Environmental Science - Study Mode

[#836] Snow leopard is found in which National Park?
Correct Answer

(B) The Great Himalayan

Explanation

Solution: The park is home to a number of species of endangered mammals, including the snow leopard. Hemis National Park is India's protected area inside the Palearctic ecozone, outside the Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary northeast of Hemis, and the proposed Tso Lhamo Cold Desert Conservation Area in North Sikkim.

[#837] The place where the worst nuclear disaster took place?
Correct Answer

(B) Chernobyl

Explanation

Solution: The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[1][2] It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.

[#838] The phenomenon of accumulation of non-biodegradable pesticides in human beings
Correct Answer

(A) Biomagnification

Explanation

Solution: Higher the trophic level an organism occupies in the food chain higher will be the accumulation of non-biodegradable pesticide residues. This phenomenon is called as biomagnification.

[#839] The main energy source for the environment is ________
Correct Answer

(A) Solar energy

Explanation

Solution: The main energy source for the environment is Solar energy. Solar power harvests the energy of the sun through using collector panels to create conditions that can then be turned into a kind of power.

[#840] Soil chemistry is considered an __________ factor
Correct Answer

(D) edaphic

Explanation

Solution: Soil chemistry is considered an edaphic factor.