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.

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.

the space between cornea and eye lens is filled with a watery liquid called “aqueous humor”. And the space between eye lens and retina is filled with transparent jelly like substance called vitreous humour which supports the back of the eye.

The sky appears blue because some of the blue component of sunlight is scattered by the gas molecules (nitrogen and oxygen) present in the air.

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 sun appears red at sunset not because of the atmospheric refraction of light but because of the scattering effect of light.

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.

The clear sky appears blue is due to Rayleigh scattering of sunlight. The molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.

As the light from a far-off star comes towards the earth, it bends towards the normal because the air is denser closer to the surface of the earth.

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.

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

the propagation of light of different colours of white light in air or vacuum move with the same speed but different wavelengths and frequencies.

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.

The bluish color of water in deep sea is due to scattering of light as the very fine particles in water scatter mainly blue light. The red, green, orange and yellow having longer wavelengths are absorbed more strongly by water then blue which has shorter wavelength. So, when white light from the sun enters the sea, it is mostly the blue that gets returned.

The reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise or sunset is due to least scattering of red light. The red light has the maximum wavelength. The rays of light have to travel a larger part of the atmosphere.

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.

If a man driving a car can see a distant road sign distinctly but cannot read the odometer on the dashboard of the car clearly, it suggests that the near point of his eyes has receded.

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.

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

The human eye possesses the power of accommodation to focus on objects at different distances.

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

As the far point of the eye is closer to him than normal, he can see nearby objects, but not distant objects, clearly.

Animals of prey have two eyes on the sides of their head. This gives them a wide field of view and allows them to see the approach of potential predators.