The first tidal power plant in India is located in:
Answer: D
India's first tidal power plant is at Kandla.
It is in the Gulf of Kutch, where the funnel shape amplifies the tidal range to among the highest in the country. Tidal power needs a large range within a narrow basin, which that coast provides and most of India's does not.
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Project Tiger, one of the premier conservation efforts in the country was launched on:
Answer: D
Project Tiger was launched on 1 April 1973.
It began with nine reserves and about 18,000 sq km. The tiger population had fallen to roughly 1,800 by the early 1970s; the project now covers more than fifty reserves and the count has recovered past 3,000.
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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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Unlike other parts of the Indian Coast, fishing industry has not developed along the Saurashtra coast because
Answer: B
Because of the overwhelming dependence on agriculture and animal husbandry along the Saurashtra coast.
The people there have long been farmers and pastoralists rather than fisherfolk, so the tradition, skills and capital for a fishing industry did not develop, even though the coast itself is suitable.
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India covers what percentage of the earth’s land surface?
Answer: A
India covers about 2.4 per cent of the world's land surface.
Its area of 3.28 million sq km supports around 17 per cent of the world's population - the pressure of numbers on land that this ratio implies is the root of many of the country's resource problems.
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Umiam Multipurpose Power Project is located in:
Answer: B
The Umiam project is in Meghalaya.
Built on the Umiam river near Shillong and commissioned in 1965, it was the first hydroelectric project in the north-east. Its reservoir, Barapani, is now a well-known lake.
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Lignite is a type of:
Answer: C
Lignite is a type of coal.
It is brown coal, the lowest rank, with 60–70 per cent carbon and a high moisture content, formed from peat under moderate pressure. Neyveli in Tamil Nadu holds India's largest deposit. Anthracite, at over 90 per cent carbon, is the highest rank.
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One horned rhinoceros is found in the states of:
Answer: B
The one-horned rhinoceros is found in West Bengal and Assam.
Kaziranga in Assam holds about two-thirds of the world population, with Pobitora, Orang and Manas nearby, and Jaldapara and Gorumara in north Bengal. The species was down to a few hundred a century ago and has recovered past 3,500.
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The first of the fourteen biosphere reserves of India which was established in 1986 is:
Answer: C
The Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve was the first, established in 1986.
It spans Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka, taking in Mudumalai, Bandipur, Nagarhole, Wayanad and Silent Valley, and was also the first Indian reserve admitted to the UNESCO world network, in 2000.
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Green Index has been developed by:
Answer: C
The Green Index was developed by the United Nations Environment Programme.
It measures environmental performance by adjusting economic indicators for the depletion of natural resources and the cost of pollution, so that growth achieved by running down natural capital is not counted as gain.
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