Sets
General Science Set 32
30 questions 1. The suggestion that a magnet exerts an equal and opposite force on a current-carrying conductor was made by:
2. Compared with covalent compounds, ionic compounds generally have:
3. Which of the following global biodiversity hotspots includes the Nicobar Islands?
4. Friction arises mainly due to:
5. Coluthur Gopalan is associated with:
6. Solder, used for welding electrical wires together, is an alloy of:
7. The normal temperature of a healthy human adult is taken to be:
8. The sex of a human baby is determined by the chromosome contributed by the:
9. Soaps are sodium or potassium salts of:
10. For a ray of light passing through a rectangular glass slab, the emergent ray is:
11. Chlorophyll pigments in a chloroplast are present in the:
12. The sound energy passing per unit time through a unit area perpendicular to the direction of propagation is called:
13. Fullerene was named after the US architect:
14. The sex chromosomes in human males are:
15. Consider the following statements:
(I) In a series combination, the total potential difference equals the sum of the potential differences across the individual resistors.
(II) In a parallel combination, the total current equals the sum of the currents through the separate branches.
(III) In a parallel combination, the potential difference across each resistor is different.
Which of the above is/are correct?
16. The bacterium that ferments milk to form curd is:
17. Successive members of a homologous series differ by a:
18. The Big Dipper lies in the constellation:
19. Leaves facing each other come together after sunset in the sleeping leaves of:
20. The hardest natural substance known is: