Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – May 25, 2018

Tamil Nadu with the area of 1,30,058 sq. km is smallest among the given area of Andhra Pradesh has the area of 2,75,068 sq. km, Gujarat has the area of 1,96,024 sq. cm and Karnataka has the area of 1,91,791 sq. k,. The decreasing order of the area – Andhra Pradesh > Gujarat > Karnataka > Tamil Nadu

Kolkata (22°33’N) is the nearest city to the Tropic of cancer (23 ½ °N) latitude.

Famous tribe of Andaman and Nicobar are Onge, Shompen, Jarwan, Nicobaries, Andamanis etc. They belong to the Negrto race.

  Tribes                                  Race                                   Islands

Shompen                         Mangoloid                           Great Nicobar

Nicobaries                        Mangoloid                           Great Nicobar

Onges                                Negroid                                        Little Nicobar

Sentinelese                     Negroid                                        Sentinel Island

Jarawa                               Negroid                                        Middle and South Andaman

Andamanis                      Negroid                                         Strait Island.

Nilgiri, which literally means “Blue Mountain” in many language. The hills are separated from the Karnataka plateau to the north by the Moyar River and from the Anaimalai Hills and palni hills to the south by the Palghat Gap. The Nilgri district of Tamil Nadu lies within these mountains.

Shrew and Tapir are native to great Himalayas. So the statement 2 is incorrect.

The clean Development Mechanism defined in Kyoto protocol (IPCC,2007) that provides for emissions reduction projects which generate certified Emission Reduction units which may be traded in emissions trading schemes. The CDM is defined in Article 12 of the protocol , and is intended to meet two objective : (1) to assist parties not included in Annex I in achieving sustainable development and in contributing to the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change ( UNFCCC), which is to prevent dangerous climate change; and (2) to assist  parties included in Annex I in achieving compliance with their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments ( greenhouse gas ( GHG) wmission caps).

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with a significant reservoir of biodiversity that is under threat from humans. The term biodiversity hotspot specifically refers to 25 biologically rich areas around the world that have lost at least 70 percent of their original habitat. The remaining natural habitat in these biodiversity hotspots amounts to just 1.4 percent of the land surface of the planet, yet supports nearly 60 percent of the world’s plant, birds, mammal, reptile, and amphibian species. Eastern Himalayas and south West Australia has innumerable number of biodiversity hotspots.