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This set of Environmental Science Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Greenhouse Gases – 1”.
1. By how much has atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration increased ever since the Industrial Revolution?
a) 20%
b) 10%
c) 40%
d) 60%
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Answer: c
Explanation: Due to excessive combustion of fossil fuels, the carbon dioxide concentration shot up from 280ppm during 1750 to nearly 400ppm
recently.
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Answer: b
Explanation: Water vapour also helps in trapping sun’s heat energy and thereby serves as the most abundant greenhouse gas.
Answer: a
Explanation: The word “anthropogenic” stands for environmental impact due to human activity.
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4. Which of the following is the largest sink for carbon dioxide gas?
a) Forests
b) Oceans
c) Ice sheets
d) Grasslands
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Answer: b
Explanation: Carbon dioxide dissolves in water as not only gas but also in the bicarbonates form. Therefore, ocean is one of the major sinks for
carbon dioxide.
5. Apart from Earth, which other celestial body(s) exhibits greenhouse gas effect?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Titan
d) All of the mentioned
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Answer: d
Explanation: Titan, Mars and Venus contain several greenhouse gases in their atmosphere and exhibit greenhouse effect.
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6. Which of the following bodies in the solar system has anti-greenhouse effect?
a) Jupiter
b) Mars
c) Titan
d) Venus
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Answer: c
Explanation: Titan also exhibits anti-greenhouse effect. The haze, constituting organic molecules, is not very efficient in trapping infrared radiations
and thereby reduces the temperature by 9 K.
Answer: b
Explanation: Greenhouse gases trap the infrared radiations from the sun and reflect it back to the Earth’s surface thereby heating up the planet.
Answer: c
Explanation: The airborne fraction (AF) indicates the proportion of GHG emissions that remain after a given time.
9. Clouds help in cooling down the planet and do not contribute to greenhouse effect. True or false?
a) True
b) False
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Answer: b
Explanation: Clouds can absorb infrared radiation as well as emit them and hence contribute to greenhouse effect.
Answer: d
Explanation: Global warming potential indicates the heat trapped by a greenhouse gas over 20, 50 or 100 years in terms of equivalent heat trapped
by carbon dioxide over the same period of time.
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Answer: a
Explanation: According to IPCC methane which has a 12.4 years lifetime, has a GWP of 86 over a period of 20 years.
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