Answer any 9 of the following questions. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. a) b) 10. 11. 12. 13. What do you mean by atmosphere?

What is the difference between atmosphere and environment? Name the major constituents of troposphere. How the temperature of atmosphere is maintained? Where the ozone lay exists? Why the temperature of upper stratosphere is higher? What do you mean by an air pollutant? Name three primary air pollutants. Identify as primary or secondary air pollutant. SO2 c) HNO3 CH4 d) HN3 Why CO2 is called a greenhouse gas? Why the flood risks are increasing? Justify ozone is beneficial for human kind. Why ozone is depleting in atmosphere?

e) H2SO4 f) O3

Choose the correct options. 1. a) b) 2. a) 3. a) b) 4. a) b) 5. a) b) About 99% atmospheres mass lies within 30 kilometers c) 15 kilometers 35 kilometers d) 11 kilometers Depending upon temperature variation, atmosphere is divided into how many regions? One b) Two c) Three d) Four Just above the Earths surface is Mesosphere c) Thermosphere Stratosphere d) Troposphere A group of gases that maintain temperature of atmosphere is Carbon dioxide and water vapours c) Oxygen and water vapours Nitrogen and carbon dioxide d) Nitrogen and oxygen The Earths atmosphere is getting hotter because of Increasing concentration of CO c) Increasing concentration of CO3 Increasing concentration of CO2 d) Increasing concentration of SO4