Environment & Natural Resources - Free MCQ Practice Test with solutions,

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 set binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European community to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It aimed to reduce emissions by five percent over the five-year period of 2008–2012. Answer: C (2012).

Correct option: B

Western Mining Corporation (WMC) was an Australian mining company; the word Western in its name refers to Western Australia, the region where the company was based.

Therefore the company belongs to Australia, so option B is correct.