Solar Radiation, Heat Balance and Temperature MCQs with answers

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Q. Name the sphere which constitutes the earth.
  • (A) atmosphere
  • (B) hydrosphere
  • (C) organic biosphere
  • (D) lithosphere
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) atmosphere
Q. Earth receives almost all its energy from the
  • (A) sun
  • (B) moon
  • (C) stars
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) sun
Q. What is the temperature at the sun’s gaseous surface?
  • (A) 570 degree Celsius
  • (B) 5700 degree Celsius
  • (C) 57000 degree Celsius
  • (D) 5000 degree Celsius
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 5700 degree Celsius
Q. Bodies radiate energy in which form?
  • (A) particles
  • (B) light
  • (C) wave
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) wave
Q. Earth in turn radiates the heat back to the atmosphere in long waves called
  • (A) terrestrial radiation
  • (B) photochemical radiation
  • (C) heat radiations
  • (D) ultraviolet radiations
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) terrestrial radiation
Q. The sun is vertically overhead at noon on 21st June at
  • (A) the equator
  • (B) 23.5 degree N
  • (C) 23.5 degree S
  • (D) 66.5 degree N
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) 23.5 degree N
Q. The days are longest a
  • (A) Nagpur
  • (B) Chandigarh
  • (C) Hyderabad
  • (D) Thiruvananthapuram
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Thiruvananthapuram
Q. This process of vertical heating of the atmosphere is known as
  • (A) Psychrometer
  • (B) Convection
  • (C) Evaporation
  • (D) None of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Convection
Q. Differences in pressure on the earth surface causes
  • (A) Winds
  • (B) Precipitation
  • (C) Hail
  • (D) Seasons
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Winds
Q. ______ are lines joining places having an equal temperature.
  • (A) Pyrheliometer
  • (B) Convection
  • (C) Evaporation
  • (D) Isotherms
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Isotherms
Q. The earth radiates energy to the atmosphere in
  • (A) Long wavelengths
  • (B) Radiation
  • (C) Insolation
  • (D) Short wavelengths
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Long wavelengths
Q. The days are longest at
  • (A) Hyderabad
  • (B) Thiruvananthapuram
  • (C) Mumbai
  • (D) Chandigarh
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Thiruvananthapuram
Q. What is Isotherm?
  • (A) The line joining the places of equal temperature.
  • (B) The incoming short wave radiation.
  • (C) The line joining the places of equal pressure.
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) The line joining the places of equal temperature.
Q. Higher latitudes are not permanently frozen because of
  • (A) Presence of warm and cold currents
  • (B) Very less insolation
  • (C) Redistribution of surplus heat energy pole wards from tropics
  • (D) Local aspects
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Redistribution of surplus heat energy pole wards from tropics
Q. The envelop of the air is called
  • (A) Atmosphere
  • (B) Stratosphere
  • (C) Troposphere
  • (D) None of the above
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Atmosphere
Q. Maximum insolation is received over the
  • (A) Poles
  • (B) Sub-tropical areas
  • (C) Tropical areas
  • (D) Equator
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Sub-tropical areas
Q. Angle made by the rays of the sun on the earth surface is called the
  • (A) angle of incidence
  • (B) albedo of the earth
  • (C) angle of the earth
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) angle of incidence
Q. Which of the following has longest day and nights?
  • (A) Poles
  • (B) Equator
  • (C) Tropic of Cancer
  • (D) Tropic of Capricorn
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Poles
Q. The heat energy absorbed by a known area in a fixed time is determined with the help of an instrument called
  • (A) Psychrometer
  • (B) Pyrheliometer
  • (C) Thermometric well
  • (D) Any instrument
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) Pyrheliometer
Q. On what day the earth is nearest to the sun?
  • (A) 21st June
  • (B) 23rd December
  • (C) 3rd January
  • (D) 21st July
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) 3rd January
Q. Insolation refers to
  • (A) Wind direction
  • (B) Solar radiation
  • (C) Precipitation
  • (D) None of the above
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Solar radiation
Q. With respect to isotherm, consider the following statements:
1. The Isotherms are lines joining places having equal temperature.
2. In January the isotherms deviate to the south over the Ocean and to the north over the continent in the northern hemisphere.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
  • (A) 1 only
  • (B) 2 only
  • (C) 1 and 2
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) 1 only
Q. Solar radiation received at any point of earth is called
  • (A) Infrared rays
  • (B) Diffuse Radiation
  • (C) Beam Radiation
  • (D) Insolation
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✅ Correct Answer: (D) Insolation
Q. The atmosphere is mainly heated by the
  • (A) Short wave solar radiation
  • (B) Reflected solar radiation
  • (C) Long wave terrestrial radiation
  • (D) Scattered solar radiation
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) Long wave terrestrial radiation
Q. What percent of sunrays that is received by the upper layer of the atmosphere reach the earth surface?
  • (A) 43%
  • (B) 51%
  • (C) 53%
  • (D) 40%.
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✅ Correct Answer: (B) 51%
Q. The amount of visible radiation reflected by the earth is called as its _______.
  • (A) Albedo
  • (B) Scattering
  • (C) Refraction
  • (D) Dispersion
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) Albedo
Q. The balance of incoming and outgoing radiation is
  • (A) solar energy
  • (B) heat balance
  • (C) terrestrial radiation
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) heat balance
Q. Through which process the colour of the sky seems blue?
  • (A) absorption
  • (B) reflection
  • (C) scattering
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) scattering
Q. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  • (A) aurora Australis
  • (B) albedo
  • (C) reflection
  • (D) insolation
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) albedo
Q. The earth transmits the heat by
  • (A) conduction
  • (B) convection
  • (C) radiation
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. By which process the earth’s surface is heated?
  • (A) convection
  • (B) conduction
  • (C) radiation
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) conduction
Q. How much solar radiation is received at the top of the atmosphere?
  • (A) 100 units
  • (B) 110 units
  • (C) 47 units
  • (D) 53 units
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) 100 units
Q. Which factor controls the temperature distribution?
  • (A) latitude
  • (B) altitude
  • (C) ocean current
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. What is the distance between the sun and the earth?
  • (A) 152 million km.
  • (B) 1520 million km.
  • (C) 15200 million km.
  • (D) 1500 million km.
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✅ Correct Answer: (A) 152 million km.
Q. The dark spots appearing on the sun’s surface are called
  • (A) Auroralis
  • (B) Sun spots
  • (C) Aurora australis
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Sun spots
Q. What causes the variations in insolation?
  • (A) terrestrial radiations
  • (B) atmospheric gases
  • (C) rotation of the earth on its axis
  • (D) None of these
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✅ Correct Answer: (C) rotation of the earth on its axis
Q. Which factor determines the angle of inclination of solar rays?
  • (A) altitude
  • (B) latitude
  • (C) ocean currents
  • (D) rotation of the earth
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) latitude
Q. On what day the sun is overhead at the Tropic of Cancer?
  • (A) June 21st
  • (B) July 21st
  • (C) March 21st
  • (D) January 3rd
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) June 21st
Q. The angle of inclination of sun’s rays at noon at Delhi (28°N)
  • (A)
  • (B) 47°
  • (C) 57°
  • (D) 85°
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) 85°
Q. The sun is vertically over head at noon on 21st June at
  • (A) the equator.
  • (B) 23.5 degree N.
  • (C) 23.5 degree S
  • (D) 66.5 degree N.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 23.5 degree N.
Q. _______ are lines joining places having equal temperature.
  • (A) Pyrheliometer
  • (B) Convection
  • (C) Isotherms
  • (D) Evaporation
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Isotherms
Q. When is North pole inclined 23½° toward the sun?
  • (A) 21st March
  • (B) 21st June
  • (C) 23rd September
  • (D) 23rd March
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 21st June
Q. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  • (A) insolation
  • (B) reflection
  • (C) albedo
  • (D) aurora Australis
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) albedo
Q. Which of the following causes inversion of temperature in mountainous regions?
  • (A) Due to air drainage
  • (B) Due to dust particles
  • (C) Due to gravitation
  • (D) Due to water vapours
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Due to air drainage
Q. With increase in height the temperature decreases at a normal rate. It is called
  • (A) Air drainage
  • (B) Earth radiation
  • (C) Normal lapse rate
  • (D) Inversion of temperature
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Normal lapse rate
Q. Which type of fuel is removed from the reactor core after reaching end of core life service?
  • (A) Burnt Fuel
  • (B) Spent fuel
  • (C) Engine oil
  • (D) Radioactive fuel
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) Spent fuel
Q. What is the rate of solar energy reaching the earth surface?
  • (A) 865W
  • (B) 1016W
  • (C) 1912W
  • (D) 2854W
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 1016W
Q. _________ are lines joining places having an equal temperature.
  • (A) Isotherms
  • (B) Evaporation
  • (C) Convection
  • (D) Pyrheliometer
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Isotherms
Q. The axis of rotation of Earth is inclined about
  • (A) 23½°
  • (B) 66½°
  • (C) 28°N
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 66½°
Q. When is North pole inclined 23½° toward the sun?
  • (A) 23rd March
  • (B) 23rd September
  • (C) 21st June
  • (D) 21st March
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) 21st June
Q. Which processes operate on insolation during the passage through the atmosphere?
  • (A) reflection
  • (B) absorption
  • (C) scattering
  • (D) All of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) All of these
Q. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  • (A) insolation
  • (B) reflection
  • (C) albedo
  • (D) aurora Australis
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) albedo
Q. The heat transfer by contact is termed as
  • (A) conduction
  • (B) convection
  • (C) radiation
  • (D) none of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) conduction
Q. By which process the earth’s surface is heated?
  • (A) convection
  • (B) conduction
  • (C) radiation
  • (D) None of these
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) conduction
Q. Consider the following statements:
1. The incoming solar radiation on earth is known as insolation.
2. The farthest distance of the earth from the Sun is 152 million Km on 4th July.
3. The position of the earth when it is nearest to the Sun is called Aphelion.
Select the correct answer using the code given below
  • (A) only 1
  • (B) 1 and 2 only
  • (C) 2 and 3 only
  • (D) 1, 2 and 3
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (B) 1 and 2 only
Q. The main reason that the earth experiences highest temperatures in the subtropics in the northern hemisphere rather than at the equator is
  • (A) Subtropical areas tend to have less cloud cover than equatorial areas.
  • (B) Subtropical areas have an enhanced “green house effect” compared to equatorial areas.
  • (C) Subtropical areas are nearer to the oceanic areas than the equatorial locations.
  • (D) Subtropical areas have longer day hours in the summer than the equatorial.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) Subtropical areas have longer day hours in the summer than the equatorial.
Q. Temperature of sun can be workout from
  • (A) Wein’s displacement law
  • (B) Stefan-Boltzmann law
  • (C) Kirchhoff’s law
  • (D) All of the Mentioned
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) Wein’s displacement law
Q. On 4th July, the earth is farthest from sun. What is its distance?
  • (A) 198 million km.
  • (B) 148 million km
  • (C) 147 million km
  • (D) 152 million km
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (D) 152 million km
Q. In what form is solar energy is radiated from the sun?
  • (A) Ultraviolet Radiation
  • (B) Infrared radiation
  • (C) Electromagnetic waves
  • (D) Transverse waves
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (C) Electromagnetic waves
Q. What is normal lapse rate?
  • (A) 6.5°C per km.
  • (B) 65°C per km.
  • (C) 5.6°C per km.
  • (D) 6.6°C per km.
💬 Discuss
✅ Correct Answer: (A) 6.5°C per km.

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  1. Name the sphere which constitutes the earth.
  2. Earth receives almost all its energy from the
  3. What is the temperature at the sun’s gaseous surface?
  4. Bodies radiate energy in which form?
  5. Earth in turn radiates the heat back to the atmosphere in long waves called
  6. The sun is vertically overhead at noon on 21st June at
  7. The days are longest a
  8. This process of vertical heating of the atmosphere is known as
  9. Differences in pressure on the earth surface causes
  10. ______ are lines joining places having an equal temperature.
  11. The earth radiates energy to the atmosphere in
  12. The days are longest at
  13. What is Isotherm?
  14. Higher latitudes are not permanently frozen because of
  15. The envelop of the air is called
  16. Maximum insolation is received over the
  17. Angle made by the rays of the sun on the earth surface is called the
  18. Which of the following has longest day and nights?
  19. The heat energy absorbed by a known area in a fixed time is determined with the help of an instrumen
  20. On what day the earth is nearest to the sun?
  21. Insolation refers to
  22. With respect to isotherm, consider the following statements: 1. The Isotherms are lines joining pla
  23. Solar radiation received at any point of earth is called
  24. The atmosphere is mainly heated by the
  25. What percent of sunrays that is received by the upper layer of the atmosphere reach the earth surfac
  26. The amount of visible radiation reflected by the earth is called as its _______.
  27. The balance of incoming and outgoing radiation is
  28. Through which process the colour of the sky seems blue?
  29. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  30. The earth transmits the heat by
  31. By which process the earth’s surface is heated?
  32. How much solar radiation is received at the top of the atmosphere?
  33. Which factor controls the temperature distribution?
  34. What is the distance between the sun and the earth?
  35. The dark spots appearing on the sun’s surface are called
  36. What causes the variations in insolation?
  37. Which factor determines the angle of inclination of solar rays?
  38. On what day the sun is overhead at the Tropic of Cancer?
  39. The angle of inclination of sun’s rays at noon at Delhi (28°N)
  40. The sun is vertically over head at noon on 21st June at
  41. _______ are lines joining places having equal temperature.
  42. When is North pole inclined 23½° toward the sun?
  43. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  44. Which of the following causes inversion of temperature in mountainous regions?
  45. With increase in height the temperature decreases at a normal rate. It is called
  46. Which type of fuel is removed from the reactor core after reaching end of core life service?
  47. What is the rate of solar energy reaching the earth surface?
  48. _________ are lines joining places having an equal temperature.
  49. The axis of rotation of Earth is inclined about
  50. When is North pole inclined 23½° toward the sun?
  51. Which processes operate on insolation during the passage through the atmosphere?
  52. The combined reflection from the earth’s surface and clouds is known as
  53. The heat transfer by contact is termed as
  54. By which process the earth’s surface is heated?
  55. Consider the following statements: 1. The incoming solar radiation on earth is known as insolation.
  56. The main reason that the earth experiences highest temperatures in the subtropics in the northern he
  57. Temperature of sun can be workout from
  58. On 4th July, the earth is farthest from sun. What is its distance?
  59. In what form is solar energy is radiated from the sun?
  60. What is normal lapse rate?