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Class 11 Environment and Sustainable Development worksheet
CBSE Social Science. Functions of the environment, carrying and absorptive capacity, global warming and ozone depletion, sustainable development and its strategies. Every sheet has 20 questions in three sections and an answer key, and the numbers change every time.
Sample questions
Real questions from this chapter, as the app sets them. Tap Answer to see the answer and working.
Section A · multiple choice
- 1.
Birds, animals, plants and forests are the environment’s:
- non-renewable resources
- absorptive capacity
- abiotic elements
- biotic elements
Answer
(d) biotic elements
- 2.
“A beautiful lake visited by tourists” shows that the environment:
- sustains life through biodiversity
- assimilates waste
- gives aesthetic services
- supplies resources
Answer
(c) gives aesthetic services
- 3.
What is the benefit of LPG in rural kitchens?
- makes electricity from wind without pollution
- lowers air pollution in cities
- replaces firewood and dung cakes with a clean fuel
- turn cattle dung into fuel, leaving slurry as fertiliser
Answer
(c) replaces firewood and dung cakes with a clean fuel
Section B · short answer
- 4.
What is the environment?
Answer
The total planetary inheritance: all biotic and abiotic resources and their interactions.
- 5.
Explain each term: (a) ozone depletion (b) sustainable development
Answer
(a) thinning of the ozone layer in the stratosphere (b) meeting present needs without harming future generations’ ability to meet theirs
Section C · long answer
- 6.
Explain the four functions of the environment.
Answer
It supplies renewable and non-renewable resources, absorbs wastes, sustains life through biodiversity, and offers aesthetic services; overuse of the first two threatens the third.
Fresh sheets for your child
In the app, every Environment and Sustainable Development sheet is new: the app remembers the questions your child has already had and leaves them out. Print the sheet as a PDF, or use notebook mode and write the answers in a notebook.
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