Dr. B. C.
Roy Engineering College, Durgapur
(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to MAKAUT, West Bengal)
Course Name (Code): Environmental Science (MC-ES 101)
Suggestive Questions
Section A (Very Short Answer Type Question)
1(i) Minamata disease is caused by which metal
1(ii) What is the full form of COD?
1(iii) Acidity of rain water is measured by which unit?
1(iv) Which ion is the cause of temporary hardness
1(v) Give one example of renewable energy.
1(vi) What is the source of earth’s magnetic field?
1(vii) What are the sources of arsenic pollution?
1(viii) What is the relation between frequency and energy?
1(ix) Write the name of two greenhouse gas.
1(x) Which radiation is absorbed by ozone layer?
1(xi) What is the unit of measurement of sound?
1(xii) What do you mean by soil pollution?
1(xiii) Give examples of secondary pollutant.
1(xiv) What is the unit of intensity level of noise?
1(xv) Which anion is responsible for water alkalinity?
1(xvi) What is the main constituent of smog?
1(xvii) Which method is used for the disposal of Clinical waste?
1(xviii) Which air pollutant reduces oxygen carrying capacity?
1(xix) Which one is the coldest layer of the atmosphere?
1(xx) What is the main component of Mesophere?
1(xxi) What is the value of earth’s Albedo?
1(xxii) What is the best method of disposal of non-hazardous solid waste?
1(xxiii) What is the noise threshold limit value of sound level 90 dB?
Section B (Short Answer Type Question)
(Answer any three)
2 Explain the cause and effects off acid rain.
3 Explain BOD and COD
4 Explain the reason of the blue colour of sky
5 Why hard water cannot be used effectively?
6 Draw a diagram of the various segments of atmosphere with temperature and explain the
reason of temperature variation?
7 What are renewable and non – renewable resources? Give one example of each.
8 What is lithosphere? What is the average temperature of earth’s core? What is primary
rock?
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9 What is the difference between sound and noise? What are the drawbacks of dBA scale?
Section C (Long Answer Type Question)
(Answer any three)
10 What is dissolve oxygen? What is its importance as water quality parameter?
11 a) What is global warming?
b) How dose green house gases cause global warming?
c) What are the adverse effects of global warming?
12 a) What are the different types of solid waste? b) What are the methods of solid waste
disposal and management? C) What are the advantage disadvantages of land filling of solid
waste?
13 a) What is noise pollution? b) Explain the source of noise pollution. c) How can noise
pollution be controlled? d) If two machines produce 60 dB sounds simultaneously,
what will be the total sound level?
14 a) What is eutrophication? b) Discuss the different stages of eutrophication. b) A BOD test is
run using 50 ml of waste water mixed with 100 ml of pure water. The initial DO of the
mixture is 6 mg/l and after 5 days it becomes 3 mg/l. After long time the DO remains fixed
at 1mg/l.
1) What is the BOD5 of waste water?
2) What is the ultimate BODU
3) What is the remaining BOD after 5 days?
4) What is the reaction rate constant measured at 200 C?
5)What would be the reaction rate if measured at 350 C? (θ = 0.344)
15 a. What is Greenhouse effect? Write the name of greenhouse gases.
b. What is ozone hole? How does it happen chemically in the stratosphere?
16 Draw a flowsheet of a water treatment plant for treating surface water to confirm public
water supply standard.
17 a. How will you convert waste to wealth?
b. What are the advantages of landfill?
c. What are the disadvantages of incineration?
d. What is hazardous waste?
e. How can you minimize hazardous waste?
18 a. Calculate the intensity of 100 dB sound. Reference Intensity = 1X 10-12 w/m2.
b. What is “Noise Threshold Limit Value”?
c. What is the effect of Noise Pollution?
d. What is human detectable frequency range?
e. In which frequency range audio sense is most sharp?
f. What is L10(18 hours) index?
19 a. What do you mean by Maximum Mixing Depth? Differentiate between Ambient Lapse
Rate and Adiabatic Lapse Rate.
b. What is ventilation coefficient? What are the advantages and disadvantages of
electrostatic precipitator?
c. A waste water sample of 25ml is diluted by adding 275ml seeded dilution water. The
initial demand oxygen (DOi) is found to be 9.0 mg/l and after 5 days the final Demand
oxygen (DOf) is 3.0 mg/l. If the seeded dilution water has initial (Bi) of 10.0 mg/l and final
(Bf) 8.0mg/l, then find the BOD5 of the waste.
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