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All about water and its uses.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to the UN, the minimum amount of water required by a person for personal use and for maintaining hygiene is around

  1. 71 litres
  2. 50 litres
  3. 97 litres
  4. 22 litres
  5. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The amount of saline water on Earth is

  1. 71% of the water on the Earth
  2. 97% of the water on the Earth
  3. 2% of the water on the Earth
  4. 1% of the water on the Earth
  5. There is no saline water
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following processes the water enters the ground and fills the spaces and the cracks underground?

  1. Infiltration
  2. Transpiration
  3. Seeping
  4. Draining
  5. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following sources have a common source of water, i.e. the underground water?

(a) Well
(b) Tap
(c) Tube well
(d) Tanker
(e) Bore well

  1. Only (a), (c) and (e)
  2. Only (b) and (d)
  3. Only (c) and (e)
  4. Only (a) and (d)
  5. All of these
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is correct regarding a water table?

  1. The upper layer of oceans or lakes is the water table.
  2. The upper layer of the ground water is the water table.
  3. The land formed at the mouth of a river is called a water table.
  4. A shallow body of water surrounded by sand dunes is called a water table.
  5. None of these
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The three forms of water can be seen in the water cycle. In which of the following parts can one see the solid form of water?

  1. Lakes
  2. Poles of the earth
  3. Under the earth
  4. Air
  5. Oceans
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following processes in water cycle takes place in the atmosphere, and not on the earth's surface?

  1. Precipitation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Draining
  4. Condensation
  5. Transpiration
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following rivers originate in the Himalaya?

(a) Indus
(b) Kaveri
(c) Ganges
(d) Brahmaputra
(e) Pennar

  1. Only (a), (b) and (c)
  2. Only (b) and (d)
  3. Only (d) and (e)
  4. Only (a), (c) and (d)
  5. Only (b) and (e)
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is an aquifer?

  1. A hole dug underground
  2. The space between the rocks below the water table
  3. The pores in the leaves for transpiration
  4. A pump to pump out the underground water
  5. A place built to store water in the village
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not the reason behind the decrease in water table level?

  1. Increasing number of roads and pavements
  2. Deforestation
  3. Scanty rainfall
  4. Increase in number of parks
  5. Increase in industrial activities
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following has no role in managing water?

  1. Rain water harvesting
  2. Constructing dam
  3. Drip irrigation
  4. Industrial boom
  5. Repairing the leaking taps
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is the most used source of potable water for the villagers?

  1. Sea
  2. Rain water collected
  3. Well
  4. Tanks
  5. Canals
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What does recharging the ground water means?

  1. To pump underground water out
  2. To conserve underground water
  3. To use underground water
  4. To clean the ground water
  5. All of the above
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a fresh water body?

  1. Sea
  2. Lake
  3. Pond
  4. Stream
  5. River
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following methods minimum water is used for maximum plants?

  1. Rainwater harvesting
  2. Infiltration
  3. Drip irrigation
  4. Canal irrigation
  5. None of these
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