Wildlife is destroyed most when

• there is lack of proper care

• mass scale hunting for foreign trade

• its natural habitat is destroyed

• natural calamity

Interacting populations are

• symbiotic

• mutualistic

• parasitic

• coevolved

In India highest amount of coal is present in :

• West Bengal

• Maharastra

• Jharkhand

• Assam

Find the wrongly matched pair

• Endemism - species confined to one region and not found anywhere else

• Hot spots - regions with species richness

• Alien species to India - Clarias gariepinus

• Lungs of the planet - Amazon Rain Forest

• Lungs of the planet - Amazon Rain Forest

Which one among these is NOT an ex-situ conservation strategy?

• Seed banks

• Botanical gardens

• Cryopreservation

• Biosphere reserves

• Biosphere reserves

Read the statements regarding a stable community and choose the correct option
(1) must be resistant to occasional disturbances

(2) should show much variation in productivity from year to year

(3) must be resistant to invasions by alien species

• (1) and (2) are correct

• (1), (2) and (3) are correct

• (1) only is correct

• (2) and (3) are correct

• (2) and (3) are correct

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Find the wrongly matched pair

• Endemism - species confined to a region and not found anywhere else

• Hot spots - Western ghats

• Sacred groves - Jaintia hills of Rajasthan

• ex situ conservation - Zoological parks

• ex situ conservation - Zoological parks

Organisms that tolerate narrow range of salinity are

• Euryhaline

• Stenohaline

• Eurythermal

• Hypersaline

• Hypersaline

Match the environmental activist in Column I with the environmental issue in Column II and choose the right option

Column I	Column II
1. Ramesh Chandra Dagar	A. Conservation od forests
2. Ahmed Khan	B. Organic farming
3. Amrita Devi	C. Plastic waste recycling.

• 1 - B; 2 - C; 3 - A

• 1 - C; 2 - A; 3 - B

• 1 - A; 2 - B; 3 - C

• 1 - B; 2 - A; 3 - C

• 1 - B; 2 - A; 3 - C

Which one of the following is not in situ conservation method?

• National parks

• Wildlife sanctuary

• Biosphere reserves

• Scared groves

• Scared groves