science & tech MCQ section 6 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

ARussian Capsule Bion-M craft that was filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other animals returned from a month’s long mission in Orbit on 19 May 2013.

Answer: (c)

Timber is a renewable resource, like plantation forests, which are planted and then cut down to make paper. It is sometimes called a sustainable resource, so long as we keep planting and growing trees at the same rate as we cut them down. Fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas are non-renewable resources.

Answer: (a)

CTBT is the universally accepted norm against nuclear testing has been respected by 183 countries since 1996.

Answer: (a)

A geostationary satellite is an earth-orbiting satellite, placed at an altitude of approximately 35,800 kilometres (22,300 miles) directly over the equator, that revolves in the same direction the earth rotates (west to east).

At this altitude, one orbit takes 24 hours, the same length of time as the earth requires to rotate once on its axis. The term geostationary comes from the fact that such a satellite appears nearly stationary in the sky as seen by a ground-based observer.

Answer: (a)

Idukki district of Kerala has become first district in India to have high speed Rural Broadband Network i.e. National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) Internet connectivity. NOFN is the largest rural connectivity project of its kind in the world.

Answer: (b)

Dactylogram is simply a fingerprint. The word originates from the Greek word 'daktylos' which loosely translates to 'something written'. The study of fingerprints for identification purposes is called dactylography.