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(21)
What is the reason for extreme difference in temperatures at day and night in deserts?
[A]
Carbon dioxide concentrations are low in desert regions, therefore heat escapes easily
[B]
Sand has high heat conduction properties
[C]
Lack of moisture leads to escape of heat
[D]
None of these
Answer: Lack of moisture leads to escape of heat
(22)
What does the method of “enhanced weathering” infer?
[A]
It is a method used to spray sulphate aerosols to reduce the greenhouse effect
[B]
It is a method of cloud seeding that is done to reduce the contribution of clouds to greenhouse effect
[C]
It is a method used to remove CO2 from the air
[D]
None of the mentioned
Answer: None of the mentioned
(23)
What does the process of carbon sequestration mean?
[A]
Removal of CO2 from the atmosphere
[B]
Storage of CO2 by depositing in reservoir
[C]
Both of the mentioned
[D]
None of the mentioned
Answer: Both of the mentioned
(24)
Which of the following greenhouse gas is contributed by cattle farming?
[A]
Nitrous oxide
[B]
Methane
[C]
Carbon monoxide
[D]
All of the mentioned
(25)
Which of the following is a sink for carbon?
[A]
Wetlands
[B]
Old oil fields
[C]
Saline waterbodies
[D]
All of the above
Answer: All of the mentioned
(26)
Which of the following gases has the highest radiative efficiency?
[A]
Sulphur hexafluoride
[B]
Carbon tetrachloride
[C]
PFTBA
[D]
CFC
(27)
Greenhouse is made up of_______________
[A]
Bricks
[B]
Glass
[C]
Steel
[D]
Copper
(28)
Which is the main feedback gas of the greenhouse effect?
[A]
Water vapor
[B]
Carbon dioxide
[C]
Methane
[D]
Nitrous oxide
(29)
For greenhouse effect greenhouse gases interacts with which one of the following options?
[A]
Wind’s energy
[B]
Sun’s energy
[C]
Atmosphere pressure
[D]
Pollution in the atmosphere
(30)
Surface temperatures on the planet ______ are hot enough to melt lead.
[A]
Venus
[B]
Mars
[C]
Uranus
[D]
Saturn
31
The scientist who first estimated the rise in global temperatures due to burning fossil fuels was:
[A]
Fourier
[B]
Arrhenius
[C]
Callendar
[D]
Tyndall
32
If the temperature of the sun were raised by 2%, how much more solar radiation would reach Earth?
[A]
2%
[B]
4%
[C]
8%
[D]
none of them
33
Climate represents……………..
[A]
The long-term average weather and its statistical variation for a given region
[B]
Weather averaged over a year
[C]
It is a measure of variations in the amount of precipitation
[D]
None of the above
Answer: The long-term average weather and its statistical variation for a given region
34
Loss of sea ice by melting in the Arctic Ocean:
[A]
Will result in sea-level rise
[B]
May result in positive feedback that amplifies global warming
[C]
Will result in cooler temperature in the Arctic
[D]
None of the above
Answer: May result in positive feedback that amplifies global warming
35
Energy sources that do not increase carbon emissions include –
[A]
Solar cells
[B]
Wind mills
[C]
Nuclear power plants
[D]
All of the above
Answer: Nuclear power plants
36
………………………………is the artificial modification of Earth’s climate systems through two primary ideologies, Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
[A]
Adaptation
[B]
Geo- engineering
[C]
Synchronization
[D]
Mitigation
37
What greenhouse gas, whose concentration in the atmosphere is steadily increasing, is produced by cattle and other animals?
[A]
CFC's,
[B]
CO2
[C]
CH4
[D]
N2O
38
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere are transparent to:
[A]
heat (infrared) but they absorb light
[B]
light but they absorb heat (infrared)
[C]
heat (infrared) and light
[D]
neither light nor heat (infrared)
Answer: light but they absorb heat (infrared)
39
The heat from the sun reaches Earth via:
[A]
conduction
[B]
convection
[C]
radiation
[D]
a, b and c
40
The fraction of the rise in global temperature during the last century that was anthropogenic is
[A]
none
[B]
all
[C]
half
[D]
unknown, but not zero
Answer: unknown, but not zero
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