Wetland Quiz

1. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Name India's largest inland salt lake

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

10. 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..