Acid Rain

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What is the chemical name of water?

1. Hydrogen trioxide
2. Dihydrogen oxide
3. Hydrogen dioxide
4. Hydrogen oxygen

Q.

What is acid rain? How is acid rain caused? What are the harmful effects of acid rain?

Q. what type of gase is relesed in yagna (burning wood pieces with dry cow dung and ghee)?

Q.

Oxides of nitrogen react with water to form acids. Hence, the statement "Nitrogen dioxide reacts with water to form nitric acid." is true.

1. False

2. True

Q.

Name two gases present in polluted air which can cause acid rain.

Q.

Explain how, burning of fuels such as coal, petrol and diesel leads to acid rain. How is acid rain harmful?

Q.

Which of the following gas does not contribute to the formation of acid rain ?

(a) nitrogen monoxide

(b) carbon monoxide

(c) sulphur dioxide

(d) nitrogen dioxide

Q.

Carbon dioxide is prepared by complete combustion of carbon and carbon-containing fuels in _________ of air.

1. excess

2. less

3. absence

4. None of the above

Q. The acid rain that corrodes taj mahal contains what ?

Q.

Which of the following oxides upon dissolving with rain cause acid rain?

1. Nitrogen dioxide
2. Sulphur dioxide
3. Silicon dioxide
4. Sodium oxide

Q.

The constituent of polluted air which contributes in producing acid rain is:

(a) nitrogen

(b) sulphur dioxide

(c) oxygen

(d) argon

Q. Acid rain can damage crops, soil and buildings.

1. True
2. False

Q.

One of the following does not contribute in producing acid rain. This one is:

(a) nitrogen dioxide

(b) nitrogen monoxide

(c) carbon monoxide

(d) sulphur dioxide

Q.

What steps would you suggest to minimize environmental pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels?

Q. is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.

1. Smog
2. Fog
3. Soot
4. Fume

Q.

43. Which of the following is a serious environmental problem?

1. Smoke from vehicles

2. Fertilizers

3. Use of CNG

4. Use of LPG

Q. Which of the following fuels has the highest calorific value?

1. Hydrogen
2. Petrol
3. Natural gas
4. LPG

Q. Damage of Taj Mahal due to acid rain is also called as .

1. stone corrosion
2. marble cancer
3. stone cancer

Q.

Plant cannot consume free nitrogens present in the air then how do plants get nitrogens for their growth? Explain.

Q.

The fuel used in a steam engine is

1. water

2. carbon dioxide

3. carbon monoxide

4. none of these.

Q. Which of the following oxides upon dissolving with rain cause acid rain?

1. Nitrogen dioxide
2. Sulphur dioxide
3. Silicon dioxide
4. Sodium oxide

Q. Assertion :Extensive use of fossil fuels increases air pollution. Reason: Fossil fuels release oxides of nitrogen and sulphur on burning that cause acid rain.

1. Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion
2. Both Assertion and Reason are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion
3. Assertion is correct but Reason is incorrect
4. Both Assertion and Reason are incorrect

Q. What are the health hazards that people are faced with when the top soil gets washed away by the wind due to lack of adequate vegetation cover?
[2 MARKS]

Q. The primary air pollutant responsible for acid rains is:

1. carbon dioxide
2. sulphur dioxide
3. carbon monoxide
4. ozone

Q.

What do you mean by ODS and AQI?

Q. Which of the following is true about acid rain?

1. Acid rain damages buildings.
2. All of the above
3. Acid rain increases the acidity of the soil.
4. Acid rain reduces fertility of the soil.

Q. Which of the following gases is known as tear gas?

1. Methyl isocyanide
2. Sulphur dioxide
3. Nitrous oxide
4. Chloropicrin

Q. What are the effects of acid rain? How can we prevent them? (3 marks)

Q. Acid rain is a mixture of:

1. Sulphuric acid with hydrochloric acid and nitric acid with nitrous acid
2. Sulphuric acid with sulphurous acid and nitric acid with hydrochloric acid
3. Sulphuric acid with sulphurous acid and nitric acid with nitrous acid
4. Sulphuric acid with nitrous acid and nitric acid with sulphurous acid

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Oxides of Nitrogen react with water to form acids.

1. True

2. False