BIBHUPRASAD MOHAPATRA 1. BriƟ sh physicist and meteorologist who did important work 10. German geographer and climatologist, whose most notable

NOWLEDGE on ozone and a unit of measurement of atmospheric ozone is contribuƟ on to science was the development of the climate named aŌ er him. classifi caƟ on system, which is named aŌ er him. K a) Chris an Friedrich Schonbein b) G.M.B. Dobson a) Rudolf Geiger b) Alfred Lothar Wegener c) Jacques-Louis Soret d) William Robert Grove c) Wladimir Koppen d) Helmut Erich Landsberg OUR

Y 2. American mathemaƟ cian and meteorologist, and a pioneer of 11. Belgian professor and climatologist, best known for chaos theory who coined the term ‘buƩ erfl y eī ect’, in which a his signifi cant contribuƟ on to the renaissance and further small change at one place in a determinisƟ c nonlinear system development of the astronomical theory of paleoclimates.

EST can result in large diī erences in a later state. a) Georges Lemaître b) Andre Berger a) b) James Murdoch Aus n c) Jean-Pascal van Ypersele d) Gilbert Walker T c) Kevin E. Trenberth d) Carl Wunsch 12. A world-renowned atmospheric scienƟ st whose 3. English steam engineer and inventor whose main contribuƟ on accomplishments span a half-century became the fi rst woman to was developing the theory that linked rising CO2 concentraƟ ons ever receive a PhD in . in the atmosphere to global temperature. a) Joanne Simpson b) Marie sanderson a) Svante Arrhenius b) Nils Gustaf Ekholm c) Heidi Cullen d) Marny Stanier c) Guy Stewart Callendar d) Hugh Longbourne Callendar 13. Swedish born American oceanographer and meteorologist 4. Pennsylvania born scienƟ st whose recording of CO2 at the who fi rst explained the large-scale moƟ ons of the atmosphere in Mauna Loa Observatory fi rst alerted the world to the possibility terms of fl uid mechanics. of anthropogenic contribuƟ on to the “greenhouse eī ect” and a) Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby b) Vilhelm Bjerknes “global warming”. c) Chaim L. Pekeris d) Horace R. Byers a) Ralph Keeling b) Penny Whe on c) Andrew J. Weaver d) Charles David Keeling 14. American writer and acƟ vist has wriƩ en 2 books relaƟ ng to global warming: The Heat Is On (1997) and Boiling Point (2004). 5. Serbian mathemaƟ cian, astronomer and climatologist, known The Heat Is On received naƟ onal aƩ enƟ on when President Bill for the explanaƟ on of Earth’s long-term climate changes caused Clinton told the press he was reading it. by changes in the posiƟ on of the Earth in comparison to the Sun. a) Al Gore b) Bill McKibben a) Myles Allen b) Milu n Milankovic c) Ross Gelbspan d) Patrick J. Michaels c) Richard Alley d) Kevin Anderson 15. Russian climatologist and one of the founders of physical 6. American climate expert and blogger of ‘climate progress’ climatology, wrote a groundbreaking book, Heat Balance of the blog; Time magazine named him one of its “Heroes of the Earth’s Surface, published in 1956 and transformed climatology Environment (2009)”. from a qualitaƟ ve into a quanƟ taƟ ve physical science. a) Olga Speranskaya b) Thomas L. Friedman a) Olga Zolina b) Fyodor Panayev c) Andrew Watson d) Joseph J. Romm c) Dmitry Lachinov d) Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko

7. Swedish meteorologist and professor of meteorology at 16. American hurricane specialist and fi rst director of the NaƟ onal Stockholm University served as the fi rst chairman of the Hurricane Research Project (1955–1959), and a former director Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), from 1988 of the NaƟ onal Hurricane Center (1967–1974). He was the co- to 1997. developer of the Saĸ r–Simpson Hurricane Scale. a) Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin b) Robert Watson a) Robert Simpson b) Herbert Sa r c) John Theodore Houghton d) Michael Calvin MacCracken c) Joanne Simpson d) James Young Simpson

8. Japanese meteorologist and climatologist who pioneered the 17. American oceanographer born in 1929, who is considered use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural to be the founder of numerical ocean modeling. He was a lead climate variaƟ ons. author of the “Transient Climate Change” secƟ on of the 1989 a) Atsumu Ohmura b) Kinji Imanishi scienƟ fi c assessment report to the IPCC. c) d) Shinya Yamanaka a) Maurice Ewing b) Kirk Bryan c) Henry Melson Stommel d) Joseph Smagorinsky 9. SeaƩ le-born American scienƟ st who was one of the fi rst scienƟ sts to study global warming and the movement of Earth’s ANSWERS: 1) b 2) a 3) c 4) d 5) b 6) d 7) a 8) c 9) d 10) c tectonic plates. 11) b 12) a 13) a 14) c 15) d 16) a 17) b a) Wallace Smith Broecker b) Robert C. Balling Contributed by Bibhuprasad Mohapatra, Postal Assistant, Rayagada Head c) Tom Wigley d) Roger Randall Dougan Revelle Post Offi ce, Rayagada-765001, Odisha; Email: [email protected] SCIENCE REPORTER, JULY 2015 56 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

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1. ScienƟ st who brought the concept of ‘Catalysts’ to limelight is: 11. Hydrolysis of starch to maltose is catalyzed with the help of (a) Berzelius (b) Wohler catalyst: (c) Avogadro (d) Ostwald (a) Maltase (b) Diastage (c) Zymase (d) Pancrease 2. Name the catalyst used in preparaƟ on of Sulphuric acid in contact process 12. When maltose is hydrolyzed to glucose, the enzyme catalyst (a) Nickel used is: (b) Hydrogen Gas (a) Maltase (b) Diastage (c) Vanadium Pentoxide (c) Zymase (d) Invertase (d) Copper metal 13. Ozone layer depleƟ on takes place in presence of ozone 3. What is the catalyst used to manufacture Nitric acid from depleƟ ng substances such as Ammonia at temperature 1273 K? (a) Chlorine (a) Pla nized asbestos (b) Nickel (b) Bromine (c) Vanadium Pentoxide (d) Iron (c) NO (d) Acid 4. In the conversion of Proteins to PepƟ de in the stomach, which one acts as Catalyst? 14. Name the biocatalyst found in Soybean that converts urea to (a) Pepsin (b) Invertase Ammonia & carbon dioxide. (c) Insulin (d) Trypsin (a) Maltase (b) Urease (c) Invertase (d) Lactase 5. In pancreas there occurs conversion of Proteins to Amino acid, name the enzyme catalyst that catalyzes the reacƟ on? 15. In automobile exhausts, the catalyst that converts polluƟ ng (a) Pepsin gases into non toxic gases is (b) Pancreas Trypsin (a) Nitric Oxide

(c) Progesterone (b) MO, MO2 (where M= Transi on metals) (d) Invertase (c) Copper (d) Lindlar’s catalyst 6. What is the name of enzyme catalyst that converts milk to curd? 16. In preparaƟ on of methyl alcohol from CO and H2, the catalyst (a) Maltase (b) Zymase used is (c) Lac c bacilli (d) Diastase (a) Zinc Oxide (b) Cu, ZnO 7. For the manufacture of vegetable ghee from vegetable oil, the (c) Vanadium Pentoxide catalyst used is ( d) Pla num (a) Nickel (b) ZnO 17. Biocatalyst that is useful in treaƟ ng heart disease thereby (c) Pla num dissolving blood clot in our body is (d) Molybdenum (a) Streptokinase (b) Hydroxylase 8. In Haber’s process, the manufacture of Ammonia takes place in (c) Lactase presence of metal catalyst: (d) Amylase (a) Iron (b) Fe, Mo (c) Nickel (d) Copper 18. Name the enzyme catalyst that converts starch to glucose? (a) Lactase (b) Amylase  (c) Urease (d) Pepsin 9. The reacƟ on C12H22O11(l) + H2O(l)  C6H12O6 + C6H12O6 is catalysed by (a) Pepsin (b) Invertase (c) Zymase (d) Maltase ANSWERS: 1)a 2) c 3) a 4) a 5) b 6) c 7) a 8) b 9) b 10) b 11) b 12)a 13) a 14) b 10. In conversion of glucose to ethanol which one is used as 15) b 16) b 17) a 18) b catalyst? (a) Invertase (b) Zymase Contributed by Mr B.N. Biswal, Principal, Sri Sathya Sai Vidyaniketan, (c) Pancrease (d) Pepsin Ganeshvad Sisodra, NH No. 8, Navsari-396463, Gujarat; Email: chem_iway@ sify.com 57 SCIENCE REPORTER, JULY 2015