Environmental Conservation
Geography · 50 practice questions
Meaning, resources, methods and importance of environmental conservation.
- Explain environmental conservation with examples.
- Identify the resources for conservation and discuss the different methods.
- Explain the need and importance of environmental conservation.
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- Practice question 1
Community-based conservation approaches often involve local populations directly in
- A.the management and protection of nearby natural resources
- B.decisions made entirely by outside organizations with no local input
- C.the complete exclusion of local populations from any resource use
- D.no aspect of conservation decision-making whatsoever
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A. the management and protection of nearby natural resources
Community-based conservation specifically engages local populations directly in managing and protecting nearby resources.
- Practice question 2
Afforestation and reforestation programmes are conservation strategies aimed at restoring tree cover to
- A.degraded or previously cleared land
- B.land that already has full, healthy, undisturbed forest cover
- C.a factor entirely unrelated to tree cover or forest land
- D.no particular type of land, since these programmes target nothing specific
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A. degraded or previously cleared land
These programmes specifically target degraded or previously cleared land in order to restore tree cover there.
- Practice question 3
Soil conservation practices, such as contour ploughing, help reduce erosion on
- A.perfectly flat agricultural land, where erosion risk is already minimal
- B.a factor entirely unrelated to slope or soil erosion
- C.land with no agricultural use of any kind whatsoever
- D.sloped agricultural land
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D. sloped agricultural land
Contour ploughing is specifically a soil conservation practice targeted at reducing erosion on sloped agricultural land.
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