staff nurse job exam model question paper

staff nurse job exam model question paper
NURSING WRITTEN TEST SAMPLE QUESTIONS

1. How does carbon monoxide, a poisonous gas, emitted by automobiles, prevent transport of oxygen into the body tissues?
(a) By changing oxygen into carbon dioxide
(b) By obstructing the reaction of oxygen with hemoglobin
(c) Thermal power project
(d) By forming a stage component with hemoglobin
Ans. (d)

2. Ozone hole refers to
(a) Hole in ozone layer
(b) Reduction in thickness of ozone layer in stratosphere
(c) Reduction in thickness of ozone layer in troposphere
(d) Increase in concentration of ozone
Ans. (b)

3. Ozone depletion is caused by
(a) Carbon dioxide
(b) CFCs
(c) CO
(d) SO2
Ans. (b)

4. Sound becomes a hazardous noise pollution if
its level is above
(a) 30dB
(b) 120dB
(c) 80dB
(d) 150dB
Ans. (c)

5. Which of the following is not a pollutant?
(a) SO2
(b) CO2
(c) CO
(d) NO2
Ans. (b)

6. Which of the following is not found in polluted water?
(a) Blue green algae
(b) Larvae of stone fly
(c) Water hyacinth
(d) Sewage fungi
Ans. (b)

7. Air pollution causing photochemical oxidants production include
(a) Nitrous oxide, nitric acid fumes, nitric oxide
(b) Ozone, peroxyacetyl nitrate, aldehydes
(c) Oxygen, chlorine, fuming nitric acid
(d) sulphur dioxide
Ans. (b)

8. The largest area under cultivation in India is for which of the following crops?
(a) Rice
(b) Wheat
(c) Sugarcane
(d) Jowar
Ans. (a)

9. When a natural predator living being is applied on the other pathogen organism to control them, this process is called
(a) Genetic engineering
(b) Biological control
(c) Artificial control
(d) Confusion technique
Ans. (b)

10. Which is the most important source of food and fodder?
(a) Algae
(b) Lichen
(c) Fungi
(d) Cereal
Ans. (d)


11. Of the elements in the following list, which is needed in the lowest concentration by plants?
(a) Calcium
(b) Magnesium
(c) Phosphorus
(d) Iron
Ans. (d)

12. Which of the following elements is not required for normal growth of the plant?
(a) Pb
(b) Ca
(c) Fe
(d) Mg
Ans. (a)

13. Which of the following elements is needed as a component in cell membranes, nucleic acids and energy transfer?
(a) Sulphur
(b) Phosphorus
(c) Calcium
(d) Potassium
Ans. (b)

14. Fairly good yield of rice can be had over a number of years without adding any nitrogenous manure because
(a) They require very minute quantities of nitrogen
(b) Their roots have nitrogen-fixing bacterial associated with
(c) There are nitrogen-fixing algae in the rice fields
(d) Rice plant do not require any nitrogen
Ans. (c)


15. The first effect of adding fertilizer o a pond would most likely be to
(a) Decrease the amount of phytoplankton
(b) Kill most bacteria V
(c) Lower the compensation point
(d) Increase the amount of phytoplankton
Ans. (d)

16. Biological control of agricultural pests, unlike chemical control, is
(a) Very expensive
(b) Self perpetuating
(c) toxic
(d) Polluting
Ans. (b)

17. Which of the following is not an air-borne disease?
(a) Black stem rust of wheat
(b) Coffee rust
(c) Blast of rice
(d) Potato mosaic disease
Ans. (d)

18. Water logging of soil makes it physiologically dry because
(a) this condition does not allow the capillary force to work
(b) this condition does not allow oxygen to enter the soil
(c) both (a) and (b)
(d) none of these
Ans. (b)

19. The process by which nutrient chemicals or contaminants are dissolved and carried away by water, or are moved into a lower layer of soil
(a) Mulching
(b) Desertification
(c) Incineration
(d) Leaching
Ans. (d)

20. Which one of the following is natural insecticide?
(a) Pyrethrum
(b) Nicotine
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
21. First bioinsecticide developed commercial scale was
(a) quinine
(b) DDT
(c) organophosphate
(d) sporeine
Ans. (d)

22. Which of the following is an example of a weed of rabi season that infest wheat crop?
(a) Chenopodium
(b) Motha
(c) Jangali jowar
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

23. Growing of two or more crops simultaneously on the same piece of land is called
(a) Mixed cropping
(b) Mixed farming
(c) Intercropping
(d) Fanning
Ans. (a)

24. Aims of plant breeding are to produce
(a) disease-free varieties
(b) high-yielding varieties
(c) early-maturing varieties
(d) all of the above
Ans. (d)

25. Composted manure is produced from
(a) Farmyard manure and green manure
(b) Farm refuse and household refuse
(c) Organic remains of biogas plants
(d) Rotten vegetables and animal refuse
Ans. (d)