Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (18 November 2015)

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1. Consider the following statements.

1) Plants absorb phosphate from soil & incorporate it into organic compounds.
2) Prairie grasslands are found in Russia.
3) Most of the deserts are distributed around the Tropic of cancer & Tropic of Capricorn.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) 1 & 3
(b) 2 & 33
(c) All of the above
(d) 1 & 2

2. Consider the following statements.

1) Algae naturally capture sunlight & use its energy to split water into hydrogen, oxygen & oil which can be extracted.
2) The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing emissions from Deforestation & forest Degradation in Developing countries is a collaboration between UNDP & Asian Development Bank (ADB).

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) Both 1 & 2
(b) 2 only
(c) Neither 1 nor 2
(d) 1 only

3. Consider the following statements.

1) The non legally binding forest principles were established in Rio de Janeiro (1992).
2) India has the largest area of tropical rain forest.
3) Charcoal created by pyrolysis of biomass is known as Biochar.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) 1 & 3
(b) All of the above
(c) 1 & 2
(d) 2 & 3

4. Consider the following statements.

1) Terra preta soils found in Amazon Basin.
2) Placing biochar in soils improves water quality.
3) Phytoliths are microscopic spherical shells of silicon that can store carbon for thousands of years.

Which of the above statements is / are true.

(a) 1 & 3
(b) 1 & 2
(c) All of the above
(d) Neither 1 nor 2

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:: CSAT (Paper -2) ::

Directions Read the following information carefully to answer the questions that follow.

In a village of Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh, only two types of people live who belong to a tribal class. The first type is known as class A, while the other is known as class B. In that village, there is no other type of person except these two. The activities of both of these types of persons are governed by perfectly patterned norms of social behaviour. Each person of the tribe has to obey the norms. They are rigid about this. As far as marriage is concerned, the following norms are to be followed :

(i) The people of class A cannot marry any other member of their own class, though they can marry members of class B.
(ii) After being married, each male member ceases to be a member of that class in which he was born, but automatically becomes the member of the class to which his wife belongs.
(iii) As far as females are concerned, they remain the members of their own class after being married.
(iv) On birth, the child automatically becomes the member of his mother’s class.
(v) When any male member becomes a widower or a divorcee, then he again belongs to the group in which he was born.
(vi) Nobody can marry more than one person.

1. Which of the following marriages is not permissible according to the social laws ?

(a) Any girl of class B marries her mother’s brother.
(b) Any widowermarries his wife’s sister.
(c) Any boy of class B marries his father’s sister.
(d) Any widower horn in class A marries his brother’s widow.