Questions
Water evaporates into air from oceans, rivers and lakes but not from the soil.
- True
- False
Identify the forms of precipitation.
- Rain
- Snow
- Hail
- All of the above
Which of the following process in the water cycle takes place due to rapid cooling of air?
- Condensation
- Evaporation
- Precipitation
- None of the above
Identify the correct sequence of stages in the water cycle.
- Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
- Condensation, precipitation, evaporation
- Evaporation, precipitation, condensation
- Precipitation, evaporation, condensation
Which of the following is an advantage of occurrence of the water cycle?
- Recharging of ground water
- Recharging of water bodies
- Sufficient rainfall
- All of the above
Which of the following process is responsible for the smoke-like vapour which comes out of the mouth in winter?
- Precipitation
- Evaporation
- Condensation
- None of the above
The water vapour which enters into air to form clouds in the sky are obtained by which of the following process?
- Condensation
- Evaporation
- Precipitation
- None of the above
Fog that most often forms as warm rain falls into a cold layer of surface air is called:
- Radiation fog
- Evaporation (mixing) fog
- Advection fog
- Upslope fog
When water changes from a liquid to a vapor, we call this process:
- Freezing
- Condensation
- Sublimation
- Evaporation
The processes of condensation and freezing:
- Both release sensible heat into the environment
- Both absorb sensible heat from the environment
- Do not affect the temperature of their surroundings
- Do not involve energy transport
Evaporation is a _____________ process.
- Cooling
- Heating
- Can't tell - it depends on the temperature
- Both a and c
When the air temperature is below freezing, the saturation vapor pressure over water is.
- Equal to zero
- Less than the saturation vapor pressure over ice
- Greater than the saturation vapor pressure over ice
- Equal to the saturation vapor pressure over ice
What would be temperature of gaseous hydrocarbon in condensation?
- Higher temperature
- Lower temperature
- Normal temperature
- Extremely high temperature
What dissolved gases in atmosphere during water falling?
- Evapo-transpiration
- Condensation
- Precipitation
- Transpiration
The opposite of evaporation is
- Transpiration
- Condensation
- Precipitation
- Freezing
The continuous process by which water moves from form to another is called as
- Condensation
- Water cycle
- Nutrient cycle
- None of the above
A glass of water with some pieces of ice in it, after some time, small drops of water forms on the outer surface of the glass. This process is called as
- Evaporation
- Precipetation
- Condensation
- None of the above
Drying of wet clothes is done by the process of condensation.
- True
- False
The rate of evaporation depends on
- Temperature
- Volume of water
- Wind movement
- All of the above
Water cycle refers to
- Scientific management of water in areas excessively plagued with water logging.
- Constant movement of water from ocean to land and back to ocean again
- An integrated attempt to recycle water in relatively arid regions
- Planning of water distribution in relatively dry areas.
Condensation nuclei may be:
- Particles of dust
- Nitric acid particles
- Smoke from forest fires
- All of these
The total mass of water vapor stored in the atmosphere at any moment is about ____________ of the world's supply of precipitation.
- 1 day
- 1 week
- 1 month
- 1 year
All forms of water that comes down on Earth, including rain, snow, hail etc. is known as ____________
- Calcification
- Fixation
- Precipitation
- Accumulation
What causes gases to dissolve in atmosphere?
- Transpiration
- Precipitation
- Condensation
- Filtration
Water enters atmosphere by
- Filtration
- Evaporation
- Evapo-transpiration
- Biosphere
What type of reactions occurring inside the sun produced solar energy?
- nuclear fusion reactions
- nuclear fission reactions
- nucleophilic substitution reactions
- electrophilic addition reactions
The main source of all types of energy on the Earth is :
- Coal
- Moon
- Petroleum
- Sun
The Sun gives us ________ and _________ energy.
- sound, light
- heat, sound
- heat, light
- light, wind
The ultimate source of heat on the surface of the earth is
- Solar energy
- Radiation energy
- Nuclear energy
- Inner temperature of the Earth's crust
Sun is regarded as the ultimate source of energy because
- It is the most readily & abundantly available free renewable source of energy
- The amount of solar energy received by the earth per hour is much more greater than the total energy consumed by the world each year
- The energy derived from different sources is directly or indirectly obtained from sun.
- All of the above
The existence of life on Earth is primarily due to
- the formation of fossil fuels on Earth.
- the energy from the Sun.
- the revolution of Earth around the Sun.
- the evolution of species.
Which of the following appliances use solar energy?
a. Water heater
b. Cooker
c. Cells
d. Watches
- A and C
- A, B and C
- C and D
- All of the above
Choose the correct option:
- Energy from Sun allows us to see stars.
- Sun is the prime source of energy in the universe.
- Energy from fossil fuels is primarily derived from solar energy.
- Earth rotates around the Sun due to the heat energy from the Sun.
The main source of all types of energy on the Earth is :
- coal
- moon
- petrolium
- sun
Which is the ultimate source of energy?
- Water
- Sun
- Uranium
- Fossil fuels
Energy from various sources is considered to have been derived from the :
- Moon
- Solar system
- Sun
- Stars
The main source of heat is
- The sun
- The stars (Excluding the sun)
- The interior of the earth
- Chemical reactions
- Electricity
The temperature of core of the sun is in the range of
- ${1,56,000}^{o}C$
- ${15,60,000}K$
- ${15,60,000}^{o}C$
- $1,56,00,000K$
Sun produces heat and light energy by
- nuclear fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms
- nuclear fission of ${H} _{2}$ atoms into helium atoms
- nuclear fission of $He$ atoms into ${H} _{2}$ atoms
- nuclear fusion of $He$ atoms into ${H} _{2}$ atoms
Sun contains more than __________ of the total mass of the solar system.
- $90$%
- $65$%
- $46$%
- $99.8$%
Sun loses approximately a weight of ________ every second which is the amount of ${H} _{2}$ gas that the sun turns into energy.
- $4$ lakh million tons
- $4$ million tons
- $4$ lakh tons
- $40$ lakh tons
The correct order of spatial location of different layer of sun are
- core-radiative zone-convective zone-photosphere-chromosphere-transition region
- core-convective zone-chromosphere-photosphere-radiative zone
- core-convective zone-photosphere-chromosphere-convective zone-radiative zone
- core-radiative zone-convective zone-chromosphere-convective zone-photosphere
Most of the sources of energy we use represent stored solar energy. Which of the following is not ultimately derived from the Sun's energy?
- Geothermal energy
- Wind Energy
- Nuclear energy
- BioMass
The sun radiates electromagnetic energy at the rate of $3.9 \times 10^{26}W$. Its radius is $6.96\times 10^8m$.The intensity of sun light at the solar surface will be $-(in , W/m^2)$
- $1.4 \times 10^4$
- $2.8 \times 10^5$
- $4.2 \times 10^6$
- $5.6 \times 10^7$