Which of the following is not a plant,

animal or fungi?

A. mold
B. enzyme
C. yeast
D. bacteria
Which of the following microorganism is
most affected by movement of air?

A. mold
B. enzyme
C. yeast
D. bacteria
The reproductive activity of microorganism
is increased by

A. Lowering the temperature of the

environment
B. increasing the temperature of the
environment
C. decreasing the humidity of the
environment
D. all of the above
Which of the following destroys molds?

A. exposure to ultraviolet lights

B. lowering its temperature
C. reducing the relative humidity of its
environment
D. all of the above
Wrapping and refrigerating food products
extend the storage life of

A. meats
B. fruits
C. vegetables
D. all of the above
The approximate storage life of fresh
strawberries is ________.

A. 5 to 7 weeks
B. 1 to 3 weeks
C. 7 to 10 days
D. none of the above
Which of the following is not a form of
moisture loss from frozen food products?

A. sublimation
B. spoilage
C. freezer burn
D. dehydration
_______ is a method used to reduce the
dehydration of sensitive fruits and
vegetables during the chilling process

A. vacuum chilling
B. water chilling
C. ice chilling
D. none of the above
Which of the following is not a process
characteristic controlled in long-term
storage chambers?

A. temperature
B. air velocity
C. humidity
D. air purity
The freezing method that uses a brine to
directly absorb heat from the food product
is called _____ freezing

A. brine
B. contact
C. immersion
D. blast
Which of the following is not a step in
preparing vegetables for frozen storage?

A. cleaning
B. chilling
C. coating with syrup
D. blanching
Which of the following is not a step in
preparing fruit for frozen storage?

A. cleaning
B. chilling
C. coating with syrup
D. blanching
Spiral belt freezing units are typically used
for ______ freezing process.

A. Air blast
B. immersion
C. indirect contact
D. all of the above
Loss of food juices by osmosis is a
consequence of the ______ freezing
processes.

A. Air blast
B. immersion
C. indirect contact
D. all of the above
Heat transfer that occurs primarily by
conduction is used for ______ freezing
processes.

A. air blast
B. immersion
C. indirect contact
D. all of the above
A disadvantage of sharp freezing is the

A. increase in juice losses upon thawing

B. increase in size of the ice crystals that
form in the food
C. decreased in quality experienced by the
food during freezing
D. all of the above
Frozen storage chamber temperature set
points are usually ______.

A. 5 degree F
B. 0 degree C
C. -20.5 degree C
D. a and b
Which of the following device should be
used to measure a pressure of 90 kPa?

A. pressure gauge
B. compound gauge
C. barometer
D. all of the above
The height of the mercury column in a
barometer placed on a mountain with a
local pressure of 13.5 psi will be

A. 25 inches
B. 698 mm
C. 93.1 kPa
D. all of the above
The electric meter on a home or building
measures the amount of ______ that was
converted over the billing period

A. work
B. energy
C. power
D. none of the above
Which of the following processes does not
alter the kinetic energy level of a
substance?

A. fusion
B. adding sensible heat to a solid
C. adding sensible heat to a liquid
D. superheating a vapor
An evaporator in a refrigeration unit makes
use of which heat transfer modes?

A. conduction
B. radiation
C. convection
D. all of the above
When a service technician places his/her
hand on a suction line to check the
operation of a system, he/she is using
which heat transfer modes?

A. conduction
B. radiation
C. convection
D. all of the above
Energy added to a vapor is known as

A. latent heat of vaporization

B. superheat
C. sensible heat of vapor
D. b and c
Which of the following sequences accurately indicates
the responses that occur when heat is transferred
from a gas?

A. sensible heat of solids, latent heat of fusion,

sensible heat of vapors, latent heat of
vaporization.
B. sensible heat of vapors, latent heat of fusion,
sensible heat of liquids, latent heat of vaporization
C. sensible heat of vapors, latent heat of
vaporization, sensible heat of liquids, latent heat
of fusion, sensible heat of solids
D. latent heat of vaporization, sensible heat of
liquids, latent heat of fusion, sensible heat of
solids
As a liquid changes phase to a vapor, its
enthalpy ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
As a liquid changes phase to a solid, its
entropy ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
The vaporization process that occurs at
temperatures below the triple point of a
substance is _______

A. evaporation
B. sublimation
C. boiling
D. condensation
The vaporization that occurs when the
vapor pressure of a substance is equal to
the atmospheric pressure is:

A. evaporation
B. sublimation
C. boiling
D. condensation
As the pressure of a vapor increases, the
amount of work it can do increases and its
enthalpy ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
As a gas is heated in an isothermal process,
its volume ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
As a gas is cooled in an isobaric process, its
volume _______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
As a gas is heated in an isometric process,
its volume ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
As the volume of a gas decreases, its
specific gas constant ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
Vapors do not behave as ideal gases
because they experience:

A. friction
B. volume
C. temperature changes
D. all of the above
In an isobaric process, changes in pressure
can be caused by changes in:

A. temperature
B. volume
C. density
D. none of the above
Boyle’s law states that pressure and volume
changes in gas process are ______ related.

A. directly
B. not
C. inversely
D. ideally
The entropy of a process in which an ideal
gas experiences a reduction in its internal
energy ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. constant
The polytropic exponent approaches one
when the change in the process ______
approaches zero.

A. temperature
B. volume
C. pressure
D. work
The change in kinetic energy of a gas
process ______ as the change in
temperature of the process path increases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. none of the above
The final temperature of an isobaric process
of the system work is a ______ quantity and
the surrounding transfer heat to the
system.

A. positive
B. linear
C. negative
D. nonlinear
As the volume of an isothermal expansion
process approaches its final value, the rate
of change in the system pressure

A. increases
B. remains constant
C. decreases
D. none of the above
If air, hydrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide
undergo adiabatic expansion processes
identical initial and final values of pressure
and volume, which gas will do more work
on the surroundings?

A. air
B. hydrogen
C. carbon dioxide
D. oxygen
During the compression process, the
internal energy of the refrigerant vapor

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. none of the above
The quantity of energy absorbed by a unit
mass of refrigerant in the evaporator is
called

A. capacity
B. mass flow rate
C. refrigeration effect
D. volume flow rate
Which of the following vapor compression
cycle process is adiabatic?

A. vaporization
B. condensing
C. throttling
D. superheating
Subcooling increases the _____ of the
refrigeration cycle.

A. capacity
B. mass flow rate
C. refrigeration effect
D. volume flow rate
As the saturation pressure of the refrigerant
in the evaporator increases, the
refrigeration effect of the process _____

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. none of the above
The component in the refrigeration cycle
that is used to store refrigerant is called the

A. receiver
B. metering device
C. compressor
D. evaporator
The component in the refrigeration cycle
that expands refrigerant is called the

A. condenser
B. metering device
C. compressor
D. evaporator
The component of the refrigeration cycle
subcools refrigerant is called the

A. condenser
B. metering device
C. compressor
D. evaporator
The component in the refrigeration cycle
that has a negative heat transfer value is
the

A. condenser
B. metering device
C. compressor
D. evaporator
The condenser is designed to transfer _____
heat to the condensing medium that was
absorbed in the evaporator

A. more
B. the same
C. less
D. constant
The refrigeration effect per unit mass of
refrigerant circulated ______ as the
vaporizing temperature increases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. increased by 20%
A smaller temperature difference between
the refrigerant in the liquid line and that in
the evaporator ______ the mass flow rate
of refrigerant needed per ton of
refrigeration effect.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. decreases by 10%
The difference between the saturation
pressure in the evaporator and that in the
condenser ______ as the suction
temperature dcreases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. constant
The C.O.P. and the efficiency of the
refrigeration cycle _____ as the vaporizing
temperature increases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. constant
The volume of the vapor that the
compressor must handle per minute per
ton ______ as the vaporizing temperature
increases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. constant
The quantity of heat rejected at the
condenser per unit capacity per minute
______ as the vaporizing temperature in
the evaporator decreases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. constant
As the condenser temperature increases,
the cycle’s refrigeration effect ______

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. no effect
The mass flow rate of refrigerant per unit
capacity ______ as the condensing pressure
decreases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. no effect
The volume of refrigerant vapor
compressed per unit capacity ______ as the
condensing temperature increases.

A. increases
B. remains the same
C. decreases
D. increased by 10%
As the pressure drop in a liquid line
increases, the flow of liquid refrigerant
_____

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. decreased by 20%
Pressure drop cause the saturation
temperature of the fluid to _______.

A. increase
B. decrease
C. remains the same
D. decreases by 10%
Pressure drops cause the specific volume of
the vapor to ______

A. increase
B. decrease
C. remains the same
D. no effect
As the pressure drops across the liquid line
decreases, the refrigeration effect of the
cycle ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. no effect
As the fluid flow through a pipe, their
potential energy ______

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. no effect
The heat of compression _____ as the
suction vapor becomes superheated.

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. no effect
The heat content of a refrigeration cycle
_____ when a liquid-suction line heat
exchanger is installed.

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. increased by 10%
The C.O.P. of a refrigeration process ____
with subcoolling

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. fixed
Superheating ______ the possibility of
sending liquid into the compressor.

A. increases
B. decreases
C. does not affect
D. fixed
Which method of leak testing can be used
with hydrocarbon refrigerants?

A. soap bubbles
B. halide torch
C. electronic detectors
D. a and c
Which of the following factors is not used
to determine the toxicity of a refrigerant?

A. exposure time
B. concentration
C. the amount of refrigerant in the system
D. its latent heat of vaporization
Which of the following refrigerants is most
hazardous?

A. R-113
B. R-717
C. R-11
D. R-152a
Which of the following is not a hydrocarbon
refrigerant?

A. propane
B. isobutene
C. butane
D. inane
A mixture of two or more refrigerants is
called a ______

A. zeotrope
B. halocarbon
C. desicant
D. absorbent
Desiccant is used to remove ______ from
refrigerants.

A. oil
B. moisture
C. acids
D. all of the above
As an oil-miscible refrigerant mixes with oil,
the viscosity of the oil _____

A. increases
B. decreases
C. remains the same
D. fixed
The society that sponsors research on
refrigerants is called ______

A. ASHRAY
B. ASREA
C. ASHRAE
D. ARI
Which of the following refrigerant groups
denotes a more toxic vapor

A. A3
B. A1
C. B3
D. a and b
Oil separators are used in systems where

A. oil return is likely to be inadequate

B. nonmiscible refrigerants are used
C. the amount of oil in circulation is likely
to be expensive
D. all of the above
Which evaporator design incorporates
secondary surface heat transfer?

A. bare-tube
B. finned-tube
C. embossed surface-plate
D. a and b
Eutectic filled plate evaporators have a
higher _______ than evacuated plate
evaporators.

A. mass
B. thermal capacitance
C. holdover capacity
D. all of the above
Which evaporator circuit configuration is
less effective when used in dry-expansion
feed application?

A. single
B. crossflow
C. split
D. counterflow
Which of the following evaporator feed
methods produces the greatest tube surface
wetted without the use of a liquid pump?

A. dry-expansion
B. circulated refrigerant
C. flooded
D. overfeed
What type of forced convection unit cooler
is used in vegetable storage application that
require a velocity of approximately 120
m/min.?

A. low velocity
B. high velocity
C. medium velocity
D. standard velocity
Which defrost method is commonly used
small commercial applications where ice
forms on the evaporator surfaces?

A. off-cycle
B. electric
C. hot gas
D. all of the above
It refers to that property in steel which
resist indentation or penetration. It is
usually expressed in forms of the area of an
indentation made by a specified indentor.

A. hardness
B. ductility
C. malleability
D. wear resistance