EVS SEM-I QUESTION PAPER

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Time: Three hours                                                           Maximum : 50 marks

Answer any FIVE of the following questions.

Each question carries 10 marks.

                               (5*10=50)

1. Explain in detail about the renewable and non-renewable resources with example.
2. Write an essay on environmental education.
3. Explain the biotic and abiotic components of ecosystem.
4. Explain food chain with a neat sketch.
5. Describe in detail about the values of Biodiversity.
6. India is a mega diversity nation – Discuss.
7. Explain in detail the causes and effects of Noise pollution.
8. Describe the various methods of solid waste treatment and disposal.
9. What is Acid rain? Explain the environmental consequences of Acid rain?
10. Describe the role of Information technology in environmental studies?

 

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS (Research Methods)

REASEARCH METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

UNIT – 1

1. What is Research? Importance, Advantages and Limitations of Research.
2. Types of Research? Explain experimental Research and Descriptive Research.
3. What do you mean by Research Problem and how can you identify the Research Problem
4. What is Research Design. Write its Process and Types.
5. What is Sampling? Explain selection, Process, Types and Errors in sampling.
6. What is Probability and Non-Probability sampling and give its difference.

UNIT – 2

7. Explain Data Collection. Its Types, Methods, Tools with appropriate explanation.
8. What is Questionnaire? Explain in detail.
9. What is Data Processing? Explain its Operations in detail.(validation, Editing, Coding, Classification, Tabulation)

 

UNIT – 3

 

10. What is Hypothesis? How can you Formulate and Test the Hypothesis? Give the Advantages and Disadvantages of testing of Hypothesis?
11. What do you mean by level of Significance? Explain the degree of freedom.
12. What are the different types of Hypothesis Tests? Explain in detail with their formulae.

 

 

UNIT – 4

13.    What is Report Writing? Explain the Process of Writing the Report.
14. What is Research Report? Write its Function, types and its Layout.

 

UNIT – 5

What is Application of Research? Explain all in detail.

THE ADJECTIVE

  THE ADJECTIVE: An Adjective is a word that qualifies a noun. It is something ‘added to’ the noun.

e.g. : HOT coffee, CLEVER student, SWEET pet, BEAUTIFUL girl

The words HOT, CLEVER, SWEET, & BEAUTIFUL are used to qualify or add something to the nouns coffee, student, pet and girl.

CLASSIFICATION OF ADJECTIVES

1. Adjectives of Quality or Descriptive Adjective
2. Adjectives of Quantity.
3. Adjectives of Number or Numerical Adjective
4. Demonstrative Adjectives
5. Interrogative Adjectives
6. Distributive Adjectives
7. Possessive Adjectives
8. Emphasizing Adjectives
9. Exclamatory Adjectives

 

1. ADJECTIVES OF QUALITY : It qualify the nouns. It shows the kind of quality of a person or thing.

e.g.: Hyderabad is a crowded  city. The rose is a beautiful flower.

2. ADJECTIVES OF QUANTITY: It shows the quantity of things involved.

e.g: 1. There is enough water in the pot. 2. Sita ate whole cake.

 

3. ADJECTIVES OF NUMBER: It shows the Definite OR Indefinite number of persons or things involved.

e.g.: 1. He stood first in the class. 2. Most  girls like ice-cream.

 

4. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES: It specify or point out the nouns.

e.g.: 1. This is my pen. 2. Those  toys belongs to Rahul.

 

5. INTERROGATIVE ADJECTIVES: It is used with nouns to ask questions. WHAT, WHICH & WHOSE are used.

e.g.: 1. what answer did you give her?  2. Whose book is this?

 

6. DISTRIBUTIVE ADJECTIVES: It point out each one of a number.

e.g.: 1. Each  student got punished. 2. Neither  of you are good.

 

7. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES: It shows possession.

e.g.: this is my pen.

 

8. EMPHASIZING ADJECTIVES: It is used to give more emphasis. The word OWN and VERY are used.

e.g.: This is my own pen.

 

9. EXCLAMATORY ADJECTIVES: It point out some exaggeration. The word WHAT is used.

e.g.: what an idea!

 

 

FORMATION OF ADJECTIVES

 Adjectives are derived from nouns by adding AL, OUS, IVE, ATE, FUL, LIC, TIC, IC, ABLE, Y, LY, ARY, ENT, etc.

Emotion                                  –                  Emotional

Glory                                       –                  Glorious

Educate                                   –                  Educative

Fortune                                    –                  Fortunate

Harm                                       –                  Harmful

Metal                                       –                  Metallic

Patriotism                                –                  Patriotic

Period                                      –                  Periodic

PRONOUNS

2. THE PRONOUN: A Pronoun is a word which is used in the place of Noun.

e.g : Rahul is studying BBA. He is very clever.

CLASSIFICATION/TYPES OF PRONOUNS.

Pronouns are classified into 9 types

They are : –

1. Personal Pronoun
2. Emphatic Pronoun
3. Reflexive Pronoun
4. Demonstrative Pronoun
5. Indefinite Pronoun
6. Distributive Pronoun
7. Relative Pronoun
8. Interrogative Pronoun
9. Exclamatory Pronoun

 

1. Personal Pronoun: Personal Pronouns stand for the ‘THREE’ persons – First Person, Second Person and Third Person.

First person is a speaker. Second person is the spoken to. Third person is one spoken about.

2. EMPHATIC PRONOUN: Emphatic pronoun are personal pronouns used for emphasis. The suffixes – SELF and SELVES are added to various personal pronouns for emphasis.

e.g.: I did it myself.

        She herself cooked the food.

They themselves went there.

3. REFLEXIVE PRONOUN: When the action done by the subject affects or reacts or reflects upon the subject, they are called reflexive pronouns. The addition of SELF and SELVES to the various compound personal pronouns helps to produce a new meaning, quite different emphasis.

E.g.: I cut myself.

4. DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUN: It is used to point out a thing or things commonly used in spoken language. The words THIS, THESE, THAT and THOSE are demonstrative pronouns when they stand alone.

e.g.: this is the place for you to meet him.

       That, I shall never see.

 

5. INDEFINITE PRONOUN: are used to denote persons or things in a general way. Words like ALL, SOME, FEW, MANY NONE etc. are used as pronouns.

e.g.: all were killed. Some say that she eloped with him.

6. DISTRIBUTIVE PRONOUN: Are used to denote persons or things one at a time. They are always used only in the singular. The words EACH, EITHER and NEITHER are used.

e.g.: each  of these student has their share. Neither  of you are trust-worthy.

 

7. RELATIVE PRONOUNS: Are used to join together two sentences. The words WHO, WHOM, WHOSE, WHICH, WHAT, and THAT are Relative Pronoun.

 

8. INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN: The relative pronouns WHO, WHOM, WHOSE, WHICH, and WHAT when they are used to ask questions are called INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS.

 

e.g.: Whose  is that pen?  what is the matter?

9. EXCLAMATORY PRONOUN: An exclamatory pronoun is used as an exclamation.

e.g.: what ! can’t you not meet him?

THE NOUN

 

 THE NOUN: The name of a person, place or thing is called a Noun Or The Noun is a naming word.

e.g.: Rahul, Hyderabad, pen etc.

 

CLASSIFICATION/TYPES OF NOUNS.

 

Nouns are classified into 5 types

They are : –

 

1. Common Nouns
2. Proper Nouns
3. Collective Nouns
4. Material Nouns
5. Abstract Nouns

 

1. COMMON NOUNS:

The names of common things are called Common Nouns.

e.g.: Pencil, house, bench, paper, girl etc.

 

Common Nouns are further divided into two types:

1. Countable Nouns 2. Uncountable Nouns

 

1. Countable Nouns: The Nouns which can be used in the plural. Countable nouns can be either singular or plural. Plurals are usually formed by adding-s to a singular countable noun.
   1. Boy – boys Notice – notices Book – books

 

1. Uncountable Nouns: The Nouns which cannot be used in the plural.
   1. e.g.: cash, clothing, courage, furniture, information, news, leisure, pollution, sunshine, violence etc.
   2. PROPER NOUNS:

                        The names of Persons and Places are called Proper Nouns.

e.g.: Rahul, Rani, Hyderabad, India etc.

2. PROPER NOUNS:

                        The names of Persons and Places are called Proper Nouns.

e.g.: Rahul, Rani, Hyderabad, India etc.

3. COLLECTIVE NOUNS:

Collective Nouns are the name of a number of persons or things taken together.

e.g.: Family, team, parliament, bouquet, nation, army etc.

4. MATERIAL NOUNS:

The names of Material are called material noun.

e.g.: Gold, Silver, Steel etc.

5. ABSTRACT NOUNS:

            The names of Qualities, State and Action are called Abstract Noun.

e.g.: QUALITY: Honesty  is a best policy. Innocence is found in Kids.

  STATE: Judgement, laughter, theft etc.

ACTION: Youth, Childhood, slavery, poverty etc.

 

GENDER

The Gender of a noun indicates the sex or the absence of sex. The different genders are :-

1. Masculine Gender : A Noun that denotes MALE SEX is called Masculine Gender.

e.g.: boy, Lion, Bull, Dog etc.

 

2. FEMININE GENDER: A noun that denotes FEMALE SEX is called Feminine Gender.

e.g.: girl, Lioness, cow etc.

 

3. COMMON GENDER: A noun that denotes either a male or a female sex is called Common Gender.

e.g.: child, servant, neighbor, cousin, student etc.

 

4. NEUTER GENDER: A noun that denotes a lifeless thing is called Neuter Gender (Neither Male/Female).

e.g.:  Pen, books, table etc.

 

PARTS OF SPEECH

Words are divided according to their position and usage in a sentence. This is called Parts of Speech. The Parts of Speech are EIGHT (8) in number. They are:-

1. Noun
2. Pronoun
3. Adjective
4. Verb
5. Adverb
6. Preposition
7. Conjunction
8. Interjection

 

1. THE NOUN: The name of a person, place or thing is called a Noun Or The Noun is a naming word.

e.g.: Rahul, Hyderabad, pen etc.

2. THE PRONOUN: A Pronoun is a word which is used in the place of Noun.

e.g : Rahul is studying BBA. He is very clever.

3. THE ADJECTIVE: An Adjective is a word that qualifies a noun. It is something ‘added to’ the noun.

e.g. : HOT coffee, CLEVER student, SWEET pet, BEAUTIFUL girl

the words HOT, CLEVER, SWEET, & BEAUTIFUL are used to qualify or add something to the nouns coffee, student, pet and girl.

4. THE VERB: The verb is a word that denotes an action.

e.g : Aamir is reading a book. (Underline word is verb)

5. THE ADVERB: An Adverb is a word that modifies a Verb, an Adjective or another Adverb.

e.g.: Payal drinks very hot coffee. (Underline word is adverb)

6. THE PREPOSITION: The preposition is a word used with a noun or a pronoun to show their relation with something else.

e.g.: the Cow is in the garden. (Underline word is Preposition)

7. THE CONJUNCTION: Conjunctions are words used to connect words, phrases, clauses or sentences.

e.g.: Pen AND Paper, Rose is Red AND Beautiful, Tomato is a fruit BUT used as vegetable.

8. THE INTERJECTION: An Interjection is a word or sound used to express sudden feelings or emotions.

e.g.: Oh! What a pity!

Wow! You are so beautiful.