| 2451 |
Which agricultural practice is a major source of methane? |
Environmental Studies
Global warming and climate agreements |
Easy |
| 2452 |
Under the Kyoto Protocol, legally binding emission targets applied to: |
Environmental Studies
Global warming and climate agreements |
Medium |
| 2453 |
The Paris Agreement differs from the Kyoto Protocol mainly because under Paris: |
Environmental Studies
Global warming and climate agreements |
Medium |
| 2454 |
Arrange these in chronological order: (1) Paris Agreement adopted (2) Kyoto Protocol adopted (3) IPCC establi… |
Environmental Studies
Global warming and climate agreements |
Hard |
| 2455 |
The international convention that aims to eliminate or restrict persistent organic pollutants is the: |
Environmental Studies
Waste dumping and POPs |
Easy |
| 2456 |
The Bamako Convention differs from the Basel Convention because it: |
Environmental Studies
Waste dumping and POPs |
Medium |
| 2457 |
POPs have been detected in polar bears and Inuit people far from any industry. This is mainly due to their: |
Environmental Studies
Waste dumping and POPs |
Medium |
| 2458 |
Which group of substances was part of the original "dirty dozen" POPs? |
Environmental Studies
Waste dumping and POPs |
Easy |
| 2459 |
A European firm ships drums of toxic sludge to a developing country that has agreed in writing to receive it … |
Environmental Studies
Waste dumping and POPs |
Hard |
| 2460 |
Which activity is widely considered the largest driver of deforestation in the Amazon? |
Environmental Studies
Case studies |
Easy |
| 2461 |
Chico Mendes is remembered for campaigning for: |
Environmental Studies
Case studies |
Medium |
| 2462 |
The international agreement that regulates trade in endangered species such as elephants is: |
Environmental Studies
Case studies |
Easy |
| 2463 |
Farmers who clear Amazon forest often find crop yields falling within a few years. The main reason is that: |
Environmental Studies
Case studies |
Medium |
| 2464 |
Conservationists opposed CITES-approved one-off sales of stockpiled ivory mainly because such sales could: |
Environmental Studies
Case studies |
Hard |
| 2465 |
A limit on the quantity of a good that may be imported in a year is called: |
Environmental Studies
International trade and the environment |
Easy |
| 2466 |
The theory that each country should specialise in goods it produces at a relatively lower opportunity cost wa… |
Environmental Studies
International trade and the environment |
Medium |
| 2467 |
A tannery company closes its plant in a country with strict effluent rules and reopens it in a country with w… |
Environmental Studies
International trade and the environment |
Medium |
| 2468 |
The Bhopal gas disaster of 1984 involved a leak of which chemical from a pesticide factory? |
Environmental Studies
International trade and the environment |
Easy |
| 2469 |
Rising trade increases total shipping and factory output, but the same trade also spreads cleaner technology … |
Environmental Studies
International trade and the environment |
Hard |
| 2470 |
The World Trade Organization came into existence on: |
Environmental Studies
Globalisation and the WTO |
Easy |
| 2471 |
Country X lowers its tariff on Brazilian coffee and must then apply the same lower tariff to coffee from all … |
Environmental Studies
Globalisation and the WTO |
Medium |
| 2472 |
A rule requiring a foreign car maker to use at least 60% locally made parts would conflict with which WTO agr… |
Environmental Studies
Globalisation and the WTO |
Medium |
| 2473 |
The GATT round of negotiations that led to the creation of the WTO was the: |
Environmental Studies
Globalisation and the WTO |
Easy |
| 2474 |
Which concern of developing countries is most directly linked to the TRIPS agreement? |
Environmental Studies
Globalisation and the WTO |
Hard |
| 2475 |
In India, a patent is normally granted for a term of: |
Environmental Studies
Intellectual property rights |
Easy |
| 2476 |
The first product to receive a geographical indication tag in India was: |
Environmental Studies
Intellectual property rights |
Easy |
| 2477 |
A soft-drink company never registers its recipe but keeps it known to only a few employees under strict contr… |
Environmental Studies
Intellectual property rights |
Medium |
| 2478 |
The unique curved shape of a new water bottle, which gives it a distinctive look, can best be protected as: |
Environmental Studies
Intellectual property rights |
Medium |
| 2479 |
India's challenge to the US turmeric patent succeeded mainly because: |
Environmental Studies
Intellectual property rights |
Hard |
| 2480 |
Aid that must be spent on buying goods and services from the donor country is called: |
Environmental Studies
International aid |
Easy |
| 2481 |
The UN target for official development assistance by rich countries is: |
Environmental Studies
International aid |
Medium |
| 2482 |
A loan from the World Bank funded by contributions from many countries is an example of: |
Environmental Studies
International aid |
Easy |
| 2483 |
A country receives a grant to build a power plant on the condition that turbines are bought from the donor, t… |
Environmental Studies
International aid |
Medium |
| 2484 |
Which institution serves as a financial mechanism for global environmental conventions such as those on biodi… |
Environmental Studies
International aid |
Hard |
| 2485 |
In which situation does the problem of data inconsistency arise? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Database and file systems |
Easy |
| 2486 |
What is a database schema? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Database and file systems |
Easy |
| 2487 |
A school stores a student's phone number in the fee file, library file and transport file. Which limitation o… |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Database and file systems |
Medium |
| 2488 |
In a file system, adding a new field to a file forces changes in every program that reads it. This limitation… |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Database and file systems |
Medium |
| 2489 |
Which statement about a DBMS is correct? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Database and file systems |
Hard |
| 2490 |
A relation STUDENT has 5 attributes and 32 tuples. What is its degree? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational data model |
Easy |
| 2491 |
In the relational model, a single row of a relation is called a |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational data model |
Easy |
| 2492 |
The set of all permissible values that an attribute can take is called its |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational data model |
Medium |
| 2493 |
A table has degree 4 and cardinality 10. Three new rows are inserted and one column is dropped. What are the … |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational data model |
Medium |
| 2494 |
Which of the following is NOT a property of a relation in the relational model? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational data model |
Hard |
| 2495 |
A relation has three candidate keys. How many alternate keys does it have once a primary key is chosen? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Keys |
Easy |
| 2496 |
Which constraint must a primary key always satisfy? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Keys |
Easy |
| 2497 |
In tables EMP(EmpNo, Name, DeptNo) and DEPT(DeptNo, DName), DeptNo in EMP is best described as |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Keys |
Medium |
| 2498 |
In a SECTION table, RollNo repeats across classes, but each combination of Class and RollNo is unique. What i… |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Keys |
Medium |
| 2499 |
A row is inserted into ORDERS with CustID = 'C9', but no customer with ID 'C9' exists in CUSTOMER, where Cust… |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Keys |
Hard |
| 2500 |
Which relational algebra operation extracts only certain columns of a relation? |
Computer Science/Informatics Practices
Relational algebra |
Easy |