Which of the following is not a hotspot which covers an exceptionally high biodiversity regions?

  • Western Ghats and Sri Lanka

  • Himalaya

  • Indo-Burma

  • National Zoological Park, Delhi

Which of the following is not correct about sacred Groves?

  • They are found in Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya

  • Aravali Hills of Rajasthan

  • Western Ghat regions of Karnataka and Maharashtra

  • Sarguja, Chanda and Satna regions of Madhya Pradesh

The sacred groves in Meghalaya

All of the statements are correct except

  • Last refuges for a large number of rare and threatened plants

  • Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya

  • Present in Chanda and Bastar areas

  • Inspired by the religious and cultural traditions that emphasised protection of nature

In this approach, threatened animals and Plants are taken out from their natural habitat and placed in special setting where they can be protected and given special care. Which of the following is odd with respect to statement?

  • Zoological Park

  • Botanical Garden

  • Wildlife Safari Parks

  • Wildlife Sanctuaries

Which of the following is not ex-situ mean of conservation of Biodiversity?

  • Tissue culture methods

  • Cryopreservation

  • Seed bank

  • National Park

The Historic convention on biological diversity:

Which of the following is incorrect?

  • Held in Rio de Janeiro

  • In 1992

  • The Earth Summit

  • Purpose was to control pollution and promote reforestation

The world summit on sustainable development:

Which of the following is not correct?

  • Held in 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa

  • 190 countries pledged their commiment to achieve by 2012

  • Their pledge was to achieve a significant reduction in the current rate of Biodiversity loss at global, regional and local levels

  • Held 10 years after The Earth Summit

Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II and chose your answer from the codes given below:
Column I                       Column II
(organism)                      (status)
I. Sus salvanius              1. Critically endangered
II. Ailurus fulgens           2. Endangered
III. Antilope cervicapra    3. Vulnerable

Codes:
    I    II   III
1. 1    2    3
  • 4. 1    3    2

  • 3. 2    1    3
  • 2. 2    3    1
  • 4

Match each item in Column I with one item in Column II and chose your answer from the codes given below:
Column I                  Column II
(national park)           (state)
I. Kaziranga              1. Rajasthan
II. Ranthambore        2. Assam
III. Dachigam            3. J and K
IV. Raja ji                  4. Uttaranchal
Codes:
      I   II   III   IV
  • D.   1   2    4    3

  • C.   2   1    3    4
  • A.   1   2    3    4
  • B.   2   1    4    3

Initially, how many biodiversity hot spots were identified globally?

  • 34                      2. 25
  • 2
  • 20                      4. 30

  • 4

World Summit on sustainable development held in 2002 in

  • Rio de Janeiro 

  • Japan

  • Johannesburg

  • London

All of the following are included in 'Ex-situconservation' except
  • Wildlife safari parks
  • Sacred groves
  • Botanical Gardens
  • Seed banks

The UN Conference of Parties on climate change in the year 2012 was held at

  • Durban

  • Doha

  • Lima

  • Warsaw

The UN Conference of Parties on climate change in the year 2011 was held in

 
  • Poland
  • South Africa
  • Peru
  • Qatar

In which of the following both pairs have correct combination?
    Ex situ conservation/Botanical garden
    Ex situ conservation/Wildlife sanctuary
    Ex situ conservation/ National park
    Ex situ conservation/Sacred groves

 
What type of argument for need to conserve biodiversity am I making when I say that we all must do our best to protect the biodiversity on the Earth as the nature provides invaluable services and intangible benefits like aesthetic pleasures of being in nature?
 

The extent of global diversity of invertebrates is represented in the image below. Choose the correct combination of groups (A-D) respectively? 
 

 

A

B

C

D

1.

Insects

Crustaceans

Other animal groups

Molluscs

2.

Crustaceans

Insects

Molluscs

Other animal groups

3.

Molluscs

Other animal groups

Crustaceans

Insects

4

Insects

Molluscs

Crustaceans

Other animal groups

Which one of the following is not used for ex situ plant conservation?

Which one of the following areas in India is a hot spot of biodiversity?

One of endangered species of Indian medicine plants is that of:

Which one of the following pairs of organisms are exotic species introduced in India?

Which of the following pairs of an animal and a plant represents endangered organisms in India ?

The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 was called:

Which of the following is the most important cause for animals and plants being driven to extinction?

Decline in the population of Indian native fishes due to introduction of Clarias gariepinus in river Yamuna can be categorised as

Western Ghats have a large number of plant and animal species that are not found anywhere else. Which of the following terms will you use to notify such species ?

Exploration of molecular, genetic and species level diversity for novel products of economic importance is known as :

Which of the following regions of the globe exhibits highest species diversity ?

According to Alexander von Humboldt :

In the following, in each set, a conservation approach and an example of a method of conservation are given

(a) In situ conservation - Biosphere Reserve

(b) Ex situ conservation - Sacred groves

(c) In situ conservation - Seed bank

(d) Ex situ conservation - Cryopreservation `

Select the option with the correct match of approach and method :
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