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Where are the days and nights of equal length all year long?

  1. At $66.5^{o}$

  2. Nowhere

  3. At $23.5^{o}$

  4. At the Equator


Correct Option: D

Typically, water vapor occupies about what percentage of the air's volume near the earth's surface?

  1. About 78 percent

  2. About 21 percent

  3. Close to 10 percent

  4. Less than 4 percent


Correct Option: D

At which latitude heat gain through insolation approximately equals heat loss through terrestrial radiation:

  1. $22.5^0$ North and South

  2. $40^0$ North and South

  3. $42.5^0$ North and South

  4. $66^0$ North and South


Correct Option: D

Land and water dwelling plants, may suffer from

  1. Ultraviolet radiations

  2. Pollutions

  3. Air pollution

  4. Pollutants


Correct Option: A

If climate change keeps on disrupting atmospheric pressure, it would bring ice age in

  1. America

  2. Northern Europe

  3. Africa

  4. Canada


Correct Option: B

National Forest Policy was enunciated in

  1. 1972

  2. 1978

  3. 1982

  4. 1988


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Thw National Forest Policy which emphasised on protecting the forests & maintaining the ecological balance & stability was enunciated in the year 1988.

So, the correct answer is '1988'

The Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 was first amended in

  1. 1991

  2. 1995

  3. 2001

  4. 2007


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972 was first amended in 1991. It is enacted for protection of plants and animal species and controling poaching, smuggling and illegal trade in wildlife and its derivatives.

Thus, the correct answer is '1991.'

Wild life protection act was formulated during the period of  _______________

  1. Mrs. Indira Gandhi

  2. Lal Bahadur Shasthri

  3. Rajiv Gandhi

  4. Morarji Desai


Correct Option: A