Everyday Science MCQs 20

What is “H5N1" a term , which was very much in news recently ?
(a) It is a category of Visa provided by the USA FOR STUDENTS.
(b) It is the name of the virus which cause Bird flu
(c) It is the code name of India's space Mission 2010.
(d) It was the name of the military operation launched by Sri Lanka against LTTE-✔️

What form of radiation most closely resembles X-rays?
(a) alpha
(b) beta
(c) gamma-✔️
(d) neutron

What does airbag, used for safety of car driver, contain?
(a) Sodium bicarbonate
(b) Sodium azide-✔️
(c) Sodium nitrite
(d) Sodium peroxide

Water flows through a horizontal pipe at a constant volumetric rate. At a location where the cross sectional area decreases, the velocity of the fluid:
(a) Increases-✔️
(b) decreases
(c) stays the same

The word atom is from a Greek word meaning:
(a) small
(b) indivisible-✔️
(c) unseen
(d) visible

The weight of an object will be minimum when it is placed at
(a) The North Pole
(b) The South Pole
(c) The Equator
(d) The center of the Earth-✔️

The uranium fuel used worldwide is mainly in the form of:
(a) U3O8
(b) UO2-✔️
(c) UF6
(d) U metal

The time taken by the Sun to revolve around the center of our galaxy is
(a) 50 mn years
(b) 100 mn years
(c) 250 mn years-✔️
(d) 365 mn years

The theory of relativity was brought forward by
(a) Louis Victor de Broglie
(b) Albert Einstein-✔️
(c) Carl Linnaeus
(d) Jean Piaget

The study of phenomena at very low temperatures is called
(a) heat transfer
(b) morphology
(c) crystallography
(d) cryogenics-✔️