Environment Quiz 71

Environment Quiz 71

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1. Hopcalite, a mixture of copper and manganese oxides, is used as catalyst to convert which one of the poisonous gases?

Carbon monoxide
Nitrogen dioxide
Hydrogen cyanide
Osmium tetroxide

2. Lal Suhrana National Park, one of South Asia's largest national parks and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, is situated in

India
Pakistan
Bengladesh
Sri Lanka

3. Which one of the following animals is a great endurance runner?

Cheetah
Antelope
Horse
Mountain Goat

4. Where is the Blackbuck National Park situated?

Velavadar, Gujrat
Bandipur, Karnataka
Bandhavgarh, Madhya Pradesh
Eravikulam, Kerala

5. Blackbuck is native to

Arabia
Africa
America
India

6. Who coined the slogan "Ecology is Permanent Economy"?

Salim Ali
Medha Patkar
Sunderlal Bahuguna
Vandana Shiva

7. Who proposed first the supercontinent Gondwana in 1861?

Charles Darwin
Georges Lemaitre
Copernicus
Eduard Suess

8. What does P stand for in KREEP, a geochemical component of some lunar impact breccia and basaltic rocks.?

Potassium
Phosphorus
Palladium
Platinum

9. Who is the father of Big Bang Theory of the universe?

Georges Lemaitre
Albert Einstein
Edwin Hubble
Alexander Friedmann

10. Which one of the following was the first uranium mine in India?

Kolar
Narwapahar
Jaduguda
Turamdih