Pressure exerted by liquids and gases - class-IX

pressure exerted by liquids and gases

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
The magnitude of buoyant force acting on an object immersed in a liquid depends on
  1. Volume of object immersed in the liquid.
  2. Density of the liquid.
  3. Both A and B
  4. None
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The property of a fluid to exert a buoyant force on an object immersed in it is known as _______.

  1. Adhesion
  2. Buoyancy
  3. Cohesion
  4. none of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a body is partially or completely immersed in a fluid at rest, it experiences an upthrust which is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The upward force exerted by the floating body on the fluid is known as upthrust.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How much is the hydrostatic pressure exerted by water at the bottom of a beaker? Take the depth of water as 45 cm. (density of water $10^3 kg m^{-3})$.

  1. 2410 Pa
  2. 3410 Pa
  3. 4410 Pa
  4. 5410 Pa
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure in a water pipe on the second floor of a building is 60,000 Pa, and on the third floor it is 30,000 Pa. Find the height of the second floor. (Density of water $=1000 kg m^{-3}, g=10 m s^{-2})$.

  1. 3 m
  2. 4 m
  3. 5 m
  4. 6 m
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure in water pipe at the ground floor of a building is 120000 Pa, where as the pressure on a third floor is 30000 Pa. What is the height of third floor?
[Take $g=10 m s^{-2}$, density of water $=1000 kg m^{-3}]$.

  1. 9 m
  2. 10 m
  3. 11 m
  4. 12 m
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure of water on the ground floor is 50000 Pa and at the first floor is 20000 Pa. Find the height of the first floor. Take density of water is $10^3 kg m^{-3}$ and $g=10 ms^{-2}$

  1. 2 m
  2. 3 m
  3. 4 m
  4. 5 m
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Calculate the pressure exerted by 0.8 m vertical length of alcohol of density $0.8 g cm^{-3}$. (Acceleration due to gravity $(g)=10 m s^{-2})$.

  1. 3200 Pa
  2. 6400 Pa
  3. 800 Pa
  4. 5000 Pa
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Calculate the pressure exerted by water at the bottom of a lake of depth 6 m. (Density of water $=1000 kg m^{-3}, g=10 ms^{-2})$.

  1. $2\times 10^4 Pa$
  2. $4\times 10^4 Pa$
  3. $6\times 10^4 Pa$
  4. $8\times 10^4 Pa$
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Calculate the vertical height of a mercury column which exerts a pressure of 81600 Pa. (Density of mercury is $13.6 g cm^{-3}$ and $g=10 ms^{-2})$.

  1. 0.2 m
  2. 0.4 m
  3. 0.6 m
  4. 0.8 m
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A liquid of density $12 kg m^{-3}$ exerts a pressure of 600 Pa at a point inside a liquid. What is height of liquid column above that point? $[g=10 ms^{-2}]$

  1. 4 m
  2. 5 m
  3. 6 m
  4. 7 m
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A metal cube is placed in an empty vessel. When water is filled in the vessel so that  cube is completely immersed in the water, the force on the bottom of the vessel in contact with the cube-

  1. Will increase
  2. Will decrease
  3. Will remain the same
  4. Will become zero
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Standing liquid exerts pressure on the bottom due to its:

  1. mass
  2. weight
  3. both mass and weight
  4. none of these
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A tank filled with water is placed in vacuum. The net pressure at point which is $10 m$ below the surface of water will be $(g = 10 m/s^2)$

  1. $100 \ kPa$
  2. $10 \ kPa$
  3. $1 \ kPa$
  4. Zero
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
A fluid exert pressure 
  1. only downwards
  2. only upwards
  3. in all directions
  4. Fluids do not exert pressure
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Which of the following can exert pressure
  1. Solids
  2. Liquids
  3. Gases
  4. All of the above
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is true?

  1. Fluid do not have any weight
  2. Only liquids have weight
  3. Only gases have weight
  4. Fluids have weight
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two stretched membranes of area $2 cm^2$ and $3 cm^2$ are placed in a liquid at the same depth. The ratio of the pressure on them is :

  1. $1 : 1$
  2. $2 : 3$
  3. $3 : 2$
  4. $2^2 : 3^2$
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Fill in the blank

Fluids at a given depth exert ______ pressure in all directions 
  1. same
  2. independent
  3. different
  4. zero
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The most characteristic property of a liquid is :

  1. elasticity
  2. fluidity
  3. formless
  4. volume conservation
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A block of wood floats separately in river water and then in ocean water. Then the weight of the displaced river water is

  1. equal to the weight of the displaced ocean water.
  2. less than the weight of the displaced ocean water.
  3. more than the weight of the displaced ocean water.
  4. not dependent on the density of the wooden block.
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure exerted by liquid on container 

  1. increases with depth
  2. decreases with depth
  3. remains unchanged with depth
  4. none of the above
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The fluids in a confined space exert pressure in which direction?

  1. Upward
  2. Downward
  3. Forward
  4. All directions
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank.

Liquids exerts pressure in _______ directions.

  1. One
  2. Two
  3. All
  4. It do not extent any pressure
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a sweet water fish enters a sea, the fish will

  1. swell
  2. be squeezed
  3. remain as it is
  4. suffer none of these
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

There are two fish tanks each of depth $0.5 m$. Base area of one is $0.5m^2$ and that of another is $0.1m^2$. At the depth of which tank will a fish feel larger pressure?

  1. The tank of wider base area
  2. The tank of smaller base area
  3. Equal for both tanks
  4. Can't say
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Fluids are
  1. The substances which are lighter than air.
  2. The substances which let substances float on them.
  3. The substances which can flow easily.
  4. Liquids.
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If a sea fish enters a river, the fish will

  1. swell
  2. be squeezed
  3. remain as it is
  4. suffer none of these
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pressure exerted at a point in a liquid is 

  1. scaler
  2. vector
  3. teasor
  4. none
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pressure exented by the liquids on the walls of the container depends upon

  1. density
  2. declaration due to gravity
  3. height of the liquids column
  4. all
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Mark the most common fluids
  1. Air
  2. Water
  3. Kerosene
  4. Both A and B are considered as most common fluids
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Mark the correct Statements.
  1. Solids exert pressure on a surface due to their own weight.
  2. Fluids also have weight.
  3. Liquids can exert pressure.
  4. All the above
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Fluids exert pressure on
  1. Air
  2. The container in which they are stored
  3. Both A and B
  4. Their own molecules which are present on the surface of the container
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How fluid pressure is different from solid pressure?

  1. Solid pressure leads to deformity while fluid pressure doesnt
  2. Solid pressure doesn't lead to deformity while fluid pressure leads to deformity
  3. Both leads to deformity
  4. Both doesn't lead to deformity
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
State True or False.
A fluid exerts pressure in all possible directions.
  1. True
  2. False
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The size of an air bubble rising up in water.

  1. Decreases
  2. Increases
  3. Remains same
  4. May increase or decrease
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pressure inside an inflated balloon is

  1. Less than atmospheric pressure
  2. Greater than atmospheric pressure
  3. Equal to atmospheric pressure
  4. May be less than or equal to atmospheric pressure
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure in an enclosed fluid is transmitted _________ in all directions with diminished force

  1. equally
  2. unequally
  3. cant say
  4. none
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Different liquids exert the _____ pressure at a given depth. 

  1. same
  2. different
  3. can't say
  4. none
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Liquid rise in a syringe when its piston is pulled up due to 

  1. Atmospheric pressure
  2. Inertia of motion
  3. Inertia of rest
  4. Conservation of momentum
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Based on which of the following does a water pump draw water?

  1. Pressure difference
  2. Bernoulli's principle
  3. Law of Gravity
  4. None of these
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the relationship between liquid pressure and the depth of a liquid?

  1. Directly proportional
  2. Inversely proportional
  3. Linear
  4. None of these
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The pressure a liquids exerts against the sides and bottom of a container depends on the 

  1. atmospheric pressure
  2. surface area
  3. volume of container
  4. density and depth of liquid
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A tank $5\ m$ high is half filled with water and then is filled to the top with oil of density $0.85\ g\ cm^{-3}$. The pressure at the bottom of the tank, due to these liquids, is

  1. $1.85\ g$
  2. $89.25\ g\ dyne\ cm^{-3}$
  3. $462.5\ g\ dyne\ cm^{-2}$
  4. $500\ g\ dyne\ cm^{-2}$
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A barometer which measures atmospheric pressure more accurately is ..........

  1. Fortin's barometer
  2. mercury barometer
  3. anaeroid barometer
  4. Torricelli barometer
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The Pressure at any point in the liquid is proportional to :

  1. The density of liquid.
  2. The depth of point below the surface.
  3. The acceleration due to gravity.
  4. All the above
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Liquid pressure at a point in a liquid does not depend on the :

  1. Density of liquid
  2. Shape of the vessel in which the liquid is kept
  3. Depth of the point from the surface
  4. Acceleration due to gravity
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following scientists invented mercury barometer?

  1. Blaise Pascal
  2. Evangelist Torricelli
  3. Robert Brown
  4. Amedeo Avogadro
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A fluid exerts pressure in all possible directions of a container.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pressure at a point inside the liquid does not depend upon :

  1. The depth of the point below the surface of the liquid.
  2. The nature of the liquid.
  3. The acceleration due to gravity at that point.
  4. The shape of the container.
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The deep sea divers wear specially designed suites to protect from

  1. different sea organisms
  2. different sea plants
  3. high water pressure
  4. none
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fill in the blank spaces by choosing the correct words from the options given below.

The hulls of the______are made very strong to withstand huge pressure exerted by the sea water. 

  1. $liquids$
  2. $gases$
  3. $submarines$
  4. All of the above
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A deep sea diver may hurt his ear drum during diving because of:

  1. lack of oxygen
  2. more atm pressure
  3. more water pressure
  4. all of the above
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In cities water supply from an overhead tank to.the houses is done due to:

  1. difference in pressure
  2. gravitational force
  3. decrease of friction in pipes
  4. flow of liquid
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Fluids include

a) Solids    
b) Liquids  
c) Gases

  1. a and b
  2. b and c
  3. a and c
  4. All the above
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the difference between the pressure on the water surface and that on the bottom?

  1. $\rho gh$
  2. $\frac{\rho g}{h}$
  3. Zero
  4. Infinity