Environmental Issues

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Environmental Issues: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Air Pollution, Global Warming, Water Pollution, Noise Pollution, Greenhouse Effect, Soil Pollution, Environmental Pollution, E-Waste, Plastics Pollution, Ozone Depletion, Thermal Pollution and, Radioactive Pollution

Important Questions on Environmental Issues

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Rina has separated the garbage waste into two piles depending on the criteria:

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Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas?

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Which of the following statement(s) regarding the significance of Waste Management is/are correct?

A.  It decreases the amount of waste for disposal, saves space in landfills, and conserves natural resources.

B. Waste management is also important for public health.

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Which of the following criteria would you regard to be the most serious waste management issues?

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Which among the following is/are challenge(s) to solid waste management?

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What is the significance of waste management in India?

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Which of the following are the causes and effects of plastic burning?

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Which sort of agriculture is a strategy for reforming and reorienting agricultural systems to ensure food security in the face of the new realities of climate change?

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What does the term "ocean acdification" mean?

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Which of the following gases causes acidification of ocaen?

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_____ is an integrated strategy to landscape management that aims to assist agricultural systems, animals, and crops adapt to continuing human-caused climate change and, when feasible, mitigate it by lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

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The continuing fall in the pH value of the Earth's seas caused by carbon dioxide absorption from the atmosphere is referred to as _____.

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Which of the following islands is facing a plastic threat and an aesthetic issue because of the international dumping of plastic waste on the island?

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Which of the following is climate change's impact on agriculture and food safety?

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Climate change impacts can _____________________, according to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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Food costs may ____________ when energy prices rise as a result of climate change mitigation initiatives.

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Due to growing crop water demand and drought, water essential for food production may become more____________.

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Which of the following gases has a high GWP because, for a given amount of mass, it traps significantly more heat than carbon dioxide?

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On a 100-year timescale, Nitrous Oxide (N2O) has a Global Warming Potential that is _____________ times that of Carbon dioxide.

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The ______________ the Global Warming Potential, the more a given gas warms the Earth in comparison to Carbon-di-oxide during that time period.