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Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Natural Resources and Associated Problems
1 Which of the following is not a renewable resource?- (A) Coal
- (B) Wind power
- (C) Geothermal energy
- (D) Dentrothermal energy
2 Forest is responsible for a
- (A) Watershed protection
- (B) Land erosion control
- (C) Providing economic and environmental benefits
- (D) All of given
3 Any material that can be transformed into more valuable and useful product or service is called
- (A) Resource
- (B) Mineral
- (C) Product
- (D) None of the above
4 India has largest reserve of —————after Brazil.
- (A) Iron ore
- (B) Bauxite
- (C) Coal
- (D) Copper
5 A sudden uncontrolled descent of a mass of earth under the force gravity is called.
- (A) Soil erosion
- (B) Mining
- (C) Landslide
- (D) Earth quake
6 Hydroscopic and combined water
- (A) Are used by plants during transpiration
- (B) Stored in xylem tissues of plants
- (C) Are of no use for plants
- (D) Compensate for loss due to evapotranspiration by plants
7 The constituents of producer gas are.
- (A) 25 percent water vapour, 75 percent methane
- (B) 42percent methane, 8 percent propane, rest is carbon dioxide.
- (C) 55 percent methane, 45percentcarbon dioxide
- (D) 45percent methane, 20percent carbon dioxide, 35 percent propane
8 The least quality of the coal with 95%carbon content and 5% volatile matter is
- (A) Lignite coal
- (B) Anthracite coal
- (C) Bituminous coal
- (D) Peat coal
9 Which of the following methods of timber extraction cause minimum environmental damage?
- (A) Clear felling
- (B) Hand logging
- (C) Selective logging
- (D) Reduced impact logging
10 The main purpose of dam construction
- (A) Irrigation
- (B) Flood control
- (C) Hydroelectricity
- (D) Provide water to industry
11 Which one of the following is an example of Non – Renewable Energy Resource?
- (A) Wind
- (B) Vegetation
- (C) Coal & Minerals
- (D) Water
12 Who have started reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation?
- (A) Russia & Europe
- (B) UK & Brazil
- (C) United States & World Bank
- (D) All of the Above
13 What was the approximate world population of humans in the year 2008?
- (A) 667 million
- (B) 66 billion
- (C) 6.67 billion
- (D) 6.67 million
14 Dam makes Water Toxic _ _ _ _
- (A) TRUE
- (B) FALSE
- (C) Both
- (D) None of the above
15 Industrialized agriculture involves use of _ _ _ _
- (A) Fossil Fuel
- (B) Water
- (C) Commercial Fertilizers
- (D) All of the Above
16 When the concentration of nitrates in water exceeds 45 mg/L, they become the cause of a serious health hazard called _ _ _ _
- (A) Leukemia
- (B) Blue baby syndrome
- (C) Cancer
- (D) Paralysis
17 Which is not true?
- (A) Lithosphere includes the crust and the uppermost mantle
- (B) Lithosphere is underlain by the atmosphere
- (C) Lithosphere provides Timber
- (D) Lithosphere is broken into tectonic plates
18 The biggest crises of the 21st century was caused due to _ _ _ _
- (A) Short fall in over all crop production in the world
- (B) Short fall in over all crop production in India
- (C) Short fall in over all crop production in Asia
- (D) None of the above
19 Green revolution takes place in year _ _ _ _
- (A) 1969/70 till 1979/80
- (B) 1963/64 till 1973/74
- (C) 1967/70 till 1977/78
- (D) 1946/47 till 1956/57
20 Soil erosion due to mining is _ _ _ _ times more than all rivers
- (A) 10
- (B) 20
- (C) 30
- (D) 15
21 Which is false about biosphere?
- (A) It is the global sum of all the ecosystems
- (B) It can also be called the zone of life on Earth
- (C) It does not contain microbes
- (D) It has evolved at least some 3.5 billion years ago
22 Which option below is not an example of pollution?
- (A) Smog in Delhi
- (B) Nuclear waste
- (C) Overpopulation
- (D) Untreated sewage
23 Which one of the not a disadvantages of the big dam?
- (A) Extremely expensive
- (B) Flooding of prime arable land
- (C) Electric energy generated from hydropower
- (D) Blocking upstream migration of salmon
24 This area has no permanent roads or settlements and is maintained primarily for its primitive character and non-motorized recreation. It is a…………………………..
- (A) Wilderness area
- (B) Primitive recreation area
- (C) National park
- (D) National forest
25 Which is true?
- (A) Oxygen content may not get reduced if forest cover is not sufficient on the earth
- (B) Forests can be said to behave like non-renewable resources if not overused.
- (C) Fishes are capable of reproducing at the rate at which they are being caught.
- (D) None of the above
26 Non-renewable resources once used…………
- (A) Remain on earth in a different form
- (B) Become waste material
- (C) Are recycled
- (D) All of the above
27 Which one of the following is an example of non-renewable resources?
- (A) Wind
- (B) Vegetation
- (C) Coal and Minerals
- (D) Water
28 Which one of the following in not a fossil fuel?
- (A) Petroleum
- (B) Coal
- (C) Natural gas
- (D) Uranium
29 _________________ is the major raw material for biogas.
- (A) Tree leaves
- (B) Grass
- (C) Cow dung
- (D) Waste from kitchen
30 The earth’s surface covered by water is ________
- (A) 75%
- (B) 80%
- (C) 60%
- (D) 65%
31 What is true of Ecosystem?
- (A) Primary consumers are least dependent upon producers
- (B) Primary consumers outnumber producers
- (C) Producers are more than primary consumers
- (D) Secondary consumers are largest and powerful
32 Pick up the correct food chain
- (A) Grass-chameleon-insect-bird
- (B) Grass-fox-rabbit-bird
- (C) Fallen leaves-bacteria-insect larvae
- (D) Phytoplankton-zooplankton-fish
33 Association of animals when both partners are benefited
- (A) Mutualism
- (B) Colony
- (C) Commensalism
- (D) Ammensalism
34 The dominant second tropic level in a lakh ecosystem is
- (A) Plankton
- (B) Phytoplankton
- (C) Benthos
- (D) Zooplankton