Class 10 Science Chapter 10 MCQ

The sun appears red at sunset because, at that time, the sun is near the horizon and, therefore, sunlight has to travel through a greater thickness of the earth’s atmosphere.

Here, all the statements are correct. Hence, your answer will be option [D].

At noon the sun appears white because the light from the sun is directly overhead and travel relatively shorter distance. The sun appears white as only a little of the blue and violet colours are scattered.

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Rainbow is caused by dispersion, refraction and internal reflection of sunlight by tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere and always formed in a direction opposite to that of the sun. The water droplets act like a small prism. They refract and disperse the incident sunlight, then reflect it internally and finally refract it again when it comes out of the raindrop.

The cone shaped cells of the retina make us to see colours and also make us distinguish between various colours. Cone cells of the retina function only in bright light. The cones do not function in dim light. This is why when it is getting dark at night, it becomes impossible to see colours of cars on the road.

The twinkling of star is due to atmospheric refraction of light of stars. These lights, on entering the earth’s atmosphere, undergoes refraction continuously before it reaches the earth. The path of rays of light coming from the distant star goes on varying slightly, the apparent position of the star fluctuates and the amount of starlight entering the eye flickers. The star sometimes appears brighter and at some other time, fainter gives us the twinkling effect.

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the whole purpose of using a concave lens here is to reduce the converging power of the eye-lens. The concave lens used here decreases the converging power of the eye-lens and helps in forming the image of distant object on the retina of the myopic eye.

As the person has the eye defect, myopia, therefore, a concave lens has to be used whose focal length will be, f = – 2 m (using sign convention). Thus, Power, P = 1/f (where, f is focal length in metre) = 1/- 2 = -0.5 D

The whole purpose of using a convex lens is to increase the converging power of the eye-lens. The convex lens used in spectacles increase the converging power of islands and helps in forming the image of a nearby object on the retina of the eye.

Stars twinkle because they are far away. The planets do not twinkle at night because they are nearer to the earth.

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The danger signals installed at the top of tall buildings are red in colour because among all other colours, red colour is scattered the least by smoke of fog. This is primarily because wavelength of red colour is the largest. Thus, it can be easily seen from a distance.

Predators have both the eyes at the front of their heads so that they can judge the distance of their prey accurately.

Actually, in refraction through a glass prism the emergent ray is deviated from its original direction by a certain angle. And we say that light rays get deviated on passing through a glass prism. Therefore, in refraction through a glass prism, the emergent ray is not parallel to the incident ray. Q.29. When light rays enter the eye, most of the refraction occurs at the

When the light rays enters the eye through a thin membrane, forms the transparent bulge on the front surface of the eyeball, called the cornea. Most of the refraction for the light rays entering the eye occurs at this outer surface of the cornea.

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The seven colours of the spectrum can be denoted by the word VIBGYOR. Where V stands for violet, I for indigo, B for blue, G for green, Y for yellow, O for orange and R for red. Note: These colours in the order of increasing frequency (but decreasing wavelengths) are: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Red has the maximum wavelength.

A person with myopia can see nearby objects clearly. While a person with hypermetropia can see distant objects clearly.

The nitrogen and oxygen gas molecules present in the atmosphere are smaller than the wavelength range of visible light. So, when light coming from the sun hits this very small air molecules, it behaves differently. Since, the different colours of white light have different wavelengths, so they are affected differently. The lower wavelengths lights (blues) are scattered much more by the air molecules but the higher wavelengths lights (reds) are scattered much less.

The thickness of the eye lens is increased to focus the image of a nearby object on the retina of the eye.

The term ‘accommodation’ as applied to the eye refers to its ability to vary the focal length of the lens.

The eye lens becomes thicker to focus on nearby objects and thinner to focus on distant objects.

Having two eyes gives a person a wider field of view.