MCQ on Environment and Sustainable Development: Environment and Ecology Quiz

Question 1. In which of the following years was passed the Environment Protection Act?

(A) 1982

(B) 1986

(C) 1990

(D) 1994

Question 2. The Environment (Protection) Act of India was enacted in?

(A) 1981

(B) 1986

(C) 1995

(D) 2000

Question 3. Which of the following is not related to environment protection?

(A) Sustainable Development

(B) Poverty Alleviation

(C) Air Conditioning

(D) Use of Paper Bags

Question 4. Environment refers to? 

(A) The natural world of land, water, air, plants and animals that exist around it

(B) The sum total of conditions which surround human beings at a given point of time

(C) The interacting system of physical, biological and cultural elements which are interlinked

(D) All of the above

Question 5. Sustainable development is a matter of inter-generational sensibility in respect of use of?

(A) Natural resources

(B) Material resources

(C) Industrial resources

(D) Social resources

Question 6. Environment is composite state of?

(A) Biotic factors

(B) Physiographic factors

(C) Abiotic factors

(D) All of the above

Question 7. A country’s natural capital included all of the following except?

(A) Forest

(B) Water

(C) Roads

(D) Minerals

Question 8. The Decade of Sustainable Energy for all is the initiative of?

(A) United Nations

(B) India

(C) Germany

(D) World Bank

Question 9. The main role of solar radiation is in?

(A) Carbon cycle

(B) Hydrogen cycle

(C) Water cycle

(D) Nitrogen cycle

Question 10. The World Environment Day is celebrated on?

(A) 1 December

(B) 5 June

(C) 14 November

(D) 15 August

Question 11. What is important for Sustainable Development?

(A) Conservation of biological diversity

(B) Prevention and Control of Pollution

(C) Decreasing poverty

(D) All of the above

Question 12. National Environmental Engineering Research Institute is situated at? 

(A) Bangalore

(B) Hyderabad

(C) Nagpur

(D) New Delhi

Question 13. The first ‘Earth Summit’ was held at?

(A) Washington

(B) Geneva

(C) Rio-de-Janeiro

(D) Buenos Aires

Question 14. What was the title of the Rio-20 declaration?

(A) The future we want

(B) The future we seek

(C) The future we have

(D) The future we see

Question 15. Air is a/an? 

(A) Compound

(B) Element

(C) Mixture

(D) Electrolyte

Question 16. International Conference held in Rio-de-Janeiro was?

(A) United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

(B) Environment and Pollution Summit

(C) International new Economics

(D) None of the above

Question 17. Which of the following is considered to be the optimum concentration of carbon dioxide for natural balance in atmosphere?

(A) 0.02%

(B) 0.03%

(C) 0.04%

(D) 0.05%

Question 18. What is the thin layer of gases around the earth called?

(A) Biosphere

(B) Water particle

(C) Atmosphere

(D) Hydrosphere

Question 19. Percentage of nitrogen in dry air?

(A) 21%

(B) 27%

(C) 50%

(D) 78%

Question 20. In atmosphere, the highest percentage is of? 

(A) Oxygen

(B) Carbon dioxide

(C) Nitrogen

(D) Hydrogen

Question 21. Which one of the following Noble Gases is not present in air?

(A) Helium

(B) Argon

(C) Radon

(D) Neon

Question 22. If all the plants and trees vanish from the earth, the gas which will decrease is?

(A) Carbon dioxide

(B) Nitrogen

(C) Water vapour

(D) Oxygen

Question 23. The highest percentage of gas in the air is?

(A) Hydrogen

(B) Carbon dioxide

(C) Oxygen

(D) Nitrogen

Question 24. Which of the following does not add the carbon dioxide to carbon cycle on the planet Earth?

(A) Respiration

(B) Photosynthesis

(C) Decay of organic matter

(D) Volcanic action

Question 25. Which of the following is not a function of the tree?

(A) Absorption of carbon dioxide

(B) Absorption of noise

(C) Air pollution

(D) Releasing oxygen

Question 26. The headquarter of World Meteorological Organization is located at?

(A) Geneva

(B) Rome

(C) Sidney

(D) Tokyo

Question 27. The concept of weathering relates to?

(A) Deposition of decomposed material

(B) Change in weather conditions day to day

(C) Natural process leading to the decomposition of rocks

(D) None of the above

Question 28. Where is the headquarter of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)?

(A) The Hague

(B) Nairobi

(C) New York

(D) Washington D.C.