Start learning →

State PSC Environment Basics — practice questions — page 2

Explore 43 free Environment Basics questions in State PSC Environment. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

Practise Environment Basics with Quill →

Environment Basics questions and exercises with answers

Showing questions 31–43 of 43.

Project Elephant was launched in:Read the answer and worked solution →Project Tiger began with how many tiger reserves?Read the answer and worked solution →Biosphere reserves are recognised under which UNESCO programme?Read the answer and worked solution →The first Biosphere Reserve of India, established in September 1986, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →India has how many National parks?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the evergreen treesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the forest typesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the forest wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Wet or dry forestRead the answer and worked solution →Which yearRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Forests bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

Project Elephant was launched in:

  1. 1973
  2. 1986
  3. 2001
  4. 1992
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: D. 1992

1. It helps states with wild elephant populations. 2. It runs in 17 states. 3. It started in 1992. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 5, Natural Vegetation._

Open this question →

Project Tiger began with how many tiger reserves?

  1. Nine
  2. Fifty
  3. Eight
  4. Twelve
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: A. Nine

1. The initial area was 16,339 sq km. 2. Reserves have since grown to 44. 3. It began with nine. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 5, Natural Vegetation._

Open this question →

Biosphere reserves are recognised under which UNESCO programme?

  1. Silk Roads Project
  2. Man and Biosphere
  3. World Heritage Cities
  4. Ramsar Wetlands
Show answer and solution

Correct answer: B. Man and Biosphere

1. Biosphere reserves are representative ecosystems. 2. UNESCO runs the programme. 3. It is the Man and Biosphere Programme. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 5, Natural Vegetation._

Open this question →

How to practise

  1. Choose a Environment Basics question and try to work out your answer.
  2. Open the question to check the correct answer and read its worked solution.
  3. Continue in the app for bite-sized lessons, explanations and review with Quill. You can start without creating an account.

More Environment topics

Environment & EcologyScience & TechnologyCurrent AffairsIndian GeographySoil & VegetationNational ParksConservationEndangered Species