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1. Answer: (d) re-radiated by land and water
Explanation: Earth absorbs radiation from the sun and then try to transmit it back to the atmosphere, but the atmosphere absorb very selective gas as a result of which the gas radiated gets back to earth resulting in an increase in temperature.
2. Answer: (b) It will become poisonous and kill living forms
Explanation: Ozone is a poisonous gas and is thus only present in a thin layer in the stratosphere. lf all the oxygen is converted to ozone, the environment will become poisonous and kill all living forms
3. Answer: (d) photosynthesis
Explanation: Photosynthesis is the process in plants where sunlight, carbon dioxide and water are converted to organic compounds, starch, energy, and oxygen. This is not involved in the water cycle.
4. Answer: (b) Transpiration
Explanation: Transpiration however is primarily a process that is used for the gaseous exchange and release of water vapors into the atmosphere and thus not playing any direct role in the carbon cycle.
5. Answer: (c) excessive use of man-made compounds containing both fluorine and chlorine
Explanation: Fluorine and chlorine react with ozone and convert ozone gas into oxygen gas and a single fluorine or chlorine molecule can destroy thousands of ozone molecules. Hence, the Ozone layer is getting depleted because of excessive use of man-made compounds containing both chlorine and fluorine.
6. Answer: (d) Humus, living organisms and soil particles
Explanation: The topsoil layer is a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and broken down organic matter, called humus. Humus is a rich, highly decomposed organic matter mostly made from dead plants, crunched-up leaves, dead insects, and twigs. Topsoil is the home of living things and the materials that they make or they change.
7. Answer: (d) air
Explanation: Within an ecosystem, the biotic components include the living components such as producers, consumers, and decomposers i.e. the plants, animals, and microbes. This means that the biotic component of the biosphere is not constituted by non-living material like air.
8. Answer: (c) Actin
Explanation: Light bands of muscle fibre are made of the protein called as Actin. Muscles are composed of bundles of single large cells (called muscle fibers) that form by cell fusion and contain multiple nuclei.
9.Answer: (a) \(SO_2\) pollution
Explanation: Lichens have shown high sensitivity to sulfur dioxide (\(SO_2\)) concentrations. It is because \(SO_2\) reacts with moisture present in the atmosphere to form sulfurous acid.
10. Answer: (c) Nitrosomonas and Nitrobacter
Explanation: The nitrification process requires the mediation of two distinct groups: bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrites (Nitrosomonas, Nitrosospira, Nitrosococcus, and Nitrosolobus) and bacteria that convert nitrites (toxic to plants) to nitrates (Nitrobacter, Nitrospina, and Nitrococcus).
11. Answer: (c) Collagen
Explanation: Collagen is the major insoluble fibrous protein in the extracellular matrix and in connective tissue. In fact, it is the single most abundant protein in the animal kingdom.
12.Answer: (d) Weathering
Explanation: The process of breaking bigger rocks into smaller fine particles is known as weathering.
13.Answer: (b) Lithosphere
Explanation: The lithosphere is the rocky outer part of the Earth. It is made up of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle. The lithosphere is the coolest and most rigid part of the Earth.
14. Answer: (a) keratin
Explanation: Keratin makes this epithelium impervious to water.
15. Answer: (a) breeding of animals
Explanation: Marked temperature changes in an aquatic environment can affect more breeding and the growth of aquatic plants, as the aquatic organisms and plants were highly dependent on the temperature factor.
16. Answer: (d) Water
Explanation: Water is called the "universal solvent" because it is capable of dissolving more substances than any other liquid. This is important to every living thing on earth. This allows the water molecule to become attracted to many other different types of molecules.
17. Answer: (d) Cholera
Explanation: Contaminated water can be the source of large outbreaks of disease, including cholera, dysentery and cryptosporidiosis; for the majority of waterborne pathogens, however, there are other important sources of infection, such as person-to-person contact and food.
18. Answer: (c) Antartica
Explanation: By summertime, stratospheric air from lower latitudes is able to penetrate the polar latitudes, and thereby replenish the ozone layer above Antarctica. Hence, there is a seasonal cycle to the ozone hole over Antarctica with the lowest ozone levels recorded in late September and early October.
19. Answer: (d) Quality of topsoil
Explanation: The quality of the topsoil is an important factor that decides biodiversity in that area.
20. Answer: (b) production of RBC
Explanation: Bone marrow makes stem cells, which produce platelets and white and red blood cells. Here's why those cells are important to your child's health. A bone marrow transplant (BMT) restores healthy bone marrow in children with stem cell defects, cancer and certain inherited diseases.
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