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WASTEWATER STORY MCQs

Total Questions : 116 | Page 12 of 12 pages
Question 111.


_____ is a network of pipes that carry sewage from the households and industries to the wastewater treatment plant.


  1.     Sludge
  2.     Sewerage
  3.     Sewage
  4.     Sewers
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Sewerage
:
B
Sewerage is a network of big and small pipes called sewers that transport sewage from the point of being produced, such as, households, industries to the point of point of disposal i.,e., the treatment plants.
Sewage contains suspended solids, organic and inorganic impurities. Sluge is a by-product produced in wastewater treatment.
Question 112.


Water-borne disease is caused by consumption of contaminated water. Which of the following is a water borne disease?


  1.     Cholera
  2.     Typhoid
  3.     Asthma
  4.     Dysentry
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Typhoid
:
A, B, and D
Waterborne diseases are caused by drinking contaminated or polluted water. This infected water can cause various kinds of diarrheal diseases, such as cholera, and other serious illnesses such as typhoid, and dysentery. Asthma is an air borne disease and is caused by breathing in polluted air.
Question 113.


We should throw chemicals like insecticides, paints down the drain.


  1.     True
  2.     False
  3.     oxygen
  4.     sulphur
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> False
:
B
Water contains some microbes which degrade organic matter present in them and helps in purifying the wastewater. Chemicals like paints, insecticides kill the microbes present in water. Also, the toxic chemicals present in them cause water pollution. Hence, they should not be thrown down the drain.
Question 114.


Manish's mother stopped him from throwing tea leaves in the wash basin while washing the container. She did this because


  1.     tea leaves will grow into a plant.
  2.     tea leaves will make the drain to stink.
  3.     tea leaves can harden and block the pipes.
  4.     tea leaves will allow more wastewater to pass.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> tea leaves can harden and block the pipes.
:
C
The used tea leaves or solid food remains should not be thrown down into the drain as they can harden and block the pipes of the drain. Thus, the wastes choke the drains and do not allow free flow of oxygen. This in turn hampers the degradation process.
Therefore, used tea leaves should always be thrown in the dustbin.
Question 115.


Jose works in a water treatment plant. On testing a sample of water to be supplied for drinking, he found that it is not germ-free. What should he do?


  1.     Carry out filtration
  2.     Perform sedimentation
  3.     Release it to water distribution system
  4.     Pass chlorine through it
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Pass chlorine through it
:
D
He should pass chlorine or ozone gas through it before supplying it to different parts of the city as they are disinfecting agents. They kill the bacteria and germs present in the water and make it fit for consumption. 
Question 116.


Being an active citizen of a country, which of the following should you practice in relation to sanitation?


  1.     Cover the open drains
  2.     Put wastes in the dustbin
  3.     Defecate in the open
  4.     Separate trash as biodegradable and non-biodegradable
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Separate trash as biodegradable and non-biodegradable
:
A, B, and D
As a good practice, we should make sure that the drains are closed, we segregate wastes into biodegradable and non-biodegradable. We should put the wastes in the dustbin.
We should not defecate in open, it pollutes environment and causes diseases.
 

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