Previous year MCQs

Environment & Ecology UPPSC 2017 GS-I
Question

The Government of India enacted the Forest Conservation Act in the year:

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

Option B: 1980

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “1980”.
The Government of India enacted the Forest Conservation Act in the year 1980.

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The country most ravaged by the Tsunami fury was:
  1. A) Australia
  2. B) India
  3. C) Indonesia
  4. D) Thailand
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Biosphere sites) - List-II (Year of setting up)

A. Nilgiri - Year 2000
B. Nanda Devi - Year 1989
C. Sunderban - Year 1988
D. Kanchanjunga - Year 1986

A B C D
  1. A) 1 2 3 4
  2. B) 4 3 2 1
  3. C) 3 4 1 2
  4. D) 2 3 1 4
The radiation that is absorbed by ozone present in the atmosphere is:
  1. A) Infrared
  2. B) Visible
  3. C) Ultraviolet
  4. D) Microwave
'Green Index' has been developed by:
  1. A) United Nation Environment Programme
  2. B) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  3. C) World Bank
  4. D) None of the above
Rajiv Gandhi Wildlife Conservation Award is given to:
  1. A) Educational and Research Institutions
  2. B) Forest and wildlife officers
  3. C) Wildlife conservationists
  4. D) All the above
Assertion (A): Increase in the diversity of food webs promotes ecosystem stability.
Reason (R): It increases the resilience of the ecosystem.
  1. A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
  2. B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
  3. C) A is true but R is false
  4. D) A is false but R is true
India's deepest port is:
  1. A) Cochin
  2. B) Kandla
  3. C) Paradip
  4. D) Krishnapatnam
Environment refers
  1. A) as the natural world of land, water, air, plants and animals that exist around it
  2. B) to the sum total of conditions which surround man at a given point of time
  3. C) the interacting systems of physical, biological and cultural elements which are interlinked
  4. D) all the above
The Government of India enacted the Forest Conservation Act in the year:
  1. A) 1976
  2. B) 1980
  3. C) 1983
  4. D) 1988
An artificial satellite can be tracked very precisely from the earth by using:
  1. A) Doppler effect
  2. B) Radar
  3. C) Sonar
  4. D) Pulsar
With reference to ecological niche, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. It represents the range of conditions that it can tolerate the resources it utilizes and its functional role in ecological system.
2. Each species has a distinct niche.

Select the correct answer from the code given below :
Code:
  1. A) Neither 1 nor 2
  2. B) Both 1 and 2
  3. C) Only 2
  4. D) Only 1
Example of Lotic ecosystem is
  1. A) Swamps
  2. B) Rivers
  3. C) Ponds
  4. D) Marshy area