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What does Green Chemistry in terms of environment mean?

  1. Greenhouse effect

  2. Reaction related to depletion of ozone layer

  3. Photosynthetic reactions in plants

  4. Reduction in the use and production of hazardous chemicals


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Green chemistry is also known as environmentally sustainable chemistry. 


Perhaps, the most widely accepted definition of green chemistry is the one offered by chemists Paul Anastas and John Warner, who defined green chemistry as the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.

Hence, option D is correct.

The average weather pattern taken over a long time, say _______, is called the climate of the place.

  1. $10\ years$

  2. $20\ years$

  3. $25\ years$

  4. $30\ years$


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The average weather pattern taken over a long time of about $25 years$ is known as climate of that place.

All changes in the weather are caused by the:

  1. Earth

  2. Sun

  3. Moon

  4. none of the above


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The energy that the Earth receives from the Sun is the basic cause of our changing weather. Solar heat warms the huge air masses that comprise large and small weather systems.However, at higher altitudes, the atmosphere reacts strongly to changes in solar activity.

Solvents used to dry clean clothes are usually $C 2Cl _4$ .A substitute has been discovered which is environmental friendly is an application of _________.

  1. Green revolution

  2. Green chemistry

  3. Waste management

  4. Revolution resource recovery


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Solvents used to clean dry clothes are usually chlorinated compounds such as tetrachloroethylene $C _2Cl _4$ which is a human potential carcinogen which have serious environmental consequence. a substitute has been discovered which is environmental friendly is an application of green chemistry.

Which of the following compounds are toxic?

  1. Benzene

  2. Toluene

  3. Carbon tetrachloride

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

toxic substance is a substance that can be poisonous or cause health effects.

Benzene is known to cause cancer, based on evidence from studies in both people and lab animals.Basically it is carcinogenic.
Toluene is irritating to the skin, eyes, and respiratory tract. It can cause systemic toxicity by ingestion or inhalation and is slowly absorbed through the skin.
Carbon tetrachloride is one of the most potent hepatotoxins (toxic to the liver), so much so that is widely used in scientific research to evaluate hepatoprotective agents.Exposure to high concentrations of carbon tetrachloride (including vapour) can affect the central nervous system, degenerate the liver and kidneys and prolonged exposure may lead to coma or death.

The short term variation which occurs in the atmosphere is called:

  1. climate

  2. relative humidity

  3. climate chart

  4. weather


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The short term variation in atmosphere is called weather.

________ reduces toxicity, minimizes waste, saves energy, and cuts down on the depletion of natural resources. It allows for advances in chemistry to occur in a much more environmentally benign way.

  1. Green chemistry

  2. Green revolution

  3. Waste management

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Green chemistry seeks to develop products and processes that are kind to the environment. This can involve reducing the waste a process creates, using renewable materials, lessening the energy required to form a product, etc. 

Faraday has developed a plating process to make high-performance chrome coatings from trivalent chromium instead of highly toxic hexavalent chromium. This is an application of:

  1. Green revolution

  2. Green chemistry

  3. waste management

  4. revolution resource recovery


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Faraday has developed a plating process to make high-performance chrome coatings from trivalent chromium instead of highly toxic hexavalent chromium. It involves the production of alternate product which is more friendly to environment. Hence, this is an application of Green chemistry.

The process of nutrient enrichment is termed as:

  1. Limiting nutrients

  2. Eutrophication

  3. Enrichment

  4. Schistosomiasis


Correct Option: B
Explanation:
Eutrophication is a very slow process in which river, lake or another shallow water source deteriorate in the marsh and later on dies. Nutritive pollution is one of the important factor of eutrophication due to which aquatic plant and animal life of this water destroed. Or e can say that excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to run-off from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant lifeis known as eutrophication.

Green chemistry means such reactions which -

  1. are related to the depletion of ozone layer

  2. study the reactions in plants

  3. produce colour during reactions

  4. reduce the use and production of hazardous

    chemicals


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Green chemistry means chemistry that uses less harmful and hazardous chemicals products that does not cause any harm neither to us nor to the environment.