Two Marks Questions with Answers

Two Marks Questions with Answers

Q.1 What is EIA?

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• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is the process of -assessing the likely environmental impacts of a proposal and identifying options to minimise environmental damage.

• The main purpose of EIA is to inform decision makers of the likely impacts of a proposal before a decision is made. 

• EIA provides an opportunity to identify key issues and stakeholders early in the life of a proposal so that potentially adverse impacts can be addressed before final approval decisions are made.

• EIAs are essential for projects resulting in a major change in land use or located in environmentally sensitive areas.

• The clarity of environmental impacts identified, evaluated and mitigated is a measure of the adequacy and worth of an EIA.

Q.2 Write the various uses of sustainable development indicators.        

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Q.3 What do you know about watershed ?

Ans.: Watershed

• A watershed describes an area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water, such as a larger river, a lake or an ocean.

• A watershed can cover a small or large land area.

• It combines with other watersheds to form a network of rivers and streams that progressively drain into larger water areas.

• Topography determines where and how water flows. Ridge tops surrounding a body of water determine the boundary of a watershed. Imagine turning an open umbrella upside down in the rain.

• Rain that hits anywhere within the umbrella's surface area would go to the bottom at the center of the umbrella. Any rain that didn't hit the umbrella would fall to the ground. The umbrella is like a watershed; it collects everything that falls into it.

Q.4 What is holocaust ?

Ans.: Holocaust

• The act of large-scale killing of living beings is called holocaust. The holocaust may be either caused by natural disaster such as earthquake, flood, fire, volcanoes or by man-made activities such as war.