“The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role” Multiple Choice Questions ‌(MCQ) with Answers

MCQs for Chapter 5 “The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role” Class 11 English Hornbill book

CBSE Class 11 English Hornbill book Chapter 5 “The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role” Multiple Choice Questions ‌(MCQs‌) with Answers

Here is a compilation of Free MCQs of Class 11 English Hornbill book Chapter 5 – The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role.  Students can practice free MCQs as have been added by CBSE in the new Exam pattern.

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•  30 seconds
  Q. What was the issue raised by the author in the chapter 'The Ailing Planet'?

  answer choices

  Global Warming

  Save Water

  Save Electricity

  deteriorating health of  the earth
•  Question 2

   30 seconds
  Q. When did the Green Movement help environmentalists to raise awareness about the harmful condition of the earth?

  answer choices

  1992

  1972

  1987

  1970
•  Question 3

   30 seconds
  Q. When was the Sustainable Development used by the World Commission on Environment and Development?          

  answer choices

  1987

  1992

  1990

  1986
•  Question 4

   30 seconds
  Q. What did the sign in the zoo in Alaska read?

  answer choices

  Animal

  Lion

  ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’

  Warning
•  Question 5

   30 seconds
  Q. Where was the message ‘The World’s most dangerous animal’ written in the zoo?

  answer choices

  board

  Mirror

  wood

  bark of the tree
•  Question 6

   30 seconds
  Q. "Who raised the question  “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?”

  answer choices

  Brandt Commission

  Brundtland Commission

  UN World Commission

  None of the above
•  Question 7

   30 seconds
  Q. What are the four principal biological systems that form the foundation of the global economic system?

  answer choices

  water, air, sand, forests

  ocean, forests, deserts, land

  fisheries, grasslands, forests, and croplands

  fisheries, grasslands, oceans, land
•  Question 8

   30 seconds
  Q. What will the grasslands turn into if systems become unsustainable?

  answer choices

  turn into a barren wasteland

  turn into desert

  soil quality will deteriorate

  Nothing as such
•  Question 9

   30 seconds
  Q. What happens to the forest in poor countries?

  answer choices

  They are cut down for fuelwood

  they cut down for furniture

  they grow them into a large number

  Nothing as such
•  Question 10

   30 seconds
  Q. What is leading to deforestation at an alarming rate?

  answer choices

  sale of fuelwood

  sale of vegetables

  building up of houses

  sale of wood for burning purpose
•  Question 11

   30 seconds
  Q. What is one of the reasons for the exploitation of the environment?

  answer choices

  increasing population

  global warming

  animal extinctions

  water
•  Question 12

   30 seconds
  Q. What is the best contraceptive for overpopulation?

  answer choices

  Development

  Education

  By saving water

  Reforestation
•  Question 13

   30 seconds
  Q. What is the meaning of holistic and ecological view?

  answer choices

  the preservation of the environment

  saving of the water resources

  saving trees

  rainwater harvest
•  Question 14

   30 seconds
  Q. At what rate is the world’s ancient patrimony of tropical forests eroding?

  answer choices

  at the rate of forty to fifty million acres a year

  at the rate of one million per year

  at the rate of 90 million per year

  none of the above
•  Question 15

   30 seconds
  Q. Which article of the Constitution of India provides that “the State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife of the country”?

  answer choices

  Article 48A

  Article 51A

  Article 48 A (1)

  Article 52
•  Question 16

   30 seconds
  Q. At what rate are the forests in India depleting?

  answer choices

  at the rate of 3.7 million acres a year

  at the rate of 36.7 million acres a year

  at the rate of 13.7 million acres a year

  None of the above
•  Question 17

   30 seconds
  Q. What does the three-year study conducted by the United Nations state?

  answer choices

  Environment has deteriorated that it is critical in eighty-eight countries

  forests are being cut down at an alarming rate

  there is not much of drinking water left

  Fossil fuels are getting extinct at a fast rate
•  Question 18

   30 seconds
  Q. Complete this line from the chapter 'The rich get richer, and the poor beget children ___'       

  answer choices

  to work harder

  which condemns them to remain poor

  to remain poorer

  to get richer
•  Question 19

   30 seconds
  Q. What is the transcending concern?

  answer choices

  the survival of the planet

  the survival of forests

  global warming

  to save water
•  Question 20

   30 seconds
  Q. Who said,"No generation has a freehold on this earth, All we have is a life tenancy — with a full repairing lease”?

  answer choices

  Mr Edgar S. Woolard

  UN World Commission

  Donald Trump

  Margaret Thatcher
•  Question 21

   30 seconds
  Q. Who said, “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children .?

  answer choices

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mr Edgar S. Woolard

  Mr. Lester Brown

  Brandt Commission
•  Question 22

   30 seconds
  Q. When did the Green Movement start?

  answer choices

  35 years ago

  15 years ago

  nearly 25 years ago

  20 years ago
•  Question 23

   30 seconds
  Q. Where was the first nationwide Green party founded?

  answer choices

  USA

  Australia

  New Zealand

  Canada
•  Question 24

   30 seconds
  Q. What is the concept of Sustainable Development?

  answer choices

  Development of the future

  Development for the present

  "Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations"

  Environmental development
•  Question 25

   30 seconds
  Q. "Scientists have catalogued about .............. living species with which mankind shares the earth"

  answer choices

  1.4 million

  1.6 million

  1.8 million

  1.2 million
•  Question 26

   30 seconds
  Q. Who wrote the book 'The Global Economic Prospect" ?    

  answer choices

  l k Jha

  Lester R Brown

  James Speth

  Edgar S Woolard   
•  Question 27

   30 seconds
  Q. What forms the foundation of the global economic system according to Lester Brown?          

  answer choices

  " fisheries, forests, grasslands, and croplands "

  land and water

  forests, fisheries, grasslands

  fisheries and forests
•  Question 28

   30 seconds
  Q. Who said that tropical forests are “the powerhouse of evolution” ?

  answer choices

  Edgar S Woolard

  L K Jha

  Dr Myres

  James Speth
•  Question 29

   30 seconds
  Q. " Every four days the world population increases by ................."

  answer choices

  1.5 million

  1 million

  1.7 million

  half a million          
•  Question 30

   30 seconds
  Q. ............... has a most crucial role to play in this new Era of Responsibility

  answer choices

  Agriculture

  Fishery

  Industry

  Aforestation

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