This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 7 > Geography > Water > Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the role of a wetland? A) To provide entertainment for tourists, reduce flooding, and improve water quality. B) Wetlands are primarily used for industrial waste disposal. C) Wetlands have no impact on the environment. D) Provide habitat for various species, improve water quality, and reduce flooding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provide habitat for various species, improve water quality, and reduce flooding. 2. The amount of water recommended by the United Nations for drinking, washing, cooking and maintaining proper hygiene per person per day is a minimum of A) 15 litres. B) 30 litres. C) 5 litres. D) 50 liters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 50 liters. 3. Tsunami can be caused by underwater landslides. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. How many Hydrogen atoms does a single water molecule have? A) 3. B) 2. C) 4. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 5. Which of the following technique is not used for the desalination of brackish water? A) Electrolysis. B) Electrodiallsis. C) Reverse osmosis. D) Distillation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electrolysis. 6. Water is able to dissolve many substances, therefore it is known as the: A) Universal Solute. B) Universal Compound. C) Universal Solvent. D) Universal Molecule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Universal Solvent. 7. Change of water vaper into liquid is called Presipitation A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 8. Water ..... when it freezes, making it ..... dense. A) Expands; more. B) Contracts; more. C) Expands; less. D) Contracts; less. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expands; less. 9. ..... is absolutely essential for survival. A) Bike. B) Books. C) Car. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 10. Rain water is pure A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Tributaries are made up of ..... and ..... A) Rivers and streams. B) Lakes and streams. C) Rivers and lakes. D) Bays and rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rivers and streams. 12. Tsunami is a type of ..... A) Tide. B) Ocean current. C) Wave. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wave. 13. Water's specific heat makes large bodies of water cool down ..... than the nearby land. A) Hot, Cold. B) Cohesion. C) Slower. D) Adhesion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slower. 14. Which will most likely form during the condensation process? A) Hail. B) Rain. C) Runoff. D) Clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clouds. 15. Which are most likely to result in an increase in precipitation? A) Decrease in sunlight, decrease in evaporation, increase in condensation. B) Decrease in sunlight, increase in evaporation, decrease in condensation. C) Increase in sunlight, increase in evaporation, increase in condensation. D) Increase in sunlight, decrease in evaporation, decrease in condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase in sunlight, increase in evaporation, increase in condensation. 16. Which two processes increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere as a result of heat from the sun? A) Surface run-off and transpiration. B) Condensation and precipitation. C) Evaporation and condensation. D) Transpiration and evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transpiration and evaporation. 17. Which of the following best describes a polar molecule? A) It is a molecule with no electrical charge. B) It is a positively charged molecule. C) It is a negatively charged molecule. D) It is a molecule with electrically charged areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is a molecule with electrically charged areas. 18. ..... water dissolves faster than ..... water A) Hot, Cold. B) Slower. C) Cohesion. D) Adhesion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot, Cold. 19. Which one of the following is not responsible for water shortage? A) Rapid growth of industries. B) Increasing population. C) Heavy rainfall. D) Mismanagement of water resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heavy rainfall. 20. When plants lose water into the atmosphere as a gas, this is called ..... A) Precipitation. B) Condensation. C) Evaporation. D) Transpiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transpiration. 21. What are the 5 main things scientists measure for water quality? A) Weather, pH, dissolve oxygen, nutrients, turbidity. B) Nutrients, pH, temperature, weather, turbidity. C) Dissolved oxygen, nitrates, pH temperature, turbidity. D) Dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, pH, turbidity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dissolved oxygen, nutrients, temperature, pH, turbidity. 22. How would you rank the health of the Chesapeake Bay? A) Terrible. B) Bad. C) Great. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bad. 23. Yamuna is in which state? A) Kerela. B) Maharashtra. C) Delhi. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delhi. 24. Layers of rock or soil that allow water to flow through are called ..... A) Reservoirs. B) Lakes. C) Aquifers. D) Watersheds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aquifers. 25. Water is a ..... ? A) Solid. B) Liquid. C) Gas. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liquid. 26. ..... washes agricultural wastes, including animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into bodies of water, causing algae to grow. A) Groundwater. B) Municipal sewage. C) Peak flow. D) Runoff. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Runoff. 27. How many hydrogen atoms are in a water molecule? A) 0. B) 5. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2. 28. What is a W atershed? A) An area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water. B) A place to store water for emergency use. C) A storm drain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water. 29. Jog falls has ( type of water ) A) Saline. B) Fresh. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fresh. 30. Which of the following is considered the most significant contributor to the global freshwater supply? A) Desalination plants. B) Reservoirs. C) Glaciers. D) Rainwater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glaciers. 31. Who among the following needs water to live? A) Animals, birds, plants. B) Stones,. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Animals, birds, plants. 32. A resource that can replenished what is used is called a A) Non-Renewable Resource. B) Cohesive Resource. C) Renewable Resource. D) Tired Resource. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renewable Resource. 33. If everyone lives in a watershed, which watershed do we live in? A) Chesapeake Bay. B) Gulf of Mexico. C) We do not live in a watershed. D) North Carolina Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chesapeake Bay. 34. Which statement explains why water molecules stick together? A) Both sides are negative. B) One side has a positive charge and the other side has a negative charge. C) One side has a negative charge adn the other side has a neutral charge. D) Both sides are positive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One side has a positive charge and the other side has a negative charge. 35. How much salinity is there in dead sea per litre of water A) 200 grams. B) 340 grams. C) 820 grams. D) 250 grams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 340 grams. 36. Long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean, deepest part of the ocean A) Trench. B) Geyser. C) Levee. D) Reservoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trench. 37. Epsom salt and Green vitriol are: A) Decahydrate. B) Pentahyrate. C) Heptahydrate. D) Hexahydrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heptahydrate. 38. Describes the capacity of water to hold onto its heat. A) Polar. B) Buoyant. C) Specific Heat. D) Capillary action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Specific Heat. 39. Filling a cup of water fuller than the top without spilling is an example of water displaying ..... A) Cohesion. B) Adhesion. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cohesion. 40. What is the largest watershed in the continental U.S.? A) Ohio River watershed. B) Chesapeake Bay watershed. C) Columbia River watershed. D) Mississippi River watershed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chesapeake Bay watershed. 41. Infiltration is the process by which water enters and absorbs into the soil. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. True or False:Solvent is the substance that gets dissolved in a solution. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 43. What type of arrangement does a water molecule have? A) Water molecules have a polar arrangement of oxygen and hydrogen atoms one in the hydrogen atoms have positive electrical charge and the other side oxygen has a negative charge. B) Water molecules have a polar arrangement of oxygen and nitrogen atoms one in the nitrogen atoms have positive electrical charge and the other side oxygen has a negative charge. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water molecules have a polar arrangement of oxygen and hydrogen atoms one in the hydrogen atoms have positive electrical charge and the other side oxygen has a negative charge. 44. Where would you find brackish water? A) Wetlands. B) Aquifers. C) Glaciers. D) Estuaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Estuaries. 45. Plants using water, carbon dioxide, and energy to make food. A) Transpiration. B) Evaporation. C) Photosynthesis. D) Water cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photosynthesis. 46. All water below the surface of land is called ..... A) Watershed. B) Groundwater. C) Runoff. D) Water table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Groundwater. 47. Which of the following properties of water enables it to move from the roots to the leaves of plants? A) Water expands as it freezes. B) Water is an excellent solvent. C) Water exhibits cohesive behavior. D) Water moderates temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water exhibits cohesive behavior. 48. ..... occur when the sun, the moon and the earth form three corners of a triangle, the attraction of the sun and Moon neutralize each other. A) (a) Bore Tides. B) (b) Spring tides. C) (c) Neap Tides. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (c) Neap Tides. 49. Do all solids melt at the same temperature? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 50. A human body is made up of ..... percent of water A) 65%. B) 70%. C) 90%. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 70%. 51. What happens during the water cycle? A) Water changes into different forms and is reused over and over again. B) Water only turns to vapor and disappears when it becomes a cloud. C) The Sun's light provides water to the plants. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water changes into different forms and is reused over and over again. 52. Which activity helps reduce the severity of flooding? A) Draining wetlands. B) Clearing trees from hillsides. C) Creating artificial wetlands. D) Paving urban areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Creating artificial wetlands. 53. Following are the movements that occur in oceans except: A) Tides. B) Wind. C) Currents. D) Waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wind. 54. Long passage of water, wider than a strait, that connects two larger bodies of water or is between mainland islands A) Gulf. B) Trench. C) Strait. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sound. 55. Water conservation is ..... A) Practice of wasting water. B) Practice of saving water by the various methods such as ground water harvesting. C) Practice of using water efficiently and reduce unnecessary water usage. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Practice of using water efficiently and reduce unnecessary water usage. 56. Water vapor enters the atmosphere through the process of ..... A) Condensation. B) Reflection. C) Absorption. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evaporation. 57. Ganga is in which state? A) Uttarakhand. B) Maharashtra. C) Kerela. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uttarakhand. 58. What is a stream or river that feeds into a larger body of water? A) Watershed. B) Bay. C) Tributary. D) Estuary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tributary. 59. Water sticks well to many materials. What term relates to this property of water? A) Cohesion. B) Adhesion. C) Surface tension. D) Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adhesion. 60. Protected body of water deep enough to be a port A) Harbor. B) Ocean. C) Sea. D) Gulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harbor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGeography QuizzesClass 7 QuizzesClass 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 1Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 2Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 3Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 4Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 5Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 6Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 7Class 7 Geography Chapter 5 Water Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books