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UPSC CDS Soil & Vegetation — practice questions — page 5

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The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act was implemented in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kashmir stag is also called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The great Indian bustard is locally known as:Read the answer and worked solution →India launched its national campaign to save the tiger, Project Tiger, in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1973 the tiger population had dwindled to:Read the answer and worked solution →India and Nepal together hold about what share of the world's surviving tigers?Read the answer and worked solution →Plants were first added to the list of protected species in:Read the answer and worked solution →More than half of India's total forest land is classed as:Read the answer and worked solution →North-eastern states and parts of Gujarat have a very high share of which forest category managed by local communities?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the tiger reservesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the endangered speciesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the conservation yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the wildlife wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Endangered or vulnerableRead the answer and worked solution →Sort endemic, endangered and rareRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Forest and wildlife bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The term geography was first coined by the Greek scholar:Read the answer and worked solution →Eratosthenes lived during:Read the answer and worked solution →Geography comes from Greek roots geo and graphos, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →Early scholars defined geography as the description of the earth as the:Read the answer and worked solution →Because phenomena vary over space, geography was perceived as the study of:Read the answer and worked solution →Geography attempts spatial synthesis, while history attempts:Read the answer and worked solution →The questions what and where inventoried features. Geography became scientific with the question:Read the answer and worked solution →In geography, time is treated as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The shape of the earth is:Read the answer and worked solution →Converting the geoid into a two-dimensional map is tackled by:Read the answer and worked solution →Population geography is closely linked with the discipline of:Read the answer and worked solution →The systematic approach to geography was introduced by:Read the answer and worked solution →The regional approach to geography was developed by the German geographer:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act was implemented in:

  1. 1973
  2. 1980
  3. 1991
  4. 1972
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Correct answer: D. 1972

1. It banned hunting and protected habitats. 2. The Act came in 1972. 3. Project Tiger followed in 1973. _Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 2, Forest and Wildlife Resources._

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The Kashmir stag is also called the:

  1. Hangul
  2. Sangai
  3. Chinkara
  4. Godawan
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Correct answer: A. Hangul

1. It received a special protection project. 2. The Kashmir stag is the hangul. 3. The sangai is Manipur's brow-antlered deer. _Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 2, Forest and Wildlife Resources._

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The great Indian bustard is locally known as:

  1. Chinkara
  2. Godawan
  3. Hangul
  4. Sangai
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Correct answer: B. Godawan

1. It has legal protection against hunting and trade. 2. The bustard is the godawan. 3. The black buck is called chinkara. _Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 2, Forest and Wildlife Resources._

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