Maximum contributor to global warming gas is Carbon dioxide (C0 2) followed by methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbon.
EVS MCQ - Our Environment
The ozone layer present in the Earth's stratosphere absorbs and blocks the harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching the Earth's surface.
Deforestation directly affects the rainfall pattern. Due to deforestation, the forest fails to replenishe the clouds to bring rain. In other word, deforestation has great impact on the water cycle which plays a great role to bring rain to maintain the forest and the ecosystem.
Minamata disease is a neurological syndrome caused by sever mercury poisonmg. Consumption of contaminated water
with mercury contains can lead to this form of disease. It is not an infectious disease, transferred by air
or food neither is it genetically inherited.
