Wetland Quiz

1. Since 1900, more than ............% of the world's wetlands have disappeared

2. Increase in nitrogen and phosphorous in wetlands results inabnormal algai growth and decay, eventually leading to the depletion of oxygen levelin the water. This phenomenon is called..

3. Name India's largest inland salt lake

4. Name the highest trans-himalayan wetland of J&K which is also a Ramsar site

5. Name the salt resistant plant communities that act as buffers between land and sea and are destroyed at a fast rate all over the world

6. India has a total of----------------Ramsar sites

7. .......................is a water storage reservoir created in 1975 on the Beas River in the low foothills of the Himalaya

8. Name the longest continuous patch of mangrove ecosystem in India

9. Loktak lake, a freshwater wetland in Manipur protects the endangered

10. Name the wetland in Maharashtra which is a notified Ramsar site