Rajiv Gandhi Environment Award is given for outstanding contribution to:
Answer: D
It is given for contribution to the development of clean technology.
The Rajiv Gandhi Environment Award for Clean Technology recognises industrial units and researchers who develop processes that prevent pollution at source rather than treating it afterwards.
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Selvas are the dense tropical rain forests of
Answer: A
Selvas are the dense tropical rain forests of South America.
The word is Portuguese and Spanish for forest, and refers to the Amazon basin. The forest is evergreen, multi-layered and extremely rich in species, growing where rainfall exceeds 200 cm and temperature stays near 27 °C all year.
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Mahe and Yanam are the parts of the Union Territory of:
Answer: D
Mahe and Yanam belong to Puducherry.
The Union Territory is made up of four former French enclaves scattered across three states: Puducherry and Karaikal in Tamil Nadu, Mahe in Kerala and Yanam in Andhra Pradesh. They are not contiguous with one another.
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The most important breed of wool producing sheep in the world is:
Answer: B
The Merino is the most important wool sheep.
Bred in Spain and now raised chiefly in Australia, it yields a fine, soft, densely crimped fleece with a very small fibre diameter, which makes it the standard for fine apparel wool.
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India’s first Marine Biosphere Reserve is located in
Answer: A
It is in the Gulf of Mannar.
Declared in 1989, the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve off the Tamil Nadu coast was India's first marine biosphere reserve. Its 21 islands and coral reefs shelter the dugong, and it holds some 3,600 recorded species.
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Singreni Coal fields is located in :
Answer: C
The Singareni coalfields lie in the Godavari valley.
They stretch along the Pranhita-Godavari basin in Telangana and are the only significant coal deposit in peninsular India south of the Damodar valley. Singareni Collieries is one of India's oldest coal companies, dating from 1889.
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Seasonal movement of people and their herds from valley to mountain and vice-versa is known as:
Answer: B
This is called transhumance.
Herders move flocks to high pasture in summer and back to the valleys in winter, following the grass. In India the Gujjars, Bakarwals and Gaddis of the western Himalayas practise it, as do the Bhotias of Uttarakhand.
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Saar is a famous field in:
Answer: D
The Saar is in Germany.
The Saar basin in the south-west, near the French border, is a major coalfield and was long the heart of German iron and steel. Its ownership was disputed between France and Germany through much of the twentieth century.
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Which city lies in the basin of the Euphrates and the Tigris?
Answer: D
Baghdad lies in the Euphrates-Tigris basin.
The city stands on the Tigris, in the Mesopotamian plain between the two rivers - Mesopotamia means 'between the rivers'. The two actually join at Al-Qurnah in southern Iraq to form the Shatt al-Arab.
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Which of the rock formations in India is the richest in fossil content?
Answer: C
The Gondwana formations are the richest in fossils.
Laid down between about 250 and 100 million years ago in freshwater basins, they hold abundant plant remains - above all Glossopteris, whose distribution across India, Africa, Australia, South America and Antarctica was among the first evidence for continental drift. They also hold most of India's coal.
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