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Sustainability & Environmental Education

1. What are the principles of environmental education?

Ans: The principle of environmental education is to educate people about various
environmental issues, creating awareness and to preserve the quality of our environment.

2. Define Ecology?
Ans: Ecology is the Study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, the flows of
energy and materials between abiotic and biotic components of ecosystems.

3. What do you understand by the term sustainability?

4. Define the term environmental science and explain its multidisciplinary nature.
5. Explain the need for public awareness to understand the environmental problems.
6. What are renewable and non-renewable resources, give examples?
7. Write a note on 3R principle.

II-

Air Pollution & Control

1. What are the natural sources of air pollution?

2. List out four man made and four natural sources of air pollution. Which pollutants are
coming out from these sources?
3. Name four air pollutant with their sources.
4. Define air pollution and explain secondary air pollutant with examples.
5. Describe with diagram the controlling method of air pollution by cyclone separator.
6. Name four air pollutant with their sources.
7. Explain construction and working of electrostatic precipitator. State its advantages and
disadvantages.

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8. List out four man- made and four natural sources of air pollution.
Which pollutants are coming out from these sources?
9. Write notes on global warming.
10. Write briefly on:
a. Green House Effect
b. Acid Rain
c. Climate Change

11. Define photochemical smog.

12. What are the effects of Ozone-Layer depletion?
13. Explain green house effect with respect to:
1) Principle
2) Green House Gases
3) Sources.
14. Explain the mechanism of Ozone layer depletion.
15. What are the health consequences of air pollution?
Ans: Air pollution increases the risk of respiratory and heart disease in the population. Both
short and long term exposure to air pollutants have been associated to health impacts. More
severe impacts affect people who are already ill. Children, the elderly and poor people are more
susceptible.

III-Water & Wastewater treatment

1. Define BOD and COD. Explain their significance in water pollution.
2. Explain construction and working of septic tank with neat sketch.
3. Define Activated sludge. Explain Activated sludge process with diagram.
4. Explain importance of primary treatment method in waste water treatment.
5. List out various sources of water pollution.
6. List the different waste water treatment methods and write steps involved in
physical treatment method.

Multiple choice questions

For each statement, circle the most appropriate answer
(1) Apparent colour of water is caused by _____:
a. dissolved solids.
b. suspended solids. c. both a and b
(2) The primary treatment step in wastewater treatment plants uses ____ to help
remove solid materials from wastewater.

a. aeration

b. screens

c. Chlorine

(3) Conductivity of water can be used as a rough measure of:

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a. total suspended solids, b. total dissolved solids. c. turbidity

(4) Eutrophication of water bodies is due to the presence of excessive
concentrations of:
a. iron and manganese. b. nitrogen and phosphorus . c. calcium and magnesium
(5) Which of the following is a renewable natural resources?
(a) Water (b) Petroleum (c) Coal (d) None of the above
(6) Aerosol means
in air
(a) excess CO2 (b) dust (c) water (d) Particulate matter (solid and mist0
(7) Paper is..
(a) biodegradable material (b) non-biodegradable material
(c) conventional energy material
(d) no one of all above
(8) What is the responsible for the depletion of ozone layer?
(a) Excess of carbon dioxide (b) Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Sulfur dioxide
(d) Acid rain
(9) Following gas is mainly responsible for acid rain
(a) SO2 (b) Cl2
(c) CO2 (d) O3
(10) Which of these greenhouse gases is most abundant in the atmosphere?

(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Methane (c) Nitrous oxide (d) Water vapour
(11) What greenhouse gas that was not present in the atmosphere in pre-industrial times
(before 1750)?
(1750)
(a) Trichlorofluoromethane (b) Carbon dioxide (c) Nitrous oxide (d) Methane
(12) The major contributor to global warming is____
(a) carbon dioxide (b) methane (c) CFC's (d) nitrous oxides

Answer with true (T) or false (F):

(1) Geosmin is due to smell of rotten fruits
(2) If an atom losses electrons, the atom 'becomes positively charged and the
atom is reduced.
(3) In cyclones, the particles are removed by the application of a gravitational force
(4) In Electrostatic Precipitator, corona effect means ionic atmosphere.
(5 ) The limitation of application of Electrostatic precipitator is relatively low efficiency
(especially for smaller particles)
(6) Isotopes are elements that have the same number of protons but different
number of neutrons..
(7) Once surface water is polluted it is hard and difficult to restore.
(8) Drinking water standards help determining whether "treatment of raw

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water is required.
(9) Industries usually require/use less water than commercial facilities.
(11) Addition of sodium hydroxide to water will increase its pH.
(12) Turbidity is a measure of the suspended solids concentration.
(13) Water with a total dissolved solids concentration of about 30,000 ppm is
"called brackish water.
(14) The main objective of the secondary treatment of wastewater is to reduce
the content of soluble colloidal inorganic remaining after primary treatment
(15) Water with high concentration of nitrate would cause blue baby diseases to
Infants
(16) Cattle dung is used in biogas or gobar plants
(17) Dissolved Oxygen (DO) levels can not fall due to any human activity that heats the
water
(18) To keep our water resources clean, it is our responsibility to treat and clean
wastewater before returning it to the environment.
(19) Turbidity is a cloudy condition in water due to suspended silt or organic matter.
( 20 ) Sludge is a semi-solid residue from any number of air or water treatment processes.

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