The objectives of the study were: 1. To study the effect of religious attitude on environmental awareness of adolescents. 2. To study the effect of scientific attitude on environmental awareness of adolescents. 3. To study the effect of scholastic level on environmental awareness of adolescents. 4. To study the effect of location on environmental awareness of adolescents. 5. To study the effect of sex on environmental awareness. 6. To study the effect of school management on environmental awareness. 7. To find out correlation between different components of Religious Attitude and different components of environmental Awareness. 8. To find out correlation between scientific attitude and different components of environmental Awareness. 9. To find out correlation between scholastic achievement and different components of environmental Awareness.

Stratified random sampling was done. The whole population was divided into two main strata. Each strata was further divided into four schools, one school from the each district of Hadoti. These schools were selected randomly and all the +2 students present in the class were included in the sample. Finally the sample was constituted of 500 students ( Rural-250 & Urban-250).

Inventories for Environmental Awareness and Religious Attitude, Test for scientific attitude and proforma for recording scholastic achievement constructed by the investigator were used for the study.

ANOVA, t-test and Product Moment Coefficient of Correlation were used for data analysis.

The study includes following findings: 1. The effect of religious attitude on environmental awareness was not found significant. 2. The effect of scientific attitude on environmental awareness was found significant. 3. The effect of scholastic achievement on environmental awareness was found significant. 4. The effect of location on different components of environmental awareness was found significant. Urban students have been found environmentally more aware than rural students. 5. The effect of sex on environmental awareness was found significant. The girls have been found environmentally more aware than boys. 6. The managerial background of the schools was found to have no significant effect on environmental awareness.