Environmental Issues

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Question
CBSEENBI12002666

A lake near a village suffered heavy mortality of fishes within a few days. Consider the following reasons for this

(1) lost of urea and phosphate fertiliser were used in the crops in the vicinity.

(2) The area was sprayed with DDT by an aircraft.

(3) The lake water turned green and stinky/

(4) Phytoplankton populations in the lake declined initially thereby greatly reducing photosynthesis.

Which were two of above the main causes of fish mortality in the lake?

  • 2, 3

  • 3, 4

  • 1,3

  • 1,2

Solution

D.

1,2

A lake near a village suffered heavy mortality of fishes within a few days, because lots of urea and phosphate fertilizer were used in the crops in the vicinity and the area was sprayed with DDT by an aircraft, Inorganic phosphorus and nitrogen are responsible for the growth of algae. In polluted water these increase due to which algae increase greatly at the surface of water forming water bloom. Due to death of these algae, their organic matter gets decomposed due to which oxygen gets depleted and aquatic animals die.

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Question
CBSEENBI12002568

A renewable exhaustible natural resource is

  • coal

  • petroleum

  • minerals

  • forest

Solution

D.

forest

Forest is renewable, exhaustible natural resource. Renewable resources are living, able to reproduce or replace themselves and to increase. The renewable resources get replenished, recycled or reproduced and can fast forever provided they are not used beyond their renewability. The exhaustible resource is the natural resources with finite stock or supply, they are vulnerable to both qualitative and quantitative degradation.
Coal and petroleum are non- renewable and exhaustible natural resources.
Minerals are renewable and inexhaustible natural resources.

Question
CBSEENBI12002194

A river with an inflow of domestic sewage-rich in organic waste may result in

  • increased population of aquatic food web organism

  • an increased production of fish due to biodegradable nutrients

  • death of fish due to lack of oxygen

  • drying of the river very soon due to algal bloom

Solution

C.

death of fish due to lack of oxygen

A river with sewage increases the organic waste and decreases the dissolved oxygen.

Question
CBSEENBI12002393

A scrubber in the exhaust of a chemical industrial plant removes

  • Gases like sulphur dioxide

  • Particulate matter of the size 5 micrometre or above

  • Gases like ozone and methane

  • Particulate matter of the size 2.5 micrometre or less

Solution

A.

Gases like sulphur dioxide

Scrubber is an electrostatic precipitator in which the dirty air is cleaned by capturing the gas like SO2 and other oxides in water/lime spray

Question
CBSEENBI12002670

About 70% of total global carbon is found in 

  • grasslands

  • agro -ecosystem

  • Oceans

  • forests

Solution

C.

Oceans

The atmosphere is the source of carbon dioxide, which is utilised by plants in photosynthesis reduced to form carbon compounds. The total mass of carbon currently in the atmosphere is about 7 x 1017 g, ie, 700000 million tonnes Oceans regulate the CO2 content in the atmosphere and thus play a very important role. Sea water contains 50 times more CO2 than air, ie, about 70 % of total global carbon is found in oceans. This is in the form of carbonates and bicarbonates.

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