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Environment in its totality - class-VIII

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Tick the correct answer.
Which is not a natural ecosystem?

  1. Desert

  2. Aquarium

  3. Forest

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

An ecosystem is a system formed by the interaction of all living organisms with each other and with the physical and chemical factors of the environment in which they live, all linked by transfer of energy and material.

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Which is a threat to environment?

  1. Growing plant

  2. Growing population

  3. Growing crops

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

There are many reasons as to why population growth is seen as a threat to the environment. For example, human populations use up natural resources, omit greenhouse gases contributing to climate change, destroy habitats resulting in loss of biodiversity, and increase air and water pollution levels.

The ecologists and the environmentalists are against big dams and multi purpose projects as it _________.

  1. Produces hydroelectricity

  2. Produces more vegetation and soil

  3. affects their natural flow causing excessive sedimentation on the rivers beds resulting in poor habitat for the rivers aquatic life

  4. Easy for the aquatic fauna to migrate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

  • In recent years Dams and multi purpose projects have come under great opposition and scrutiny  for various reasons:
  • 1. Regulating and damming of rivers affect their natural flow causing excessive sedimentation on the rivers beds resulting in poor habitat for the rivers aquatic life.
  • 2.Dams also fragment rivers making it difficult for the aquatic fauna to migrate especially for spawning.
  • 3.The reservoirs that are built on the flood plains also submerge the existing vegetation and soil leading to its decomposition over time.

Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of the local people is ___________.

  1. Vanmahotsav

  2. Monoculture

  3. Eco-tourism

  4. Enrichment plantation


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
  • Eco-tourism is also known as Responsible Tourism. 
  • It is called as Responsible Tourism because it puts responsibility on the shoulders of tourist to conserve the environment.
  • It also make sure tourist and tourism activities does not disturb the local population and their livelihood.

The science that deals with inter-relationship between various organisms and physical environment is called ____________.

  1. Geology

  2. Geomorphology

  3. Ecosystem

  4. Ecology


Correct Option: D
Explanation:
  • Ecology is the branch of science that deals with the study of interactions between living organisms and their physical environment.

One of the measure to conserve eco-system is to ______.

  1. practice monoculture

  2. celebrate vanmahotsava

  3. check rapid growth of population

  4. encourage people for eco tourism


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • One of the best measure conserve eco-system is vanamahotsav celebration.
  • Vanamahatsav is a tree planting festival celebrated annually.
  • It is celebrated since 1950.
  • Vanamahotsav week celebrated from July 1 - July 7 Every year

What does the term 'Socialist' mean?

  1. Wealth should be shared only by the rich

  2. Wealth is generated socially and should be shared equally by society

  3. Wealth should be shared only by the poor

  4. Wealth is generated socially and should not be shared by any one


Correct Option: B

Auto ecology deals with ___________.

  1. Ecology of many species

  2. Ecology of system

  3. both a and b

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • The study of the interactions between living things and their environments is known as ecology.
  •  In ecology, everything is connected to everything else and there is a constant interaction between organisms and their environment.
  • Autecology is the study of individual organism or individual species. It is also known as population ecology.
  • Autecology helps us to understand the relationships between individual plants and environment.

 Upper part of sea/aquatic ecosystem contains _________.

  1. Plankton

  2. Nekton

  3. Plankton and nekton

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

  • Planktons are passively floating in upper water, nektons are actively swimming while benthos lead sedentary life upon the sea bottom. 
  • Plankton (singular plankter) are a diverse group of organisms that live in the water column of large bodies of water and that cannot swim against a current.
  • They provide a crucial source of food to many large aquatic organisms, such as fish and whales.

 A mutually beneficial association necessary for survival of both partners is ________.

  1. mutualism/symbiosis

  2. commensalism

  3. amensalism

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: A

Ecology deals with study of ____________.

  1. Living beings

  2. Relationship between living and non living components

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Ecology is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment.
  • It is an interdisciplinary field that includes biology, geography, and Earth science.
  • Ecology deals with the study of: a) Living beings. b) Living and non-living components. c) Reciprocal relationship between living and non living components.
  • Ecology is distinguished from natural history, which deals primarily with the descriptive study of organisms.

Bringing together the local communities and government agencies will help in environmental _________.

  1. re-construction

  2. degradation

  3. pollution

  4. hazard


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • Bringing together the local communities and government agencies will help in environmental  reconstruction.
  • Management of environmental resources by the Government alone is less efficient
  • Good Governance concept of Co-operation of Government with Local communities along with civil society organizations will ensure efficient management of environmental resources
  •  Also ensures Transparency and accountability in the environmental resources management

Which of the following cycle is used to rejuvenate the water in the water bodies?

  1. Water cycle

  2. Oxygen cycle

  3. Carbon cycle

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

Environment is the surrounding  where an organism,a community or an object exists.It creates favorable conditions for the existence and development of all living organisms. 

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A

Tarun Bhagat Singh group is related to ________.

  1. Water management

  2. Soil conservation

  3. Irrigation

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A

The process by which an ecosystem species become extinct is known as ___________.

  1. Loss of biodiversity

  2. Deforestation

  3. Acid rain

  4. Bio-diversity


Correct Option: A

Besides landforms and drainage, which is the third basic element of the natural environment?

  1. Natural vegetation

  2. Animal life

  3. Climate

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Climate is the long-term average of weather, typically averaged over a period of 30 years. Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation.

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Which is not a component of human environment?

  1. Land

  2. Religion

  3. Community

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B,C
Explanation:

Religion and community is not a component of human environment.

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Which is a human made environment?

  1. Mountain

  2. Sea

  3. Road

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Road is a human made environment.
Ecosystem is created with all living and non-living things that interact with each other. 
There is a natural environment comprising of all natural biotic and a-biotic conditions. 
Man-made or human made environment consists of items created by man. 
Bridge, roads, buildings, and monuments are four examples of human made environment. 

The relationship between ______ and aerobic cellular respiration should be kept in mind when discussing the carbon cycle.

  1. pollution

  2. trophic levels

  3. photosynthesis

  4. food webs

  5. food pyramids


Correct Option: C

If deforestation continues at the present rate, within a few years ___ will become the largest desert of India.

  1. Karnataka

  2. Haryana

  3. Delhi

  4. Bangalore


Correct Option: A

Forests improve _________.

  1. Pollution

  2. Population

  3. Rainfall

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Forests plays signicant role in improving rainfall. The growing plants used to intake lot of amount of moisture from the soil and release  90% of the moisture in the atmosphere which after condensation created precipitation. On the othe hand after rainfall they used to hold the moisture in it and aslo heps the soil to hold the moisture. In this ways a cycle goes on and forest improved rainfall.

The tribes Savara, Konda, Adivasi, Oriya, Kuvi, Gadaba are living in the forests of ____________ districts. 

  1. Srikakulam

  2. Vijayanagaram

  3. Visakhapatnam

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The tribes Savara, Konda, Adivasi, Oriya, Kuvi, Gadaba are living in the forests of Srikakulam, Vijayanagaram and Visakhapatnam districts. Many changes have occurred in the lifestyles of the tribals when compared to the past. Tribal people are developing due to education.

The full form of UNCED is ________.

  1. United Nations Committee on Environment and Development

  2. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

  3. United Nations Club on Energy and Development

  4. United Nations Committee on Entertainment and Development

  5. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), byname Earth Summit, was a conference held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 3–14, 1992), to reconcile worldwide economic development with protection of the environment

Developed countries must slash their use of HFC's by 10 percent by _____.

  1. 2015

  2. 2019

  3. 2024

  4. 2026


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Kigali Amendment under Montreal Protocol relating to the phase-down of the production and consumption of HFCs provided for Ambitious Phase-down. This phase down divided countries into groups one of which is that the developed countries were required to slash their use of HFCs by 10% by 2019.

The tribes Gonds, Kolami, Pradhan and Thoti live in __________.

  1. Visakhapatnam

  2. Adilabad

  3. West Godavari

  4. East Godavari


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Adilabad is the heavily forested district of Telengana state and it is located in the basin of Godavari river. It occupied an are of 4,153 square km. The main tribal groups in region are Gonds, Kolami, Pradhan and Thoti.

The government's environmental policy focuses on which of the following?

  1. To check degradation of land and water through wasteland management

  2. Restoration of river water quality programmes

  3. To monitor development through Environmental Impact Assessment Studies

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The government environmental policies are made to comprehensively check the degradation of land and water through wasteland management and to provide rules and guidelines to improve the same. Provide for programs and measures to improve the quality of river waters, and to monitor and supervise the development through Environmental Impact Assessment studies which comparatively show figures and data of work done, programs utilized and funds exhausted while drawing the attention of the government to certain neglected areas of the environment.

When was the Montreal Protocol finalized? 

  1. 1985

  2. 1987

  3. 1991

  4. 1996


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete ozone layer is a landmark international agreement held under the aegis of United Nations for protection of stratospheric ozone layer. It was signed and finalized in 1987 and subsequently amended in 1990 and 1992. It stipulates phasing out the production of substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was ratified by almost all countries globally and came into force on 26 August 1987. 197 countries who were the member of UN ratified this protocol.

State whether the sentence is true(T) or false(F).
The Garo hills are located in south of India.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

 

The Garo Hills are part of the Garo-Khasi range in Meghalaya, India. They are inhabited mainly by tribal dwellers, the majority of whom are Garo people. It is one of the wettest places in the world. The range is part of the Meghalaya subtropical forests ecoregion. 

Montreal Protocol was a global agreement to protect the ________.  

  1. Forest

  2. Ozone layer

  3. Atmosphere

  4. Wild Animals


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete ozone layer is a landmark international agreement held under the aegis of United Nations for protection of stratospheric ozone layer. It was signed and finalized in 1987 and subsequently amended in 1990 and 1992. It stipulates phasing out the production of substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. It was ratified by almost all countries globally and came into force on 26 August 1987. 197 countries who were the member of UN ratified this protocol.

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