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Environmental and Chemical Processes

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Environmental and chemical processes encompass waste management, pollution remediation, and biogas conversion. These questions evaluate your grasp of how organic and synthetic materials interact with ecosystems. Such topics regularly appear in general science and environmental studies papers.

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Environmental and Chemical Processes Questions

Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology
  1. analysis

  2. synthesis

  3. symbiosis

  4. photosynthesis

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In chemistry, 'analysis' specifically refers to the process of breaking down a chemical compound into its constituent elements. This is the opposite of 'synthesis,' which involves combining elements or simpler compounds to form more complex ones. Symbiosis is a biological term, and photosynthesis is a specific biochemical process.

Multiple choice
  1. excretion

  2. nutrition

  3. transportation

  4. filtration

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The process by which metabolic wastes are eliminated from the body is called excretion. Metabolism includes the sum of all the chemical reactions that take place in our body. The breakdown of proteins produces nitrogenous wastes like ammonia, urea and uric acid. The elimination of such wastes from the body is termed as excretion. Nutrition is a process by which the organisms obtain those substances, which are utilized for their growth and maintenance and for meeting their energy meets. Filtration - It is a physical process used to separate solids from liquid or gases. Transportation - It is the movement of water and minerals in various parts of the plant body.

Multiple choice
  1. Centrifugation

  2. Sedimentation

  3. Decantation

  4. Filtration

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sedimentation is specifically the process where heavy solid particles gradually settle down at the bottom of a liquid due to gravity. Centrifugation uses spinning to force separation, decantation is pouring off liquid after sedimentation, and filtration uses a filter medium - sedimentation is the natural settling process itself.

Multiple choice
  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

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct definition for carbonisation.

Multiple choice
  1. Conversion of physical energy to chemical energy at producer level

  2. Conversion of physical energy to chemical energy at consumer level

  3. Rate at which energy gets stored at consumer level

  4. Rate at which decomposition of organic matter takes place

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The rate of energy storage at consumer level is the energy utilized by the consumer for the physiological activities (assimilation).

Multiple choice
  1. The wastes are burned and reduced to small particles by rubbing on scattered surface in refractory-lined machinery.

  2. In this method, different processes are used like shredding, magnetic isolation of metals, air differentiation, etc.

  3. The disposal is distributed over the selected land in a thin layer and then bulldozer is used to make it compact.

  4. This method involves the preparation of wastes and decomposing the organic solid wastes by aerobic microorganisms.

  5. This is the combination of two sub processes; combustion and pyrolysis.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

This method involves the preparation of wastes and decomposing the organic solid wastes by aerobic microorganisms. Waste is prearranged in order to isolate the materials, which can ot be composted so that the degradation process can be done more efficiently. Then these wastes are deposited in machinery in order to produce humus by biological degradation, which contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. After 3 weeks, the end products are treated mixed with additives and then it is ready for marketing.

Multiple choice
  1. a, b and c

  2. a, b, c and d

  3. a, b, c, d and e

  4. c and e

  5. a, b, c and e

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer. Plants get rid of gaseous waste products through stomata in leaves and lenticles in stem. They get rid of stored solid and liquid wastes through shedding of leaves, barks and felling of fruits. They also secrete wastes through gums and resins.

Multiple choice
  1. Leachate

  2. Incineration

  3. Global Dimming

  4. Biomagnification

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas and heat.

Multiple choice
  1. ablation

  2. sleet

  3. cliff

  4. pampero

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Ablation refers to the removal of material from a surface through vaporization, chipping, erosion, or melting. In glaciology, it refers to ice loss from a glacier through melting, sublimation, or calving. The term is used in medicine, aerospace, and geology. Sleet is precipitation, cliff is a landform, and pampero is a wind.