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waste management programme.
What is meant by sanitary land filling? What are its advantages and
disadvantages?
Why is glass considered as a perfect product for recycling? How it is recovered
from waste material?
What is acid mine drainage? How are surface water bodies affected due to this?
Moderately hard waters are preferred for domestic purposes. Why?
Construction industries effectively utilise waste plastic. How this is materialised?
Informal sector e-waste activities are becoming a crucial source of environment
to food-chain contamination. How?
PART C

Answer any two full questions; each carries 20 marks.
How is land degradation linked to water logging? How can this be prevented?
Suggest safe and environment-friendly methods to clean up polluted soil.
What are bio-pesticides? How do they achieve pest management in an
environment-friendly manner?
Differentiate between (i) sound power level and sound intensity (ii) intermittent
noise and impulse noise (iii) sound pressure level and sound pressure
What are the components of a sound level meter? Mention the function of each
component.
Is urban planning effective in controlling noise pollution? Justify your answer.

Mention the human induced activities that are responsible for landslides.

What is rapid urbanisation? What is its impact on land?
Give an account of the impacts of noise pollution on human beings.
Enlist and explain the various measures that van be adopted to protect the

receiver while controlling noise pollution

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