General Awareness Questions

A biosphere is the sum of all the ecosystems established on planet Earth.

An ecosystem is an area in which the plants and animals all interact to create a living environment. Therefore ecosystem is a smaller unit of earth, all ecosystems together form the earth.

Vistadome coach train flagged off in April 2017 is routed between Visakhapatnam to Araku valley station.

India’s first-ever Rural LED Street Lighting Project will be implemented by the Government of India (GoI) in Andhra Pradesh (AP). The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) under the Ministry of Power will retrofit10 lakh conventional street lights with LED lights in Gram Panchayats of 7 districts in AP. This is the first project for rural LED street lighting in the country under the GoI’s Street Lighting National Project (SLNP). In the first phase, the replacement will be undertaken in gram panchayats of the districts of Guntur, Prakasham, Nellore, Kurnool, Kadapa, Ananthapur and Chittoor. This replacement drive in rural areas will help the gram panchayats to cumulatively save approximately 147 million units of electricity annually and lead to reduction of 12 crore tonnes of CO2. The entire upfront capital cost of this project is being funded by French Development Agency Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

Swami Vivekananda had introduced yoga first time to western world in a religion conference Chicago, America in 1893.

George Orwell in 1984

The earth's atmosphere is composed of 4 layers. 

1. Troposphere

2. Stratosphere

3. Ionosphere

4. Mesosphere

The ozone layer is located in the lower region of the Stratosphere which extends at 11 - 50 kms from the Earth's suface.