Garbage in, Garbage out - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT
Very Short Q&A:
Q1: We never throw rubbish or garbage fron our homes, school, shops and offices. True/ False
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false
Q2: The wrapping material of grains, biscuits and milk go out as _____________________.
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Garbage
Q3: WE generate so much _______________ in our day to day activities
Garbage
Water
air
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Garbage
Q4: Who collect the garbage from the bins to the landfill?
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Safai karamcharis
Q5: Name the area of land where garbages are collected or dumped, the area is later converted into a park.
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Landfill
Q6: A garbage has both useful and non useful components. True/ False
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True
Q7: Name some of the kitchen garbage.
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Fruits and vegetable peels, egg shells, waste food tea leaves.
Q8: Polythene bags are useful components of garbage or not?
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No
Q9: Some of the materials in the garbage rots to form__________________.
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Compost
Q10: Garbage heaps of dried leaves should be
Burned
Converted into useful compost
Thrown in water bodies
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Converted into useful compost
Q11: Define composting
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Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment. The method of making compost is called composting.
Q12: What are the colours of two different dustbins provided by municipalities for garbage?
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Blue and green
Q13: Blue coloured dustbins are meant for what type of garbage?
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For materials that can be used again such as plastics, metals and glasses.
Q14: What is the nature of garbage that are dumped into green coloured dustbin?
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Kitchen ,plants and animals waste, that can be rot completely when burried in the soil.
Q15: What type of waste materials rot completely when burried in the soil?
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Kitchen ,plants and animals waste.
Q16: Which will rot completely: plants waste or plastic?
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Plant waste
Q17: Sort the materials as waste of blue bin or green bin
Kitchen waste, glass lens,egg shell, plastic bottle, animal wastes, dried leaves, metal container,.
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Blue bin: glass lens, plastic bottle, metal container
Green bin- Kitchen waste,egg shell, , animal wastes, dried leaves.
Q18: Gardener is burning garbage heap of dried leaves? Do you think he is doing right?
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No, because burning of leaves produce harmful gases and pollute our environment.
Q19: Burning of any substances causes air pollution.True/ False
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True
Q20: We can be friends of plants by supplying them with composting. True /False
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True
Q21: What is vermicomposting?
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The process of making compost with the help of redworms is called vermicomposting.
Q22: Which type of earthworm is used for composting?
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Redworm
Q23: Do redworm shave teeth?
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No
Q24: What will you feed a redworm?
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Vegetables and fruits waste, coffee and tea remains nad weed from the fields and garden.
Q25: Redworm grows in __________________ surrounding.
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Moist
Q26: Can we recycle paper?
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Yes
Q27: Why polythene bags create a big problem in garbage disposal?
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Because it did not rot.
Q28: Paper can be recycled to get useful products. True /False
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True
Q29: Drains do not get choked due to plastic thrown by us. True /False
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False
Q30: Which one is the better to use- compost or chemical fertilisers?
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Comost pit
Q31: Which of the following is garbage?
Domestic wastes
Municipal wastes
Industrial wastes
All of these
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Ans: d.
Waste accumulated in our surroundings and is ready for disposal is called as garbage. Garbage is the solid waste which includes domestic wastes, municipal wastes and industrial wastes.
Q32: Landfills are
Made in cities so that garbage can be dumped easily
Large holes in the ground that need to be filled for building upon
Areas marked out for dumping garbage
Large composite pits.
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Ans: c.
Landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and the oldest form of waste treatment
Q33: Which of the following is non-biodegradable?
Over ripped fruits
Foil paper of chocolate
Vegetable peels
Tea leaves
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Ans: b.
Non-biodegradable wastes are the wastes that can be recycled and reused. Also known as dry wastes. Foil paper of chocolate is biodegradable waste.
Q34: Which of the following is biodegradable?
Metallic waste
Plastic pieces
Newspaper
Garden waste
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Ans: d.
Biodegradable wastes are the wastes which come from our kitchen. They include food remains, vegetable peels, fruit peels and garden waste. These are discarded into green bin provided by municipality. These can be composted to obtain manure.
Q35: Which of these materials cannot be composted?
Plastic button from shirt
Banana peels
Newspaper and magazines
Potato
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Ans: a.
Shirt button plastic do not decomposes.
Q36: Which material is harmful for our environment?
Soil from pots
Plastic packets
Used wooden box
Vegetable peels
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Ans: b.
Plastic releases harmful chemicals into the surrounding soil, which can then seep into groundwater or other surrounding water sources and also the ecosystem.
Q37: We need to control the over use of plastic because
They do not decomposes
They clog fishing nets
Poisonous gases are released when they burns
All of these
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Ans: d.
Plastic releases harmful chemicals into the surrounding.
Q38: Which of the following is biodegradable stationery?
Pen refill
Wooden pencil
Plastic ruler
Stapler pins
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Ans: b.
Wooden pencil can be composted.
Q39: The red worms possess a special structure to grind food called
Wings
Spring like structure
Thin hairs
Gizzards
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Ans: d.
The red worms possess a special structure called gizzards with which they grind food material. A red worm eats food equal to its weight every day. Their castings are used as rich manure.
Q40: Organic material can be degraded by
Landfills
Vermicomposting
Segregating
Compositing
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Ans: b.
Degradation of organic matter into fertile manure by using special type of earthworms called as red worms. The nutrient rich manure is called as vermicompost. The process of preparing manure with the help of red worms is called vermicomposting.
Q41: Paper is
Recyclable Waste
Moist Waste
Segregate waste
Composite waste
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Ans: a.
Paper is recycled in industries to regenerate new paper.
Q42: Composting method in which earth worms are used.
Manuring
Vermicomposting
Landfills
Compositing waste
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Ans: b.
Degradation of organic matter into fertile manure by using special type of earthworms called as red worms.
Q43: In the process of Vermicomposting why water is sprinkled?
To soften the hard material
To wet the soil
So that the red worms can live
All of these
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Ans: b.
Vermicomposting involves degradation of organic matter into fertile manure by using special type of earthworms called as red worms. The nutrient rich manure is called as vermicompost.
Q44: A type of manure from wet waste from house
Alfalfa
Cow dung
Green manure
Compost
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Ans: d.
Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed and recycled as a fertilizer and soil amendment.
Q45: We make compost from
Metallic waste
Egg shell
Plastic pieces
Broken glass pieces
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Ans: b.
Compost is made from bio gradable wastes.
Q46: Converting plant and animal waste into manure, is called
Recycling
Depositing
Diffusion
Composting
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Ans: d.
Composting is nature's process of recycling decomposed organic materials into a rich soil known as compost.
Q47: Garbage collectors
Collect waste and then dispose it at garbage disposals.
Convert plant and animal waste into manure
A type of manure from wet waste from house
Collects only industrial waste
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Ans: a.
Garbage collectors collect waste and then dispose it at garbage disposals.
Q48: Why garbage dumps are usually located on the outskirts of a city?
We get more garbage from industries, and usually industries are located on the outskirts of city
Places at outskirt are cheaper to get.
They have flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes, and later turn into breeding grounds for micro-organisms which may cause diseases.
Place at outskirt is more fertile to make manure from garbage.
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Ans: c.
Q49: When garbage mixes with soil it makes.
Slush
Soil loose
Dust
Mud
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Ans: b.
Q50: Organism found with Red worm in pit?
Maggots
Spider
Small bug
All of these
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Ans: a.
Q51: Why eating in a banana leaf platter is better than plastic plate?
It is bio-degradable and can be disposed easily.
It is non-bio-degradable and cannot be disposed easily.
It is bio-degradable and can be disposed easily.
It is cheaper than plastic
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Ans: a.
Q52: Which of the following is fertile manure?
Vermicompost
Egg Shell
Dry leaves
Dust
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Ans: a.
Vermicompost is fertile manure made by red worms.
Q53: Why is it illegal to burn leaves and other plant wastes?
It might effects our drainage and sewage system
It might make surrounding fire.
Burning of leaves and other plant wastes produces smoke and gases that are harmful to our
None of these
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Ans: c.
Q54: What is 3 R Formula?
RECYCLE
REUSE
REDUCE
All of the above
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Ans: d.
It is reuse reduce recycle these methods are very beneficial
Q54: Bio gradable plastic is decompose by
Action of bacteria into water and carbon dioxide
Action of bacteria into water and soil
Action of bacteria into water and sunlight
Bacteria
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Ans: a.
Biodegradable plastic is plastic that decomposes naturally in the environment. This is achieved when microorganisms in the environment metabolize and break down the structure of biodegradable plastic. The end result is one which is less harmful to the environment than traditional plastics
Q55: Which of the following is not dump in Blue Bins?
Glass pieces
Plastic waste
Old batteries
Tea leaves
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Ans: d.
Blue bins are used to dump recyclable wastes which include glass pieces, glass bottles, plastic waste, old batteries, polythene bags etc. Tea leaves should be dump in green bin.
Q56: Which of the following is not dump in Green Bins?
Tissue papers
Polythene bags
Vegetable and fruit peels
Hair
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Ans: b.
Green bins are used to dump vegetable and fruit peels, food remains, tea leaves, egg shells, leaves, hair, tissue papers etc. Polythene bags are recyclable wastes so should be dump in blue bin.
Q57: Can be recycled and reused
Dry waste
Moist wastes
Both Dry wastes and moist wastes
None of above
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Ans: a.
Dry wastes can be recycled and reused. At regular intervals of time they are taken to recycling plants for the process of recycling.
Q58: Moist wastes are also used to fill the low lying areas by converting them into
Barren land
Landfills
Backland
None of these
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Ans: b.
Landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and the oldest form of waste treatment
Q59: Compost
Improves the texture of the soil
Increases the fertility of the soil.
Increases water holding capacity of the soil.
All of these
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Ans: d.
Composting involves conversion of biodegradable wastes into organic manure by burying them in the compost pits. These wastes are decomposed by the action of bacteria and fungi which results in increasing the water holding capacity, texture and fertility of the soil.
Q60: Paper that is suitable for recycling is called.
Scrap paper
Scrap book
Scrap copy
None of these
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Ans: a.
Paper suitable for recycling is called "scrap paper", often used to produce molded pulp packaging.
Q61: Processing waste product into new product is called
Wasting
Throwing
Recycling
None of these
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Ans: c.
Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
Q62: Steps involved in recycling paper
Torn - Soak in water- Thick paste - excess water drain-new product.
Soak in water - Thick paste - excess water drain-new product - Torn
Torn- Soak in water - excess water drain-new product - Thick paste
Thick paste - Torn - Soak in water– excess water drain - new product
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Ans: a.
Steps involved in recycling paper
Paper is torn into small pieces.
Soak these pieces in water for a day.
Make a thick paste and spread it on a net or sieve.
Let water drain off completely.
Use an old cloth or newspaper to remove the extra water from the paste and dry it.
Use this paste to get beautiful patterns.
Q63: We can manage waste well by
Segregation
Reusing things
Using recyclable materials
All of these
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Ans: d.
Waste management includes collection of wastes, segregation of wastes, recycling of wastes and treatment of wastes for disposal.
Q64: Which of the following cannot be recycled?
Cardboard box
Caps of bottles
Left over Dhokhla
Magazines
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Ans: c.
Dhokhla once prepared can't be reused.
Q65: Which of the following can be recycled?
Metals
Paper
Plastic
All of above
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Ans: d.
It is important to reuse things than discarding them as waste. Materials like glass pieces, metals, plastics, paper etc. can be recycled to make new ones.
Q66: What type of waste can be managed by 3R principle?
Non-biodegradable wastes
Biodegradable wastes
Both a and b
None of this
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Ans: a.
Non-biodegradable wastes cannot be decomposing by bacteria. These wastes can be managed by following 3R principle - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.
Q67: Plastics which can be recycled are called as
Polythene
Recyclable plastics
Polypropylene
PVC
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Ans: b.
Plastic items should be recycled to reduce the pollution they cause in the environment. Plastics which can be recycled to form new product are called as recyclable plastics.
Q68: Plastic which is licensed to use.
Polypropylene
BPA based plastic
Polythene
PVC
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Ans: b.
BPA, are usually licensed for storing food items. BPA-based plastic is clear and tough, and is made into a variety of common consumer goods, such as water bottles, sports equipment, CDs, and DVDs.
Q69: Polythene bags
Causes environmental pollution
Can be accidentally eaten by animals like cows.
Can clog drainage systems in cities and towns.
All of the above
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Ans: d.
Though polythene bags are easy and comfortable to use, it is very harmful in terms of health and environment. Polythene bags are one kind of plastics which are non-biodegradable and cause environmental pollution.
Q70: The process in which plastic break down into smaller and smaller toxic particles is known as
Photo degradation
Composting
Biodegradable wastes
Vermicomposting
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Ans: a.
Photo degradation is the alteration of materials by light. It is usually oxidation and hydrolysis.
Q71: Which of the following can be recycled?
Plastic laminated paper
Oil-soaked papers
Carbon paper
Envelopes
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Ans: d.
Only envelopes can be recycled. Plastic laminated paper, Oil-soaked papers and Carbon paper are not suitable for recycling.