CBSE Science Class 6

Water

Water - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT

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Q1: We do not use water for making products in industries. True/ False
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Q2: We get water from:
  1. River
  2. Lakes
  3. Well
  4. All of these
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Q3: Water present in ocean and sea is ___________________ for drinking.
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Q4: What are salty water?
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Q5: Name the source of saline water.
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Q6: Water spilled on a floor dries up because of ____________________.
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Q7: Name the phenomenon responsible for drying of clothes on a cloth line.
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Q8: Water vapour carry away salt with it? True/ False
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Q9: On _____________ water changes in to water vapour.
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Q10: On_______________ water changes into ice.
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Q11: Can we convert water into water vapour without heating it?
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Q12: Name the source of heat that heats water bodies and form water vapour.
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Q13: Why we are not able to notice water vapour from bucket full of water kept in sunlight?
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Q14: Plants need water to:
  1. Grow
  2. Cook food
  3. None of these
  4. Both a and b.
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Q15: Name the two process by which water vapour enters air.
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Q16: ______________ are found on leaves and grasses in winter morning.
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Q17: ___________________ are tiny droplets of water that remain floating in air.
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Q18: Define rain
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Q19: Define water cycle
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Q20: Name the process that maintains the supply of water on land.
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Q21: How monsoon is important for crops?
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Q22: Heavy rains may lead to rise in level of water in rivers, lakes and ponds. True/ False
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Q23: Does rain effects the animals living in soil?
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Q24: What is the role of air in water cycle?
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Q25: Circulation of water between ocean and land is a continuous process or discontinuous process?
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Q26: What would happen if it does not rain in a region for a year ?
  1. Soil will become dry
  2. Water bodies will become dry
  3. There will be condition called draught.
  4. All of the above.
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Q27: Excesive rain may cause____________________.
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Q28: Black board dries up after wiping it, because of the process of _____________.
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Q29: The evaporation of water takes place only in sunlight?
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Q30: The amount of usable water on earth is ___________________ so it needs to be used carefully.
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Q31: Percentage of portable water on earth is
  1. 3
  2. 70
  3. 65
  4. 6
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Q32: Potable water is
  1. Unfiltered water
  2. Water collected from aquifers
  3. Water from sea
  4. Filtered, fit to drink
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Q33: What is percentage of water in earth surface?
  1. 70.9
  2. 50
  3. 60
  4. 90
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Q34: A water foot print is
  1. Water used to grow food we eat
  2. Water we waste at home
  3. Water used at house, at schools, at work
  4. All of the above
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Q35: Water is important because it is used
  1. In homes
  2. In industries
  3. In agriculture
  4. All of theses
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Q36: Too much rainfall causes
  1. Humidity
  2. Drought
  3. Flood
  4. None of these
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Q37: Drought is caused due to
  1. Lack of potable water
  2. Excesses of potable water
  3. Consumption of water
  4. Wastage of water
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Q38: Which of the following is source of fresh water?
  1. Sewage
  2. Lakes and streams
  3. Pond
  4. Sea water
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Q39: Water that seeps into ground after rainfall
  1. Sewage
  2. Lakes and streams
  3. Pond
  4. Underground water
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Q40: How are dams across the river useful to us?
  1. Barrier in flood
  2. Generating electricity
  3. Providing water in drought
  4. All of the above
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Q41: Water above the surface is called
  1. Surface Water
  2. Ground Water
  3. Rain Water
  4. Sewage
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Q42: Water Below the surface is called
  1. Surface Water
  2. Ground Water
  3. Sea Water
  4. Lake Water
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Q43: Water is used in
  1. Photosynthesis
  2. Germination of Seeds
  3. Regulate the body temperature
  4. All of these
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Q44: Water is a
  1. Good solvent
  2. Good solution
  3. Good solute
  4. Good salt
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Q45: Which of the following is saline water?
  1. River Water
  2. Rain Water
  3. Sea Water
  4. Underground Water
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Q46: The purest form of natural water
  1. Lake Water
  2. Sea Water
  3. Rain Water
  4. All the above
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Q47: Which of the following is surface Water?
  1. Lake Water
  2. Sea Water
  3. Rain Water
  4. All the above
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Q48: Which of these is a resource of underground water?
  1. Saline Water
  2. Sub soil Water
  3. Mud Water
  4. None of these
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Q49: Portable Water is
  1. Transparent
  2. Colorless
  3. Odorless
  4. All of these
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Q50: What is the percentage of water on earth’s surface?
  1. 70.9
  2. 50
  3. 60
  4. 90
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Q51: The level of underground water is called
  1. Water level
  2. Portable Water
  3. Water table
  4. None of these
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Q52: Which mineral is not found in drinking water?
  1. Calcium
  2. Sodium
  3. Potassium
  4. Magnesium
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Q53: Which of the following process doesn’t occur in water cycle?
  1. Evaporation
  2. Condensation
  3. Sublimation
  4. Precipitation
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Q54: How evaporation in plants occur
  1. Transpiration
  2. Respiration
  3. Excretion
  4. Photosynthesis
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Q55: Evaporation
  1. Takes place from the surface of the liquid
  2. Takes place the boiling point of liquid
  3. Takes place throughout the liquid
  4. Can be seen
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Q56: Two parts of water cycle are
  1. Respiration, Precipitation
  2. Precipitation, Respiration
  3. Condensation, Respiration
  4. Evaporation, Condensation
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Q57: What causes cloud formation?
  1. Respiration
  2. Condensation
  3. Evaporation
  4. Precipitation
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Q58: Natural disaster occur due to lack of water.
  1. Flood
  2. Drought
  3. Earthquake
  4. Cloudburst
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Q59: Natural disaster occur due to excess of rain
  1. Flood
  2. Drought
  3. Earthquake
  4. Cloudburst
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Q60: The cyclic movement of water from the atmosphere to the Earth and back to the atmosphere through various processes is called as
  1. Plant Cycle
  2. Life Cycle
  3. Water Cycle
  4. Food Cycle
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Q61: When water droplets get large enough to fall from the clouds, it’s called
  1. Condensation
  2. Transpiration
  3. Sublimation
  4. Precipitation
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Q62: Potable water running underground are called
  1. Rivers
  2. Streams
  3. Creeks
  4. Aquifers
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Q63: What initiate the water cycle?
  1. Sun
  2. Moon
  3. Clouds
  4. Oceans
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Q64: What process occurred when water evaporated from glacial ice?
  1. Chlorophyll
  2. Transpiration
  3. Sublimation
  4. Precipitation
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Q65: Transpiration occurs
  1. When ice melts
  2. When water evaporate from the vessel
  3. When water evaporate from the plants
  4. When plants sheds their leaves
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Q66: Process in which water vapor cools into a liquid is called
  1. Condensation
  2. Transpiration
  3. Sublimation
  4. Precipitation
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Q67: Process in which water turns to vapor and rises into the atmosphere is called
  1. Evaporation
  2. Transpiration
  3. Sublimation
  4. Precipitation
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Q68: Which of the following may contain germs?
  1. River
  2. Rain Water
  3. Distill Water
  4. Filtered Water
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Q69: Water which contains salt is called
  1. Fresh Water
  2. Ground water
  3. Saline water
  4. Surface water
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Q70: Which among below is used to pump out under ground water
  1. Hand pumps
  2. Tube well
  3. Dam
  4. Both a and b
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Q71: Spring water is
  1. Rain water
  2. River water
  3. Surface water
  4. Ground water
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Q72: How filtered water is made germ free ?
  1. Boiling
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Sedimentation
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Q73: Water can be conserve
  1. Fixing all the leakage in house
  2. Rain water harvesting
  3. Recycling water used in factories
  4. All of these
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Q74: Dams built on rivers
  1. Store water to produce hydro electric power
  2. Store water for irrigating field
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of these
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Q75: Collecting and storing rainwater is called
  1. Precipitation
  2. Purification
  3. Rain water harvesting
  4. Surface Run off
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Q76: Some amount of rain water is absorbed by the soil and settles down as ground water.
  1. Precipitation
  2. Purification
  3. Rain water harvesting
  4. Surface Run off
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Q78: Method of water conversation
  1. Evaporation
  2. Rain water harvesting
  3. Wilting
  4. None of these
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Q79: ____ does not allows rainwater to seep into the ground
  1. Concrete floor
  2. Smooth floor
  3. Oily floor
  4. None of these
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Q80: Technique involved in rain water harvesting
  1. Rain water is collected at the roof top.
  2. Rain water is allowed to flow into pipes.
  3. Rain water is filtered through wire mesh.
  4. All of these
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Q81: What is roof top harvesting?
  1. Collection and storing of rain water from the roofs huts
  2. Collection and storing of rain water from the High hills
  3. Collection and storing of rain water from the roofs of houses and huge constructions
  4. None of these
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Q82: Rain water harvesting.
  1. Increases the level of underground water
  2. Increases the level of ground water
  3. Decreases the level of ground water
  4. Decreases the level of underground water
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Q83: To increase the rainfall.
  1. Soil erosion should increase.
  2. Deforestation should be increase
  3. Water should be preserve.
  4. Destruction of trees should be controlled
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Chapter 14: Water