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12. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

1 MARK QUESTION & ANSWERS
1. What are the important and urgent environmental issues?
A. Deforestation, Soil erosion, Lowering groundwater tables,
Increasing pollution, Pressure on grazing land, Rising lesson related videos
dependence on fossil fuels, Industrial emissions, Use of
chemical fertilizers and pesticides, Climate change.
2. What is "environment's source function“? (AS1)
A. The potential of an environment to provide these resources Pollution
is referred to as an "environment's source function". Trees
3. What is the "sink function“ ? (AS1)
A. The "sink function“ describes an environment's ability to
absorb and render harmless waste and pollution. Industries
4. Why the water from hand pumps and wells in 59% of
districts of India are unsafe? (AS1)
A. This is because of contamination of groundwater from sink function
chemical, industrial waste in agriculture and industry.
5. What is Sustainable development ? (AS1)
A. “Sustainable development is development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.”.
6. Who wrote the book “Silent Spring”? (AS1)
1.In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote a the book “Silent Spring”.
2.Silent Spring explains the impact of spraying of DDT.
7. What is the Endosulfan issue in Kerala? (AS1)
A. 1. In 1976, cashew crop from pests, the government carried
out treatment of 15,000 acres of land with Endosulfan. A UN photo from 1957
2. Endosulfan sprayed for 25 years in Kerala. Farming in Rajasthan
3. 5,000 people have died and attacked cancer by Endosulfan.
8. What is the main aim of Narmada BachaoAndolan?(AS-1)
A. The resistance against Sardar Sarovar Project.
9. What is Chipko Andolan? (AS1)
A. 1. Chipko Andolan is the environmental movement
started in 1970s in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand.
2. `Chipko’ means 'embrace’ or hug the trees.
10. Which article provides right to life? (AS1)
A. Article 21.
11. Where was initiated the alternate PDS system? (AS1) Rachel Carson
A. The alternate PDS system initiated by community groups
in the Zaheerabad area of Andhra Pradesh.
12. Write two slogans in the context of environment. (AS6)
1.‘Save the Environment and you will Save the Life and Future.’
2.“Lets go green to get our globe clean”
3.“Earth is the only livable planet; just save it”.
13. What is Environment? (AS1)
A. The surroundings in which a person, animal or plant lives.
14. Define the term ‘Source’. (AS1)
A. A place, person, or thing from which something originates.
15. What is People’s right? (AS1)
A. A legal entitlement to have or do something.
16. What is Equity? (AS1)
A. The quality of being fair and impartial.
17. What is the Importance of sustainable development? (AS1)
1.Sustainable development is an approach to development. Chipko Andolan
2.It takes the finite resources of the Earth into
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