TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON ENVIRONMENT & CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY (WORLD
ENVIRONMENT DAY 2020)
1.
Which country hosted the world environment
day 2020?
2.
The first world environment day was
celebrated on 5th June, 1974. What was its official theme?
3.
In which village of Uttarakhand (then
Himachal Pradesh) the famous Chipko movement started on 24th April, 1973?
4.
Which Japanese
word is used for the surviving victims of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki ?. The word literally
translates as "explosion-affected people" and is used, often
derogatorily, to refer to people who were exposed to radiation from the
bombings.
5.
Which disease is a neurological syndrome
caused by severe mercury poisoning if it is also the name of the city in Japan,
where it was discovered in 1956 due to the release of methylmercury in the
industrial waste water?
6.
Which well-known water conservationist from known as "waterman of India” won the Stockholm Water Prize in 2015?
7.
Who was awarded the 2017 Whitley award for
her role in protecting the greater adjutant and its wetland habitat in Assam, India?
8. Whose
autobiography is "The Fall of a Sparrow"?
9. Which
is the world largest rain forest?
10.
He made the first
documentary on Kaziranga National park which was telecasted in Berlin TV in
1961. He was awarded the Padmashree in 1971, an
honorary Doctorate of Science from Assam Agricultural
University (AAU) in 1991, and also an honorary Ph.D. from Dibrugarh
University. Who is he?
11.
Which environmental
phenomenon was discovered by Joseph
Fourier in
1824?
12.
Which environmental activist group
from Northeast India was
established in 1982 by Soumyadeep Datta, an Ashoka Fellow?
13.
Who is the
author of the book “No one is too small to make a difference”?
14.
She became the
first African women to win a Nobel Prize when she was awarded the 2004 Nobel
Prize for Peace. She founded the Green
Belt Movement in 1977.She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1984 and
Indira Gandhi Peace Prize in 2006. Who is she?
15.
It was founded
in 1970 as “Don’t make a wave committee” to protest against US underground
nuclear test at Amchitka Island of Alaska. How do know it today?
Answers
1. Columbia, assisted by Germany
2. Only one Earth
3. Mandal Village
4. Hibakusha
5. Minamata disease
6. Dr Rajendra Singh
7. Purnima Barman
8. Dr Salim Ali
9. Amazon
10.
Robin
Banerjee
11.
Green
House Effect
12.
Nature's
Beckon
13.
Greta Thunberg
14.
Wangari Maathai
15.
Greenpeace
