Questions related to Environmental Day and Biodiversity...., and Basic Science related to Environment

1. World Environment Day
2016
In ASSOCIATION WITH
Department of Physics
St. Gregorios College Kottarakkara
Supported by
Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment(KSCSTE)
“Fight against the illegal trade in wildlife”
“Join the race to make the world a better place”

2. Environmental Day Celebration-2016
Intercollegiate Quiz Competition
WELCOME

3. RULES
• Each questions carry one mark each
• No negative marks
• The question will appear on the slides
• You have 45 seconds to answer each question
• Write the answer and stop writing when the time is over
• Please try to avoid the corrections and over writing
• After the writing time, the answer will also be displayed. Those who
have right answer will get its mark from the volunteers
Let’s Go

4. Identify the logo.
Question No: 1

5. Ans: United Nations Environment
Programme(UNEP)
Question No: 1

6. The world’s one and only Airport which
completely works with solar power.
Question No: 2

7. Ans: Cochin International Airport
Question No: 2

8. Expand the word BOD
Question No: 3

9. Ans: Biological Oxygen Demand
Question No: 3

10. The word ‘Freon’ is an alternative word of which
compound which is a strong cause of
environmental pollution.
Question No: 4

11. Ans: Chloro Fluro Carbon(CFC)
Question No: 4

12. For what contribution, Isamu Akasaki, Hirosha
Amano and Shuji Nakamura jointly got Nobel prize
for physics in 2014
Question No: 5

13. Ans: Invention of Blue LED
Question No: 5

14. Which gas is called laughing gas which is cause of
Global warming?
Question No: 6

15. Ans: Nitrous oxide
Question No: 6

16. Which is the climate change agreement aimed at the
stabilizing of green house gases level in the atmosphere in
1997?
Question No: 7

17. Ans: Kyoto protocol
Question No: 7

18. New Delhi is the host city of World Environment
day in which year?
Question No: 8

19. Ans: 2011
Question No: 8

20. World Earth Day is celebrated on:
Question No: 9

21. Ans: April 22
Question No: 9

22. Who discovered the first moon of Saturn?
Question No: 10

23. Ans: Christiaan Huygen
Question No: 10

24. “ Live Curious, Think Again, Dare to Explore,
This is Who We Are” This is the Slogan of ______
Question No: 11

25. Ans: National Geographic Channel(NGC)
Question No: 11

26. Identify the person?
Question No: 12

27. Ans:
Prakash Javdekar
Minister for Forest, Environment & Climate Change
Govt. of India
Question No: 12

28. The first international convention on
environment was held at:
Question No: 13

29. Ans: Stockholm
Question No: 13

30. The first radioactive accident occurred in India at
______
Question No: 14

31. Ans: Kalpakkam Atomic plant on 4th May
1987
Question No: 14

32. Name the device which measures the salinity of
the soil.
Question No: 15

33. Ans: Conductivity meter
Question No: 15

34. Where is the India’s Largest cold desert is
located?
Question No: 16

35. Ans: Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir
Question No: 16

36. Locally called as ‘SAIRANDHRI VANAM’, this
forest is said to be the place where Pandavas lived
during Vanavasa. By what name it is well known?
Question No: 17

37. Ans: Silent Valley
Question No: 17

38. Identify the Mangrove forest from the description
“Covering an area of 2500 sqkm, it is the largest
mangrove forest in the world, constituting 7% of
the world’s mangroves.”
Question No: 18

39. Ans: Sundarbens, West Bengal
Question No: 18

40. What do this logo stands for?
Question No: 19

41. Ans: United Nations Decade on
Biodiversity
Question No: 19

42. Identify the river in the picture
Question No: 20

43. Ans: Amazon
Question No: 20

44. What do the red markings denote?
Question No: 21

45. Ans: Volcanic Belts
Question No: 21

46. Zika virus is a member of which virus family?
Question No: 22

47. Ans: Flaviviridae
Question No: 22

48. Identify the organization
Question No: 23

49. Ans: World Wildlife Federation(WWF)
Question No: 23

50. Where is the world’s largest plastic recycling
plant located ?
Question No: 24

51. Ans: Beijing, China
Question No: 24

52. The concept of Bio Diversity hotspot is given
by:
Question No: 25

53. Ans: Norman Myers
Question No: 25

54. The word ‘ecology’ is derived from which
language _____
Question No: 26

55. Ans: Greek; (Root Words: House and
study of)
Question No: 26

56. “Protecting Nature Preserving Life” this is the
motto of which US environmental protection
Agency?
Question No: 27

57. Ans: The National Conservancy
Question No: 27

58. What is the name given to the invasion of warm
surface waters off the Peruvian coast that has
been identified with strange climactic effects in
recent years?
Question No: 28

59. Ans: EL NINO
Question No: 28

60. For what contribution Albert Einstein got Nobel
Prize.
Question No: 29

61. Ans: Laws of Photoeletric Effect
Question No: 29

62. The Ritcher scale reading of the Earth quake
formed in Indian Ocean on 26th Dec 2004?
Question No: 30

63. Ans: 9.1
Question No: 30

64. India and Bangladesh has jointed hand for the
conservation of which species?
Question No: 31

65. Ans: Spectacled Langur(Dusky Leaf
Monkey)
Question No: 31

66. What was the focal theme of WED 2011
Question No: 32

67. Ans: Forests: Nature at your service
Question No: 32

68. ‘Seven Billion dreams; One Planet Consume with
care’ which nation is the hostage of this
environmental day celebration?
Question No: 33

69. Ans: Italy(2015)
Question No: 33

70. Where is the office of the Forest Survey of India
(FSI) located?
Question No: 34

71. Ans: Dehradun
Question No: 34

72. The radioactive element most commonly
detected in humans is:
Question No: 35

73. Ans: Pottasium 40
Question No: 35

74. World Wildlife Day is celebrated on:
Question No: 36

75. Ans: October 6
Question No: 36

76. The main theme which related to global
environment discussed in the Paris Summit 2015
is:
Question No: 37

77. Ans: Climate Change
Question No: 37

78. Name the tiger reserve that received the India
biodiversity award 2016 in Mumbai on 22 may
2016.
Question No: 38

79. Ans: Pakke Tiger Reserve
Question No: 38

80. Which sea is the saltiest natural lake and is also at
the lowest elevation on the face of the earth?
Question No: 39

81. Ans: Dead Sea
Question No: 39

82. Who is the first Indian Director of Indian
Institute of Science(IISc)?
Question No: 40

83. Ans: Dr. C V Raman
Question No: 40

84. A device used to measure the amount of moisture
in the atmosphere is called a:
Question No: 41

85. Ans: Hygrometer
Question No: 41

86. Which is the first permanent station of India at
Antartica?
Question No: 42

87. Ans: Dakshin Gangotri
Question No: 42

88. Name the India’s first fast breeder neutron
reactor?
Question No: 43

89. Ans: Kamini
Question No: 43

90. Indian R&D organisation for ocean development
and polar research is:
Question No: 44

91. NCAOR(National Centre for Antartic and
Ocean Research)
Question No: 44

92. Identify the environmental phenomenon being
mocked here.
Question No: 45

93. Ans: Global Warming
Question No: 45

94. Identify the international Summit
Question No: 46

95. Ans: Copenhagen Summit
Question No: 46

96. What environmentally important discovery do we
owe to the chemists Frank Rowland and Mario
Molina?
Question No: 47

97. Ans: Ozone Depletion
Question No: 47

98. Which Indian emperor, in third century B.C, passed a
law that would prevent the subjects to cut trees for
personal use ?
Question No: 48

99. Ans: Ashoka
Question No: 48

100. This is India’s first electric car which was
launched by Mahindra. What is its name?
Question No: 49

101. Ans: Reva
Question No: 49

102. In which unit is the ozone layer thickness
measured?
Question No: 50

103. Ans: Dobson
Question No: 50

104. The End
Environment Day; Quiz Competition
Thank You

105. Which is the structural modification of oxygen is an air
pollutant in the lower atmosphere but beneficial in the
upper atmosphere?
Question No: 51

106. Ans: Ozone (O3)
Question No: 51

107. The 1987 Montreal protocol give special
importance to which environmental problem?
Question No: 52

108. Ans: Ozone layer Depletion
Question No: 52

109. Who is the brain behind the invention of E-
mail?
Question No: 53

110. Ans: Ray Tomilson
Question No: 54

111. Who is the Minister of Forestry in Kerala?
Question No: 55

112. Ans: K Raju
Question No: 55

113. Kerala’s first milk ATM is going to be
established at :
Question No: 56

114. Ans: Nilambore
Question No: 56

115. The Siberian Crane, an endangered migratory
bird is a regular visitor of which national park in
India
Question No: 57

116. Ans: Keoladeo national park in
Bharatpur, Rajasthan
Question No: 57

117. Which of the Indian State has the biggest
percentage of forest?
Question No: 58

118. Ans: Mizoram
Question No: 58

119. Silent Valley National park was inaugurated by
Rajeev Gandhi in the year:
Question No: 59

120. Ans: 1985
Question No: 59

121. Which is the smallest Biosphere reserve in
India ?
Question No: 60

122. Ans: Dibru Saikhova
Question No: 60

123. Which is the instrument used to measure the
speed and direction of motion of clouds?
Question No: 61

124. Ans: Nephoscope
Question No: 61

125. Beaufort scale is used for the measurement of
what?
Question No: 62

126. Ans: Wind
Question No: 62

127. Which popular brand takes its name from a
particular species of deer native to
South Africa?
Question No: 63

128. Ans: Reebok
Question No: 63

129. The use of microorganism metabolism to
remove pollutants oil spills in water bodies is
known as
Question No: 64

130. Ans: Bioremediation
Question No: 64

131. The highest per capita emitter of CO2 in the
world is
Question No: 65

132. Ans: Qatar
Question No: 65

133. Name the NGO launched in India in 1998 by
husband and wife Shalabh and Anita Ahuja takes
up issues like sewage and garbage
Question No: 66

134. Ans: Conserve
Question No: 66

135. Name the famous mathematician/physicist
who was born in the year Galileo died.
Question No: 67

136. Ans: Sir. Issac Newton
Question No: 67

137. What element, whose symbol derived from the
Latin for "liquid silver", has been found in
Egyptian tombs from 1500 B.C.?
Question No: 68

138. Ans: Mercury(Hg)
Question No: 68

139. Which is the land attack version of the missile
that successfully test fired by Indian Air Force on
27th May 2016
Question No: 69

140. Ans: Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile
Question No: 69

141. What is philosopher’s wool?
Question No: 70

142. Ans: Zinc Oxide
Question No: 70

143. Which is the massive rocket launched by
India?
Question No: 71

144. Ans: GSLV Mark III-X
Question No: 71

145. VECC(Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre)
is established and located on;
Question No: 72

146. Ans: 1977, Kolkata
Question No: 72

147. Expand BARC; which is an institute under
department of Atomic Energy
Question No: 73

148. Ans: Babha Atomic Research Centre
Question No: 73

149. Which chemical compound is known as
Candy fluid?
Question No: 74

150. Ans: Pottasium Permanganate
Question No: 74

151. Who is famous scientist and inventor participated
in the invention of the Aqua-Lung?
Question No: 75

152. Ans: Jacques Cousteau
Question No: 75

153. The End
In ASSOCIATION WITH
Department of Physics
St. Gregorios College Kottarakkara
Supported by
Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment(KSCSTE)
Intercollegiate Quiz Competition