Know Your World - 43


1. A man with a dark skin, in comparison with a man with a white skin, What will experience?

Less heat and less cold

2. Where a large number of species are are found within a small unit of area?

Wet evergreen equatorial forests

3. Which is the tree requiring minimum water for its growth?

Babul

4. How are Oxygen and ozone?

Allotropes

5. In which is ‘Foot and Mouth Disease’found?

Cattle

6. What denotes the smallest temperature?

1° on the Kelvin scale

7. Which tree, once very popular in social forestry, is now taken to be environmental hazard?

Eucalyptus

8. Foot-and-Mouth disease in animals, a current epidemic in some parts of the world, By which is this caused?

Bacterium

9. In which animal is respiration done by skin?

Frog

10. ‘Gobar gas’ contains mainly which gas?

Methane

11. By which number the quality of gasoline’ sample is determined?

By its octane number

12. Due to bite of mad dog the disease hydrophobia is caused by which virus?

Rabies virus

13. A temperature at which both the Fahrenheit and the centigrade scales have the same value?

-40°

14. Medicine for epilepsy is obtained from which lichen?

Parmelia

15. Which type of glass is used for making glass reinforced plastic?

Quartz glass

16. What percentage of water is lost during transpiration?

0.99

17. When temperature is gradually decreased, what is the specific heat of substance?

Decreased

18. What is the loss of water in the form of water drops called?

Guttation

19. Which metal is non toxic in nature?

Gold

20. What is Study of growth and development of embryo?

Embryology

21. Angular separation between two colours of the spectrum depends upon which thing?

Angle of deviation

22. What is the Study of pulse and arterial blood pressure called?

Sphygmology

23. Which is the element that has the highest first ionization potential?

Nitrogen

24. What is considered as the easily digestible source of protein?

Soybean

25. Total internal reflection of light is possible when light enters from which thing?

Water to air

26. Which is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?

Western Ghats

27. In the human body, Cowper’s glands form a part of which system?

Reproductive system

28. Which transition metal is in liquid state?

Mercury

29. In absence of ribosome in cell which functions does not take place?

Protein synthesis

30. If a bar magnet is cut length wise into 3 parts, what will the total number of poles be?

6