Geography Flashcards
Highest peak of Odisha is
Deomali
Kidneys of the Earth are
Wetlands
World Wetland Day is celebrated on
February 02 1971
Peatlands are also
Wetlands
Ramsar Convention on Wetland signed in
Ramsar in Iran in 1971
Came into force in 1975
India signed Ramsar convention on
February 01, 1982
Till February 2025, there are how many Ramsar sites in India?
89
First Ramsar Sites in India
Chilika Lake (Odisha) Keoladeo National Park (Rajasthan) (man made) (1981)
Which state has the largest Ramsar sites in India?
Tamil Nadu -18
Largest Ramsar Site of India
Sundarban Wetland
Smallest Ramsar site of India
Renuka Wetland (Himachal Pradesh)
World’s first Ramsar site
Cobourg Peninsula in Australia (1974)
Country with maximum number of Ramsar sites
UK
List of Wetlands facing threats due to human activities
Montreux Record
Ramsar sites of India in Montreux Record
Chilika lake (1st to be added in 1993, removed in 2002), Loktak Lake (Manipur), Keoladeo national park
Floating national park of India
Keibul Lamjao National Park in Manipur
Theme of Wetland Day 2025
Protecting Wetlands for our common future
State bird of the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir
Kalij Pheasant
Taxol is extracted from which tree
Yew
Ox Bow Lakes are features present on which part of the Himalayan region
Lower course of river
The minimum period of time taken after which the whether variations are considered to predict the climate of a place is
30 yrs
Oldest Dam in India
Kallanai Dam in Tamil Nadu
Kaveri River
How many Biosphere reserves are there in India
18
First-Nilgiri
Latest-Panna MP 2020
The ICAR Sugarcane breeding Institute is located in
Coimbatore
