Weekly Mock Old Batch

1. Which among the following Island of the Andaman & Nicobar islands contains the only known examples of mud volcanoes in India, called locally as “jalki”?

2. Duncan Passage separates

3. Which among the following is the coastal water body that lies off the southwest coast of India, north of a line extending from the southern point of Sri Lanka to the southernmost of the Maldives Islands, and east of the Maldives?

4. The channel that separates Lakshadweep Islands and Maliku Atoll is known as which among the following?

5. India’s only active volcano is located at which among the following places?

6. Port Blair is located on which of the following Islands?

7. Which among the following is not located in Andaman & Nicobar island?

8. South Talpatti Island” has been a disputed territory between which of the following neighbors?

9. Amindivi islands in India are best known for which of the following?

10. New Moore island disappeared in the sea after many years of its creation. This island was claimed by which of the following two neighbors?

11. Loss of water from plants in the form of water vapour is called_______

12. Mark the one, which is NOT the form of transpiration?
a) Radical transpiration
b) Cuticular transpiration
c) Lenticular transpiration
d) Stomatal transpiration

13. How much percentage of total transpiration is done by stomata?

14. Which light modulates osmoregulation of guard cell?

15. Name the specialized pores from where guttation takes place.

16. If 72 x 96 = 6927, 58 x 87 = 7885, then 79 x 86 = ?

17. 144  (132) 121

64      (?)     100

18. a = 14 (290) 15 = b= 16 (330) 17

C= 18(?) 19

26. The first anglo sikh war started in

27. Who is known as Lion of Punjab?

28. In which of the following conditions, the distance between the molecules of hydrogen gas would increase?
(i) Increasing pressure on hydrogen contained in a closed container
(ii) Some hydrogen gas leaking out of the container

(iii) Increasing the volume of the container of hydrogen gas
(iv) Adding more hydrogen gas to the container without increasing the volume of the container
(a) (i) and (iii)
(b) (i) and (iv)
(c) (ii) and (iii)
(d) (ii) and (iv)

29. When a gas jar full of air is placed upside down on a gas jar full of bromine vapours, the red-brown vapours of bromine from the lower jar go upward into the jar containing air. In this experiment:
(a) Air is heavier than bromine
(b) Both air and bromine have the same density
(c) Bromine is heavier than air
(d) Bromine cannot be heavier than air because it is going upwards against gravity

30. A form of matter has no fixed shape but it has a fixed volume. An example of this form of matter is

31. Which one of the following statements is not true?
(a) The molecules in a solid vibrate about a fixed position
(b) The molecules in a liquid are arranged in a regular pattern
(c) The molecules in a gas exert negligibly small forces on each other, except during collisions
(d) The molecules of a gas occupy all the space available

32. The correct procedure of heating iron-sulphur mixture to prepare iron sulphide is: :
(a) Heat the powder mixture at the base of the test tube using a blue flame throughout.
(b) Heat the iron filings and sulphur mixture in the middle of the test tube using yellow flame throughout.
(c) Heat the powder mixture at the top of the test tube using an orange flame throughout.
(d) Heat the iron filings-sulphur mixture at 3/4 quarters of the test tube using a red flame throughout.

33. Which one of the following set of phenomena would increase on raising the temperature?
(a) Diffusion, evaporation, compression of gases

(b) Evaporation, compression of gases, solubility

(c) Evaporation, diffusion, expansion of gases
(d) Evaporation, solubility, diffusion, compression of gases

34. On converting 308 K, 329 K and 391 K to Celsius scale, the correct sequence of temperatures will be:
(a) 33°C, 56°C and 118°C
(b) 35°C, 56°C and 119°C
(c) 35°C, 56°C and 118°C
(d) 56°, 119°C and 35° C

35. A particle is moving in a circular path of radius r.  The displacement  after half a circle would be:

36. Which of the following can sometimes be ‘zero’ for a moving body?

i. Average velocity

ii. Distance travelled

iii. Average speed

iv. Displacement

(a) Only (i)

(b) (i) and (ii)

(c) (i) and (iv)

(d) Only (iv)

37. Which of the following statement is correct regarding velocity and speed of a moving body?

(a) Velocity of a moving body is always higher than its speed

(b) Speed of a moving body is always higher than its velocity

(c) Speed of a moving body is its velocity in a given direction

(d) Velocity of a moving body is its speed in a given direction