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Questions : Which one of the following statements is/are correct with regard to lines of latitude?
  1. They are concentric circles numbered from 0° to 90°.
  2. They are circles on a globe which are parallel to the Equator and which are to the North and South of the Equator.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:

(a) Both 1 and 2

(b) Neither 1 nor 2

(c) 2 only

(d) 1 only

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (a)

The latitude of a place defined as the arc, measured in degree, north or south of the meridian between the place and the equator.

The equator is given the value of 0º. The latitudes thus range from 0º at the equator to 90° north or south at the poles.

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Question : 1

The duration of its day and tilt of its axis are almost identical to those of the Earth. This is true of

a) Saturn

b) Mars

c) Neptune

d) Uranus

Answer: (b)

Question : 2

The terms ‘Event Horizon’, ‘Singularity’, ‘String Theory’ and ‘Standard Model’ are sometimes seen in the news in the context of

a) Placing satellites in the orbit of the Earth

b) Origin and evolution of living organisms on the Earth

c) Study of the solar and the lunar eclipses

d) Observation and understanding of the Universe

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

Which statement describes the atmosphere of the planet correctly?

  1. Venus is mostly carbon dioxide
  2. Mercury is mostly nitrogen.
  3. Earth is mostly oxygen.
  4. Saturn is mostly helium.
Choose the correct answer using the codes given below.

a) 1 and 3

b) None

c) 2 and 3

d) 1 only

Answer: (d)

Venus is 96% carbon dioxide and 4% nitrogen.

For the other planets

  • Mercury doesn’t really have an atmosphere;
  • Earth has 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen; and
  • Saturn is 19% helium and the rest hydrogen.

Question : 4

With which planet comet Shoemaker Levy Collided

a) Jupiter

b) Saturn

c) Mars

d) Pluto

Answer: (a)

Question : 5

The diameter of Earth is

a) 12,800 km

b) None of the above

c) 1,00,000 km

d) 8,000 km

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

The nuclear fuel in the Sun is

a) Oxygen

b) Uranium

c) Hydrogen

d) Helium

Answer: (c)

The nuclear fuel in the sun is Hydrogen. Actually, the sun isn’t “burning,” but instead its heat and light come from its core where the element hydrogen is continuously being converted into the element helium.

This known as nuclear fusion and is basically the same thing a hydrogen bomb does.

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