Class 12 Employability Skills
Unit 5: Green Skills – IV
Important Question Answer
Que 1. Today, we are experiencing unpredictable weather conditions due to climatic changes and __.
Answer: environmental deterioration
Que 2. How can you control and minimise the environment pollution?
Answer: We can plant trees near our houses, and use an eco-friendly mode of transport, such as bicycle, electric car, etc.
Que 3. How can we take of our environment?
Answer: We can take care of our environment in many ways. These are –
• we must not leave the tap running while brushing our teeth,
• use the leftover water in our bottles for watering plants,
• use cloth bags instead of plastic bags,
• buy eco-friendly products and
• reduce the usage of paper.
Que 4. What types of products you can use for cleaning and washing?
Answer: non-toxic and natural products
Que 5. What is the advantage of using non-toxic and natural products for cleaning and washing?
Answer: Non-toxic and natural products are biodegradable and available in eco-friendly packaging are conducive for the environment.
Que 6. What is the advantage of using plants inside home and other places?
Answer: The advantage of using plants, such as Areca palm and rubber absorb harmful
pollutants from the air.
Que 7. A way we can contribute to the environment is by encouraging _______.
Answer: green jobs
Que 8. What is green job?
Answer: A green job that helps bring about and maintain transition to environmentally sustainable forms of production and consumption.
It cuts across all sectors — energy, material, water conservation, waste management and
pollution control.
Que 9. What is the full form of UNEP?
Answer: UNEP stands for United Nations Environment Program.
Que 10. In what areas green jobs are works?
Answer: Green jobs or Green collar jobs are work in
• Agricultural
• Administrative
• Research and Development
• Manufacturing and Service Activities
Que 11. What is Environmental quality?
Answer: ‘Environmental quality’ is a set of properties and characteristics of the environment, either generalised or local, as they impinge on human beings and other organisms.
Que 12. Who is a green collar worker?
Answer: A green collar worker is one who is employed in the environmental sectors of the economy.
Que 13. Give the example of green collar worker.
Answer: Green collar workers include professionals, such as
• green building architects,
• environmental consultants,
• waste management or recycling managers,
• environmental or biological systems engineers,
• landscape architects,
• solar and wind energy engineers and installers,
• green vehicle engineers,
• organic farmers,
• environmental lawyers and
• business personnel dealing with green services or products.
Que 14. Give the example of green workers.
Answer: Green workers include
• electricians who install solar panels,
• plumbers who install solar water heaters,
• construction workers who build energy-efficient green buildings,
• technicians and workers involved in establishing wind power farms, and
• those working for clean and renewable energy development
Que 15. How can you distinguish the Green Jobs?
Answer: Green jobs can be distinguished by their contribution to more environment
friendly processes. For example, green jobs can reduce water consumption or improve recycling systems.
Que 16. What measures India has adopted for ensuring sustainability, renewable energy and energy efficiency in various sectors?
Answer: Measures adopted by India are
• Efforts are being made to reduce Carbon dioxide emission rates from vehicles in automotive sector,
• promoting use of non-fossil fuel (solar, hydro and wind) as energy sources for power generation in the power sector and
• enabling energy efficient technologies through the concept of green buildings in the construction sector.
Que 17. What do you mean by ‘Skill Council for Green Jobs’?
Answer: To address the skilled workforce issues associated with sustainable development, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has set up the ‘Skill Council for Green Jobs’. It is working towards developing competencies of people in the domain of renewable energy, sustainable development, and waste management.
Que 18. What is ‘Make in India’ campaign?
Answer: ‘Make in India’ is designed to facilitate investment, ensure faster innovation, enhance skill development, protect intellectual property and build best in class manufacturing structures.
With the aim of providing a greener economy and creating environment friendly employment opportunities, the government is also providing impetus for green jobs as part of restructured growth strategies under its ‘Make in India’ campaign.
Que 19. In India ________ is the first modern metropolitan rail transport system.
Answer: Delhi Metro
Que 20. What are the benefits of Delhi Metro in respect to Green Jobs?
Answer: Benefits of Delhi Metro are
• First rail‑based methodology to garner 90,000 voluntary carbon credits for improving energy efficiency.
• Created jobs for engineers, drivers, station attendants, signal staff, ticketing, construction, and maintenance workers.
• Also resulted in greening existing occupations and creating new occupations.
Que 21. What are the benefits of Green Jobs?
Answer: Green jobs that contribute to protecting the environment and reducing carbon footprint are becoming a key economic driver of the twenty-first century.
Green jobs help:
• increase the efficiency of energy and raw material.
• reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• control waste and pollution.
• protect and restore ecosystems.
• support adaptation to the effects of climate change.
Que 22. What is Organic gardening and farming?
Answer: Organic gardening and farming are the process by which we can grow plants and crops in an environment friendly way.
Que 23. What are the advantages of Organic gardening and farming?
Answer: Advantages of Organic gardening and farming are –
• It prevents toxic runoff as no synthetic pesticides are used.
• It prevents water pollution and soil contamination as no chemical is added to the soil.
• By using organic methods of gardening, one can prevent death of insects, birds, critters, and other beneficial soil organisms.
Que 24. How Organic fruits and vegetables are good for health?
Answer: Organic fruits and vegetables are free from chemical residues of synthetic fertilisers, and hence, are good for our health.
Que 25. What are Farmers’ cooperatives?
Answer: Farmers’ cooperatives are one of the most effective means of reducing the risk in agriculture and strengthening the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers.
Que 26. What is the full of FIG and FPO?
Answer: FIG – Farmer Interest Groups
FPO – Farmer Producer Organisations.
Que 27. What is FIG?
Answer: The process involves mobilising farmers into groups of 15–20 members at the village level (called Farmer Interest Groups or FIGs).
Que 28. What is FPO?
Answer: The process of building the associations of FIGs to an appropriate federating point called, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs).
FPOs are farmers’ collectives with membership consisting mainly of small or marginal farmers.
Que 29. What is FPO?
Answer: Farmers’ cooperatives are one of the most effective means of reducing the risk in agriculture and strengthening the livelihoods of small and marginal farmers.
Que 30. Write four Green Jobs in agriculture.
Answer: Four green jobs in Agriculture are
• Organic Farming,
• Integrated Pest Management,
• Farm Mechanisation,
• Agriculture Tourism
Que 31. What is KVKs?
Answer: KVKs stands for Krishi Vigyan Kendras.
The Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) set up by the government, can be utilised to provide support activities like technology dissemination, training awareness to the local youth and farmers for collection, storage, and reuse of agro-waste.
Que 32. What is the full form of CNG?
Answer: CNG stands for Compressed Natural Gas.
Que 33. What is the benefit of using CNG?
Answer: Use of energy-efficient vehicles and alternate fuels like Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) can help minimise greenhouse gas emissions.
Que 34. New biofuel policy is announced by GOI on _______.
Answer: 10 Aug 2018
Que 35. What is the new biofuel policy?
Answer: The new biofuel policy focuses on initiatives for enhanced use of biomass so as to improve the availability of ethanol through starch and sugar-based feedstock, develop ethanol technologies and increase the production of biodiesel for blending. Biofuels produced directly or indirectly from organic material, including BioCNG, Bio-methanol, etc., can generate green jobs.
Que 36. Who launched electric vehicles programme?
Answer: The Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), under the Ministry of Power, has launched an ‘electric vehicle programme’.
Que 37. What is the full form or EESL?
Answer: Energy Efficiency Services Limited
Que 38. What is the objective of EESL?
Answer: The main objective of EESL to create market for electric vehicle, a technology poised to boost e-mobility in the country.
These encompass road, rail, sea, and air-based vehicles that use electric drive and take electric charge from an external source, or hydrogen in case of fuel cell electric vehicle.
Que 39. What is the full form of PHEV?
Answer: Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle
Que 40. What is Rooftop rainwater harvesting?
Answer: Rooftop rainwater harvesting refers to the process where rainwater is collected in tanks to be used later. It can be installed in all houses and buildings. It can also help increase the water table.
Que 41. What is the difference between Cycle-run water pumps and Electricity-run pumps?
Answer: Electricity-run pumps uses the electricity while Cycle-run water pumps does not. Cycle-run water pumps provide a way for people to exercise.
Que 42. Give the examples of common green jobs in agriculture.
Answer: Water Quality Testing, Water Conservation, Water Management
Que 43. What are bamboo channels?
Answer: Bamboo channel is a drip irrigation to irrigate the land. It is eco-friendly way of irrigation. It uses water efficiently without any wastage.
It is cheaper to build, and after 2–3 years when the bamboo rots, it can be added to the soil as manure.
Que 44. Solar and wind power plants provide _______.
Answer: clean energy
Que 45. Who is a solar photovoltaic installer?
Answer: A Solar Photovoltaic Installer installs and maintains solar panels in homes, businesses, or land.
Que 46. Who is a solar lighting technician?
Answer: A solar lighting technician assembles, tests, and repairs different types of solar photovoltaic home lighting system and streetlights.
Que 47. Give the examples of common green jobs in solar and wind energy.
Answer: Common jobs in this sector are
• roofer,
• solar panel installation technician and
• field technician.
Que 48. What is green news?
Answer: India is one of the few countries where forest and tree cover has increased in recent years.
Que 49. The total forest and tree cover in India is _ percent of the country’s geographical area.
Answer: 24%
Que 50. What is the purpose of Eco-tourism?
Answer: Eco-tourism is intended to provide an experience to visitors to understand the importance of conserving resources, reducing waste, enhancing the natural environment, and reducing pollution.
Que 51. Give the examples of common green jobs in eco-tourism.
Answer: Common jobs in eco-tourism are
• Eco-tour guides
• Eco-tourism operators
Que 52. What is the full form of IGBC?
Answer: IGBC is stands for Indian Green Building Council
Que 53. What is the full form of CII?
Answer: CII full form of Confederation of Indian Industry
Que 54. What is IGBC? What services are offered by IGBC?
Answer: The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was founded in the year 2001.
The IGBC offers services, which include developing new green building rating programmes, certification services and green building training programmes.
Que 55. How are houses and building becomes environment friendly?
Answer: Houses and buildings become environment friendly, when they use sustainable building material, and follow eco-friendly construction processes and green operations.
Que 56. What is green building design? How it is important?
Answer: Green building design provides an integrated approach to utilisation of renewable and non-renewable resources.
It is important that future green building programmes and projects are established with strategies to address skill issues, including appropriate training.
Que 57. Write the areas in which green jobs are available in building and construction.
Answer: Areas in which green jobs are available in building and construction are
• Construction
• Landscape
• Gardening
• Maintenance of green components
• Water management
Que 58. What is Solid waste?
Answer: Solid waste is defined as any discarded solid fraction, generated from domestic units, trade centres, commercial establishments, industries, agriculture, institutions, public services, and mining activities.
Que 59. Solid wastes are categorised in to how many categories by Ministry of Urban Development, Govt. of India?
Answer: 14 Categories
Que 60. What is Solid waste management?
Answer: A system which is used to manage the solid wastage is called Solid waste management.
Solid waste management system includes collection, segregation, transportation, processing, and disposal of waste.
Que 61. Write the name of five green jobs related to waste management.
Answer: The green jobs related to waste management are in area –
• e-waste recycling,
• solid waste management,
• waste reduction,
• waste auditing,
• waste control, etc.
Que 62. What is appropriate technology?
Answer: Appropriate technology is small-scale technology that is environment friendly and suited to local needs.
Que 63. Give some examples of appropriate technology.
Answer: Examples of appropriate technology are
• bike-powered or hand-powered water pumps,
• solar lamps in streetlights,
• solar buildings, etc.
Que 64. ______ is the simplest technology that can get a job done in an environment friendly manner with locally available resources,
Answer: Appropriate technology
Que 65. Write the name of five green jobs related to appropriate technology.
Answer: The green jobs in appropriate technology may include areas, such as biogas production, water treatment filtration, farm mechanisation, rainwater harvesting, sanitation, lighting, food production, refrigeration, etc.
Que 66. Rita’s children fall sick very often. They have cold and cough every month. What should Rita do?
(a) Grow organic food in kitchen garden
(b) Use air purifiers with HEPA filters
(c) Keep them inside the house all the time
(d) Paint her house with non-VOC paint
Answer: (b) Use air purifiers with HEPA filters
Que 67. Rita’s children fall sick very often. They have cold and cough every month. What should Rita do?
(a) Throw them in the trash can
(b) Burn them
(c) Keep using them even though they are too small
(d) Donate them or make bags out of them
Answer: (d) Donate them or make bags out of them
Que 68. Name any two green jobs in the following sectors.
(i) Construction
(ii) Renewable energy
Answer: (i) Green jobs in constructions are – Construction, landscape, gardening, maintenance of green components, water management, etc
(ii) Green jobs in renewable energy are – roofer, solar panel installation technician and field technician, etc.
Que 69. Jobs are understood as _____ when people working in these areas help reduce adverse environmental impacts, and help build environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable enterprises and economies.
Answer: green
Que 70. Write the name five greenhouse gases.
Answer: Five greenhouse gases are
a. Carbon dioxide
b. Methane
c. Nitrous oxide
d. Ozone
e. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Que 71. What are the reasons of emitting greenhouse gases?
Answer: Greenhouse gases are emitted due to
a. Burning of fossil fuels,
b. Using vehicles and refrigerators,
c. Carrying out agricultural activities, etc.
Que 72. What is the impact of greenhouse gases?
Answer: Greenhouse gases can trap heat from the earth and prevent it from escaping into outer space. This causes the earth to heat, leading to ‘global warming’.
Que 73. How can you reduce emission of the greenhouse gases?
Answer: Greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by using less fossil fuels and maximizing uses of less polluting energy sources such as CNG.
Que 74. Write the different ways to reduce the waste and pollution.
Answer: Instead of only thinking about how to recycle or reuse waste, we must work towards finding solutions on how to reduce the amount of waste produced. This will help in waste management.
Some ways to reduce waste and pollution are –
a. Reusing scrap material
b. Ensuring quality control
c. Waste exchange
d. Managing e-waste
e. Use of eco-friendly material
Que 75. Give any two example to show the reusing of scrap materials.
Answer: (i) in paper mills, damaged rolls are sent back to the beginning of the production line, i.e., they are added as raw material.
(ii) In manufacture of plastic items, off-cuts and scrap are re-incorporated into new products.
Que 76. How can you reduce the waste by using Automated monitoring equipment?
Answer: Automated monitoring equipment is capable to identify production problems at an early stage, which reduce the wastage.
Que 77. If the _ of products is maintained, there will be a _ in rejected products, thus, reducing waste.
Answer: quality, decrease
Que 78. What do you mean by waste exchange?
Answer: The wastage of one process becomes the raw material for another, is called waste exchange. It represents the way of reducing waste disposal through re-use.
Que 79. What is e-waste?
Answer: e-waste stands for electronic waste like old mobile phones, laptops, television, etc.
Que 80. What is eco-friendly material?
Answer: Materials which are easily disposable are called eco-friendly material. For example, banana leaf and paper plates.
Que 81. What is ecosystem?
Answer: Ecosystem is the community of living and non-living beings existing together and interacting with and supporting each other.
Que 82. How can you reduce the risk of landslides?
Answer: Forests and vegetation help to stabilise slopes and reduce risk of landslides.
Que 83. __ can help control floods.
Answer: Wetlands
Que 84. Write four ways to control emissions of greenhouse gases.
Answer: Four ways to control emissions of greenhouse gases are
a. Avoiding cutting of forests
b. Planting more trees
c. Investing in soil health and
d. Restoration
Que 85. What is NAPCC?
Answer: NAPCC stands for National Action Plan on Climate Change.
The Govt. of India launched the National Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in June 2008 to deal with climate change and related issues.
Que 86. What are the eight missions of NAPCC?
Answer: Eight missions of NAPCC in specific areas are –
a. solar energy,
b. enhanced energy efficiency,
c. habitat,
d. water,
e. sustaining Himalayan ecosystems,
f. forestry,
g. agriculture and
h. strategic knowledge for climate change,
Que 87. What types of issues are addressed by NAPCC?
Answer: NAPCC address issues relating to mitigation of greenhouse gases and adaptation to the adverse impacts of climate change on environment, forests, habitat, water resources and agriculture.
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Published on : August 21, 2022 | Updated on : November 21, 2025
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