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Coal and Petroleum

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a fossil fuel?

  1. Nuclear energy
  2. Wind
  3. Solar energy
  4. Natural gas
  5. Geothermal energy
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following resources is not exhaustible?

  1. Forests
  2. Coal and petroleum
  3. Wild life
  4. Natural gas
  5. Sunlight
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is used in thermal power plants to produce electricity?

  1. Kerosene
  2. Coal
  3. Aviation fuel
  4. Petroleum
  5. Nuclear energy
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an industrial use of coal?

  1. Obtaining coke
  2. Obtaining coal tar
  3. Fuelling thermal power plants
  4. Fuelling automobiles
  5. Generating coal gas
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Naphthalene ball is obtained from

  1. coal tar
  2. LPG
  3. petroleum
  4. paraffin wax
  5. lubricating oil
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

________ is a fuel obtained from coal.

  1. Aviation fuel
  2. Coal gas
  3. LPG
  4. Gobar gas
  5. CNG
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

________ has replaced coal tar for metalling roads.

  1. Rocks
  2. Coke
  3. Wax
  4. Plastics
  5. Bitumen
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is carbonisation?

  1. A black coating of carbon forming over time on materials
  2. Rusting of metals
  3. Slow process of conversion of dead vegetation into coal
  4. Burning of coal
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Petroleum was formed from ________.

  1. dead remains of plants
  2. dead remains of animals
  3. coal
  4. carbon dioxide
  5. sea water
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

________ is a thick, black liquid with an unpleasant smell and is a mixture of about two hundred substances.

  1. Aviation fuel
  2. Lubricating oil
  3. Coal tar
  4. Kerosene
  5. CNG
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not an effect of burning of fossil fuels?

  1. Emissions result in acid rain
  2. Air pollution
  3. Global warming
  4. Land slides
  5. Emissions result in photochemical smog in metropolitan cities
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which instrument is fitted in automobiles to reduce harmful emissions from its exhaust?

  1. Catalytic convertor
  2. Biogas plant
  3. Electrostatic precipitator
  4. Sedimentation
  5. Scrubber
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

By which method are various products of petroleum separated?

  1. Chromatography
  2. Condensation
  3. Fractional distillation
  4. Filtration
  5. Sedimentation
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a stage during the formation of coal?

  1. Peat
  2. Haematite
  3. Lignite
  4. Bituminous coal
  5. Anthracite
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is used as a fuel and a reducing agent in smelting of iron ore in a blast furnace?

  1. Petrol
  2. CNG
  3. Diesel
  4. Kerosene
  5. Coke
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