| 2251 |
Wendell Berry’s book on culture and agriculture, published in 1977, is titled: |
Environmental Studies
Stewardship of land |
Medium |
| 2252 |
Which of these would Wendell Berry most strongly support? |
Environmental Studies
Stewardship of land |
Easy |
| 2253 |
Berry’s remark that “eating is an agricultural act” is meant to show that: |
Environmental Studies
Stewardship of land |
Medium |
| 2254 |
How does Berry’s land stewardship differ from strict wilderness preservation? |
Environmental Studies
Stewardship of land |
Hard |
| 2255 |
Who developed social ecology, which links the domination of nature to the domination of humans by humans? |
Environmental Studies
Social ecology |
Easy |
| 2256 |
“Everything must go somewhere” is one of the laws of ecology given by: |
Environmental Studies
Social ecology |
Easy |
| 2257 |
Which is NOT one of Barry Commoner’s four laws of ecology? |
Environmental Studies
Social ecology |
Medium |
| 2258 |
According to Barry Commoner, the sharp rise in pollution after the Second World War was mainly caused by: |
Environmental Studies
Social ecology |
Hard |
| 2259 |
Marxist or socialist ecology mainly blames environmental degradation on: |
Environmental Studies
Social ecology |
Medium |
| 2260 |
The term “ecofeminism” was coined in 1974 by: |
Environmental Studies
Feminism and green politics |
Medium |
| 2261 |
The central idea of ecofeminism is that: |
Environmental Studies
Feminism and green politics |
Easy |
| 2262 |
In 1974, women of Reni village in the Garhwal Himalaya hugged trees to stop felling under the leadership of: |
Environmental Studies
Feminism and green politics |
Easy |
| 2263 |
Die Grünen, the German Green Party founded in 1980, first entered the federal parliament (Bundestag) in: |
Environmental Studies
Feminism and green politics |
Hard |
| 2264 |
Vandana Shiva’s 1988 book that links “maldevelopment” with harm to women and nature is: |
Environmental Studies
Feminism and green politics |
Medium |
| 2265 |
The report Our Common Future (1987), which defined sustainable development, was produced by a commission chai… |
Environmental Studies
Sustainable development |
Easy |
| 2266 |
According to the Brundtland definition, sustainable development meets present needs without compromising the … |
Environmental Studies
Sustainable development |
Easy |
| 2267 |
The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015 number: |
Environmental Studies
Sustainable development |
Easy |
| 2268 |
Mission LiFE, launched in October 2022, mainly aims to: |
Environmental Studies
Sustainable development |
Medium |
| 2269 |
Which pair of key concepts did the Brundtland Report place at the heart of sustainable development? |
Environmental Studies
Sustainable development |
Hard |
| 2270 |
Which pair of processes increases the size of a population? |
Environmental Studies
Population dynamics |
Easy |
| 2271 |
A population of 500 rabbits has 60 births, 20 deaths, 10 immigrants and 5 emigrants in one year. What is its … |
Environmental Studies
Population dynamics |
Medium |
| 2272 |
An age pyramid with a very broad base and a narrow top indicates a population that is: |
Environmental Studies
Population dynamics |
Easy |
| 2273 |
An urn-shaped age pyramid, with fewer young than middle-aged individuals, suggests that the population will: |
Environmental Studies
Population dynamics |
Medium |
| 2274 |
A town of 15,00,000 people records 30,000 births in a year. Its crude birth rate (per 1,000 people) is: |
Environmental Studies
Population dynamics |
Hard |
| 2275 |
A survivorship curve that stays nearly flat through early and middle life and then drops sharply in old age i… |
Environmental Studies
Survivorship and life strategies |
Easy |
| 2276 |
An oyster releases millions of eggs, and very few larvae survive to adulthood. Its survivorship curve is most… |
Environmental Studies
Survivorship and life strategies |
Easy |
| 2277 |
Which set of traits describes a K-strategist? |
Environmental Studies
Survivorship and life strategies |
Medium |
| 2278 |
Which organisms are the best example of r-strategists? |
Environmental Studies
Survivorship and life strategies |
Medium |
| 2279 |
Why are K-strategists such as elephants usually more vulnerable to extinction than r-strategists? |
Environmental Studies
Survivorship and life strategies |
Hard |
| 2280 |
According to Malthus (1798), if unchecked, population grows in which kind of progression? |
Environmental Studies
Human populations |
Easy |
| 2281 |
In Malthus’s theory, famine and epidemics that raise the death rate are called: |
Environmental Studies
Human populations |
Medium |
| 2282 |
The maximum population that an environment can support for a long time without being degraded is its: |
Environmental Studies
Human populations |
Easy |
| 2283 |
Which thinker argued that population pressure encourages farmers to adopt more intensive and better farming m… |
Environmental Studies
Human populations |
Medium |
| 2284 |
In the equation I = P × A × T, the term A shows that environmental impact depends on: |
Environmental Studies
Human populations |
Hard |
| 2285 |
In which stage of the demographic transition does a population grow most rapidly? |
Environmental Studies
Demographic transition |
Easy |
| 2286 |
In Stage 1 of the demographic transition, birth and death rates are: |
Environmental Studies
Demographic transition |
Easy |
| 2287 |
Which factor most directly causes the death rate to fall in Stage 2? |
Environmental Studies
Demographic transition |
Medium |
| 2288 |
Which change most helps to lower the birth rate in Stage 3? |
Environmental Studies
Demographic transition |
Medium |
| 2289 |
A country has a birth rate of 11 and a death rate of 12 per 1,000, and its population is slowly shrinking. It… |
Environmental Studies
Demographic transition |
Hard |
| 2290 |
The S-shaped (logistic) growth curve levels off when the population reaches: |
Environmental Studies
Population regulation |
Easy |
| 2291 |
For a population with r = 0.2 per year, N = 200 and K = 1,000, what is the logistic growth rate dN/dt? |
Environmental Studies
Population regulation |
Hard |
| 2292 |
J-shaped population growth is expected when: |
Environmental Studies
Population regulation |
Easy |
| 2293 |
Which of these is a density-independent factor? |
Environmental Studies
Population regulation |
Medium |
| 2294 |
In the logistic model, a population grows fastest when its size N is equal to: |
Environmental Studies
Population regulation |
Medium |
| 2295 |
Which is considered the single largest cause of biodiversity loss worldwide? |
Environmental Studies
Threats to ecosystems |
Easy |
| 2296 |
When farmers replace many local crop varieties with a few high-yielding varieties, the resulting loss of gene… |
Environmental Studies
Threats to ecosystems |
Medium |
| 2297 |
Lantana and water hyacinth spreading in Indian forests and lakes are examples of: |
Environmental Studies
Threats to ecosystems |
Easy |
| 2298 |
A parasite that can live only on one host species dies out when the host becomes extinct. This is called: |
Environmental Studies
Threats to ecosystems |
Medium |
| 2299 |
Public protest in Kerala led to a planned hydroelectric project being dropped and the area becoming a nationa… |
Environmental Studies
Threats to ecosystems |
Hard |
| 2300 |
The National Forest Policy of 1988 aims to bring what share of India’s land area under forest or tree cover? |
Environmental Studies
Forest conservation and conflicts |
Easy |