QUALIFYING ROUND

1. What is the number of green house gases, as recognized by the Kyoto Protocol?

• (a) 3

• (b) 4

• (c) 5

• (d) 6

2. The rise in sea level is due to

• (a) Melting of glaciers and ice-sheets

• (b) Oceans expand as they get warmer

• (c) Both a & b

• (d) None

3. Identify the logo.

• (a) United Nations Environment Protection

• (b) United National Environment Programme

• (c) United Nations Environment Policy

• (d) United Nations Environment Programme

4. Which of the following is not the aspect of Corporate Social Responsibility?

• (a) Waste management

• (b) Soil upgradation

• (c) Profitability

• (d) Ethical trading

5. Which among the following is the upper limit of sound advice of Central Pollution Control Board

(CPCB) for residential areas?

• (a) 55 Decibels

• (b) 60 Decibels

• (c) 75 Decibels

• (d) 90 Decibels

6. Which among the following work as “Carbon Sinks”?

1. Ocean

2. Soil

3. Forests

4. Wetlands

Select the correct option from the codes given below:

• (a) Only 1, 2 & 3

• (b) Only 1, 3 & 4

• (c) Only 2, 3 & 4

• (d) 1, 2, 3 & 4

7. Which of the following resources are wasted or lost when food that is produced goes uneaten? (SELECT THE ONE BEST ANSWER).

• a) Natural Resource

• b) Human Resource

• c) Financial Resource

• d) All of the above

8. The word ‘ecology’ (Ökologie) was coined in 1866 by :

• (a) Charles Darwin

• (b) Robert Whittaker

• (c) Arthur Tansley

• (d) Ernst Haeckel

9. Which of the following options is correct when we only accomplish two out of three pillars of sustainable development?

• (a) Economic + Environmental sustainability = Viable

• (b) Social + Environmental sustainability = Bearable

• (c) Social + Economic sustainability = Equitable

• (d) All of the above

10.Sustainable Development is that development that satisfies the need of :-

• (a) Present Generation only

• (b) Future Generation only

• (c) Both a & b

• (d) None of These