Eco myth buster

1. Biosphere is made of atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.

• True

• False

2. The constituent gasses in the atmosphere are mainly dense up to a 1 kilometer height.

• True

• False

3. The clouds are found in the troposphere.

• True

• False

4. Ozone layer is found in the thermosphere.

• True

• False

5. Tropopause and troposphere are the same names.

• True

• False

6. The atmospheric temperature becomes 0°C near stratopause.

• True

• False

7. The atmospheric temperature falls with rise in altitude, but it may reach beyond 1000°C above 500 km in the exosphere (or thermosphere).

• True

• False

8. Main activity in the ionosphere is to reflect the radio waves.

• True

• False

9. Lithosphere constitutes only 30% of the total surface of earth.

• True

• False

10. The Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit was held in 1992.

• True

• False