CBSE Science Class 6

Garbage in, Garbage out

Garbage in, Garbage out - Chapter Wise CBSE Solved Question and Answer Based On NCERT

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Q1: We never throw rubbish or garbage fron our homes, school, shops and offices. True/ False
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Q2: The wrapping material of grains, biscuits and milk go out as _____________________.
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Q3: WE generate so much _______________ in our day to day activities
  1. Garbage
  2. Water
  3. air
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Q4: Who collect the garbage from the bins to the landfill?
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Q5: Name the area of land where garbages are collected or dumped, the area is later converted into a park.
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Q6: A garbage has both useful and non useful components. True/ False
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Q7: Name some of the kitchen garbage.
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Q8: Polythene bags are useful components of garbage or not?
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Q9: Some of the materials in the garbage rots to form__________________.
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Q10: Garbage heaps of dried leaves should be
  1. Burned
  2. Converted into useful compost
  3. Thrown in water bodies
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Q11: Define composting
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Q12: What are the colours of two different dustbins provided by municipalities for garbage?
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Q13: Blue coloured dustbins are meant for what type of garbage?
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Q14: What is the nature of garbage that are dumped into green coloured dustbin?
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Q15: What type of waste materials rot completely when burried in the soil?
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Q16: Which will rot completely: plants waste or plastic?
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Q17: Sort the materials as waste of blue bin or green bin
Kitchen waste, glass lens,egg shell, plastic bottle, animal wastes, dried leaves, metal container,.
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Q18: Gardener is burning garbage heap of dried leaves? Do you think he is doing right?
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Q19: Burning of any substances causes air pollution.True/ False
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Q20: We can be friends of plants by supplying them with composting. True /False
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Q21: What is vermicomposting?
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Q22: Which type of earthworm is used for composting?
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Q23: Do redworm shave teeth?
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Q24: What will you feed a redworm?
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Q25: Redworm grows in __________________ surrounding.
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Q26: Can we recycle paper?
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Q27: Why polythene bags create a big problem in garbage disposal?
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Q28: Paper can be recycled to get useful products. True /False
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Q29: Drains do not get choked due to plastic thrown by us. True /False
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Q30: Which one is the better to use- compost or chemical fertilisers?
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Q31: Which of the following is garbage?
  1. Domestic wastes
  2. Municipal wastes
  3. Industrial wastes
  4. All of these
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Q32: Landfills are
  1. Made in cities so that garbage can be dumped easily
  2. Large holes in the ground that need to be filled for building upon
  3. Areas marked out for dumping garbage
  4. Large composite pits.
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Q33: Which of the following is non-biodegradable?
  1. Over ripped fruits
  2. Foil paper of chocolate
  3. Vegetable peels
  4. Tea leaves
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Q34: Which of the following is biodegradable?
  1. Metallic waste
  2. Plastic pieces
  3. Newspaper
  4. Garden waste
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Q35: Which of these materials cannot be composted?
  1. Plastic button from shirt
  2. Banana peels
  3. Newspaper and magazines
  4. Potato
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Q36: Which material is harmful for our environment?
  1. Soil from pots
  2. Plastic packets
  3. Used wooden box
  4. Vegetable peels
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Q37: We need to control the over use of plastic because
  1. They do not decomposes
  2. They clog fishing nets
  3. Poisonous gases are released when they burns
  4. All of these
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Q38: Which of the following is biodegradable stationery?
  1. Pen refill
  2. Wooden pencil
  3. Plastic ruler
  4. Stapler pins
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Q39: The red worms possess a special structure to grind food called
  1. Wings
  2. Spring like structure
  3. Thin hairs
  4. Gizzards
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Q40: Organic material can be degraded by
  1. Landfills
  2. Vermicomposting
  3. Segregating
  4. Compositing
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Q41: Paper is
  1. Recyclable Waste
  2. Moist Waste
  3. Segregate waste
  4. Composite waste
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Q42: Composting method in which earth worms are used.
  1. Manuring
  2. Vermicomposting
  3. Landfills
  4. Compositing waste
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Q43: In the process of Vermicomposting why water is sprinkled?
  1. To soften the hard material
  2. To wet the soil
  3. So that the red worms can live
  4. All of these
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Q44: A type of manure from wet waste from house
  1. Alfalfa
  2. Cow dung
  3. Green manure
  4. Compost
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Q45: We make compost from
  1. Metallic waste
  2. Egg shell
  3. Plastic pieces
  4. Broken glass pieces
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Q46: Converting plant and animal waste into manure, is called
  1. Recycling
  2. Depositing
  3. Diffusion
  4. Composting
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Q47: Garbage collectors
  1. Collect waste and then dispose it at garbage disposals.
  2. Convert plant and animal waste into manure
  3. A type of manure from wet waste from house
  4. Collects only industrial waste
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Q48: Why garbage dumps are usually located on the outskirts of a city?
  1. We get more garbage from industries, and usually industries are located on the outskirts of city
  2. Places at outskirt are cheaper to get.
  3. They have flies, cockroaches and mosquitoes, and later turn into breeding grounds for micro-organisms which may cause diseases.
  4. Place at outskirt is more fertile to make manure from garbage.
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Q49: When garbage mixes with soil it makes.
  1. Slush
  2. Soil loose
  3. Dust
  4. Mud
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Q50: Organism found with Red worm in pit?
  1. Maggots
  2. Spider
  3. Small bug
  4. All of these
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Q51: Why eating in a banana leaf platter is better than plastic plate?
  1. It is bio-degradable and can be disposed easily.
  2. It is non-bio-degradable and cannot be disposed easily.
  3. It is bio-degradable and can be disposed easily.
  4. It is cheaper than plastic
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Q52: Which of the following is fertile manure?
  1. Vermicompost
  2. Egg Shell
  3. Dry leaves
  4. Dust
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Q53: Why is it illegal to burn leaves and other plant wastes?
  1. It might effects our drainage and sewage system
  2. It might make surrounding fire.
  3. Burning of leaves and other plant wastes produces smoke and gases that are harmful to our
  4. None of these
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Q54: What is 3 R Formula?
  1. RECYCLE
  2. REUSE
  3. REDUCE
  4. All of the above
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Q54: Bio gradable plastic is decompose by
  1. Action of bacteria into water and carbon dioxide
  2. Action of bacteria into water and soil
  3. Action of bacteria into water and sunlight
  4. Bacteria
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Q55: Which of the following is not dump in Blue Bins?
  1. Glass pieces
  2. Plastic waste
  3. Old batteries
  4. Tea leaves
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Q56: Which of the following is not dump in Green Bins?
  1. Tissue papers
  2. Polythene bags
  3. Vegetable and fruit peels
  4. Hair
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Q57: Can be recycled and reused
  1. Dry waste
  2. Moist wastes
  3. Both Dry wastes and moist wastes
  4. None of above
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Q58: Moist wastes are also used to fill the low lying areas by converting them into
  1. Barren land
  2. Landfills
  3. Backland
  4. None of these
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Q59: Compost
  1. Improves the texture of the soil
  2. Increases the fertility of the soil.
  3. Increases water holding capacity of the soil.
  4. All of these
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Q60: Paper that is suitable for recycling is called.
  1. Scrap paper
  2. Scrap book
  3. Scrap copy
  4. None of these
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Q61: Processing waste product into new product is called
  1. Wasting
  2. Throwing
  3. Recycling
  4. None of these
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Q62: Steps involved in recycling paper
  1. Torn - Soak in water- Thick paste - excess water drain-new product.
  2. Soak in water - Thick paste - excess water drain-new product - Torn
  3. Torn- Soak in water - excess water drain-new product - Thick paste
  4. Thick paste - Torn - Soak in water– excess water drain - new product
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Q63: We can manage waste well by
  1. Segregation
  2. Reusing things
  3. Using recyclable materials
  4. All of these
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Q64: Which of the following cannot be recycled?
  1. Cardboard box
  2. Caps of bottles
  3. Left over Dhokhla
  4. Magazines
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Q65: Which of the following can be recycled?
  1. Metals
  2. Paper
  3. Plastic
  4. All of above
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Q66: What type of waste can be managed by 3R principle?
  1. Non-biodegradable wastes
  2. Biodegradable wastes
  3. Both a and b
  4. None of this
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Q67: Plastics which can be recycled are called as
  1. Polythene
  2. Recyclable plastics
  3. Polypropylene
  4. PVC
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Q68: Plastic which is licensed to use.
  1. Polypropylene
  2. BPA based plastic
  3. Polythene
  4. PVC
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Q69: Polythene bags
  1. Causes environmental pollution
  2. Can be accidentally eaten by animals like cows.
  3. Can clog drainage systems in cities and towns.
  4. All of the above
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Q70: The process in which plastic break down into smaller and smaller toxic particles is known as
  1. Photo degradation
  2. Composting
  3. Biodegradable wastes
  4. Vermicomposting
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Q71: Which of the following can be recycled?
  1. Plastic laminated paper
  2. Oil-soaked papers
  3. Carbon paper
  4. Envelopes
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Chapter 16: Garbage in, Garbage out