1
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What are Microplastics ?
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These are plastic debris smaller than 5mm in length
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How are they classified ?
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Based on source : Primary and Secondary
Primary : Directly released into environment as small particles
Secondary : From degradation of larger plastic objects such as plastic bags, bottles or fishing nets
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Effects of microplastics ?
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Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification
19) Aug 2020
flashcards
Decks in class (138)
# Cards
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1) AIM iCREST3
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1) Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar4
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1) AJO-Neo4
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1) Intl Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)4
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3) Alliance to End Plastic waste5
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3) Report on Lead Poisoning by UNICEF3
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3) Dhole5
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3) High Impact Community Development Projects2
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3) Smog towers5
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3) Yellow fever7
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3) Eradicating Modern Slavery2
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5) Aarhus Convention6
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5) Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant3
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5) Bharat Air fiber3
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5) Agatti Island5
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5) Galapagos Islands4
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6) Khadi Agarbatti Atma Nirbhar Mission5
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6) Beirut3
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6) Thenzawl Glof Resort project4
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6) Pyrolysis5
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6) Meghnaghat Combined cycle power plant3
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6) Ebrahim Alkazi2
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6) COVID19BWMAPP2
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7) Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP)4
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7) Ammonium Nitrate4
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7) Pokkali rice5
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7) Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)6
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7) Zimbabwe3
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8) Kisan Rail4
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8) Abanindranath Tagore4
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8) Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan4
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8) Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS)5
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8) Tsunami Ready4
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10) Business Confidence Index5
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10) Exercise Kavkaz 20203
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10) K V Kamath committee2
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10) National Handloom Day3
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10) TRAFFIC study on Leopards6
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10) International Solar Alliance5
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11) BEEG4
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11) Submission on Agriculture Mechanization (SMAM)4
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11) Matheran5
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11) e-Sanjeevani Telemedicine platform3
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11) Loya Jirga2
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12) Submarine optical fibre cable project8
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12) Plasmodium Vivax Malaria4
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12) Sunspots6
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12) Mt. Sinabung3
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12) Mullaperiyar Dam5
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12) Surakhsya portal4
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13) Sputnik V4
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13) Papum Reserve Forest4
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13) Student Entrepreneurship Program (SEP)4
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13) World Biofuel Day5
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13) Milne Ice shelf3
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13) Krishi Megh8
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13) Dwarf planet Ceres2
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14) One Sun One world One Grid initiative5
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14) Raman4
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14) Addu Atoll5
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14) Intl Youth Day6
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14) Mega labs3
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15) OPV Sarthak4
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15) Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Org4
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15) Mediterranean Sea3
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15) Arrow 23
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15) Transparent Taxation -- Honoring the honest6
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15) Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR)4
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15) Greater Male connectivity project4
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15) National Overseas Scholarship scheme6
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17) 6th schedule status7
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17) Collaring of Fishing Cats5
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17) Swasthya Portal3
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17) Empowering Tribal , Transforming India4
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17) Israel-UAE deal4
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17) SRIJAN portal3
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17) Price Monitoring and Resource Unit (PMRU)7
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18) National Digital Health Mission (NDHM)8
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18) Project Dolphin and Project Lion5
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18) Air Unique Quality Monitoring (AUM) system5
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18) Collaborative Robotics Innovation Hub3
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18) Sarabhai Crater2
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19) Seagrass7
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19) Death valley3
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19) Positive Pay mechanism3
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19) TIFAC4
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19) Bhadbhut Project5
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19) innovation Challenge Fund in India3
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20) ARIIA 2020 rankings4
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20) Swadeshi Microprocessor challenge5
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20) Ninja UAVs2
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20) Lingaraj temple7
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20) Pan India entity for retail payments5
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20) Digital Quality of Life Index 20204
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21) Microplastics3
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21) 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament3
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21) African Cheetahs5
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21) Millenium Alliance3
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22) Trifood project5
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22) Science and Technology Indicators (STI)3
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22) Swachh Survekshan 20209
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22) Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI)3
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22) Namath Basai programme3
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24)Thumbimahotsavam 20204
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24)ASEAN India Network of Think tanks5
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24)Flavonoids3
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24)PM Emplyment Generation Program6
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26)National Strategy for Financial Education5
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26)Chora Museum3
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26)IAPPD4
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26)India's longest rope way3
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26)Bondas3
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26)Astrosat4
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27)Glanders4
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27)Warli Paintings5
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27)INS Viraat4
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27)Edakkal caves3
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27)Labour Bureau4
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29)Remote Learning Reach-ability Report3
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29)World Urdu Conference4
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29)Mansar lake2
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29)KIRAN3
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29)Eat Out to Help Out3
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29)Amnesty International2
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30)Export Preparedness Index 20208
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30)V Ramagopal Rao Committee2
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30)Pulikkali3
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30)Polio5
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30)NDC-Transport Imitative for Asia4
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30)BioChar2
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30)Mahseer5
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30)UN World Toursim Org4
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30)Election day Asteroid3
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31)Wolbachia5
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31)Chunauti3
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31)Kavaratti4
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31)Mahatma Ayyankali4
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31)AREAS5
