| Quiz - Environmental |
1. Who was the first to study the effect of chemical nutrients on plant growth? Ans : Justus Liebig 2. Which is the first ruminant to be domesticated by man? Ans : Goat or Sheep 3. Who showed that both American eels and European eels spawn at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea? Ans : John Dory 4. Who coined "Ekistics" - the science of human settlements? Ans : C.A. Doxiadis 5. Who died in 1988 fighting for the rainforest of the Amazon basin? Ans : Francisco Mendes Filho 6. Who has been fighting for more than 40 years to save the last big stretch of tropical rainforest in central America? Ans : Gertrude Blom 7. The word 'ecology' is derived from two Greek words that mean: Ans : the study of home 8. What is lost when one organism consumes another? Ans : Energy 9. Which gas is both harmful and beneficial to life on earth? Ans : Ozone 10. Which animal was introduced into Jamaica from India in 1872 to control the rat population there? Ans : Mongoose 11. The Bird of paradise is mainly hunted for: Ans : its tail feathers 12. Which tree contains a very powerful insecticide: Ans : Neem 13. Which modern invention led to a faster reduction in the population of whales? Ans : Harpoon gun and Steam-powered ship 14. Which invention has made the world sit on the brink of extinction? Ans : Nuclear bomb 15. Which pollutant gas has adversely affected the once prosperous flower-growing industry in Los Angels, U.S.A.? Ans : Ozone |
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