Which of the following produces more severe burns?
A. Boiling water
B. Hot water
C. Steam
D. Melting icebergs
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Cloudy nights are warmer compared to clear cloudless nights, because clouds
A. Prevent cold waves from the sky from descending on Earth
B. Reflect back the heat given off by Earth
C. Produce heat and radiate it towards Earth
D. Absorb heat from the atmosphere and send it towards Earth
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On adding common salt to water, the boiling point and freezing point of water will
A. Increase
B. Decrease
C. Decrease and increase respectively
D. Increase and decrease respectively
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Which one of the following instruments is used for measuring moisture content of air?
A. Hydrometer
B. Hygrometer
C. Hypsometer
D. Pycnometer
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Which of the following processes will have the slowest speed for the same volume of a liquid?
A. Boiling
B. Compaction
C. Evaporation
D. Freezing point
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Match the following.
List-I
List-II
a. Evaporation
1. Liquid into gas
b. Sublimation
2. Liquid into solid
c. Freezing
3. Solid into gas
d. Melting
4. Solid into liquid
A. a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4
B. a-3, b-1, c-2, d-4
C. a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
D. a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4
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Assertion (A): A piece of copper and a piece of glass are heated to the same temperature. When touched, thereafter the copper piece appears hotter than the glass piece.
Reason (R): The desity of copper is more than that of glass.
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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A gap is left between two rails of a railway track to accommodate . . . . . . . . of the metal.
A. areal expansion
B. volume expansion
C. linear expansion
D. apparent expansion
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Thermostat . . . . . . . . is a mean of Keeping Stable.
A. Current
B. Temperature
C. Pressure
D. Heat Radiation
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. . . . . . . . are comparatively bad conductors of heat
A. Pb & Hg
B. Au & Ag
C. Cu & Fe
D. Cu & Al
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The atmosphere is heated mainly by
A. isolation
B. conduction
C. radiation
D. convection
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Which of the following is correct?
Specific volume of water when heated at 0 Celsius
A. First increases and then decreases
B. First decreases and then increases
C. Grows equally
D. Decreases evenly
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The water from a hand pump is warm in winter because
A. our body is cold in winter and the water appears to be warm
B. the temperature inside the Earth is higher than the atmospheric temperature
C. the pumping process causes friction which warms up the water
D. inside water comes out and absorbs heat from the environment
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A hydrogen inflated polythene balloon is released from the surface of the Earth. As the balloon rises to an altitude up in the atmosphere, it will
A. Decrease in size
B. Flatten into disc like shape
C. Increase in size
D. Maintain the same size and shape
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Super cooling stands for cooling of a liquid
A. at freezing point
B. below freezing point
C. at melting point
D. above melting point
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Consider the following statements.
Assertion (A): Light coloured clothes are preferred in summer.
Reason(R): Light colours are poor absorbers of heat.
Select correct answer:
A. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
B. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
C. (A) is true, but (R) is false
D. (A) is false, but (R) is true
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Burns caused by steam are much severe than those caused by boiling water because
A. steam pierces through the pores of body quickly
B. steam has latent heat
C. steam is gas and engulfs the body quickly
D. temperature of steam is higher
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Which of the following represents a relation for heat lost = heat gained?
A. Principle of Thermal equilibrium
B. Principle of Colours
C. Principle of Calorimetry
D. Principle of Vaporisation
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If thermal capacity of a body is expressed in terms of mass of water is called
A. specific heat
B. water equivalent
C. latent heat
D. None of the above
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Green house effect is the heating up of the Earth's atmosphere which is due to
A. the ultraviolet rays
B. γ-rays
C. the infrared rays
D. X-rays
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