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What leads Mathew Arnold to tell his beloved, “Ah, love, let us be true’, in the last stanza of the poem, The Dover Beach? Write your answer in a short paragraph of 100-150 words.
Concept: Writing Skills
Show how Carol Ann Duffy presents a disturbing picture of confinement and exploitation in the poem, The Dolphins. Write your answer in about 200-250 words.
Concept: Writing Skills
How does John Brown convey his firsthand experience of war to his mother and evoke a deep emotional response in the readers? Justify your answer in about 200-250 words with supporting details from the poem, by John Brown.
Concept: Writing Skills
Potential resources are those resources that already exist in nature but are not used for the benefits of human beings.
Which one of the following represents Potential Resources?
Concept: Definition: Resources; Scarcity and Growth; Natural Resource Accounting
What is natural resource accounting?
Concept: Definition: Resources; Scarcity and Growth; Natural Resource Accounting
State any four functions of the Central Pollution Control Board.
Concept: Pollution Monitoring
Farah bought a flat in a new housing society shown below. The builder told her that the housing society integrated the best practices of rural and urban living.
- Identify the emerging style of living shown above.
- Why is this style of living preferred to an ultra-modern way of living?
Concept: Modern Schools of Ecological Thought
How did Gandhi’s advocacy of Khadi address the political, environmental and socio economic needs of Indian villages?
Concept: Traditional Agriculture in India
Read the following passage and answer the question given below.
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Despite being a major food producer with extensive food security schemes and the largest public distribution system in the world, India still grapples with significant levels of food insecurity, hunger, and child malnutrition. The Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2022, ranked India 107 among 121 countries. |
How is the problem referred to in the passage linked to the Green Revolution?
Concept: Traditional Agriculture in India
State any two advantages and any one disadvantage of Free Trade.
Concept: Trans-national Characteristics of Environmental Issues Using Case Study of Amazonia, Trade in Wild Life and Ozone Depletion
Mr. Saini owns an orchard. He is delighted to know that his new neighbour is a beekeeper.
In the light of externalities, specify the reason for Mr. Saini’s delight. Mention the term for the type of externality in the example mentioned above.
Concept: Traditional Agriculture in India
Read the conversation given below and answer the question that follow.
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The next time you take printouts unnecessarily or you throw a paper in to the bin, think for a minute as to how many trees have been felled to manufacture it and how much wastewater generated in the process for something you use so often every day. Can you take out some time from your everyday routine and devote it to starting a simple recycling program at your school or your neighbourhood? Not only you would save our planet from the torture of felling greenery, but you would also reduce generation and dumping of waste into the environment. |
Besides waste generation, paper manufacturing industry also degrades the quality of air and water. Discuss any two points to establish the role of State Pollution Control Board in mitigating the problem.
Concept: Pollution Monitoring
Study the relationship between the first and second words given below and fill in the fourth word on that basis.
Ex-situ : In-situ : : Cryopreservation : ______.
Concept: Population and Conservation Ecology
Study the relationship between the first and second words given below and fill in the fourth word on that basis.
Pull factors : Immigration : : Push factors : ______.
Concept: Population and Conservation Ecology
Explain any two advantages of natural resource accounting.
Concept: Definition: Resources; Scarcity and Growth; Natural Resource Accounting
Assertion: Malthus held that human population would have to resort to subsistence living.
Reason: He believed that the population grew arithmetically and resources grew geometrically.
Which one of the following is correct?
Concept: Human Populations
High volume sampler is a manual technique for collecting samples of particulate matter (PM). Ananya used this technique to measure the PM level at four different locations.
Which one of the following areas is likely to record the maximum level of particulate matter?
Concept: Monitoring the Atmosphere: Techniques
Name the radical environmental advocacy group founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Rosella and Howie Wolke.
Concept: Deep Ecology (Gary Snyder, Earth First) Vs. Shallow Ecology
The practice of exporting hazardous wastes from developed countries to developing countries amounts to environmental injustice.
Name the International Treaty formulated to curb this practice.
Concept: A Critical Appraisal of Conventional Paradigm of Development from the Viewpoints of Sustainability, Environmental Impact and Equity
