~
~) is given by
a) Charles Elton
b) M A Cunningham
d) All of these
Phototrophs are also called
a) Producers
b) Consumers
c) Decoposer
d) None of these
Ranichua is associated with river _ _ __
a) Damodar
b) Barakar
c) Swarnarekha
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b) Short root
c) Recycl e
c) E P Odum
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d) Himachal Pradesh
Which of the following is not associated with 3Rs principle
a) Reduce
b) Resource
c) Alaska
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d) Kolkata
The first state which banned the use of Polythene was
a) Gujarat
b) Karnataka
c) Mahya Pradesh
Mangrove forest developes in _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ __
a) River Origin Region
b) River Valley Region
c) Major and Minor Commun ity
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The % of energy supplied by atomic energy is
a) 5%
b) 2%
c) Lake
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Which of the following Pyramid is always upright:
a) Biomass
b) Energy
c) River Delta Region
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c) 10%
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Environment has important factors like
a) Topog raphical
c) Number
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d) Kanchi
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World Wide Fund(WWF) was established in year _ _ __ __
a) 1960
b) 1961
c) 1962
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Which is the right order of foodchain in ecosystem
a) Decomposers-Plants-Herbivores-Car b) Herbivores-CarnivoresDecomposers-Plants
nivores
c) Carnivores- Decomposersd) Plants-Herbivores-Carnivores-Deco
Plants- Herbivores
mposers
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Sardar Sarovar Dam is associated with River
a) Ganga
b) Yamuna
c) Sabarmati
World Ozone day is celebrated on
a) Sep 16
b) Sep 20
c) Sep 24
d) Sep 25
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Clustered(~) settlements are found in
a) Rajasthan Desert
b) Vindhyan Highland s
c) Nilgiri hills
d) Ganga Plains
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The Protection of Taj Mahal movem ent was don e und er guid ance of
a) Anil Agarwal
b) Madhav Ga dgi l
c) M C Mehta
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a) Damodar
b) Swarnarekha
c) Ajay
d) Barakar
The headquarters of Indian Meterologi cal Departm ent(a:mcfn:r ~
~)is at
a) Dehradun
b) Pun e
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d) New Delhi
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Highly mobile (~!'fc;r) population was in
a) Upper Paleolithic
b) Lower Paleolithi c
c) Neolithic
age
d) Bronze
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Study of relationship of individual species to its environment is called
a) Synecology
b) Autecology
c) Commmunity ecology
d) none of these
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The fo rest cover of India is
a) 33%
b) 25%
c) 22%
d) 10%
The Pykara hydel power project is in
a) Karnataka
b) Kerala
d) Andra pradesh
Elaborate trade work was the feature of
b) lower Paleolithic
a) Upper Paleolithic
d) Bronze
Whi ch of the following river is least polluted
a) Ganga
b) Damodar
c) Sabarmati
Tilaiya Dam is on riv er _ _ _ _ _ __
c) Bangaluru
d) Indefinite
d) Yamuna
d) Sun ita Naray an
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68.
c) Around t en
c) Neolit hi c
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d) Apico
An Ideal food Chain may be of following number of members
a) Only One
b) Around five
c) Tamil Nadu
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Movement
d) Narmada
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Sri Pandu Rang Hegde is associated with
a) Narmada
b) Tehri
c) Chipko
d) 1964
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Ecosystem is important because of
a) Biogeochemical cycle
b) Energy flow
c) both i) and ii)
d) none of the above
Which one is not a type of desert
a) Sandy Desert
b) Stony Desert
c) Rocky Desert
d) Soily Desert
Wildlife Institute of India is located at
a) Bangaluru
b) Bhopal
c) kashmir
d) Dehradun
Norwegian Prof. Arne Naess has given a concept called
a) New Ecology
b) Deep Ecology
c) Modern Ecology
d) None of the above
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21
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31
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12
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22
B
32
B
42
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3
B
13
C
23
B
33
C
43
B
4
D
14
C
24
C
34
C
44
A
5
D
15
A
25
D
35
D
45
A
6
A
16
C
26
A
36
C
46
A
7
C
17
B
27
D
37
C
47
C
8
B
18
C
28
C
38
D
48
B
9
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19
B
29
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39
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49
C
10
B
20
B
30
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40
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50
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51
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61
B
71
C
81
B
91
A
52
D
62
D
72
D
82
C
92
B
53
B
63
D
73
A
83
C
93
D
54
D
64
A
74
B
84
C
94
D
55
A
65
D
75
C
85
C
95
D
56
A
66
C
76
A
86
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96
D
57
C
67
D
77
A
87
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97
A
58
D
68
D
78
A
88
D
98
D
59
C
69
B
79
B
89
B
99
B
60
C
70
B
80
C
90
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100
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