CONTEST 7

Round 5

1. The Haber process is an industrial process for production of ammonia from nitrogen and steam as raw
materials.
T
2. Sunlight falling on the surface of calm water is reflected as well as refracted.
T
3. Progesterone is mainly responsible for the development of female secondary sexual characteristics.
F [function of oestrogen]

4. For a linear sequence, the difference of successive terms is always a constant.

T
5. For an exponential sequence, the ratio of successive terms can vary.
F [Ratio is always a constant]

6. Crude oil is a raw material for the production of plastics and cosmetics.
T [from petrochemical industry]

7. All electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light.

T

8. Patients suffering from Diabetes insipidus have sugar in their urine.

F [true for Diabetes mellitus]

9. Tecoma is dispersed by wind.

T

10. The expansion of (a + x)n contains (n +1) terms if n is an integer.

F

11. Zinc oxide is not soluble in water but it is in dilute ammonia.

T

12. The electron-volt is a unit of energy.

T

13. The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor can be increased by increasing the distance between the
plates.
F [by decreasing distance between plates]
14. Crotolaria is dispersed by animals.
F [explosive mechanism]

15. The coefficients of a binomial expansion of (a + x)n always contains terms like nCr.
F [only if n is a positive integer]

16. Lead chloride is insoluble in cold water but soluble in hot water.
T

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RIDDLE

1. I am a quadrilateral.
2. I have mirror symmetry about a diagonal.
3. I have one axis of symmetry.
4. I have two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.
5. I fit my outline in two positions.
6. My order of rotational symmetry is one.
7. I have no centre of symmetry, nor a fixed centre of rotation.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Kite

1. I am a term familiar to anatomists.

2. I am used in association with the skeletal and urinary systems.
3. I am the lower part of the abdomen enclosed by the pelvic girdle.
4. I am also the expanded initial portion of the ureter.
5. Urine from the collecting ducts drain into me.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Pelvis

1. In my pure form, I am gaseous at room temperature.

2. I can be compressed easily to form a liquid.
3. On the industrial scale I am obtained as a by-product in coal-gas manufacture.
4. Being water soluble I am sold as either a pure liquid or as a very concentrated aqueous solution.
5. Although the central atom in my molecule is sp3 hybridised the molecules has the slope of a trigonal
pyramid.
6. The best kwon industrial process for my manufacture is Haber Process.
Who am I?
ANSWER: Ammonia NH3

1. For thousands of years people have tried to identify me.

2. Yet it is only within the last hundred years that I have revealed my secrets.
3. Within me there is a hard core surrounded by jumpy characters.
4. I am so tiny even though I make up all matter.
Who am I?
ANSWER: atom

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