The Institution of Engineers,India 2009 A.M.I.E Section A Society and environment, summer , - Question Paper
S09: 2 AN: AN 204/AD 304 (1404)
SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT
Time: Three hours
Maximum marks: 100
Q 1. (a) What do you understand by social system and social institutions?
(b) Sociology is a science of society. Comment on this statement.
(c) What do you mean by social stratification? What are its salient characteristics?
(d) What is social class? How is it different from economic class?
Q 2. (a) What is social tension? What are the different causes of social tension?
(b) Discuss the role of science and technology in the development process of society.
(c) What are the objectives of planning? What needs to be done to plan for social development?
(d) What do you mean by human resource development?
Q 3. (a) What are the criteria for assessment of appropriate technology?
(b) What do you mean by technology transfer? What are its pitfalls?
(c) What are the reasons of failure of technology transfer from laboratory to field?
(d) Discuss the development of science and technology in India before independence.
Q 4. (a) What are the different parameters of development?
(b) How does conflict arises in society? How can it be managed?
(c) Hoe does population becomes responsible for the development of our country? What are the measures required to contain the growth rate of population?
(d) Difference between a developed, developing and undeveloped economy?
Group B
Q 5. (a) why is the study of ecology so important?
(b) What is ecosystem? What are the different types of ecosystem?
(c) What are the main characteristics of food chain? Classify different types of food chain.
(d) What do you understand by ecological pyramid? What are the different types of ecological pyramid?
Q 6. (a) What do you mean by biomagnifications? What are its different stages?
(b) Differentiate between phosphorous cycle and sulphur cycle.
(c) What is ecoimbalance? How are people responsible for it?
(d) What are the biotic components of forest ecosystem?
Q 7. (a) Discuss the different components of marine ecosystem with examples.
(b) What are the different sources of environmental pollution?
(c) What do you mean by air pollution? How can it be controlled?
(d) What is global warming? Discuss its impact on climate, agriculture, and marine food.
Q 8. (a) what is SMOG ? what are different types of smog?
(b) What is the biomedical waste? What are the methods of biomedical waste management?
(c) What are the different sources of renewable energy?
(d) What do you mean by sustainable development? What are the rules of sustainable development?
Group C
Q 9. (a) Define the following terms:
(i) Seismology
(ii) Ploygraph
(iii) AIDS
(iv) Firmwave
(v) Genetics
(b) What are the uses of these scientific instruments?
(i) Audiometer
(ii) Fathometer
(iii) Salinometer
(iv) Thedolite
(v) Wattmeter
(c) Choose the correct answer for the following:
(i) What organism kills and eats other organism?
(a) Predator (b) Parasite
Decomposer (d) producer
(ii) Which one of the following is a greenhouse gas?
(a) nitrogen (b) oxygen
methane (d) inert gas
(iii) Acid rain is caused due to the mixing of rain water with
(a) SO’ and NO’ (b) CO’
CO (d) O’
(iv) Biological oxygen demand (BOD) determine the health of
(a) air (b) water
soil (d) solid waste
(v) Which one of the following is the fossil fuel?
(a) Gober gas (b) coal
Methane (d) soil
(d) Write the full form of the following:
(i) SAARC
(ii) FERA
(iii) GATT
(iv) NEERI
(v) NABARD
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