ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (EVS)

FIRST SEMESTER MCQ REVISION QUESTION BANK

Std.: 10 (ICSE)
OCTOBER 2021

Chapter 3: Managing Urban Environment

This paper consists of 5 printed pages.

Choose the correct alternative from the choices given below:

1. Satellite cities are also called _____.
a. primary cities
b. sustainable cities
c. eco cities
d. secondary cities

2. Off farm employment is introduced to _____.

a. counter rural migration
b. increase community participation in city improvements
c. increase profits in industries
d. educate farmers

3. Counter urbanisation is the movement of people from _____.

a. the major cities to less urban and rural areas
b. the secondary cities to the metropolitan cities
c. one urban city to another
d. one country to another

4. Rural development can be achieved by _____.

a. setting up of satellite cities
b. improving and strengthening rural urban linkage
c. emphasising on setting up eco cities
d. developing industries around urban areas

5. Eco city is also known as a _____ city.

a. Sustainable
b. Primate
c. Secondary
d. Satellite

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6. Which of the following are secondary cities?
a. Gujarat, Mumbai, Bangalore
b. Ooty, Mysore, Nainital
c. Navi Mumbai, Noida, Gurgaon
d. Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Daman

7. The population in a secondary city _____.

a. is much more than the primary city
b. is lesser than the primary city
c. is equal to the primary city
d. is very less than the primary city

8. Secondary cities _____.

a. have their own social, economic, and political culture
b. are dependent on the primary cities for their social, economic, and political culture
c. are developed on the outskirts of villages
d. do not support the primary cities

9. A city is said to be sustainable when it _____.

a. is dependent on resources from outside its city limit
b. minimizes the depletion of resources
c. uses non-renewable sources of energy
d. does not use any resources for development

10. Which of the following is NOT a reason for urbanisation?

a. Rent is more affordable in urban areas.
b. Urban areas have better healthcare and education.
c. More jobs available in urban areas.
d. There are more opportunities for entertainment in urban areas.

11. Which of the following is an urbanisation challenge?

a. Convenience of goods and services.
b. Better health and education facilities.
c. Provision of piped water and electric supply to every household.
d. Centres for social and cultural development.

12. The phenomenon in which cities spread out over the surrounding areas is called _____.
a. urban sprawl
b. suburban growth
c. urban overflow
d. suburban expansion

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13. To improve shelter in the slums the government should _____.
a. increase the rate of land and housing
b. plan and develop housing sites for the poor at affordable rates
c. make the homeless go back to their rural settlements
d. restrict urban migration

14. How should planning of environmental improvement be done in cities with respect to consumption
of energy and transport?
a. Reduce the use of vehicles with four stroke engines.
b. Setting up of more power supply stations to meet the needs of the increased population.
c. Encourage the use of public transport and renewable sources of energy.
d. Ban the purchase of private vehicles by the citizens.

15. Community participation in keeping our surrounding clean does not include which if the following?
a. Street sweeping and garbage collection by members of households.
b. Keeping footpaths clean by local municipalities and local government.
c. Maintenance of environmental sensitive areas by the residents.
d. Practicing weekend gardening by housewives of the residential society.

16. Which of the following is responsible for counter urbanisation?

a. High level of pollution, unaffordable housing expense and rising prices.
b. Better education and health facilities.
c. Highly developed business centres in the cities.
d. Liberal and progressive living.

17. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of Urbanisation?

a. Degradation of soil and land.
b. Improved air quality due to technical devices installed in industries.
c. Over consumption of fresh water for domestic, irrigation and industrial purpose.
d. Increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere thereby causing global warming and
build-up of greenhouse gases.

18. ______ was responsible for transforming the denuded hills to rich forests in Sukhomajri.
a. Parasu Ram Mishra
b. Medha Patkar
c. Anna Hazare
d. Sunitha Krishnan

19. Which of the following is a substrate for biogas production?

a. Municipal and residential waste
b. E-waste
c. Metallic waste
d. Gaseous effluents

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20. Which of the following is used to produce biogas from biomass?
a. Anaerobic treatment
b. Aerobic treatment
c. Fermentation
d. Pyrolysis

21. What is curbside collection?

a. People put their recyclables at the curb to be picked up by a truck.
b. People box up their recyclables and mail them.
c. Someone goes door to door to ask if people have recyclables to donate.
d. Everyone takes their recyclables to a drop-off centre to be picked up.

22. Which of the following is NOT true about biomass energy?

a. Biomass energy cannot provide socio-economic benefits to a country.
b. Biomass energy would bring a new source of income to farmers and help diversify their
income base.
c. Biomass energy can reduce pressure to immigrate to more urban centres, which are already
stressed by over-population.
d. Biomass energy is obtained from agricultural waste.

23. What is urban sustainability?

a. Building cities that can continue to function without running out of resources.
b. Building cities with their own inner sources of energy, like nuclear power plants.
c. Building cities that continue to attract people from rural areas and the suburbs.
d. Building cities that don't include a lot of animal and plant life and discourage population
growth.

24. Why is transport one of the most intractable factors in considering the global environmental
problem?
a. Our transport capabilities worldwide have not expanded fast enough for us to cope with the
consequences of global warming.
b. Transport demand grows faster than possible technological improvements can reduce the
output of greenhouse gases and the depletion of non-renewable fossil fuel reserves.
c. Reducing the growth of the transport sector will hold back economic growth, and hence
reduce the resources we have available to deal with the global environmental problem.
d. World oil refinery capacity has failed to expand in line with the demand for internal
combustion fuels.

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 25. What do we mean when we say 'think globally, act locally' in relation to environmental problems?
a. Global environmental problems are essentially issues which need to be solved by
international negotiations, and in the interim individuals must take care to protect themselves
from any adverse consequences produced for them by these problems.
b. Environmental problems have to be thought about at a global level in order to get an accurate
idea of the total problem facing us, but these problems are essentially produced by our
activities as individuals and firms at a local level, and it is at this level that we must focus our
responses.
c. Extensive research and thinking has been carried out by global-level research organizations
about the causes of environmental problems, which have produced possible strategies and
actions which can be applied at a local level.
d. While these problems, as we experience them in relation to sustainability issues, are produced
by processes operating at a global level, we all have a role to play in our local context in
making individual and collective responses, as communities and companies, which will help
ameliorate the effects of these problems.
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