[Mission 2022] QUIZ – 2021: Insights Current Affairs Quiz, 06 October 2021

Solution: d)

• Bolivia is a landlocked country bordered by Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, and Peru.
• Paraguay is the only other landlocked country in South America
• Brazil shares border with all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador.

Solution: d)

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. FLR is more than just planting trees – it is restoring a whole landscape to meet present and future needs and to offer multiple benefits and land uses over time.

FLR manifests through different processes such as: new tree plantings, managed natural regeneration, agroforestry, or improved land management to accommodate a mosaic of land uses, including agriculture, protected wildlife reserves, managed plantations, riverside plantings and more.

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Solution: a)

Carbon sinks are natural systems that suck up and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Earth’s land and oceans absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions from human activities.

Mangroves, seagrass beds and salt marshes store at least ten times more carbon than continental forests.

Sedimentary rocks in the Earth’s crust contain loads of carbon compounds, including the hydrocarbons we use as fossil fuels that leads to excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

A forest is considered a carbon sink if it absorbs more carbon than it releases. Worryingly, the Amazon rainforest is now releasing instead of absorbing carbon dioxide.

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Solution: b)

RoDTEP (Refund of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products) is a flagship export promotion scheme of the Commerce Ministry of India. The scheme aims to refund to the exporters the embedded central, state and local duties and taxes paid on inputs that were so far not refunded or rebated. 

RoDTEP was announced in September 2019 with an aim to boost the domestic exports and replace the export incentive scheme Merchandise Exports from India (MEIS) scheme. 

Employment-oriented sectors like marine, agriculture, leather, gems and jewellery are covered under the scheme. Other segments like automobile, plastics, electrical/electronics, machinery are also getting support under the RoDTEP scheme.

Certain categories, which would not avail the benefits include export goods that are subject to minimum export price, restricted and prohibited items, deemed exports, supplies of goods manufactured by domestic tariff area units to SEZs, and products manufactured or exported by units situated in special economic zones. 

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Solution: b)

Any infection that occurs either after the first dose or after the second dose of the vaccine is a breakthrough infection. These vaccines that we are using currently are disease-modifying vaccines, not infection-preventing vaccines.

A ‘breakthrough infection’ refers to the virus being able to penetrate the protective barrier of antibodies.