State whether true or false:
Lightning conductors are used to save the building from earthquakes.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is B False
The given statement is false. This is because a lightening conductor is a metal rod mounted on buildings intended to protect the structure from the 'Lightening strike' and not from 'earthquakes'.

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Question 3(c)

State whether the following statement is true or false.
Lightning conductor cannot protect a building from lightning.

State whether the following statements are true or false :

(a) Like charges attract each other.

(b) A charged glass rod attracts a charged plastic straw.

(d) Earthquakes can be predicted in advance.

(e) An earthquakes of magnitude 2 on Richter Scale is ten times as strong as an earthquake of magnitude 1 on the same Scale.

(f) The plates of earth's crust are continuously moving.

(g) An earthquake is measured and recorded by using an instrument called electrocardiograph.

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