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Atmosphere- wind - class-VII

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Which of the following statements is not correct?

  1. The length of human hair changes as the relative humidity changes.

  2. During the winter, low relative humidity can irritate the mucus membranes in the nose and throat.

  3. The relative humidity is a measure of the air's actual water vapor content.

  4. A change in the air temperature can change the relative humidity.


Correct Option: C

If the air temperature increased, with no addition or removal of water vapor, the actual vapor pressure would:

  1. Increase

  2. Decrease

  3. Stay the same

  4. Become greater than the saturation vapor pressure


Correct Option: C

The unit of pressure most commonly found on a surface weather map is:

  1. Inches of mercury (Hg)

  2. Millibars or hectopascals

  3. Pounds per square inch

  4. Millimeters of mercury (Hg)


Correct Option: B

Meteorology is considered a branch of:

  1. Mineralogical sciences

  2. Phenology

  3. Phrenology

  4. Atmospheric sciences


Correct Option: D

"Green Climate Fund" was proposed in which of the following environment conferences?

  1. 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference

  2. 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference

  3. 2010 G-20 Seoul summit

  4. None of them


Correct Option: B

What chemical reaction takes place when chemicals from rocks dissolved in water?

  1. Chemical Weathering

  2. Physical weathering

  3. Weathering

  4. Rock cycle


Correct Option: A

Which of the following departments prepare weather reports?

  1. Pollution department

  2. Health department

  3. Meteorological department

  4. Environment department


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

  • The Indian Meteorological Department is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting, prepare weather reports and seismology (the study of earthquakes).
  • It has the responsibility for forecasting, naming and distribution of warnings for tropical cyclones in the Northern Indian Ocean region.
So, the correct answer is 'Meteorological department'.

High wind location in India are 

  1. Gujarat

  2. Madhya Pradesh

  3. Tamil Nadu

  4. All


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

High wind location in India are 
1) Gujarat 
2) MP 
3) Tamil Nadu 
4) Coastal area 
5) Bay of Bengal 
6) Some parts of Rajasthan 
7) Some parts of Karnataka .

The special thermometer used to record temperature is called as

  1. Maximum thermometer

  2. Minimum thermometer

  3. Maximum-minimum thermometer

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

A weather report gives details of which of the following?

  1. Past 24 hours

  2. Weather for the day

  3. Weather for a year

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: B

The unit of humidity is 

  1. Degree celsius

  2. Percentage

  3. Kelvin

  4. Percent per litre


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The unit of relative humidity is the percentage. It is the ratio of the current absolute humidity to the maximum humidity for that temperature. A hygrometer is a device which is used measure relative humidity. When the air is fully saturated with water vapor and cannot hold any more water vapor, the relative humidity is 100%. 

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Why does weather change frequently?

  1. Because of humidity

  2. Because of temperature

  3. Because of rainfall

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

During summer, if you go near the lake, you feel relief from the heat, why?

  1.  With no pressure over the lake and low pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  2.  With high pressure over the lake and low pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  3.  With no pressure over the lake and high pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  4.  With high pressure over the lake and zero pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

During summer, there occurs differential heating of the land and the water body near the land. The land mass is heated up quickly and the air over the land rises up, creating low pressure over the land. The water body takes time in getting heated up and so during the day, the water body has higher pressure due to heavy air than the land mass. Due to the pressure difference, the wind blows from the high pressure (water body) to the low pressure (land mass). These are called the sea-breeze. These winds are colder and that's why relief is felt near the lake on a hot summer day.

Hence, the correct answer is 'with high pressure over the lake and low pressure over the land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land'.

Assertion : The crown fires are most destructive as they burn the tree top.

Reason : Due to crown fire the temperature of that area may rise upto 700oC.

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion

  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false

  4. If both the assertion and reason are false

  5. If the assertion is false but reason is true


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Crown files are most destructive. These destroy the canopies of trees and entire vegetational cover of that particular area. Due to this fire, the temperature, rises upto 700()oC and may adversely effect the nearly vegetation.

When a liquid thermometer is held in direct sunlight,

  1. It will accurately measure the air temperature

  2. It will measure a much higher temperature than that of the air

  3. It will measure a much lower temperature than that of the air

  4. It will measure the temperature of the sun rather than the air


Correct Option: B

A change of one degree on the Celsius scale is _____________ a change of one degree on the Fahrenheit scale.

  1. Equal to

  2. Larger than

  3. Smaller than

  4. Is in the opposite direction of


Correct Option: B

The atmosphere near the earth's surface is "heated from below." Which of the following does not significantly contribute to this heating?

  1. Conduction of heat upward from a hot surface

  2. Convection from a hot surface

  3. Absorption of infrared energy that has been radiated from the surface

  4. Heat energy from the earth's interior


Correct Option: D

Which of the following will decrease in a rising parcel of air?

  1. Relative humidity

  2. Absolute humidity

  3. Specific humidity

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: B

As the air temperature increases, with no addition of water vapor to the air, the relative humidity will:

  1. Remain the same

  2. Increase

  3. Decrease

  4. Increase until it becomes equal to the dew point temperature


Correct Option: C

Which of the following will increase in a rising parcel of air?

  1. Saturation vapor pressure

  2. Relative humidity

  3. Mixing ratio

  4. Air temperature


Correct Option: B

The density of water vapor in a given parcel of air is expressed by the:

  1. Absolute humidity

  2. Relative humidity

  3. Mixing ratio

  4. Specific humidity


Correct Option: A

If the air temperature remains constant, evaporating water into the air will _____________ the dew point and ___________ the relative humidity.

  1. Increase, increase

  2. Increase, decrease

  3. Decrease, increase

  4. Decrease, decrease


Correct Option: A

Which of the following weather elements always decreases as we climb upward in the atmosphere?

  1. Wind

  2. Temperature

  3. Pressure

  4. Moisture


Correct Option: C

Humidity influences corrosive action of

  1. Air pollutants

  2. Water Pollutants

  3. Solid material

  4. All of above


Correct Option: A

The time of day when the relative humidity reaches a maximum value is usually:

  1. At the time when the air temperature is highest

  2. In the middle of the afternoon

  3. At the time when the air temperature is lowest

  4. Just before sunrise


Correct Option: C

Suppose saturated polar air has an air temperature and dew point of $-10^{o}C$, and unsaturated desert air has an air temperature of $35^{o}C$ and a dew point of $10^{o}C$. The desert air contains ____________ water vapor and has a ____________ relative humidity than the polar air.

  1. More, lower

  2. More, higher

  3. Less, lower

  4. Less, higher


Correct Option: A

The temperature scale where 0o represents freezing and $100^{o}$ boiling :

  1. Fahrenheit

  2. Celsius

  3. Kelvin

  4. Absolute


Correct Option: B

Which of the following records everyday temperature?

  1. Maximum thermometer

  2. Minimum thermometer

  3. Maximum-minimum thermometer

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

A weather report gives details of which of the following?

  1. Past 24 hours

  2. Weather for the day

  3. Weather for a year

  4. Both option A and B


Correct Option: D

Temperature of a particular region determines the 

  1. Distribution of flora

  2. Distribution of fauna

  3. Texture of soil

  4. Both A and B


Correct Option: D

The range of temperature between -10 to -110 degree celsius is of

  1. Clinical thermometer

  2. Weather thermometer

  3. Laboratory thermometer

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: C

The weather reports use thermometer to measure the

  1. Minimum temperature

  2. Maximum temperature

  3. Maximum and minimum temperature

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

To some extent viability of pollen grains depends on prevailing temperature and humidity.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
  • The period for which pollen grains remain viable is highly variable and to some extent depends on the prevailing temperature and humidity. 
  • The pistil is developed and ovules reach maturity before the pollen grains are ripe. Hybrid seed production as soon as tomato hybrid cultivars gained popularity, ordinary conditions of storage pollen viability can hardly be retained.

The percentage of water vapor present in the air compared to that required for saturation is the:

  1. Mixing ratio

  2. Absolute humidity

  3. Dew point

  4. Relative humidity


Correct Option: D

Our seasons are caused by:

  1. The changing distance between the earth and the sun

  2. The angle at which sunlight reaches the earth

  3. The length of the daylight hours

  4. Only (b) and (c) are correct


Correct Option: D

Which statement(s) below is/are correct?

  1. Valleys are more susceptible to radiation fog than hill tops

  2. Without the summer fog along the coast of California, redwoods would not grow well there

  3. Fog can be composed of ice crystals

  4. All of the above are correct


Correct Option: D

If very cold air is brought indoors and warmed with no change in its moisture content, the saturation vapor pressure of this air will __________ and the relative humidity of this air will ___________ .

  1. Increase, increase

  2. Decrease, decrease

  3. Increase, decrease

  4. Decrease, increase


Correct Option: C

At what time of day is the relative humidity normally at a minimum?

  1. When the air temperature is highest

  2. Just before sunrise

  3. About midnight

  4. When the air temperature is lowest


Correct Option: A

The instrument that measures temperature, pressure, and humidity at various altitudes in the atmosphere:

  1. Barograph

  2. Radiosonde

  3. Aneroid barometer

  4. Altimeter


Correct Option: B

When clouds are viewed near the horizon, the individual cloud elements usually:

  1. Appear closer together than is actually the case

  2. Appear farther apart than is actually the case

  3. Appear lighter in color than is actually the case

  4. Appear to have more vertical development than is actually the case


Correct Option: A

The $CO _{2}$ content by volume, in the atmospheric air is about

  1. 3.34%

  2. 4%

  3. 0.0314%

  4. 2.1%.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere is generally the result of respiration by animals during the day and the emissions by various vehicles, industries and machines. All these activities account for a total of approximately 0.04% CO2 in the atmospheric air.

So, the correct answer is '0.0314%'.

Ozone is formed in stratosphere by action of ultravoilet radiations on oxygen.

  1. True

  2. False

  3. Either

  4. Neither


Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Ozone (O3) molecule is made up of three oxygen atoms. It is formed in the stratosphere when single oxygen atom combines with a molecule of oxygen i.e. when [O] combines with O2. Oxygen molecule consisting of two oxygen atoms splits into atomic oxygen in the presence of ultraviolet radiation. The atomic oxygen then combines with another molecule of oxygen to form ozone.
The reactions are as follows:
      UV light
O2 ---------------> [O] + [O]
[O] + O2 ---------->O3
Hence, the statement given in the question is correct.
So, the correct answer is 'True'.

Closest atmospheric layer to earth's surface is known as

  1. Boundary Layer

  2. Atmosphere

  3. Biosphere

  4. Hydrosphere


Correct Option: A

What is lower layer of atmosphere called?

  1. Ionosphere

  2. Mesosphere

  3. Troposphere

  4. Stratosphere


Correct Option: A

The earth's atmosphere is divided into layers based on the vertical profile of:

  1. Air pressure

  2. Air temperature

  3. Air density

  4. Wind speed


Correct Option: B

The lowermost layer of the atmosphere is 

  1. Stratosphere

  2. Lithosphere

  3. Troposphere

  4. Mesosphere


Correct Option: C

In which layer of atmosphere rainbow formation occurs?

  1. Mesosphere

  2. Stratosphere

  3. Ionosphere

  4. Troposphere


Correct Option: D

Which of the following layer of atmosphere receives an extraordinary amount of energy from the sun?

  1. Stratosphere

  2. Ionosphere

  3. Mesosphere

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: B

PAN is

  1. poisonous american nuisance

  2. primary air pollutant

  3. photochemical oxidant

  4. particulate atmospheric nitrogen compound


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

PAN (Peroxyacytyl nitrate) is a toxic chemical that is an important component of smog.PAN molecules are generally composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen atoms.

So the correct answer will be 'PARTICULATE ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN COMPOUND'.

Which one of the following is a rich source of energy and never causes atmospheric pollution?

  1. Solar energy

  2. Nuclear energy

  3. Sewage

  4. Petroleum


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

 solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies. The solar energy is a promising rich source of energy which does not cause any atmospheric pollution.

so the correct answer is 'Solar Energy'.

Multiple Choice Questions
Which one is wrong statement?

  1. Ozone in upper part of atmosphere is harmful to animals

  2. Green house effect is a natural phenomenon

  3. Eutrophication is a natural phenomenon in freshwater bodies

  4. Most of the forests have been lost in tropical area.


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ozone in the upper layer of the atmosphere is also called as good ozone. It forms a layer of the protective sheet or shield against the harmful ultraviolet radiations of the sun. This protects all the life forms from the harmful effects of UV rays.

So, the correct answer is option A, ozone in upper part of atmosphere is harmful to animals.

Multiple Choice Questions
The zone of atmosphere In which ozone layer is present is

  1. Troposphere

  2. Stratosphere

  3. Mesosphere

  4. Ionosphere


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ozone is a triatomic gas forming a layer of protective shield against harmful radiations of the sun such as UV-B and UV-C. The ozone layer is present in the upper part of the atmosphere called Stratosphere.

So, the correct answer is option B, Stratosphere.

The aurora is produced by:

  1. Reflections of sunlight by polar ice fields

  2. Fast-moving charged particles colliding with air molecules

  3. Burning oxygen caused by the intense sunlight at high altitude

  4. The combination of molecular and atomic oxygen to form ozone


Correct Option: B

In which layer of atmosphere temperature remains constant?

  1. Mesosphere

  2. Thermosphere

  3. Stratosphere

  4. Troposphere


Correct Option: C

Which is second major layer of earth's atmosphere?

  1. Troposphere

  2. Mesosphere

  3. Thermosphere

  4. Stratosphere


Correct Option: D

Our atmosphere is made of many layers. The layers nearest to the surface of the earth is known as

  1. Geosphere

  2. Stratosphere

  3. Troposphere

  4. none of above


Correct Option: C

Cyclones are mainly caused by 

  1. High-speed wind

  2. Diferential air pressure

  3. Uneven heating of land

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The cyclone is the circulating mass of air that rotates around the center of low atmospheric pressure. It is caused due to uneven heating of the land. The uneven heating of land causes the difference in the air pressure and causes the strong flow of wind from high pressure to low pressure.

So, the correct answer is option D.

One litre of cold air weighs heavier than the dry air (1 Lit) because of the

  1. Increased number of collisions between the molecules

  2. Increased number of molecules at low temperature

  3. Greater energy of molecules at high temperature

  4. Lower energy of molecules at high temperature


Correct Option: B

An ordinary clock loses time in summer. This is because

  1. The length of the pendulum increases and time period increases

  2. The length of the pendulum increases and time period decreases

  3. The length of the pendulum decreases and time period increases

  4. The length of the pendulum decreases and time period decreases


Correct Option: A

At which city might you be able to observe cirrus clouds at an altitude of 3,000 m (10,000 feet) above the surface?

  1. Barrow, Alaska

  2. Honolulu, Hawaii

  3. Miami, Florida

  4. Chicago, Illinois


Correct Option: A

Hot spots are regions of high

  1. rarity

  2. endemism

  3. critically endangered population

  4. diversity


Correct Option: B

The wind-chill factor:

  1. Relates body heat loss with wind to an equivalent temperature with no wind

  2. Indicates the temperature at which water freezes on exposed skin

  3. Takes into account humidity and air temperature in expressing the current air temperature

  4. Tells farmers when to protect crops from a freeze


Correct Option: A

Heat is energy in the process of being transferred from:

  1. Hot objects to cold objects

  2. Low pressure to high pressure

  3. Cold objects to hot objects

  4. High pressure to low pressure


Correct Option: A

The air temperature is $45^{o}F$,  the wind is blowing at $30 MPH$, and the wind chill temperature is $15^{o}F$. These conditions would be equivalent to:

  1. $A\, 15^{c}irc\, F$ air temperature and 0 MPH winds

  2. $A\, 30^{o}\,F$ air temperature and 45 MPH winds

  3. $A\, 30^{o}\,F$ air temperature and 15 MPH winds

  4. $A\, 15^{o}\,F$ air temperature and 30 MPH winds


Correct Option: A

At what time during a 24-hour day would a radiation temperature inversion best be developed?

  1. At sunset

  2. Near sunrise

  3. Toward the end of the morning

  4. Between 2 and 5 pm when the air temperature reaches a maximum


Correct Option: B

Heat waves are generally considered to be little more than a nuisance and are not responsible for considerable loss of life.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

Maximum air which we breathe is present at

  1. Troposphere

  2. Stratosphere

  3. Ionosphere

  4. Mesosphere


Correct Option: A
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