Environment Gk
General Knowledge : Environment Gk
| `Man and the Biosphere'an ecological programme was launched by | UNESCO |
| 21 percent of the atmosphere is | Oxygen |
| 78 percent of the atmosphere is | Nitrogen |
| 99 percent of the crust of earth is composed of | Elements |
| A motor car produces least amount of pollution while | Moving |
| A space with nothing in it is called | Vacuum |
| A special type of hydrogen with an extra neutron in its nucleus is | Deuterium |
| About how many percent of the world's water is solid | Two |
| Acid rain was discovered by | R.A.Smith |
| Air pressure is related to density of air. This was discovered by whom in 1662 AD | Robert Boyle |
| Any substance that dissolve in the water vapour it absorbs is said to be | Deliquescent |
| As one goes higher in the atmosphere,air pressure | Decreases |
| As per Daniel Bernoulli,whenever air moves,its pressure | Drops |
| Birds evolved on earth during the | Jurassic period |
| Bubbles in soda water is due to presence of | Carbon dioxide |
| Burning of fossil fuels releases | Carbon-di-oxide |
| Chemicals which get rid of pests are called as | Pesticides |
| Coal miners more frequently suffer from | Black lung diseases |
| Death valley is located in which dessert | Nevada |
| Dust containing silica causes | Silicosis |
| Earth's atmosphere has how many layers | Five |
| Ecologists divide divide lakes into how many zones | Three |
| Energy in the nucleus of an atom is called | Nuclear energy |
| Energy that is not doing anything but is simply stored for action is called | Potential energy |
| Excessive inhalling of manganese causes | Pnemonia |
| Hay fever is due to the presence of which thing in the air | Pollen |
| Heavy water can be extracted from ordinary water by the process of | Distillation |
| Henry Cavendish proved that water was a compound which included | Hydrogen |
| Human beings inhale what and give out what | Oxygen,carbon dioxide |
| In case of heavy water,oxygen combines with | Deuterium |
| In every water molecutl,there are how many hydrogen atoms and how many oxygen atoms | Two,one |
| Intensive use of nitrate fertilizers causes | Methemoglobinemia |
| Junk of appliances and vehicles is known as | Solid Waste |
| Less than how many percent of the world's water is fresh water | Three |
| Life originally emerged from | Water |
| Man first cultivated crops in which age | Neolithic |
| Moon gets very hot and very cold as it has no | Atmosphere |
| Oceans are ecologically divided into how many regions | Five |
| Oxygen condenses at a temperature of | -183.c |
| Oxygen was discovered by | Joseph Priestley |
| Oxygen was discovered in | August 1774 |
| Ozone is actually a form of | Oxygen |
| Plants inhale what and give out what | Carbon dioxide,oxygen |
| Sheep were initially dpmesticated for | Meat and milk |
| Solar cells turn light energy from the sun into | Electrical energy |
| Textile workers more frequently suffer from | Byssinosis |
| The acid found in soil is | Humic acid |
| The air surrounding the earth is forever on the move because of | Sun's heat |
| The amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is known as | Humidity |
| The atmospheric layer immediately around the earth is called | Troposphere |
| The biggest energy source on the surface of the earth is | Solar radiation |
| The crust of the earth is called | Lithosphere |
| The element found abundant in the crust of the earth is | Oxygen |
| The fifth atmospheric layer is called | Exosphere |
| The first living beings who established themselves on rocky slopes were | Lichens |
| The fourth atmospheric layer is called | Ionosphere |
| The French chemist who showed that air was the same all around the world was | Henri Regnault |
| The french chemist who showed that water was a simple compound of hydrogen and oxygen was | Antoine Lavoiser |
| The gases which are slow to react with other chemicals are called | Inert gases |
| The industrial chemical which increases the chance of developing Leukemia is | Benzene |
| The living beings which are known as teritary consumers are | Meat-eating animals |
| The main culprit which is destroying the ozone layer is | CFC gases |
| The main green house gas is | Carbon dioxide |
| The main source of harmful radiations in our house can be due to | Televisions |
| The metal which causes systemic poisoning in man is | Lead |
| The most acute pollution problem faced by nuclear power industry is | Disposal of nuclear waste |
| The most biologically productive ecosystem is | Alluvial plains |
| The most common compound on earth is | Water |
| The most economic and pollution free form of transport is | Bicycle |
| The most recently discovered ecosystem is | Vent |
| The place referred to as the Valley of Death is | Cubatao in Brazil |
| The Royal society for the Protection of Birds was formed in | 1889 AD |
| The second atmospheric layer is called | Stratosphere |
| The simplest and least polluting way of deriving energy is | Solar energy |
| The third atmospheric layer is called | Mesosphere |
| The two major components of air are oxygen and | Nitrogen |
| The type of living beings more sensitive to nuclear radiations are | Mammals |
| The type of soil found in the dessert is | Aridisols |
| The ultimate source of nearly all our energy is the | Sun |
| The Valley of Flowers is located at | Garhwal in Himalayas |
| The word `Oxygen'was coined by | Antonie Levoiser |
| Two types of basic energy is | Potential energy,kinetic energy |
| Uranium miners more frequently suffer from | Cancer |
| Water covers about how many percent of the earth's surface | Seventy |
| Water expands when it is | Frozen |
| We are protected from ultraviolet radiation from the sun due to the presence of | Ozone layer |
| When something burns in air, it combines with oxygen and the process is called | Oxidation |
| When we breather,oxygen combines chemically with glucose in the body to create | Energy |
| William Ramsay discovered that air also contained tiny traces of | Inert gases |
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