More Questions on Geography
- Q. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched? National Park : State
A)Ranthambore National Park : Gujarat
B)Kanha National Park : Madhya Pradesh
C)Sultanpur National Park : Haryana
D)Bandipur National Park : Karnataka
Answer: Ranthambore National Park : Gujarat
- Q. In Jaitapur, which one of the following power plants is being set up?
A)Gas based
B)Coal based
C)Hydro-electric
D)Nuclear based
Answer: Nuclear based
- Q. The composition of laterite soil in higher areas is
A)Acidic
B)Alkaline
C)Saline
D)Balanced
Answer: Acidic
- Q. What is a cloudburst?
A)It is caused by rapid condensation of very high clouds
B)It refers to sudden and copious rainfall over a small area which often lasts for only a few minutes
C)It refers to 50mm rain over a period of time
D)It refers to a thunderstorm with little rain
Answer: It refers to sudden and copious rainfall over a small area which often lasts for only a few minutes
- Q. Kullu valley is located among which of the following mountain ranges?
A)Dhauladhar and Pir Panjal
B)Ladakh and Pir Panjal
C)Lesser Himalaya and Shivalik
D)Ranjoti and Nanga Parvat
Answer: Dhauladhar and Pir Panjal
- Q. Halley’s comet appears once in a period of ________
A)76 years
B)24 years
C)32 years
D)84 years
Answer: 76 years
- Q. Trincomalee is a port situated on the
A)East coast, Andhra Pradesh
B)East coast, Tamil Nadu
C)East coast of Sri Lanka
D)West coast of Sri Lanka
Answer: East coast of Sri Lanka
- Q. Which one of the following is a global biodiversity hotspot in India?
A)Eastern Ghats
B)Western Ghats
C)Western Himalayas
D)Northern Himalayas
Answer: Western Ghats
- Q. How many Geo-synchronous satellites are required for uninterrupted world broadcasting?
A)2
B)3
C)4
D)1
Answer: 3
- Q. During the period of ________ , the production of food crops specially wheat increased very sharply
A)1965
B)1954
C)1964
D)1966
Answer: 1966
- Q. The type of crop which is able to fix nitrogen from air is known as
A)Tuber
B)Legume
C)Rice
D)Potato
Answer: Legume
- Q. The depositional feature at the point where the river comes down from hills to plain is
A)Levee
B)Meander
C)Water fall
D)Alluvial fan
Answer: Alluvial fan
- Q. Where are homogenous group “Mangolab” found in India?
A)North-Western Region
B)South-Region
C)Southern-Central Region
D)North-East Region
Answer: North-East Region
- Q. Which of the following types of forests mostly grow in the belt lying between 50° N and 70° N ?
A)Temperate deciduous forests
B)Temperate hardwood forests
C)Temperate coniferous forests
D)Tropical evergreen forests
Answer: Temperate coniferous forests
- Q. Kanha Tiger Reserve is situated in Mandla district of
A)Chhattisgarh
B)Rajasthan
C)Uttar Pradesh
D)Madhya Pradesh
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Q. Air travel has become very important for the north eastern part of India mainly because _________
A)Surface transport routes have to go around Bangladesh
B)The region is mountainous
C)Population density is low
D)Air transport is cheaper
Answer: Surface transport routes have to go around Bangladesh
- Q. The Buckingham Canal, which has been declared a National Waterway of India recently, is a canal running from
A)Vijayawada to Villupuram
B)Punjab to Haryana
C)Mumbai to Goa
D)Cochin to Kozhikode
Answer: Vijayawada to Villupuram
- Q. What percentage of insolation is received by the earth’s surface?
A)0.66
B)0.47
C)0.51
D)0.87
Answer: 0.47
- Q. In order of their distances from the Sun, which of the following planets lie between Mars and Uranus?
A)Saturn and Earth
B)Earth and Jupiter
C)Jupiter and Saturn
D)Saturn and Neptune
Answer: Jupiter and Saturn
- Q. You are asked to import Ostrich, Platypus and Kaola Bear. To which country will you opt to go, to get all the three?
A)Canada
B)Australia
C)Japan
D)New Zealand
Answer: Australia
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