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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
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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

Answer: Methane
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

Answer: PFTBA
27 Greenhouse is made up of_______________
A Bricks
B Glass
C Steel
D Copper

Answer: Glass
28 Which is the main feedback gas of the greenhouse effect?
A Water vapor
B Carbon dioxide
C Methane
D Nitrous oxide

Answer: Water vapor
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

Answer: Sun’s energy
30 Surface temperatures on the planet ______ are hot enough to melt lead.
A Venus
B Mars
C Uranus
D Saturn

Answer: Venus
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

Answer: Callendar
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

Answer: 8%
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

Answer: Geo- engineering
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

Answer: CH4
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

Answer: radiation
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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