Environment Pollution

Q. Select the major contributors of air pollution:

1. Volcanoes
2. Dust storms
3. Combustion of fossil fuels
4. Nuclear power plants

Q. Which of the following are consequences of pollution?

1. Train accident
2. Glacier melting
3. Rising sea levels
4. Tsunami

Q. What are the causes and effects of air pollution?

Q. What is environmental pollution?

1. The unfavourable alteration of our surroundings wholly by human action
2. The favourable alteration of our surroundings by human action through direct and indirect effects
3. The unfavourable alteration of our surroundings, wholly or partly by human action through direct and indirect effects
4. The unfavourable alteration of our surroundings partly by human action

Q. Which of these factors have influenced a change in the living conditions of plants, animals and human beings for the worse?

1. Population
2. Over-exploitation of resources
3. Industrialisation
4. Over-utilisation of automobiles

Q. World Environment Day is celebrated every year on .

1. 5 June
2. 14 May
3. 21 December
4. 11 October

Q. Which of these is not a good way to save the environment?

1. Wasting food
2. Wasting paper
3. Switching off unwanted lights
4. Turning off unused water taps

Q. Which of these is one of the most terrifying ecological crisis today?

1. Afforestation
2. Population
3. Environmental sustainability
4. Enivironmental pollution

Q. What are the effects of global warming?

1. Increase in global temperatures
2. Rise in sea levels
3. Shifting of climatic zones
4. Melting of glaciers

Q. Human beings often _________ their environment.

1. modify
2. preserve
3. protect
4. do nothing for

Q. Environment is _____________.

1. basic life support system for humans only
2. basic life support system for plants only
3. basic life support system for plants and animals only
4. basic life support system for all living beings

Q. What are pollutants?

1. Substances that prevent pollution
2. Substances that cause pollution
3. Substances that do not cause pollution
4. Substances that are a part of the environment but which have nothing to do with pollution

Q. When was “Earth conference" organized to bring awareness about environment ?

1. 1972
2. 1951
3. 1992
4. 2014