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SULOCHANADEVI SINGHANIA SCHOOL, THANE

The Atmosphere
Worksheet
Std 7

A. Choose the right answer:

1. The atmosphere is made primarily of

a. Carbon dioxide
b. Oxygen.
c. Nitrogen.
d. Argon.

2. Ozone is concentrated in the ___.

a. Troposphere
b. Ionosphere
c. Mesosphere
d. Stratosphere

3. Energy from what source drives the atmosphere and hydrosphere?

a. Sun
b. Radioactive decay
c. Primordial coalescence
d. Chemical reactions

4. Which statement is true about weather?

a. It occurs throughout the atmosphere.
b. It occurs throughout the upper atmosphere.
c. It occurs throughout the lower atmosphere.
d. It occurs only in the stratosphere.

5. The atmosphere is needed for all the following except

a. Weathering.
b. Life on Earth.
c. Plate tectonics.
d. The water cycles.

6. Without the atmosphere, Earth would have

a. A greater range of temperatures.
b. More severe weather.
c. More glaciers.
d. Two of the above
B. Match the following:
1 Exosphere a Aeroplanes, people, weather
2 Ionosphere b Ozone Layer
3 Mesosphere c Meteors and coldest layer
4 Stratosphere d hottest layer
5 Thermosphere e Aurora Borealis (pretty lights or ions)
6 Troposphere f Spaceship, satellites, space station and space

C. Name the following:

a. Increase in the average temperature of the Earth due to greenhouse effect.

b. Mosquitos transmit diseases like malaria, dengue.
c. Domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labour and
commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather and wool.
d. Carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane.

D. Distinguish between:
I. Troposphere and Stratosphere
II. Mesosphere and Thermosphere
III. Green House Effect and Global Warming

E. Answer the following questions:

a. What is the importance of water vapour in atmosphere?
b. How are clouds formed?
c. What are the measuring steps to control global warming?

F. Give reason:
a. Orange colour during dawn and dusk
b. Spring arrives early in many parts of the world
c. Temperature of the earth is increasing at an alarming rate as a result of human
activities.

G. Write short notes on:

i. Green House Effect
ii. Ozone layer
iii. Importance of atmosphere

H. Write True or False

a. Without the atmosphere, we could not hear most sounds. ____________

b. The main reason Earth can support life is its atmosphere. ____________
 c. Earth’s atmosphere consists mainly of oxygen. __________________
d. Fertilizers, smog, forest fire are the causes of ozone depletion. _____________
e. Sea level rising is one of the reasons of coral bleaching. _______________

I. Read the passage below and answer the following questions:

For a few weeks in August, the world's eyes were fixed on Brazil and its government's
response. When the burning of the Amazon was at its peak in August, there were
thousands of individual fires, almost three times as many that month - 30,901 -
compared with the same period last year. Forest fires do happen in the Amazon during
the dry season between July and October. They can be caused by naturally occurring
events, like lightning strikes, but this year most are thought to have been started by
farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.

This matter because the Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world and a vital
carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming. The world reacted with fury
to the fires - there were protests in dozens of cities, threats of financial penalties, and
broad condemnation of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's environmental policies. In
late August, Mr Bolsonaro deployed the army to the Amazon and ordered a 60-day
ban on setting fires to clear land there. The measures had an effect - the number of
fires in the Amazon dropped by a third between August and September. The pace has
slowed even more this month and is likely to do so even more now that annual rains
have started.

There are signs, though, that the situation is worse than it appears. This is because the
burning of the rainforest isn't the biggest problem - deforestation is.

Traditionally, Amazon rainforest is felled, left to dry and then set on fire. By the time
the moratorium came in, vast deforestation had already taken place. The only thing
the ban prevented was more burning.

"They reduced the level of burning, but not the level of deforestation," says Ane
Alencar, the science director of the non-profit Amazon Environmental
Research Institute (Ipam). "By the end of August, most of the
deforestation in the current year had already happened." BBC NEWS

a. What is the most favourable time duration for Amazon Forest fire?
b. Generally, for what reason fire occur in forest?
c. What is the main reason of Amazon fire in 2019 according to many opinions?
d. Why environmentally Amazon is so important?