Environmental Issues
- Prolonged liberal irrigation of agricultural fields is likely to create the problem of
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Since all surface and ground water contains salts to varying degrees. Therefore excessive irrigation followed by evaporation of the unabsorbed water leads to salinity. This also leads to waterlogging.
Correct Option: C
Since all surface and ground water contains salts to varying degrees. Therefore excessive irrigation followed by evaporation of the unabsorbed water leads to salinity. This also leads to waterlogging.
- In which one of the following the BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) of sewage (s), distillery effluent (DE), paper mill effluent (PE) and sugar mill effluent (SE) have been arranged in ascending order?
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More value of BOD means the water sample is polluted by organic matter. BOD of distillary effluent is 40000 mg/L and that of paper mill effluent and sewage is 190 mg/L and 30 mg/L respectively.
Correct Option: B
More value of BOD means the water sample is polluted by organic matter. BOD of distillary effluent is 40000 mg/L and that of paper mill effluent and sewage is 190 mg/L and 30 mg/L respectively.
- Which one of the following is not a bioindicator of water pollution?
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Stone flies are not bioindicators. Bioindicators provide a range of techniques to assess the impacts of air pollution from reactive nitrogen (N) compounds on statutory nature conservation sites. They complement physical monitoring of atmospheric concentrations and deposition and risk assessment based on the critical loads approach by providing site-based information on atmospheric N concentrations, N deposition and/or ecological impacts.
Correct Option: B
Stone flies are not bioindicators. Bioindicators provide a range of techniques to assess the impacts of air pollution from reactive nitrogen (N) compounds on statutory nature conservation sites. They complement physical monitoring of atmospheric concentrations and deposition and risk assessment based on the critical loads approach by providing site-based information on atmospheric N concentrations, N deposition and/or ecological impacts.
- Limit of BOD prescribed by Central Pollution Control Board for the discharge of industrial and municipal waste waters into natural surface waters, is
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Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) is the amount of oxygen required to destroy the organic waste by the bacteria. The more oxygen required for bacteria that means there is more organic waste. For pure drinking water it is decided less than 1 ppm and for industrial & municipal waste it is less than 10 ppm. In Yamuna water in Delhi it is about 1000 ppm.
Correct Option: A
Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) is the amount of oxygen required to destroy the organic waste by the bacteria. The more oxygen required for bacteria that means there is more organic waste. For pure drinking water it is decided less than 1 ppm and for industrial & municipal waste it is less than 10 ppm. In Yamuna water in Delhi it is about 1000 ppm.
- A lake near a village suffered heavy mortality of fishes within a few days. Consider the following reasons for this?
(1) Lots of urea and phosphate fertilizer 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 two of the above were the main causes of fish mortality in the lake?
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Lots of urea and phosphate fertilizer were used in the crops in the vicinity and the lake water turned green and stinky. Due to this, lake near a village suffered heavy mortality of fishes within a few days.
Correct Option: C
Lots of urea and phosphate fertilizer were used in the crops in the vicinity and the lake water turned green and stinky. Due to this, lake near a village suffered heavy mortality of fishes within a few days.