Evaporation - class-IX

Tests understanding of evaporation process including factors affecting rate, real-world applications, and molecular concepts

33 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Rate of evaporation increases 

  1. with the rise in temperature
  2. with the fall in temperature
  3. irrespective of temperature
  4. only beyond room temperature
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Water evaporates under atmospheric pressure. Without changing the temperature, the same water is placed under partial vacuum. The rate of evaporation _________.

  1. increases
  2. drop to zero
  3. decreases
  4. remain unaffected
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the temperature of water rises, the rate of evaporation

  1. increases
  2. decreases
  3. remain the same
  4. first decrease then increases
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

One of the most common phenomenon related to rainfall is

  1. Evaporation
  2. Vaporization
  3. Fusion
  4. Solidification
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From the following which are the factors affecting the rate of evaporation?

  1. Temperature
  2. Humidity
  3. Exposed Surface Area
  4. All of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaporation is which type of process

  1. Rapid
  2. Slow
  3. medium
  4. Neutral
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
State True or False :
The larger the exposed surface area, lower is the rate of evaporation.
  1. True
  2. False
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the temperature is high then what is the rate of evaporation?

  1. Higher
  2. Lower
  3. Same
  4. None
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What happens to the rate of evaporation when there is more exposed surface area of liquid?

  1. It decreases gradually
  2. It increases
  3. Remains same
  4. It decreases rapidly
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following does not affect the rate of evaporation?

  1. Pressure on evaporating substance
  2. Exposed surface area of the evaporating substance
  3. Shape of the evaporating substance
  4. Temperature
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why skin feels dry in an air-conditioned room?

  1. Because the rate of evaporation decreases with lower humidity.
  2. Because the rate of evaporation increases with lower humidity.
  3. Because the rate of evaporation remains same with lower humidity.
  4. Because the rate of evaporation increases with higher humidity.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The moving air from the hair dryer removes the molecules of liquids as soon as they escape from the surface of your  hair.
Which factor of evaporation is responsible for the above example?

  1. Temperature
  2. Motion of air
  3. Nature of liquid
  4. Humidity of surrounding
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Choose the correct statements from the following

  1. Evaporation takes place from the surface of a liquid at all temperatures.
  2. The rate of evaporation depends upon the area of the exposed surface of the liquid, nature of the liquid and its temperature.
  3. The rate of evaporation depends on the pressure to which the liquid is subjected.
  4. The cooling produced in evaporation is a consequence of the fact that a liquid has latent heat.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Water evaporates under atmospheric pressure. Without changing the temperature, the same water is placed in a partial vacuum. The rate of evaporation will

  1. increase
  2. drop to zero
  3. decrease
  4. remain unaffected
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A fan produces a feeling of comfort because:

  1. A fan supplies cool air
  2. Of the evaporation of sweat
  3. Fan increase the humidity in air
  4. Fan decrease the humidity in air
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the temperature of water rises, the rate of evaporation decreases. State whether true or false.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Why mercury do not evaporate at room temperature?

  1. Because melting point of mercury is higher
  2. Because boiling point of mercury is higher
  3. Because boiling point of mercury is lower
  4. Because boiling point of mercury is equal to room temperature
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Evaporation is the process of changing liquid into vapour below its boiling point. State whether true or false.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A dog pants with its tongue sticking out on a hot day. Which of the following is the correct reason?

  1. It is its habit
  2. Producing more saliva cools down the body temperature.
  3. Saliva vapourises, cooling the tongue
  4. It is a genetic disease found in few animals like dogs.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Relative humidity is the percentage of the

  1. absolute humidity value to the amount of humidity actually present
  2. increase of humidity/absolute humidity
  3. amount of humidity actually present to the absolute humidity
  4. none of these
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The molecules of liquid change into vapour when the pressure of molecules of liquid

  1. exceeds the atmospheric pressure
  2. becomes less than the atmospheric pressure
  3. becomes equal to the atmospheric pressure
  4. becomes zero
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Water in an earthen pitcher gets cooled due to

  1. slower rate of evaporation
  2. faster rate of evaporation
  3. no evaporation at all
  4. some unknown reason
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Drying up of clothes is fastest on a 

  1. hot day without winds
  2. cold day without winds
  3. hot,dry and windy day
  4. humid and windy day
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dogs hang out their tongue during summers to achieve cooling. Which phenomenon is involved in the process?

  1. Condensation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Vaporization
  4. Fusion
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Salt is extracted from sea-water by

  1. Treating with chemicals depositing salt at the bottom
  2. Filtering the water by nets blocking the salt.
  3. Boiling the water by coil leaving behind the salt.
  4. Evaporating the water by sun leaving behind the salt.
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

From below what are used to prevent pesticides, fertilizers and salt from agricultural wastewater from contaminating the water bodies they flow into?

  1. Evaporation ponds
  2. Vaporising ponds
  3. Fermented ponds
  4. Wet ponds
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To produce salt from sea water, which phenomena is used

  1. Evaporation
  2. Vaporisation
  3. Fermentation
  4. Sublimation
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When we apply paint in our house, it dries out after some while. This happens due to what?

  1. Cooling
  2. Evaporation
  3. Fermentation
  4. None of these
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Splashes dry up at the edges of puddle due to what?

  1. Vaporisation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Sublimation
  4. Fermentation
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When we dry our wet clothes in sun in a line then which phenomena applies to make them dry?

  1. Sublimation
  2. Fermentation
  3. Vaporisation
  4. Evaporation
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In our daily chores when we mop our house floor then it becomes dry after some time. Which phenomena applies here?

  1. Fermentation
  2. Sublimation
  3. Vaporisation
  4. Evaporation
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is not true about evaporation?

  1. Greater the surface area of the liquid, the quicker is the evaporation
  2. Evaporation produces cooling
  3. Evaporation takes place at all the temperatures
  4. Evaporation is nothing but boiling at the highest temperature of the liquid
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Statement-1
Evaporation takes place from the surface of a liquid.
Statement-2
The molecules at the surface have less attractive energy than those inside the liquid.

  1. Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is true and Statement-2 is the correct explanation for Statement- 1
  2. Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is true but Statement-2 is not the correct explanation for Staement-1
  3. Statement-1 is true, Statement-2 is false.
  4. Statement-1 is false, Statement-2 is true.