Test: Environment & Natural Resources - Humanities/Arts MCQ

Originally the term ‘smog’ meant a combination of smoke and fog but it is recently referred to a combination of fine particulate matter and ground level ozone.

The Constitution of India under Article 29 and 30 provides for protecting cultural and educational rights of minorities by ensuring that minorities may preserve their distinctive languages and establish and administer their own education institutions.

The areas that requires the common governance by the international community is referred to as global commons. It raises problems of managing the goods that belong to the whole community.

The leading organization in wildlife conservation and endangered species.

When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) was founded in 1961, the giant panda was taken as a sign on the WWF flag and emblem, making the giant panda a symbol of the worldwide nature protection.

Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment, so that, these needs can be met not only in the present but also for future generations.

While the Government of India refers to indigenous peoples as "Scheduled Tribes", Adivasis has become the popular term for India's indigenous or tribal peoples.

Forests contain more than half of all species. The habitat of these species is destroyed through deforestation, so the number of species declines.

The major feature of the Kyoto Protocol is that it sets binding targets for 37 industrialised countries and the European community for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It will reduce the emissions by five per cent over the five-year period 2008-2012.

The Western Mining Corporation is the Australian holding company for a diversified group of mining enterprises operating throughout the world.