Natural Science Review

1. Ozone hole refers to

a. hole in ozone layer
b. decrease in the ozone layer in troposphere
c. decrease in thickness of ozone layer in stratosphere
d. increase in the thickness of ozone layer in troposphere
2. Pine, fir, spruce, cedar, larch and cypress are the famous timber-yielding plants of which several
also occur widely in the hilly regions of India. All these belong to
a. Angiosperms
b. Gymnosperms
c. Monocotyledons
d. Dicotyledons
3. Pollination is best defined as
a. transfer of pollen from anther to stigma
b. germination of pollen grains
c. growth of pollen tube in ovule
d. visiting flowers by insects
4. Plants receive their nutrients mainly from
a. Chlorophyll
b. Atmosphere
c. Light
d. soil
5. Movement of cell against concentration gradient is called
a. Osmosis
b. Active transport
c. Diffusion
d. Passive transport
6. Photosynthesis generally takes place in which parts of the plant?
a. Leaf and other chloroplast bearing parts
b. stem and leaf
c. Roots and chloroplast bearing parts
d. Bark and leaf
7. One of the following is not a function of bones.
a. Place for muscle attachment
b. Protection of vital organs
c. Secretion of hormones for calcium regulation in blood and bones
d. Production of blood corpuscles
8. Most highly intelligent mammals are
a. Whales
b. Dolphins
c. Elephants
d. Kangaroos
9. Prokaryotic cells lack
a. Nucleolus
b. nuclear membrane
c. membrane bound by organelles
d. All of these
10. Nucleus, the genetic material containing rounded body in each cell, was first discovered in 1831
by
 a. Robert Hooke
b. Robert Brown
c. Rudolf Virchow
d. Theodore Schwann
11. Our skin, when exposed to excess sunlight, becomes dark. This is because our skin pigments
called
a. Flavoxanthin
b. Melanin
c. Carotene
d. Xanthophyll
12. Plants wilt due to excess of
a. Transpiration
b. Photosynthesis
c. Absorption
d. None of these
13. Monotremes are unique mammals because they
a. possess hair
b. give birth to live young
c. secret milk in a pouch
d. lay eggs
14. On which of the following plants did Gregor Mendel perform his classical experiment?
a. Pea
b. Gram
c. Maize
d. Wheat
15. Night blindness is cause by lack of which vitamin?
a. Vitamin A
b. Vitamin B
c. Vitamin C
d. Vitamin D
16. The theory which is considered as most fundamental generalizations in biology is the
a. cell theory
b. Darwin Theory
c. Lamarck Theory
d. Tissue theory
17. The name of the scientist who proposed extension of cell theory is
a. Robert Bentley
b. Rudolf Virchow
c. David Bellamy
d. Thomas Bell
18. The characteristic or trait of cell or organism is made by
a. Genes
b. Chromosomes
c. Proteins
d. Deoxyribonucleic acid
19. nitrogenous base cytosine of one nucleotide forms pair with
a. Thymine
b. Adenine
c. Guanine
d. Cytosine
20. What is present on the inside of double helix?
a. nitrogenous base
b. phosphate-sugar backbone
c. Nucleotides
d. ribose sugar
21. Smallest taxon of classification is _______.
a. Kingdom
b. Family
c. Variety
d. Species
22. The force that initiates evolution is ______
a. Variation
b. Mutation
c. Extinction
d. Adaptation
23. Which condition can be explained by Lamarckism?
a. How giraffes got their long neck
b. How humans lost their tail
c. How humans became bipedal
d. All of the above
24. On the Origin of Species was written by ______
a. Charles Darwin
b. Ludmila Kuprianova
c. Mikhail A. Fedonkin
d. Ituhbuna Lawraga
25. There is more competitions for survival between
a. Different animals of Same niche
b. Same animals of same niche
c. Different animals of different niche
d. Same animals of different niche
26. The change in state of water from gas to liquid is called
a. Condensation
b. Sublimation
c. Evaporation
d. Precipitation
27. The universal law of gravitation was propounded by -
a. Kepler
b. Galileo
c. Newton
d. Copernicus
28. The gravitational force with which the sun attracts the earth
a. is less than the force with which the earth attracts the sun.
b. is more than the force with which the earth attracts the sun.
c. is same as the force with which the earth attracts the sun.
d. is constant throughout the year.
29. If the distance between the earth and the sun were twice what it is now, the gravitational force
exerted on the earth by the sun would be
a. twice as large as now
b. four times as large as it is now
c. half of what it is now
 d. one-fourth of what it is now
30. The weight of a body is
a. the same everywhere on the surface of the earth.
b. maximum at the equator.
c. maximum at the pole.
d. more on the hills than in the plains.
31. A body is taken from the earth to the moon
a. its mass will be different but weight will remain the same
b. its mass will remain the same but weight will be different
c. both mass and weight will be different
d. its mass and weight will be different
32. One finds it more difficult to walk on ice than on a concrete road because
a. the friction between the ice and the feet is less than that between the concrete and feet
b. ice is soft and spongy where as concrete is hard
c. there is more friction on the ice than on concrete
d. none of these
33. It is easier to roll a barrel than to pull it because
a. the full weight of the barrel comes into play when it is pulled
b. he surface area of the barrel in contact with the road is more in case of pulling
c. rolling friction is much less than sliding friction
d. None of these
34. When velocity is doubled
a. acceleration is doubled
b. kinetic energy is doubled
c. momentum is doubled
d. potential energy is doubled
35. A sheet of paper can be pulled out quickly from under a glass of water without spilling the water.
This due to
a. Newton\'s third law of motion
b. Inertia
c. Acceleration
d. lack of friction between paper and glass
36. Conservation of energy means.
a. Energy can be created as well as destroyed.
b. Energy can be created but can not be destroyed.
c. Energy cannot be created but can be destroyed.
d. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
37. A person climbing a hill bends forward in order to
a. avoid slipping.
b. increase speed
c. reduce fatigue.
d. increase stability.
38. Raindrops are spherical due to
a. Viscosity
b. surface tension
c. continuous evaporation
d. air friction
39. Which one of the following is a source of methane emission into the atmosphere?
a. Automobile exhaust fume
b. Industrial chimney
 c. Mining
d. Wetland
40. Which of the following is a physical change?
a. Melting ice cubes
b. Burning paper
c. Rusting iron
d. Burning gasoline
41. Sound waves in air are
a. Transverse
b. Longitudinal
c. Electromagnetic
d. polarized
42. Which among the following keep changing for a body in uniform circular motion?
1. Speed 2. Amplitude
3. Velocity 4. Acceleration
Choose the correct option from the codes given below:
a. Only 1 & 2
b. Only 2 & 3
c. Only 3 & 4
d. Only 1 & 4
43. Which among the following provides potential energy to an object?
a. Its momentum
b. It’s position
c. It’s acceleration
d. It’s shape
44. According to Bohr's theory, an electron's path around the nucleus defines its
a. electric charge.
b. atomic mass.
c. energy level.
d. speed.
45. Dalton's atomic theory stated that every element was made of atoms that could not be subdivided,
atoms of the same element are alike, and
a. atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
b. the nucleus is the center of the atom.
c. atoms can join to form molecules.
d. atoms are constantly in motion.
46. The chemical formula for water, H2O, means that each water molecule contains
a. two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms.
b. two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom.
c. two hydrogen atoms and zero oxygen atoms .
d. one hydrogen atom and two oxygen atoms.
47. You put 1 gram of salt into 1 liter of water and stir. The resulting liquid is an example of
a. a pure substance.
b. a heterogeneous mixture.
c. a homogeneous mixture.
d. an immiscible mixture.
48. The chemical symbol for sulfuric acid is H2SO4. How many atoms are contained in each
molecule of sulfuric acid?
a. 3
b. 5
 c. 6
d. 7
49. Which of the following is an example of a gas-liquid mixture?
a. the air we breathe
b. a carbonated drink
c. soapsuds
d. ice cubes
50. A mixture is different from a compound because each substance in a mixture
a. retains its own properties.
b. changes its electric charge.
c. forms an ion.
d. changes from a solid to a liquid.