TEST-10- INSIGHTS IAS REVISION PLAN FOR PRELIMS 2019 – DAILY REVISION TESTS: 24 March 2019

Solution: C

Living organisms were first evolved on seas and then moved to lands. Simple organisms like blue green algae, bacteria were first evolved, then it lead to corals, spiders and complex animals  like snakes, horses etc.,

Solution: D

Lichens is a symbiotic association of Algae and Fungi. Algae provides food to fungus, in turn fungus provides shelter and nutrients.

Solution: A

All the above are the benefits of sea weeds.

Solution: B

Prime Minister is the chairman of National Board of Wildlife. Any activity involving use or alteration of any part of a protected area requires approval and consideration of the NBWL.

Solution: C

Biotic potential, the maximum reproductive capacity of an organism under optimum environmental conditions.

Solution: B

Terrace cultivation results in soil conservation and tropical climate is not the reason for soil erosion.

Solution: C

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement on biosafety as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity effective since 2003.

The Biosafety Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by genetically modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology.

Solution: D

All the statements are correct.

Solution: D

ESA is the area that is declared under the Environment Protection Act, 1986 and all human activities are not banned, agriculture is allowed in ESA.

Solution: A

Solution: D

Solution: B

All the above species are critically endangered.

Solution: B

The olive ridley is predominantly carnivorous, especially in immature stages of the lifecycle. Animal prey consists of protochordates or invertebrates, which can be caught in shallow marine waters or estuarine habitats.

Common prey items of Olive Ridely Turtle include jellyfish, tunicates, sea urchins, bryozoans, bivalves, snails, shrimp, crabs, rock lobsters, and sipunculid worms.

Solution: B

Mangroves for the Future (MFF) is a unique partner-led initiative to promote investment in coastal ecosystem conservation for sustainable development. Co-chaired by IUCN and UNDP, MFF provides a platform for collaboration among the many different agencies, sectors and countries which are addressing challenges to coastal ecosystem and livelihood issues.

Mangroves are the flagship of the initiative, but MFF is inclusive of all types of coastal ecosystem, such as coral reefs, estuaries, lagoons, sandy beaches, sea grasses and wetlands.

The MFF grants facility offers small, medium and large grants to support initiatives that provide practical, hands-on demonstrations of effective coastal management in action.

https://www.mangrovesforthefuture.org/who-we-are/about/who-we-are/

Solution: D

Solution: A    

Solution: B

ICCWC is the collaborative effort of five inter-governmental organizations working to bring coordinated support to the national wildlife law enforcement agencies and to the sub-regional and regional networks that, on a daily basis, act in defense of natural resources. The ICCWC partners are

• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat,
  · INTERPOL,
  · the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
  · the World Bank and
  · the World Customs Organization.

This powerful alliance was formally established in 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia during the International Tiger Forum.

ICCWC’s mission is to strengthen criminal justice systems and provide coordinated support at national, regional and international level to combat wildlife and forest crime to ensure perpetrators of serious wildlife and forest crime will face a formidable and coordinated response.

Solution: B

SAWEN, a Regional network is comprised of eight countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It aims at working as a strong regional inter¬governmental body for combating wildlife crime by attempting common goals and approaches for combating illegal trade in the region.

Solution: B

The world’s first negative emissions plant under the CarbFix Project to turn atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into stone has begun operations in Hellisheidi, Iceland. It is intended to lock away carbon dioxide by reacting it with basaltic rocks. Work on the project began in 2007.

CarbFix Project In it, the CO2 is captured from ambient air, bound to water, and sent to more than 700 meters underground.

Solution: C

NPC is a national-level autonomous organization under the administrative control of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion to promote productivity culture in India.

Established as a registered society in 1958 by the Government of India, it is a tripartite non-profit organization with equal representation from the government, employers and workers’ organizations, apart from technical and professional institutions including members from local productivity councils and chamber of commerce on its Governing Body.

The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) was established on 11 May 1961 as a regional intergovernmental organization. The APO is nonpolitical, nonprofit, and nondiscriminatory. India is founding member of it.

Solution: B

The uniform licence will enable the contractor to explore conventional as
well as unconventional oil and gas resources including CBM, shale gas/oil, tight gas and gas hydrates under a single license.

HELP policy also provides for only marketing freedom for crude oil and natural gas produced from these blocks.

Present fiscal system of profit sharing based on Investment Multiple and cost
recovery /production linked payment will be replaced by a easy to administer revenue sharing model.

Solution: C

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is a regional organization comprising seven Member States lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity.

BIMSTEC is NOT a political, economic and security alliance. SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) is a political, economic and security alliance.

Last summit (Fourth Summit) was held in Nepal on August, 2018
Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project is implemented by Indian
government (NOT BIMSTEC) connecting eastern Indian seaport
of Kolkata with Sittwe seaport of Myanmar.

Solution: D

Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

Solution: B

Pulicat lake is not designated as Ramsar wetland.

Solution: B

Central Zoo Authority was established as a statutory body under the Ministry of Environment & Forests by the Government of India in the year 1992.

Section 38 A to 38 J was added to the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 for establishment of the Central Zoo Authority in India.