Environmental Engineering

321. Hot spots are regions of high

1. rarity
2. endemism
3. critically endangered population
4. diversity

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322. Human population growth curve is a:

1. S shaped curve
2. parabola curve
3. J shaped curve
4. zig zag curve

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323. If we uncover half of the forest, covering of the earth, what crisis will be produced at most and at first?

1. Some species will be extincted
2. Population and ecological imbalance will rise up
3. Energy crisis will occur
4. Rest half forests will maintain this imbalance

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324. In a food chain of grassland ecosystem the top consumers are

1. Herbivorous
2. arnivorous
3. Bacteria
4. Either carnivorous or herbivorous

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325. In a population, unrestricted reproductive capacity is called as

1. carrying capacity
2. biotic potential
3. birth rate
4. fertility rate

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326. In a pyramid of numbers, in a grassland ecosystem, the largest population is that of

1. Producers
2. Tertiary Consumers
3. Secondary consumers
4. Herbivores
5. Primary consumers

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327. In grassland ecosystem, the pyramid of biomass is

1. upright
2. inverted
3. spindle shaped
4. none of these

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328. In pond ecosystem, the pyramid of biomass is

1. upright
2. inverted
3. spindle shaped
4. none of these

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329. IUCN (The International Union For Conservation Of Nature And Natural Resources) headquarters is at

1. Morges, Switzerland
2. Paris, France
3. Vienna, Austria
4. NewYork, USA

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330. IUCN is also called as

1. Man and Biosphere program
2. World Conservation Union
3. World Conservation Consortium
4. World Wide Conservation Union

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