_____________ causes loss of water because of seepage of water into the soil.
A. Evaporation
B. Percolation
C. Transpiration
D. Infiltration
About ____ of the meteorologists and atmospheric scientists in the United States work in the field of weather forecasting ?
A. One-tenth
B. One-half
C. Three-quarters
D. Nine-tenths
World wildlife week is observed during_____________?
A. First week of October
B. Last week of October
C. Third week of October
D. First week of September
What is “temporary threshold shift” ?
A. Hearing loss due to excessive noise
B. Noise that is untolerable
C. Tolerable noise
D. inaudible noise
The concept that ‘population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically’ was put forward by______________?
A. Adam Smith
B. Charles Darwin
C. Thomas Malthus
D. Stuart Mill
What is oil slick ?
A. Boiled oil
B. Cooled oil
C. Thin film of oil in sea water
D. Oil in deep sea
India ranks __________ amongst the wind-energy producing countries of the world?
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
The top layer of the lake is called as__________?
A. Thermocline
B. Epilimnion
C. Thermonion
D. Hypolimnion
The hottest atmospheric layer is the_______________?
A. Stratosphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Thermosphere
D. Troposphere
Lines connecting points of equal temperature are called______________?
A. Isobars
B. Isotherms
C. Thermals
D. Thermographs