Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – June 29, 2018

Chambal project is a joint venture of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh started in 1954 on Chambal river, Rana Pratap Sasgar and Jawahar Sagar in Rajasthan and Gandhi Sagar in Madhya Pradesh are part of Chambal project.

Nallamalai Hills- Javadi Hills- Nilgiri Hills- Anaimalai Hills.

First LNG terminal in India is Dahej (Gujrat), followed by Hazira (Gujrat) and DAbhol (Maharashtra). Statement 1 and 3 are correct

North East India accounts for 12% where as Peninsular India has 88% of tribal population of India. So, the statement 2 is incorrect. The remaining statements are correct.

The Indian wild ass also called khur range once extended from western India, southern Pakistan (i.e provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan) Afghanistan, and south eastern Iran. It is unknown how to Indian wild ass disappeared from its former haunts in parts of western India Pakistan, since the animal was never a haunting target of Indian maharajas and colonial British officials of the British Raj. From 1958-1960 , the wild ass became a victim of a disease known as surra, caused by Trypanosomaevansi and transmitted by flies, which caused a dramatic decline of its population in India In November and December 1961, the wild ass population was reduced to just 870 after to be outbreak of south American horse sickness. Besidesdisease, the ass’s other threats include habitat degradation due to salt activities, the invasion of the prosopisjuliflora shrub, and encroachment and grazing by the maldhari.

All these given factors contribute to the statement that biodiversity from the basis for human existence

except Botanical Gardens rest are the site for in situ method of conservation of flora. In situ conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resource in natural population of tree species. It is the process of protecting and endangered plant or animal species in its natural habitat, either by protecting or cleaning up the habitate itself, or by defending the species from predators.