CBSE Class 11 English The Ailing Planet the Green Movement’s Role MCQs

Question. What was the issue raised by the author in the chapter 'The Ailing Planet'?
A. Global Warming
B. Save Water
C. Save Electricity
D. deteriorating health of the earth

Answer : D

Question. What does the three-year study conducted by the United Nations state?
A. Environment has deteriorated that it is critical in eighty-eight countries
B. forests are being cut down at an alarming rate
C. there is not much of drinking water left
D. Fossil fuels are getting extinct at a fast rate

Answer : A

Question. Who wrote the book 'The Global Economic Prospect" ?
A. l k Jha
B. Lester R Brown
C. James Speth
D. Edgar S Woolard

Answer : B

Question. What forms the foundation of the global economic system according to Lester Brown?
A. " fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands "
B. land and water
C. forests, fisheries, grasslands
D. fisheries and forests

Answer : A

Question. When did the Green Movement help environmentalists to raise awareness about the harmful condition of the earth?
A. 1992
B. 1972
C. 1987
D. 1970

Answer : B

Question. " Every four days the world population increases by ................."
A. 1.5 million
B. 1 million
C. 1.7 million
D. half a million

Answer : B

Question................ has a most crucial role to play in this new Era of Responsibility
A. Agriculture
B. Fishery
C. Industry
D. Aforestation

Answer : C

Question. When was the Sustainable Development used by the World Commission on Environment and Development?
A. 1987
B. 1992
C. 1990
D. 1986

Answer : A

Question. Who said that tropical forests are “the powerhouse of evolution” ?
A. Edgar S Woolard
B. L K Jha
C. Dr Myres
D. James Speth

Answer : C

Question. Where was the first nationwide Green party founded?
A. USA
B. Australia
C. New Zealand
D. Canada

Answer : C

Question. Where was the message ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’ written in the zoo?
A. board
B. Mirror
C. wood
D. bark of the tree

Answer : B

Question. Who said, “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children.”?
A. Margaret Thatcher
B. Mr Edgar S. Woolard
C. Mr. Lester Brown
D. Brandt Commission

Answer : C

Question. When did the Green Movement start?
A. 35 years ago
B. 15 years ago
C. nearly 25 years ago
D. 20 years ago

Answer : C

Question. "Who raised the question “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?”
A. Brandt Commission
B. Brundtland Commission
C. UN World Commission
D. None of the above

Answer : A

Question. What are the four principal biological systems that form the foundation of the global economic system?
A. water, air, sand, forests
B. ocean, forests, deserts, land
C. fisheries, grasslands, forests, and croplands
D. fisheries, grasslands, oceans, land

Answer : C

Question. At what rate is the world’s ancient patrimony of tropical forests eroding?
A. at the rate of forty to fifty million acres a year
B. at the rate of one million per year
C. at the rate of 90 million per year
D. none of the above

Answer : A

Question. What is the concept of Sustainable Development?
A. Development of the future
B. Development for the present
C. "Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations"
D. Environmental development

Answer : C

Question. What will the grasslands turn into if systems become unsustainable?
A. turn into a barren wasteland
B. turn into desert
C. soil quality will deteriorate
D. Nothing as such

Answer : A

Question. What is the meaning of holistic and ecological view?
A. the preservation of the environment
B. saving of the water resources
C. saving trees
D. rainwater harvest

Answer : A

Question. What is leading to deforestation at an alarming rate?
A. sale of fuelwood
B. sale of vegetables
C. building up of houses
D. sale of wood for burning purpose

Answer : A

Question. What is one of the reasons for the exploitation of the environment?
A. increasing population
B. global warming
C. animal extinctions
D. water

Answer : A

Question. What is the best contraceptive for overpopulation?
A. Development
B. Education
C. By saving water
D. Reforestation

Answer : A

Question. What did the sign in the zoo in Alaska read?
A. Animal
B. Lion
C. ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’
D. Warning

Answer : C

Question. At what rate are the forests in India depleting?
A. at the rate of 3.7 million acres a year
B. at the rate of 36.7 million acres a year
C. at the rate of 13.7 million acres a year
D. None of the above

Answer : A

Question. Complete this line from the chapter 'The rich get richer, and the poor beget children ___'
A. to work harder
B. which condemns them to remain poor
C. to remain poorer
D. to get richer

Answer : B

Question. What is the transcending concern?
A. the survival of the planet
B. the survival of forests
C. global warming
D. to save water

Answer : A

Question. What happens to the forest in poor countries?
A. They are cut down for fuelwood
B. they cut down for furniture
C. they grow them into a large number
D. Nothing as such

Answer : A

Question. Who said,"No generation has a freehold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy — with a full repairing lease”?
A. Mr Edgar S. Woolard
B. UN World Commission
C. Donald Trump
D. Margaret Thatcher

Answer : D

Question. Which article of the Constitution of India provides that “the State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country”?
A. Article 48A
B. Article 51A
C. Article 48 A (1)
D. Article 52

Answer : A

Question. "Scientists have catalogued about .............. living species with which mankind shares the earth"
A. 1.4 million
B. 1.6 million
C. 1.8 million
D. 1.2 million

Answer : A