Question Discussion & Solution

The correct answer is Copper.

Key Points

• Conductor of electricity
  • In physics and electrical engineering, a conductor is an object or type of material that allows the flow of charge in one or more directions.
  • Materials made of metal are common electrical conductors. 
  • Copper is considered to be a conductor because it conducts the electron current or flow of electrons fairly easily. Most metals are considered to be good conductors of electrical current. Copper is just one of the more popular materials that are used for conductors. Hence, Option 4 is correct.
  • If you have to define the meaning of electrical conductors in the simplest way, they are materials that allow electricity to flow through them easily.
  • If we compare two types of material and the first one allows better flow of electricity through it, then that material is said to be a good conductor of electricity.
  • An electrical conductor allows the electric charges to easily flow through them. The property of conductors to conduct electricity is called conductivity.
  • Such materials offer less opposition or resistance to the flow of charges.
  • Conducting materials allow easy charge transfer because of the free movement of electrons through them.

Additional Information

• • Some examples of conductors of electricity are
    • Copper
    • Aluminum
    • Silver
    • Gold
    • Graphite
    • Platinum
    • Water
    • People

The correct answer is Spinning.

• The process of making thread from the fibre is called Spinning.

Key Points

• Spinning is the process done as a major part of the textile industries.
  • It is the manufacturing process for creating polymer fibres.
  • In the Spinning process, fibres are drawn and twisted from the cotton mass which brings them together to form a yarn
• Ring, Rotor, Air Jet are the different types of spinners used in the textile industries.

Additional Information

• Weaving is a method of textile production in which two different sets of yarns or threads are interlaced at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.
• Ginning is the process of removing the seeds and debris from cotton. 

The correct answer is Red.

Key Points

• Sulphuric acid is also known as oil of vitriol.
• It is composed of sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen element.
• The acid has a very strong acidic nature.
• It has several uses such as fertilizer manufacture, mineral processing, oil refining, and wastewater processing.
• It is also known by the name hydrogen sulfate.

Important Points 

• The litmus solution is a purple dye solution.
• It is extracted from the plant called " Lichen".
• It is used as an acid-base indicator.

Systems software are programs that manage the resources of the computer system and simplify applications programming.

 Key PointsSystems software includes software such as the operating system, database management systems, networking software, translators, and software utilities.

Systems software can be categorized under the following:

• Operating system: Harnesses communication between hardware, system programs, and other applications.
• Device driver: Enables device communication with the OS and other programs.
• Firmware: Enables device control and identification.
  • Firmware is the operational software embedded within a flash, ROM, or EPROM memory chip for the OS to identify it.
  • It directly manages and controls all activities of any single hardware.
• Translator: Translates high-level languages to low-level machine codes.
  • A compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language into another language.
  • The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a lower-level language to create an executable
• software utility: Ensures optimum functionality of devices and applications.

Additional Information

• Word processor is a computer program used to write and revise documents, compose the layout of the text, and preview on a computer monitor how the printed copy will appear. For example, google docs, Microsoft word.

Hence word processor is not system software.

The correct answer is Fossil fuels.

Key Points

Non-Renewable Resources Examples

• Fossil Fuel
• Coal
• Rare earth elements
• Petroleum products
• Uranium

Thus, Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy.

Additional Information 

Types of Renewable Energy

Solar Energy:

• ​The radiant light and heat energy from the sun is harnessed with the use of solar collectors.
• These solar collectors are of various types such as photovoltaics, concentrator photovoltaics, solar heating, (CSP) concentrated solar power, artificial photosynthesis, and solar architecture.
• This collected solar energy is then used to provide light, heat, and different other forms of electricity.

Wind Energy:

• The energy we get from winds is known as wind energy.
• For this, windmills have been used for hundreds of years to pump out water from the ground. We use large tall wind turbines that allow winds to generate electricity.
• The natural airflow on the surface of the earth is used to run the wind turbines.
• The most preferred locations for these wind turbines to be installed are the areas which and strong and have constant airflows on offshore and sites that are at high altitudes.

Hydroelectricity:

• According to statistics, hydroelectricity generated around 16.6% of the global energy resources and constituted about 70% of all the renewable electricity.
• This energy is another alternative source of energy that is generated by the construction of dams and reservoirs on the flowing water, the kinetic energy from the flowing water is used to run the turbines which generate electricity.
• Tidal power converts the energy of tides and Wave power which captures the energy from the surface of the ocean waves for power generation.
• These two forms of hydropower also have huge potential in electric power generation

Geothermal Energy:

• It is the energy that is generated from the thermal energy which is stored in the earth.
• The heat energy is captured on sources such as hot springs and volcanoes and this heat is directly used by industries for heating the water and other purposes.

Bio-Energy:

• This type of energy is derived from biomass which is a type of biological material derived from living organisms and plant-derived materials which are called lignocellulosic biomass.
• Biomass can be directly used via combustion to produce heat and indirectly it can be used to convert to biofuels.
• Biomass can be converted to other usable forms of energy such as transportation fuels like ethanol, biodiesel, and methane gas.