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Fish and other aquatic creatures can live inside a deep frozen pond because 

A) fish are cold-blooded animals B) ice is a bad conductor of heat
C) there will always be water just beneath the ice level D) they can adapt themselves to live in ice
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) there will always be water just beneath the ice level

Explanation:

Water has the maximum density at 4oC. So at this temperature, it sinks down to bottom and stays here. If it cools further, it will become less dense and move up. So while the upper layers can cool enough to form ice, the bottom layers remain as water at  4oC .  

Therefore, (C) is correct.

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At what temperature do the Fahrenheit and celcius scales give the same reading?

A) 212 degrees B) 32 degreees
C) -40 degreees D) 0 degreees
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) -40 degreees

Explanation:

We want the temperature when F=C.

We know that, F = C x 95 + 32

So substituting C For F, we have C = -40o

Therefore,  C = -40. 

Thus when C = -40, we have C = F

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Pieces of camphor placed on water move about rapidly. This is because of

A) diffusion B) viscosity
C) surface tension D) capillarity
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) surface tension

Explanation:

The Camphor slowly dissolves in the water lowering the latter's surface tension in the immediate neighbourhood. The stronger pull exerted by the uncontaminated portion of water brings about a movement of the surface and the camphor particles are carried along with it. When after sometime the whole surface settles for the reduced tension, the movement of the camphor too short.

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A boat loaded with rocks floats in the middle of a swimming pool. A man in the boat throws the rocks overboard. The level of water in the pool will

A) increase B) decrease
C) remains the same D) first decrease and then increase
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) decrease

Explanation:

Let M and m grams be the mass of boat + rock in it. By law of floatation(M+m) grams of water will be displaced. This has a volume of (M+m)cc. That means the level of water in pool has risen up by (M+m)cc with the boat + rock when it is floating. If the rocks in the boat are thrown not into the pool but outside, the weight left is only M grams the weight of the boat. This will have displaced M cc of water only i.e less water than in the case of loaded boat. But if the rocks are put in the water in the pool and not outside, then the water in the pool will rise not only by M cc on account of empty boat but also by a volume of the stone put into it. This volume will be mdwhere m is the mass of rock and d density of rock.

Now md is  < m. Thus the total rise will be M+mdwhich is < M + m.

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If an empty cylinder is half filled with a liquid, its center of gravity is 

A) shifted upwards B) shifted downwards
C) shifed neither upward nor downward D) shifted upward or downward depending on the density of the liquid
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) shifted downwards

Explanation:

Effect of adding liquid is to make the cylinder more bottom heavy which is a more stable position

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If a body weighs 12N on the surface of the earth, how much will it weigh on the surface of the moon where acceleration due to gravity is only one-sixth of that on earth's surface?

A) 12N B) 2N
C) 10N D) 6N
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 2N

Explanation:

Weight is mass x g. Since mass is constant and g is only 16thof that on the earth. The weight on the moon is only 16th of that on the earth. 

Therefore 2N i.e (b) is the answer.

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A boy is swinging a ball attached to a string in a horizontal circle.If the string snaps

A) the ball will travel towards the center of the circle and fall down B) it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down
C) it will fall down at the same place where the string breaks D) none of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) it will continue to travel along a tangent to the circle at the point the ball was at the time of snapping and finally fall down

Explanation:

The centripetal force having  been removed the body cannot execute the curved path. (B) is Correct.

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In the case of bodies falling under gravity which of the following remains constant at a given place?

A) Kinetic energy B) Potential energy
C) acceleration D) all the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) acceleration

Explanation:

This acceleeration denoted by letter g varies from place to place. Unless stated otherwise, it can be taken 9.8 m/s2.

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