Anamolous Expansion of Water
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How is rainwater different from sea water?
During extreme winters, water bodies such as lakes and rivers freeze forming a layer of ice on their top surface. How do fish and other aquatic animals manage to survive under such conditions?
- True
- False
If a mixture of kerosene and water is left undisturbed for a while, which liquid comes to the bottom and which will be at the top?
Water comes to the top and kerosene at the bottom.
Water stays at the bottom and kerosene at the top.
Top - Kerosene; Middle - Water; Bottom - Kerosene.
Both get mixed well.
Which of the following statements are true?
(a) Water expands on heating from to .
(b) Rubber contracts on heating.
(c) Water contracts on heating from to .
(d) Water expands on freezing.
(b) is correct
(c) and (a) are false
Only (a) is correct
All are correct
The _________ of water enables aquatic animals to survive in a reservoir where the surface layer of water has frozen.
- contract
- expand
- first contract, then expand
- first expand, then contract
- True
- False
- 18g of water is formed by the combination of 16g oxygen with 2g of hydrogen
- 18g of water in liquid state is obtained by heating 18g of ice
- 18g of water is completely converted into vapour state n heating
- 18g of water freezes at 4oC to give same mass of ice
Illustrate the law of conservation of mass with an example.
- Increases
- Decreases
- No change
- Can't be predicted
Does water expand with heat?
- oxygen and carbon dioxide
- hydrogen and oxygen
- sulphur dioxide and hydrogen
- chlorine and ammonia
If distilled water is kept in a sealed bottle for a long time, it leaves etchings on the surface of the glass.
The colour, odour and taste of water is:
- white, odourless, sweet
- colourless, odourless, salted
- colourless, odourless and tasteless
- colourless, strong odour, sweet
In winters the average temperature of a city is −1∘C. There is a big lake in the middle of the city. The temperature in the lake, ____ with an increase in depth.
increases
decreases
remains same
increases then decreases
- Dew
- Snow
- Rain
- Smog
- Diffusion
- Transpiration
- Osmosis
- Evaporation
At what temperature, the volume of a given amount of water is least for a given mass of water?
0∘ C
4∘ C
12∘ C
8∘ C
- Density of ice is less than that of water
- In winter season, ice formed on the surface of a lake provide thermal insulation
- Ice is crystalline form of water
- At atmospheric pressure, ice crystallizes in cubic form, but at very low temperatures, it condenses to a hexagonal form
- 0∘C
- 4∘C
- 40∘C
- 100∘C
- increasing mass of water.
- bursting of water pipe’s during winter.
- preservation of the aquatic life during the very cold weather.
- icebergs floating on water.
- True
- False