Environmental Quiz

1) Which are the main factors that decide the conditions of environment?
Answer: Temperature, pressure, wind velocity and humidity of atmosphere.
2) What once covered 14% of the earth’s land area, but by 1991 over half had
been destroyed?
Answer: Rain forest.
3) Which environmental pressure group was founded in the UK in 1971?
Answer: Friends of the earth.
4) Which is called the farmers friends?
Answer: Earthworm.
5) Which is the world’s largest type of earth worm?
Answer: The South African Giant Earthworm.
6) Rain or other forms of precipitation containing acid formed by industrial
pollutants is called _?
Answer: Acid Rain.
7) What is BOD?
Answer: Biochemical Oxygen Demand.
8) This layer absorbs 99% of sun’s ultraviolet radiations which are very harmful
for animals and plants. So this layer is called a shield to the earth. Name this
layer.
Answer: Ozone layer.
9) Which is the worst disaster from a nuclear power plant?
Answer: Chernobyl, Russia (April 1986)
10) What is the effect of acid rain on the soil?
Answer: The soil becomes acidic which reduces the growth of crops.
11) What is dispensed from the green pump, and must be used if a car has a
catalytic converter?
Answer: Unleaded petrol.
12) Which country produces the world’s largest quantity of municipal waste per
person per year at over five-sixths of a ton?
Answer: USA.
13) What was the original of the British Green Party when it was formed in
1973?
Answer: The Ecology Party.
14) What contributes to the greenhouse effect at lower atmospheric levels?
Answer: Ozone.
15) Which color is used as the sign of conservation and environment?
Answer: Green.
16) What kind of satellite makes the global studies of the environment?
Answer: Meteorological Satellites.
17) Which is the city most affected by the air pollution in the world?
Answer: Tokyo, Japan.
18) What is the main factor responsible for ozone layer depletion?
Answer: The use of chlorofluorocarbon by man.
19) Which is the world famous monument of India is affected by air pollution
from a nearby factory?
Answer: Taj Mahal, Agra.
20) This is a combination of smoke and industrial fog. Name this.
Answer: Smog.
21) What is the name for land in the Britain officially designated ‘not to be built
on but to be preserved as open space’?
Answer: Green belt.
22) What describes all the species protected by the CITES agreement?
Answer: Endangered species.
23) What is caused by the release of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere?
Answer: Acid rain.
24) Which capital city has less green space than any other European capital
and severe air pollution that is destroying the classical buildings?
Answer: Athens, Greece.
25) Which highly polluted Italian river discharges 234 tons of arsenic into the
sea a year?
Answer: River po.
26) How can we reduce the pollution by smoke from factories?
Answer: By using electrostatic filters in the chimneys of factories.
27) Name the general term used to mean all the plants and fish thatcher live in
water.
Answer: Aquatic living beings.
28) When the environment is unhealthy and unsafe to living and non-living
things, what’s the condition usually known as?
Answer: Pollution.
29) Those animals which are active during day are called?
Answer: Diurnal animals.
30) Those animals which sleep in the day and actively move round during the
night are called?
Animals: Nocturnal animals.