If very cold air is brought indoors and warmed with no change in its moisture content, the saturation vapor pressure of this air will______ and the relative humidity of this air will_____ .
A. Increase, increase
B. Decrease, decrease
C. Increase, decrease
D. Decrease, increase
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Which of the following helps to explain why even though northern latitudes experience 24 hours of sunlight on June 22, they are not warmer than latitudes further south?
A. Solar energy is spread over a larger area in northern latitudes
B. Some of the sun's energy is reflected by snow and ice in the northern latitudes
C. Increased cloud cover reflects solar energy in the northern latitudes
D. Solar energy is used to melt frozen soil in the northern latitudes
E. All of the above
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Ozone hole was first discovered in
A. Africa
B. Antarctica
C. India
D. Europe
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The world's biggest GHG emitter is
A. China
B. USA
C. India
D. South Africa
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Where was the Stockholm conference on Human Environment held?
A. Sweden
B. Austria
C. India
D. Greece
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One third of the global cases of Tuberculosis is in
A. Britain
B. Sweden
C. India
D. China
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The biggest award for environmental activities in India is given in the name of an individual. In whose name is it constituted?
A. Lal Bahadur Shasthri
B. Morarji Desai
C. Indira Gandhi
D. Kamaraj
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Water pollution is due to
A. agricultural discharges
B. sewage and other wastes
C. industrial effluents
D. all of the above
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Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 0.4 and 0.7 micrometers is called:
A. Ultraviolet light
B. Visible light
C. Infrared light
D. Microwaves
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Which of the following has a wavelength shorter than that of violet light?
A. Green light
B. Blue light
C. Infrared radiation
D. Red light
E. Ultraviolet radiation
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Most of the radiation emitted by a human body is in the form of:
A. Ultraviolet radiation and is invisible
B. Visible radiation but is too weak to be visible
C. Infrared radiation and is invisible
D. Humans do not emit electromagnetic radiation
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Solar radiation reaches the earth's surface as:
A. Visible radiation only
B. Ultraviolet radiation only
C. Infrared radiation only
D. Visible and infrared radiation only
E. Ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation
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The earth's atmospheric window is in the:
A. Ultraviolet region
B. Visible region
C. Infrared region
D. Polar regions
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Carbon monoxide is a pollutant because it
A. reacts with 02
B. reacts with haemoglobin
C. inhibits glycolysis
D. inactivates nervous system A
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High biological oxygen demand indicates:
A. absence of microbial pollution
B. moderate microbial pollution
C. intense level of microbial pollution
D. all of these
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Environmental education should be in _______ approach.
A. interdependent
B. interpreting
C. interdisciplinary
D. balanced
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A high density of elephant population in an area can result in
A. mutualism
B. Intraspecific competition
C. Interspecific competition
D. Predation on one another
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The most important human activity, leading to the extinction of wildlife, is
A. Pollution of wildlife, is
B. Hunting for valuable wildlife products
C. Introduction of alien species
D. Alternation and destruction of the natural habitats
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The process of successful establishment of the species in a new area is called
A. sere
B. climax
C. invasion
D. ecesis
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The order of basic processes involved in succession is
A. Nudation->Invasion-> competition and co action->reaction>stabilization
B. Nudation->stabilization-> competition and co action->Invasion>reaction
C. Invasion-> Nudation->competition and co action->Reaction>stabilization
D. Invasion->stabilization-> competition and co action->Reaction>nudation
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