Insights Revision Through MCQs – 27 November 2019

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) at Hyderabad is responsible for remote sensing satellite data acquisition and processing, data dissemination, aerial remote sensing and decision support for disaster management.
• NRSC has a data reception station at Shadnagar near Hyderabad for acquiring data from Indian remote sensing satellites as well as others.
• NRSC Ground station at Shadnagar acquires Earth Observation data from Indian remote-sensing satellites as well as from different foreign satellites.
• NRSC is also engaged in executing remote sensing application projects in collaboration with the users.
• ISRO has established the Antarctica Ground Station for Earth Observation Satellites (AGEOS), at Bharati Station, Larsemann Hills, Antarctica, for receiving Indian Remote sensing Satellite (IRS) data. This state-of-the-art advanced Ground station was commissioned during August 2013 and is receiving data from IRS satellites (like CARTOSAT-2 Series, SCATSAT-1, RESOURCESAT-2/2A, CARTOSAT-1) and transferring the same to NRSC, Shadnagar near Hyderabad.

Refer: https://www.isro.gov.in/about-isro/national-remote-sensing-centre-nrsc

Ans: (c)

Explanation:

• National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), is a full-fledged centers of ISRO.
• NRSC was functioning as an autonomous body called National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) under Department of Space (DOS) till August, 2008. The Centre is responsible for remote sensing satellite data acquisition and processing, data dissemination, aerial remote sensing and decision support for disaster management.
• NRSA was transferred from DST to new created Department of Space in 1980 as an autonomous centre. Indian Photo-interpretation Institute was renamed as Indian Institute of Remote Sensing in 1983. On 1st November 1995, the UN affiliated Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific (CSSTE-AP) was created and hosted at Indian
• Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun. On September 1, 2008 NRSA was converted from an autonomous organisation to a fully Government organisation under ISRO and renamed National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).
• National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC) is the focal point for distribution of remote sensing satellite data products in India and its neighboring countries. NRSC has an earth station at Shadnagar about 55Km from Hyderabad, to receive data.

Refer: https://www.isro.gov.in/about-isro/national-remote-sensing-centre-nrsc

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Heat waves form when a warm, high pressure system stalls in a region.
• Variations in the location of the jet stream (flow of air that steers the movements of high and low pressure areas through the mid-latitudes) can bring the unusually warm air into a region, causing a heat wave.
• Heat is able to persist if there aren’t rain and clouds to cool things off.
• heat-trapping ability of cities is called urban heat island effect
• Global warming is causing more heat waves. According to IPCC 4th Assessment Report

Refer: http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/heatwave.php

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• IMD classification (PageNo-10)

Refer: http://imd.gov.in/section/nhac/termglossary.pdf

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Members of the Irula tribe, one of India’s oldest indigenous groups, are furious at the recent destruction of their ancient rock art at Karikiyoor in Kil Kotagiri village, Tamilnadu.
• Apathetic trekkers have defaced the paintings—an ancestral site for the tribals—with religious and political messages, etched out in chalk and whitener pens over 5,000-year-old imagery.

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/nilgiri-tribals-tense-as-trekkers-trash-priceless-rock-art/article27407136.ece

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• An important bird area, located between the Pulicat and Point Calimere wetlands, the about 800-acre Oussudu lake spreads equally in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu territories. About 390 acres on the Puducherry were declared as a bird sanctuary.
• Designated as one of the important wetlands of Asia by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the wetland will have protection from both sides
• It is an artificial (man-made) lake, it has been a haven for a variety of migratory and inland birds. The areas in and around the lake are abused by several industries producing glass, rubber, coir, cosmetic industry, a brewery, dairy and plastic-molding factory. Poaching also has been rampant

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/puducherry/artificial-islands-coming-up/article28494107.ece

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh,
• Talley is a plateau with dense forest of silver fir trees, pine clad plateau of beautiful grandeur, and a vast wasteland. The area has some of the most important endangered species including the clouded leopard.

Refer: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/new-snake-species-found-in-arunachal/article30099823.ece

Ans: (a)

Explanation:

• Four countries from Asia — China, Iran, Malaysia and Timor-Leste — and one from Central America — El Salvador — reported no indigenous cases of malaria in 2018, according to the World Health Organzation (WHO).
• The countries were part of the global health body’s E-2020 initiative, launched in 2016, working in 21 countries, spanning five regions, to scale up efforts to achieve malaria elimination by 2020.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/06/22/e-2020-initiative/

Ans: (d)

Explanation:

• Saudi Arabia has become the first Arab country to be granted full membership of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) following the group’s annual general meeting in the US.
• The kingdom’s accession came as the global money laundering watchdog celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first meeting held in Paris in 1989.
• Saudi Arabia had received an invitation from the FATF at the beginning of 2015 to join as an “observer member“.

Refer: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/06/24/saudi-arabia-becomes-1st-arab-country-to-get-fatf-membership/

Ans: (b)

Explanation:

• Airports Authority of India (AAI) is working towards the implementation of a Centrally-controlled Air Traffic Flow Management (C-AFTM) system across country’s airspace and major airports, particularly those with high traffic density, in its bid to cut travel time for fliers.
• The new system would integrate data from airlines, airports and air-traffic agencies and inform airlines about the time planes will be parked at the destination airport well before departure.
• The system is primarily meant to address the balancing of capacity against the demand to achieve optimum utilization of the major resources such as airport, airspace and aircraft at every Indian airport where there is a capacity constraint.

Refer: facts for Prelims: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2019/06/24/insights-daily-current-affairs-pib-24-june-2019/