NPTEL Course: Air Pollution and Control

Week 6 Assignment 6

Please select the correct option. All question contains only one correct
answer.
1. What is the kerb site location?
a. Side of the water body
b. Side of the pavement
c. Outside the main city
d. Away from pavement

2. Which one of the following models is used in the bottom-up approach?

a. Positive mass factorization (PMF) model
b. Chemical mass balance (CMB) model
c. Lagrangian model
d. Principal Components Analysis

3. Top-down approach is also called

a. receptor-based method
b. source-based method
c. emission inventory-based method
d. dispersion based method

4. The fundamental principle of receptor modeling is

a. Mass conservation
b. Energy conservation
c. Normal distribution
d. Conservation of momentum

5. The main characteristics of receptor models is/are

a. Chemical mass balance principle
b. Based on the solution of multilinear equations
c. Do not depend on emission inventories
d. All above
6. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes
given below the lists:
List I List II
A. Organic carbon (OC) 1. High-performance liquid chromatography
(HPLC)
B. Inorganic elements 2. Thermal optical methods
C. Organic compounds 3. Linear regression
D. Analytical uncertainty 4. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
(ICPMS)

Codes:
A B C D
a. 2 1 4 3
b. 2 4 1 3
c. 1 3 2 4
d. 1 3 4 2

7. Which of the following is not the cause of Indoor Air Pollution?

a. Poorly designed ventilation systems
b. Well-designed ventilation systems
c. Indoor sources of air pollution
d. Outdoor sources of air pollution

8. Which of the following indoor air pollutants is responsible for irritation

to the skin?
a. SO2
b. NOx
c. RSPM (Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter)
d. CO

9. What is the source of asbestos in the indoor environment?

a. Building maintenance
b. Glue
c. Insecticides
d. Fertilizers

10.Which of the following are the biological indoor pollutants?

a. Mattresses
b. Pitchblende
c. Disinfectants
d. Uranium