Environment & Ecology - MOST IMPORTANT UP PCS Previous Year Questions

The natural habitat of land, water, air, plants and animals that exists around it.

The sum total of conditions which surround human beings at a given point of time.

The interacting system of physical, biological and cultural elements which are interlinked.

All the above

Operational Environment

Physical Environment

Cultural Environment

Biological Environment

Overall degradation of environmental attributes

Adverse changes brought in by human activities

Ecological imbalance because of ecological diversity

All the above

October, $\displaystyle 2010$

November, $\displaystyle 2008$

January, $\displaystyle 2011$

April, $\displaystyle 2012$

Queensland (Australia)

California (United States of America)

Sikkim (India)

Quebec

(A) and (R) both are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

(A) and (R) both are correct and R is not the correct explanation of A.

(A) is true but (R) is false

(A) is false but (R) is true

$\displaystyle 2005$

$\displaystyle 2000$

$\displaystyle 1999$

$\displaystyle 1997$

It is an action plan of U.N.O for protecting human rights

It is a book of $\displaystyle 21$ chapters on nuclear disarmament

It is an action plan for the conservation of global environment in $\displaystyle 2$1st century

It is an agenda for the election of the President in the next meeting of SAARC

Club of Rome

UNESCO

Brundtland Commission

Agenda $\displaystyle 21$

First Report on Climate Change

Our Common Future

Second Report on Climate Change

Fifth Assessment Report

Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

(A) is true, but (R) is false

(A) is false, but (R) is true

Only $\displaystyle 1$

Only $\displaystyle 2$

Both $\displaystyle 1$ and $\displaystyle 2$

Neither $\displaystyle 1$ nor $\displaystyle 2$

Carolyn Merchant

Karl Marx

Rachel Carson

Rajgopalan

To increase the number of tourists

To manage mass scale tourism and small scale travel

To manage tourism and environment while maintaining cultural integrity and ecological processes

None of the above

Economic growth

Economic development

Sustainable development

Human development

$\displaystyle 1981$

$\displaystyle 1986$

$\displaystyle 1995$

$\displaystyle 2000$

$\displaystyle 1981$

$\displaystyle 1986$

$\displaystyle 1995$

$\displaystyle 2000$

$\displaystyle 3$ $\displaystyle 1$ $\displaystyle 4$ $\displaystyle 2$

$\displaystyle 2$ $\displaystyle 3$ $\displaystyle 1$ $\displaystyle 4$

$\displaystyle 3$ $\displaystyle 2$ $\displaystyle 4$ $\displaystyle 1$

$\displaystyle 1$ $\displaystyle 2$ $\displaystyle 3$ $\displaystyle 4$

A-$\displaystyle 2$, B-$\displaystyle 4$, C-$\displaystyle 1$, D-$\displaystyle 3$

A-$\displaystyle 2$, B-$\displaystyle 4$, C-$\displaystyle 3$, D-$\displaystyle 1$

A-$\displaystyle 1$, B-$\displaystyle 2$, C-$\displaystyle 4$, D-$\displaystyle 3$

A-$\displaystyle 3$, B-$\displaystyle 1$, C-$\displaystyle 4$, D-$\displaystyle 2$

Population → Ecosystem → Community → Landscape

Landscape → Community → Ecosystem → Population

Population → Community → Ecosystem→ Landscape

Population → Landscape → Community → Ecosystem