Centurion University of Technology and Management

B.Tech(Agricultural Engineering)
1
st
semester
Section A
Internal 1
Full marks 20 Time 60 minutes
Section 1
Answer any 5 questions. 2x5 =10
1. How would public awareness help protect our environment?
2. Write any six applications of solar energy collected through solar collector.
3. Draw the schematic diagram of energy flow and material flow in an ecosystem.
4. Justify your answer: the pyramid of energy can never be inverted.
5. Sukinda mines, Odisha have been identified as third polluted place in the World.
What is the cause of the problem?
6. What is geothermal energy?
Section 2
Answer any one question. 1X10 =10
1. What are natural resources? How you will classify the global natural resources? Is
forest a renewable / non-renewable resource? Justify.
2. Write briefly the different environmental problem pertaining to construction of a Dam
with some case studies.
3. What do you mean by environmental gradient? Write the different tolerance zones
with the plot between environmental gradient and population growth.