MU First Year Engineering (Semester 1)
Environmental Studies
December 2011
Total marks: --
Total time: --
INSTRUCTIONS
(1) Assume appropriate data and state your reasons
(2) Marks are given to the right of every question
(3) Draw neat diagrams wherever necessary


Solve any five:-
1(a) What are 3R? Explain.
2 M
1(b) What is acid rain? Give effects of acid rain.
2 M
1(c ) What is effect of mining on environment?
2 M
1(d) Define Ecology and Ecosystem.
2 M
1(e) How pesticides contribute to water pollution? Explain.
2 M
1(f) Write note on Disaster Management.
2 M
1(g) Differentiate between Exponential and Geometrical population growth.
2 M

2(a) Explain soil erosion. Give its causes and types.
5 M
2(b) Describe the grassland and forest ecosystem.
5 M

3(a) What is the need for public awareness and participation in the environmental education?
5 M
3(b) Discuss rain water harvesting. What are advantages from this techniques?
5 M

4(a) Write an essay on 'Biological diversity'.
5 M
4(b) Classify the natural resources and explain reasons for their depletion.
5 M

5(a) Explain 'Sustainable development'.
5 M
5(b) "Information Technology plays an important role in environmental studies", explain.
5 M

6(a) What is pollution? Explain various types of pollution.
5 M
6(b) Discuss salient features of :-(i) Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972(ii) Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980.
5 M

7(a) Explain the fundamental principles of environment.
5 M
7(b) Explain Cyclone mitigation and Ozone layer depletion.
5 M



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