Chapter 16: Garbage In Garbage Out
Choose the correct answer,
Q1. Which of the following can be recycled?
(a) Waste paper
(b) Leather shoes
(c) Animal waste
(d) Kitchen waste
Answer
Answer: (a) Waste paper
Q2. Out of these, which one is a non-biodegradable waste?
(a) Paper
(b) Faecal matter
(c) Aluminium foil
(d) Cotton
Answer
Answer: (c) Aluminium foil
Q3. 3’R’ means
(a) reduce, reuse and recycle
(b) rain, reuse and recycle
(c) rotting, reduce and reuse
(d) recycle, rain and rotting
Answer
Answer: (a) reduce, reuse and recycle
Q4. Which among the following will not pollute the soil?
(a) Aluminium foil
(b) Plastic
(c) Thermo Col
(d) Bread
Answer
Answer: (d) Bread
Q5. Rotting is carried out by
(a) microbes
(b) insects
(c) ants
(d) amoeba
Answer
Answer: (a) microbes
Q6. Materials that can be recycled are collected in
(a) Red bins
(b) Blue bins
(c) Yellow bins
(d) White bins
Answer
Answer: (b) Blue bins
Q7. Which one of the following will add to garbage?
(a) Wrapper of a biscuit pack
(b) Tin of a cold drink
(c) Syringe used by a doctor
(d) All of these
Answer
Answer: (d) All of these
Q8. Which one can be used for making manure?
(a) Earthworms
(b) Houseflies
(c) Eagle
(d) Crow
Answer
Answer: (a) Earthworms
Q9. Leaves falling from trees should be disposed by
(a) burning
(b) making compost by boiling and drying them
(c) making compost by vermicomposting
(d) any of these methods
Answer
Answer: (c) making compost by vermicomposting
Q10. Garbage from cities is collected at
(a) landfill areas
(b) riversides
(c) inside the ponds and lakes
(d) near every colony
Answer
Answer: (a) landfill areas