“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greeds,” – Mahatma Gandhiji. Environment has become one of the focal points in discussions and debate across the globe. The significance of ‘Environment’ as a UPSC topic is also relatively bigger as questions surrounding climate change, ecology, biodiversity are seeing an upward trend in the civil services exam question papers.
This segment covers all your queries w.r.t environment, ecology, biodiversity, climate change and more. Not only will you find answers to a wide range of questions; you would also be able to align your UPSC preparation with these questions.
Benefits of Environment Questions for IAS Exam
The IAS Exam aspirants can get the following benefits while going through the below-mentioned environment questions:
- It fits all – Questions from a minor issue to an issue that has a global relevance are covered.
- Doesn’t Discriminate – None of the doubts of the aspirants have been neglected. All doubts that are related to the UPSC examination or are related to the basic knowledge of environment have been answered by UPSC experts.
- Helps in Prelims, Mains GS 3 and even essay papers – These answers would solve various doubts w.r.t environment-related topics. Hence, these will come handy in all stages of examination.
- Apart from IAS Exam, these questions can be useful for other government exams as well.
The state with the highest number of tigers is Madhya Pradesh at about 526 as per the latest counting. It is also the state with the highest...
Regions with tropical climate are hot due to the following reasons: The sun shines more directly on the tropics than on higher latitudes which...
India has a tropical climate because of the Himalayan mountains. The Himalayas prevent the cold air of Asia from reaching the temperate Northern...
A botanical garden contains many species of plants, herb gardens, specialist plants etc. A botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden...
Botanical gardens are used to study and conserve species of plants. Along with local plant species it also showcases plant species from all over...
Contour bunding is a method of water conservation mainly carried out in hilly areas. Earthen embankments are built across the slope of the land....
A botanical garden houses many species of plants from around the world. It may contain specialist plant collections such as specialist plants,...
Contour bunding is constructed along the contour lines. They are constructed with permissible deviation from the contour. When a grade is...
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification helps in combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national...
A contour bunding system is designed keeping in mind the spacing of both horizontal and vertical cross-section. The bund cross-section includes...
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment and...
There are two types of bunds; Contour bunds Semi-circular bunds Lateral Bunds Supplemental Bunds Marginal Bunds Shoulder bunds The type...
India is a signatory to the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD). The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate...
While contour bunding is suitable for most soil types, it is not suitable for clayey soils. In addition, contour bunding is not suitable on land...
Aflatoxins are present in the following foods: Groundnuts Tree nuts Maize Rice Figs Spices Aflatoxins are a type of toxins that...
Aflatoxin is not harmful to humans in mild doses. Large doses of aflatoxin, however, lead to acute poisoning (aflatoxicosis) that can be life...
The tropics include the Equator and parts of North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The tropics account for 36 percent of the...
Rice can be contaminated by aflatoxins producing fungi when the climatic conditions become favorable for their growth in the field, during...
Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed or...
The Greater Himalayan National Park has no tiger. It has animals such as Himalayan brown bear, blue sheep, and snow leopard. The Great Himalayan...
