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General awareness and Aptitude test
a) 60 percent
b) 70 percent
c) 50 percent
d) 30 percent
16 Tropo pause is the boundary line between
troposphere and ———
a) Mesosphere
b) Stratosphere
c) ionosphere
d) Exosphere
17. Shrubs, thickest and stunted trees like kikar,
jal and others are found in
a) evergreen forests
b) deciduous forests
c) dry forests
d) hill forests
18. The study of day-to-day variations in weather
is called
a) Climatology
b) Meteorology
c) Cyclogensis
d) None
19. The ionosphere includes
a) Mesosphere
b) Thermosphere
c) Exosphere
d) Both (b) and (c)
20. According to your text, what can “be thought
of as the genetic library that keeps life going
on earth”?
a) Bio-diversity
b) Human genes
c) The human genome project
d) None
Answer
1.
b
2.
b
3.
d
4.
a
5.
c
6.
d
7.
d
8.
b
9.
a
10. c
11. a
12. c
13. d
14. a
15. a
16. b
17. d
18. b
19. d
20. a
a) 75 percent
b) 3 percent
c) 27 percent
d) 10 percent
9.
Which country ratified the Kyoto protocol in
late 2004 and thus caused it to become
international law?
a) Russia
b) USA
c) China
d) India
10. The world’s growing appetite for what food
product is a leading cause of tropical
deforestation?
a) Lamb
b) Sugar
c) Beef
d) Pork
11. Between 1950 and 1980, an area of the size
of Denmark has been decertified in which
country.
a) China
b) India
c) Bangladesh
d) Iran
12. If current rates of deforestation continues in
south-east Asia, then how many years would
it take for the region to become completely
stripped of its forest?
a) 30
b) 40
c) 50
d) 60
13. In what type of bio-region is desertification
most likely to occur?
a) Temperate forest
b) Savanna
c) Tropical forests
d) Grass lands
14. Why is cattle ranching not sustainable in areas
that were formerly tropical forests?
a) Cattle reaching quickly exhausts the
nutrient-poor soil of tropical rainforests.
b) Cattle waste is toxic to rainforest soils.
c) Both (a) and (b)
d) None
15. According tom United National estimate,
about how much of the world’s range-lands
are threatened by desertification?