UPSC Essentials | Daily subject-wise quiz : Environment and Geography MCQs on Indian Flapshell Turtle, Canary Islands (Week 85)

1. These are lone recovered successful brackish marshes.

2. It is commonly recovered connected the eastbound seashore of India.

3. The nesting play mostly occurs successful precocious winter.

How galore of the statements fixed supra are correct?

(a) Only one

(b) Only two

(c) All three

(d) None

Explanation

— The Indian Flapshell Turtle is simply a tiny softshell turtle with a carapace magnitude of up to 350 mm.

— These taxon unrecorded successful a wide scope of aquatic habitats, including rivers and streams, reservoirs, marshes, ponds, lakes, and adjacent brackish marshes, atom fields, gutters, and canals successful municipality areas. Hence, connection 1 is not correct.

— It is ubiquitous successful brackish h2o lagoons connected India’s eastbound coast and is often seen successful irrigation canals and tanks, arsenic good arsenic stagnant paddy fields. Hence, connection 2 is correct.

— Nesting often begins successful precocious summertime and continues done the monsoon season, which lasts from July to November. Hence, connection 3 is not correct.

— Distribution: India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan.

Therefore, enactment (a) is the close answer.

(Other Source: iucn-tftsg.org)

QUESTION 2

Consider the pursuing statements:

1. This stream basin is bounded by the Himalayas successful the northbound and the Ganga successful the south.

2. This stream chiefly flows successful the portion of northbound Bihar.

3. It originates from the Shivpuri scope of hills successful Nepal.

The supra mentioned statements notation to:

(a) Kosi River

(b) Son River

(c) Gandak River

(d) Bagmati River

Explanation

— The flood concern successful respective parts of Bihar worsened arsenic embankments of Kosi River successful Darbhanga territory and Bagmati River successful Sitamarhi were breached.

— Bagmati is simply a perennial stream of North Bihar. It originates from the shivpuri scope of hills successful Nepal.

— The Bagmati basin is constricted by the Himalayas to the north, the Ganga to the south, a ridge dividing it from Gandak to the west, and the Kosi to the east. The stream Burhi Gandak serves arsenic the Bagmati system’s sustaining drain.

— The Bagmati River flows mostly done the districts of Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Rosera, Begusarai, Saharsa, and Khagaria successful North Bihar.

— Another authoritative stated that terrible h2o unit caused harm to the Bagmati River embankment successful Madhkaul colony successful Sitamarhi and the Gandak River embankment successful West Champaran, resulting successful inundation of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve.

Therefore, enactment (d) is the close answer.

(Other Source: fmiscwrdbihar.gov.in)

QUESTION 3

The Canary Islands was precocious successful the news. It is situated successful the territory of:

(a) Germany

(b) Spain

(c) Norway

(d) Portugal

Explanation

— At slightest 9 migrants died and 48 are missing aft their vessel capsized adjacent the Spanish land of El Hierro, rescue services said, successful what threatens to beryllium the deadliest specified incidental successful 30 years of specified crossings to the Canary Islands.

— The exigency services were capable to rescue 27 of the 84 migrants attempting to scope the Spanish coast. According to Spanish authorities, the migrants came from Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal.

— Calm seas and mild winds associated with precocious summertime successful the Atlantic Ocean disconnected Western Africa person triggered a caller question of migration.

— The way from Africa to the islands, which person a colonisation of astir 2.2 cardinal people, has seen a 154% summation successful migrants this year, with 21,620 crossing successful the archetypal 7 months, according to figures from the European Union’s borderline bureau Frontex.

Therefore, enactment (b) is the close answer.

QUESTION 4

Which of the pursuing taxon tin defy property and revert to younger versions of themselves?

(a) Vampire squid

(b) Aipysurus laevis

(c) Ocra

(d) Comb jellies

Explanation

— Scientists person identified a caller benignant of marine invertebrate that disrupts the emblematic rhythm of birth, ageing, and death that astir organisms follow.

— A caller survey published successful Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences recovered that comb jellies, besides known arsenic ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, whitethorn defy property and revert to younger forms of themselves.

— This unusual incidental prompted Soto-Angel, 1 of the study’s co-authors, and his colleagues to behaviour an experimentation successful which they attempted to replicate the conditions that had initiated the de-ageing process successful the comb jelly.

— As per research, comb jellies could besides beryllium 1 of the archetypal animals to person existed arsenic their root tin beryllium traced backmost to an estimated 700 cardinal years ago.

Therefore, enactment (d) is the close answer.

QUESTION 5

The spot Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) was successful the news. It is situated in:

(a) Ladakh

(b) Uttarakhand

(c) Bhutan

(d) Arunachal Pradesh

Explanation

— The standing committee of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has cleared 5 cardinal roadworthy stretches — 4 passing done the Karakoram Wildlife Sanctuary on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) — including connected a way to Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO), the country’s northernmost subject outpost successful Ladakh and determination of its highest airstrip.

— NBWL has cleared a transportation roadworthy from Chushul-Lukung to Thakung post, a nexus roadworthy betwixt Durbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie (DS-DBO) and Saser-Brangsa-Gapshan, DS-DBO to Track Junction, DBO to Karakoram Pass road, and an upgrade of the Leh-Chalunka route. The 5.8-kilometer-long Chushul-Lukung to Thakung station roadworthy upgrade is portion of the India-China Border Roads (ICBR)-III task and volition tally done the Changthang acold godforsaken sanctuary.

— Meanwhile, the caller roadworthy to DBO gives an alternate for the speedy transit of soldiers and resources for operational purposes, contempt being astir 100 km from a Chinese-held area.

— This way starts successful Sasomo connected the Nubra River successful Nubra Valley and leads to Saser Pass, which is snow-covered for astir of the year. Important parts of this way person been blacktopped, resulting successful important progress.

Therefore, enactment (a) is the close answer.

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