Earth Day QuizApril 23, 2015

QM: Parthiben

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1. What did he inspire ?Named Presley, the Spix's macaw was returned to Brazil from the U.S. in 2002.

Answer

Spixs macaws are believed to be extinct in the wild.

2. Connect2003 Great Barrier reef

2016 Coast Of California

Answer

Answer2003 Great Barrier reefFinding Nemo Clown Fish2016 Coast Of CaliforniaFinding Dory - Pacific regal blue tang

Identify

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Monocled Cobra

Spectacled Cobra

4. What's the significance of this tree ?SundariTree (Heritiera fomes) is a dominant mangrove tree species found along the coast of Bengal.

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Sundarbans from Sundari TreeThe name Sundarbans is supposed to be derived from the name of the tree, Sundari.

5. Identify X ?AnimalsNo of color receptive conesDogs (2)Humans (3)Butterflies(5)X (12 to 16)

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Peacock Mantis Shrimp

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5. Identify the nameThe __X__ mantis is named for its prominent front legs, which are bent and held together at an angle that suggests the position/posture of some religious act.Its also called __Y__ mantis due to its predatory habits. X and Y are homophones.One of its more bizarre and gruesomebehavioursis that of sexual cannibalism where the female eats the male after, or even during, mating.

Answer

Praying/Preying Mantis

6. In the year 2014, Greenpeace did this controversial campaign in which country and why ?

Clue: Pic Next Slide

Answer

Lima, Peru UN climate conference (COP20)1. The Nazca Lines2. Machu Picchu

7. What unique record this sanctuary holds ?The Arabian Oryx sanctuary (Oman) was added to the UNESCO list in 1994.In 1996, the population of the Arabian Oryx in the site, was at 450 but it has since dwindled to 65 with only about four breeding pairs making its future viability uncertain. This decline is due to poaching and habitat degradation.This led to something first of its kind.

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First UNESCO Heritage site to be delisted.

8. Which controversial person ? _____ _____, have you any coal? Essar Essar three mines full. One for your power plant, one that you stole. And one for the other folks who'll help us win the polls!This is a new tune sung by Indian environmentalists in the beginning of last year. After the shocking news that India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas has been tapped to take over the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) many fear the proverbial wolf has been put in charge of the hen house.He cleared over 70 projects in the first 20 days of being Environment Minister. The approvals include the highly controversial steel plant POSCO in Odisha and two coal mining projects.

Answer

Oily Moily Veerappa Moily Moily, who took charge as Minister for the Environment in December of 2013.

9. About which issue.We love our cell phones and the selection between different models has never been bigger. But the production of phones has a dark, bloody side.The Documentary Blood in the Mobile shows the connection between our phones and the civil war in the Congo.

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Conflict Minerals funding Civil warcassiterite (for tin), wolframite (for tungsten), coltan (for tantalum), extracted from the Eastern Congo, and passed through a variety of intermediaries before being purchased by multinational electronics companies. These minerals are essential in the manufacture of a variety of devices, including consumer electronics such as mobile phones, laptops, and MP3 players.The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals and thereby finances a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300.000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.

10. What award/prize they shared in 2007 ?

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Nobel Peace Prize

Al Gore & Rajendra Pachauri (IPCC)

"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."

11. Identify this phenomenon which turned the Yellow Sea green.

Answer

Chinas largest ever Algal Bloom

Algal blooms often follow a massive discharge of phosphates or nitrates into the water. Whether it's farming, untreated sewage or some kind of industrial plant that is discharging waste into the waterThe algae, called Enteromorpha prolifera, is not toxic to humans or animals.However the carpet on the surface can dramatically change the ecology of the environment beneath it. It blocks sunlight from entering the ocean and sucks oxygen from the water suffocating marine life.

12. All of them are named after famous British broadcaster. Identify

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13. Identify and looks like which fictional character.

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Glass frog, Kermit the frog (Muppets)

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Jadav PayengForest Man of Assam

15. What innovative idea did they implement ?

Wildlife scientists in Southern Karnataka recently leveraged religious superstition to reduce thefts of camera traps used to estimate leopard population densities. Sanjay Gubbi and his Nature Conservation Foundation team are setting up motion sensitive cameras along forest trails frequented by leopards in a large study area covering 30,000 square kilometers (11,583 square miles).

Unfortunately, the cameras were vulnerable to timber smugglers and poachers, who didn't want their activities recorded. They were also possibly of interest to souvenir-hunting villagers. Most camera security devices proved to be prohibitively expensive. Chains and padlocks helped to a degree, but the vastness of the study area and its inhospitable terrain made it impossible to effectively guard all the cameras all of the time. After 15 costly cameras went missing or were destroyed -- along with their invaluable photographic data -- the researchers were forced to innovate.

In a flash of what some might call divine inspiration, the frustrated field team decided to erect a social fence' of sacred symbolism around the cameras.

Answer

In India, sliced lemons stuffed with blood-red vermillion powder are often used in black magic, and are viewed with fear and avoided.

16. What does this bacteria do ?In 1981, saw the issuing of a patent to Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty for a genetically modified Pseudomonas bacterium that would eat up ___ _____, the first patent of its kind.This was not the first bacterium to be engineered to do something that would be of use to humans in 1978, Herbert Boyer engineered anE. colibacterium that would produce human insulin, revolutionising and hugely improving treatment for diabetes human insulin being much more effective than pig insulin, which was being used at the time.So the really important thing about this granting of the patent to Chakrabarty was not the fact that this group had modified an organism that would clean up ____ _____, but that it set the precedent for the ability to get a patent for an animal or organism that had been genetically modified.This was after a lengthy court case in 1980 that went right up to the Supreme Court of the United States, where the opposers to Chakrabartys application for the patent argued that according to the United States constitution, living organisms could not be patented. The team defending Chakrabarty argued that the fact that the bacteria were living organisms was irrelevant, as it also states in the constitution that any novel process or technology created by man could be patented, and that this being a new species of bacteria, created by man, fell into this category. The Court ruled in Chakrabartys favour.

Answer

Oil Eating Bacteria to clean up Oil Spills

17. FITBA ______horse has a coat color that consists of large patches of white and any other color. Its also name of a ford car model.

Answer

Pinto

18. Identify the advertiserZoomed pic on next slide

Answer

Honda using Invasive Species analogy for promotion of their genuine parts.

19. Identify the effect

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Albedo Effect

20. Whats hidden

Soon, the ______ will only live in the Guatemalan flag.

Answer

Quetzal

Olympics RoundRecord holders of Animal Kingdom

1. SprintThe Mens 100 metre sprint final is one of the most prestigious sporting events of the Olympic games. The current World Record for 100 metres, set by Bolt in 2009, stand at 9.58seconds. Despite his incredible speed, Bolt doesnt even come close to matching the tines clocked by the worlds fastest animals, but which is the fastest of all?

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CheetahFastest terrestrial land animal capable of reaching upto 70 miles per hour.By comparison Bolt, peaks at a top speed of 28 miles per hour.

2. DivingDiving requires precise coordination and exceptional acrobatic skills, with competitors diving into the water from heights of up to 10 metres. Our animal athletes may not need much of a head for heights, but this one would be crowned the champion of deep diving.They are easily recognized by their massive heads and prominent rounded foreheads. They have the largest brain of any creature known to have lived on Earth. Their heads also hold large quantities of a substance called spermaceti. One common theory is that the fluidwhich hardens to wax when coldhelps the animal to alter its buoyancy so it can dive deep and rise again.A mythical albino ____ _____ was immortalized in Herman Melville'sMoby Dick.

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Sperm WhaleWorlds deepest diving mammal, capable of plunging to depths of up to 3000 metres below the waters surface.

3. IdentifyA test of explosive physical strength, weightlifting requires Olympic competitors in different weight classes to attempt the snatch and the clean and jerk. The below animal athlete would bench more than the competition to take first place on the Olympic podium.

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Rhinoceros beetleThe African elephant is the worlds strongest animal in terms of absolute strength, but in relative terms, the rhinoceros beetle would put even the mighty elephant to shame. Rhinoceros beetles are capable of lifting objects that are up to 850 times their own body weight, by comparison African elephant can lift around only 25% of its own body weight.If we had the same relative strength, we would be able to lift a 65 ton object about the same as an armoured tank.

4. MarathonRequiring Stamina and determination, the marathon is one of the toughest endurance events in Olympics. The event was included in the original modern Olympic events in 1896, although the official distance of 26miles and 385 yards (42.195 km) was not standardised until 1921. The current world record for the marathon was set in 2011 by the Kenyan athlete Patrick Makau Musyoki, who ran the course in 2 hours,3 minutes and 38 seconds.Test of endurance are common in the natural workd, with many species, including birds, butterflies and mammals, migrating hundreds or even thousands od miles every year in search of food, water and places to breed. This animal athelete will go the distance and pick up the gold medal for the furthest migration.

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Artic TernThe Artic tern makes an incredible 71,000 km journey every year, in a staggering round-trip from its Arctic breeding range to the Antarctic where its spends the winter. The total distance flown over course of the terns lifetime may exceed 2.4 million km thats the equivalent to 3 trips to the moon and back.

5. FencingFencing requires speed and dexterity, with duelling opponents needing to demonstrate both skill and initiative to win points with their chosen weapon; the foil, the sabre or the epee.Many species posses their own weapons, for example horns and tusks, which may be used in displays of social dominance, as digging tools, as ice picks, or in competition for food, mates, space and shelter. Our animal athlete have the longest tusk and might give the Olympic fencers a run for their money.

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NarwhalThe Narwhal has a remarkable, unicorn-like single tusk, which in some individuals can measure a massive 267 centimetres.The spiralling white tusk is normally found only on the male and is the result of an elongated tooth that protrudes though the upper lip.

6. SwimmingWhether competing in freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke or medley, all of the athletes in the Olympic swimming events will require speed, power, sheer determination and an exceptional technique to maintain the edge over their competition that will win them the coveted Olympic gold.Our animal athlete will leave our swimmers floundering at the start line with their incredible speed and would take first place in the freestyle.

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Sailfish (Indo-Pacific)Capable of tremendous bursts of speed in short distances, making it one of the fastest-if not the fastest of all fish species. It is though that this species is capable of short sprints of up to 111 km per hour, although estimates of 37 to 55 km per hour are more commonly accepted.

Video Round

1. HP Ad controversyHewlett-Packards Australian advertisement features a boy whose pet iguana is on the loose.It created a controversy among environmentalists. Why ?Video

Answer

Its illegal to own an iguana as pet in Australia.The Invasive Species Council has said the use of Ralph the iguana in HPs marketing campaign would encourage Australians to obtain iguanas as pets, only for them to be released into the wild, where they could cause significant damage to native flora and fauna.

2. ________ Ladder Its a series of steps in a river designed to enable _______to bypass a dam and move upstream to their breeding grounds.

The below act gets its name from the same

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Salmon Ladder

3. Identify the advertiserVideo (Stop at 1:42)

Answer

Cinthol

4. Identify the flower from the mountain dew ad.Video (Stop at 1:20)

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Kurinji Flower

5. Identify this octopus name from which it does.

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Mimic OctopusSo far its been identified that it can mimic 15 different species.

6. Identify the Toad from its look and what it does.

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Pebble Toad

Thank YouReferences:http://www.arkive.org www.nationalgeographic.comhttps://www.wikipedia.org