Environment & Biodiversity MCQs

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Clouded Leopard National Park is located in Tripura. The park is located in the Sepahijala Wildlife Sanctuary, which is in the West Tripura district. The park was established in 2007 and is known for its captive Clouded Leopard enclosures.
The park covers an area of about 5.08 square kilometers. The terrain is green year-round and the weather is temperate, except for the humid summer months of March and April. The best time to visit is November to May.

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The Udaypur Wildlife Sanctuary (UWS) is located in West Champaran district of Bihar and covers an area of 8.74 square kilometres. It is home to a variety of water birds, both resident and migratory. The sanctuary has areas of swamp forest, dry riverine forest, and khair-sissoo forest. It is in the Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests eco-region.

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There are four national parks in the Andamans, Mahatma Gandhi Marine, Mount Harriet, Rani Jhansi Marine and Saddle Peak National Parks.
Nicobars have two areas notified as national parks and an area in Great Nicobar designated as the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. Within the area of 960.40 km² in Great Nicobar Island, 110 km² is the Galathea National Park, situated on the south east of the island. On the east coast an area of 476. 73 km² is notified as the Campbell Bay National Park.

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The ozone layer lies in the region of Earth’s stratosphere. It absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation (97 to 99 % of the Sun’s medium-frequency). The layer contains less than 10 parts per million of ozone. Chlorofluorocarbon is mainly responsible for the depletion of ozone layer.

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Bhadra Wildlife Santuary is situated inthe state of Karnataka (Chikamagaluru district). It was formerly known as Jagara Valley Wildlife Sanctuary’ in 1951. In 1974, it was renamed as Bhadra Wildlife Santuary.

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The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute was established in 1947. Later it joined the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in 1967. The Headquarters of the organization is located in Kochi, Kerala. One of the three regional center is located in Vishakhapatnam.

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Silent Valley National Park also known as “Sairandhri Vanam” is located in the state of Kerala and is located in the Nilgiri hills. It is home to the lion-tailed macaques, an endangered species of primate. In 1973, “Save Silent Valley” campaign (environmental movement) was initiated when the Kerala State Electricity Board declared to implement the Silent Valley Hydro-Electric Project.

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Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area and tiger reserve which is located in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is home to many bird species also like treepies, bulbuls, babblers, mynahs.

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There is no act in India to specifically regulate and declare the Biosphere Reserves

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The top layer of the soil is generally carried away by the splash of water during rainfall or floods. Rainfall and the surface runoff which may result from rainfall, produces four main types of soil erosion: splash erosion, sheet erosion, rill erosion, and gully erosion.