Environmental Engineering

301. Commonly used radioactive isotopes in scientific research

  1. 14 C
  2. 125 I
  3. 32 P
  4. all of these

Correct answer: (D)
all of these

302. Conservation within the natural habitat is

  1. insitu conservation
  2. exsitu conservation
  3. invivo conservation
  4. exvivo conservation

Correct answer: (A)
insitu conservation

303. Definition of ecosystem is

  1. The community of organisms together with the environment in which they live
  2. The abiotic component of a habitat
  3. The part of the earth and its atmosphere which inhibits living organisms
  4. A community of organisms interacting with one another

Correct answer: (A)
The community of organisms together with the environment in which they live

304. Dodo is

  1. endangered
  2. critically endangered
  3. rare
  4. extinct

Correct answer: (D)
extinct

305. Drinking of fluoride containing water results:

  1. fluorosis
  2. chlorosis
  3. minemata
  4. methaemoglobinema

Correct answer: (A)
fluorosis

306. Earth summit was held in

  1. Stockholm in 1972
  2. Rio de Jeneiro in 1992
  3. Paris in 1992
  4. New York in 1972

Correct answer: (B)
Rio de Jeneiro in 1992

307. Ecological niche of an organism represents

  1. The resource it utilizes
  2. Functional role in the ecological system
  3. The range of conditions that it can tolerate
  4. all of these

Correct answer: (D)
all of these

308. Ecology deals with the study of:

  1. Living beings
  2. Living and non living components
  3. Reciprocal relationship between living and non living components
  4. Environment

Correct answer: (C)
Reciprocal relationship between living and non living components

309. Ecotype is a type of species in which environmentally induced variations are

  1. Temporary
  2. Genetically fixed
  3. Genetically not related
  4. None of the above

Correct answer: (B)
Genetically fixed

310. Endemic species are

  1. rare species
  2. species localised in a specific region
  3. cosmopolitan in distribution
  4. critically endangered species

Correct answer: (B)
species localised in a specific region

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