Environment Sustainable Economic Development - Online Test

Q1. ________ is defined as the total planetary inheritance and the totality of all resources.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:

Environment is sum total of external forces which surround us.

It includes all the biotic and abiotic factors that influence each other.

  • Biotic Elements - Biotic elements include all living elements like birds, animals and plants, forests, fisheries, etc...
  • Abiotic elements - Abiotic elements include non- living elements like air , water, land, etc..

Q2. All living elements like birds, animals and, plants, forests, fisheries etc..are ____
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:

All living elements are boitic elements whereas all non - living elements are abiotic elements.

Q3. Following are abiotic elements except
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:

All living elements are biotic like birds,animals and plants,forests,fisheries,etc... whereas all non- living elements are abiotic like air,water,land,etc...

Q4. ______ resources are those which can be used without the possibility of the resource becoming depleted or exhausted.
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:

Renewable resources are those which can be used without the possibility of the resource becoming depleted or exhausted, i.e. a continuous supply of the resource remains available. For e.g. trees in the forests and fishes in the oceans.

Q5. ________ resources are those which get exhausted with extraction
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q6. ________ implies that the resource extraction is not above the rate of regeneration of the resources and the waste generated are within the assimilating capacity of the environment.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:

Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals of a given species that an area's resources can sustain indefinitely without significantly depleting or degrading those resources. Determining the carrying capacities for most organisms is fairly straightforward.

Q7. Absorptive capacity means
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q8. Global warming is a
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:

Global warming is a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere. It is caused by man-made increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases through the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

Q9. Which of the following are greenhouse gases?
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:

The primary greenhouse gases in earth's atmosphere are water vapour(H2O) , carbon dioxide(CO2) , methane(CH4), nitrous oxide(N2O), and ozone(O3).

Q10.

The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and CH4 have increased by ____ per cent and ____ per cent respectively above pre-industrial levels since 1750.


Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its annual index of 20 key greenhouse gases. It shows, The atmospheric concentrations of carbon doxide and CHhave increased by 40 per cent and 140 per cent respectively above pre-industrial levels since 1750.