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Q30·GS Paper 1 · Prelims 2022

Matching wetlands/lakes with their respective Indian states

EnvironmentProtected Areas & WetlandsHow-many countingHardStatic

Question

Consider the following pairs: Wetland/Lake Location

1Hokera Wetland Punjab
2Renuka Wetland Himachal Pradesh
3Rudrasagar Lake Tripura
4Sasthamkotta Lake Tamil Nadu

How many pairs given above are correctly matched ?

Options

a

Only one pair

b

Only two pairs

Answer
c

Only three pairs

d

All four pairs

Explanation

Only pairs 2 and 3 are correct. Renuka Wetland is located in Himachal Pradesh, and Rudrasagar Lake is a Ramsar site in Tripura. Pair 1 is incorrect; Hokera (Hokersar) Wetland is in Jammu & Kashmir, not Punjab. Pair 4 is incorrect; Sasthamkotta Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the state, is in Kerala, not Tamil Nadu.

Ramsar sites are perennial high-yield mapping targets; specifically drill the smaller/lesser-known northeastern and northern wetlands.

Answer: (b).

Question details

Year

2022

Paper

GS Paper 1

Question

Q30

Subject

Environment

Sub-topic

Protected Areas & Wetlands

Type

How-many counting

Difficulty

Hard

Nature

Static

Source hint

Ramsar Sites Checklist / MoEFCC Indian Wetlands Atlas

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