IFS Question Set 1.
Q.What are the following:
(Answer in one world or one sentence each)
- Lacustrine Plains : Lacustrine Plains are lakes that get filled by incoming sediment. Overtime, the water may drain from the lake, leaving the deposited sediments behind. This can be caused by natural drainage, evaporation or other geophysical processes.
- Extensive property. A measurable property of a thermodynamic system is extensive if, when two identical systems are combined into one, the value of that property of the combined system is double its original value in each system. Examples: mass, volume, number of moles.
- Activated carbon is a processed form of carbon treated to be more porous.
- .Parthenogenesis is type of asexual reproduction in which a female gamete or egg cell develops into an individual without fertilization. Animals including most kinds of wasps, bees, and ants that have no sex chromosomes reproduce by this process. Some reptiles and fish are also capable of reproducing in this manner.
- Drip torch - Firefighters use these torches, that drip a flaming liquid mixture of diesel fuel and gasoline, to ignite fires in burnout operations.
- Gerontology studying physical, mental, and social changes in people as they age.
- Isohyet: A line on a map connecting points that receive equal precipitation.
- Palisades: A line of bold cliffs.
- Rainshadow: An area of diminished precipitation on the lee (downwind) side of a mountain or mountain range.
- Stratovolcano: A steep-sided volcano built by lava flows and tephra deposits.
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