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Is rusting a physical or chemical change?
- Correct Answer
- In chemistry rusting is called as oxidation Oxidation is a chemical process where metal gains oxygen and become oxide In rusting the Iron ore make a chemical reaction with the oxygen in the presence of water and environmental or atmospheric moisture to produce an Iron oxide Iron oxide is otherwise called as rust The rusting of iron is a chemical change because it is two substances reacting together to make a new substance Rusting would only be a physical change if iron molecules remained pure iron throughout the process
- 1. Nipah virus outbreak in Bangladesh in the year
Options- A. 2001
- B. 2006
- C. 2012
- D. 2015 Discuss
- 2. Who was the first englishman to sail around the world?
Options- A. Magellan
- B. Sir Francis Drake
- C. Juan Sebastian Elcano
- D. Henry Hudson Discuss
- 3. Currency of Peru is
Options- A. Chilean Peso
- B. Euro
- C. Sol
- D. Dollar Discuss
- 4. What kind of mathematics do scientists use to analyze data?
Options- A. Algebra
- B. Calculus
- C. Geometry
- D. Statistics Discuss
- 5. Which is true of loyalty boards?
Options- A. They did not care about individual civil rights
- B. They carefully reveiwed all evidence in open court
- C. They were careful to pertect the civil rights of government workers
- D. They asked for voluntary statements Discuss
- 6. Which results from an increase in the greenhouse effect?
Options- A. Ocean acidification
- B. Smog pollution
- C. Ozone depletion
- D. All the above Discuss
- 7. The main function of a school board is to
Options- A. manage public schools in accordance with state and federal law.
- B. raise revenue for public schools through local taxes and fees.
- C. propose and legislate state laws that affect the public schools.
- D. serve as a school?s principals, teachers, and administrators. Discuss
- 8. Where do the greenhouse gases come from?
Options- A. Agriculture
- B. Land-use change
- C. Fosssil fuels
- D. All the above Discuss
- 9. The tech giant that has acquired Flipgrid, an education start-up with an app that lets students record and share videos on specific topics with their classmates is
Options- A. Microsoft
- B. Wipro
- C. TCS
- D. Google Discuss
- 10. The belief in one god is called
Options- A. Polytheism
- B. Monotheism
- C. Holytheism
- D. None Discuss
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Correct Answer: 2001
Explanation:
The first identification of Nipah virus as a cause of an outbreak of encephalitis was reported in 2001 in Meherpur district of Bangladesh. Since, then Outbreaks of the deadly Nipah virus has been recorded almost every year in selected districts of Bangladesh.
Drinking raw date palm sap and contact with a case were identified as the major risk factors for acquiring the disease.
Correct Answer: Sir Francis Drake
Explanation:
Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to sail around the world.
Correct Answer: Sol
Explanation:
Peru is a country in South America. Lima is the capital city of Peru. Sol is the currency of Peru.
Correct Answer: Statistics
Explanation:
Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.
All scientists uses Statistics for analysing data.
Correct Answer: They were careful to pertect the civil rights of government workers
Correct Answer: All the above
Explanation:
A greenhouse gas (GHG) is any gas in the atmosphere that absorbs and emits radiation in the thermal infrared range.
The increase in average global temperatures that results from an enhanced greenhouse effect.
Effects of increased greenhouse gas emissions:
Increases in the different greenhouse gases have other effects apart from global warming including ocean acidification, smog pollution, ozone depletion as well as changes to plant growth and nutrition levels.
Correct Answer: manage public schools in accordance with state and federal law.
Explanation:
The main function of a school board is to manage public schools in accordance with state and federal law.
The functions of the school board of a public school are:
? to establish strategic direction and priorities for the school.
? to monitor and review school performance and to report on it to the Director-General, parents of students at the school and staff.
? to develop, maintain and review curriculum for the school.
? to develop and review education policies at the school.
? to establish budgetary policies for the school and approve the school budget.
? to establish policies for the efficient and effective use of school assets and the management of financial risk.
? to develop relationships between the school and the community and between the school and community organisations.
? to make recommendations to the Director-General on issue affecting the school and to give effect to the Director-General?s directions.
? to encourage parent participation in their children?s learning; and
? to exercise any other function given to the board under this Act or any other
Territory law.
Correct Answer: All the above
Explanation:
Most of the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) come primarily from burning fossil fuels (coal, hydrocarbon gas liquids, natural gas, and petroleum) for energy use and the major greenhouse gas is of course carbon dioxide (CO2) which comes from burning fossil fuels and land-use change.
But methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which mostly come from agriculture and waste, are also significant GHGs and shouldn't be discounted.
Correct Answer: Microsoft
Explanation:
Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, an education start-up with an app that lets students record and share videos on specific topics with their classmates.
Microsoft is making Flipgrid free of charge.
Correct Answer: Monotheism
Explanation:
Belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God is called Monotheism.
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