Identify correct statements from the following. a. Agenda 21 adopted during UNCED conference held in Brazil in 1992. b. The term sustainable development was introduced in the report titled ‘Our Common Future’. c. Dr. Brundtland won ‘Blue Planet Prize 2004’ for putting forward globally the innovative concept of sustainable development. d. The term sustainable development was introduced in 1987 by world commission on Environment and Development.
a, b, c and d
Agenda 21, the action plan for sustainable development, was adopted at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992; statement a is correct.
The World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland, released its report Our Common Future in 1987, which defined and popularised sustainable development as meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own; statements b and d are correct.
Gro Harlem Brundtland received the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi Glass Foundation in 2004 for putting forward the concept of sustainable development; statement c is correct.
So all four statements are correct.
Hence, a, b, c and d.
Which of the following terms is not applicable to the weathering process ?
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
|---|---|
| (a) Segment | (1) A portion of slope on which the angle remains approximately same |
| (b) Element | (2) An element with downslope increase in angle |
| (c) Convex element | (3) A portion of slope profile on which the curvature approximately remain constant |
| (d) Concave element | (4) An element with downslope decrease in angle |
Codes : (a) (b) (c) (d)
Arrange the landforms on the basis of their occurences from lowest to the highest levels : (1) Sea-cliff (2) Ridges and runnels (3) Guyot (4) Abyssal plain
The basic goal of Davisian model of cycle of erosion was _____
Which of the following is correct relation about the speed of the earthquake waves ?
Which of the following statements is correct about slopes ? (I) Weathering controlled slopes occur where actual rate of regolith production is less than the potential rate at which it can be removed. (II) Transport limited slopes are those on which the rate of regolith production is greater than the capacity of transport processes to remove it.
The most common and typical volcanic cone is _____ .
Assertion (A): Large avalanches usually occur on slopes of 30º–50º.
Reason (R): The optimum condition for geomorphologically significant avalanche, snow accumulation are on slope of 30º–50º.
Codes:
_____ is an anticlinal fold formed due to intrusion of rocks.
Which of the following statements is incorrect about thermosphere ?
.................... is a client server application that identifies each host on the internet with a unique user-friendly name.
Every OS has a ................ or .......... which primarily resides in the main memory of the computer to perform some of the basic functions of the OS.
(i) Kernel
(ii) Interface
(iii) Nucleus
(iv) Compiler
Codes:
Which of the following are referred to as low level language?
(i) Machine language
(ii) Assembly language
(iii) High level language
(iv) Natural language
Codes:
Match the following:
| List I | List II |
| (a) New York Public Library | (i) Shelv AR |
| (b) Miami University Augmented Research Group | (ii) Smart library |
| (c) Oula University Library | (iii) Wolf Walk |
| (d) North Carolina State University | (iv) Find the future |
Codes:
Which part of the QR code represents the encoded data?