More Questions on Geography
- Q. The tropical cyclones – Hurricanes and Typhoons – develop and mature ________
A)Over the water bodies only
B)At the same place
C)Over the land masses only
D)Anywhere in the tropical zone
Answer: Anywhere in the tropical zone
- Q. Which is the home of “AIphonso” mango?
A)Malda
B)Ratnagiri
C)Banaras
D)Vijayawada
Answer: Ratnagiri
- Q. Sea tides show variations because of ________
A)Distorted spherical shape of the earth
B)Variations in gravitational pull of the moon
C)Variations in gravitational pull of the sun
D)Different phases of the moon
Answer: Different phases of the moon
- Q. Biome represents ________.
A)A large ecological region characterised by similar vegetation and climate
B)A desert vegetation
C)A major ecological group of plants
D)A major ecological group of animals
Answer: A large ecological region characterised by similar vegetation and climate
- Q. The crude Birth Rate is defined as:
A)No. of births per 50 thousand populations
B)No. of births per 10 thousand populations
C)No. of births per 20 thousand populations
D)No. of births per thousand populations
Answer: No. of births per thousand populations
- Q. The orbits of planets around the Sun, or of satellites around the Earth, can be ________
A)Elliptic and parabolic
B)Circular and elliptic
C)Circular and hyperbolic
D)Parabolic and hyperbolic
Answer: Circular and elliptic
- Q. The area of India is ________ times larger than the area of Pakistan
A)6
B)3
C)4
D)7
Answer: 4
- Q. What do you understand by the term ‘Advection’ ?
A)Heat is transferred vertically through the air
B)Heat is transferred horizontally by winds
C)Heat is transferred horizontally by both winds and ocean currents
D)Heat is transferred horizontally through ocean currents
Answer: Heat is transferred horizontally by both winds and ocean currents
- Q. Which one of the following racial groups is popularly known as the Aryans?
A)The Brachycephals
B)The Proto-Australoids
C)The Mediterraneans
D)The Nordics
Answer: The Nordics
- Q. To a space traveller on moon, the lunar sky during day time appears ________
A)Black
B)White
C)Blue
D)Red
Answer: Black
- Q. Which of the statements given above are correct? 1. P – waves are the first seismic waves to reach a place 2. S – waves travel only through liquids 3. Arrival time of P and S – waves is used to locate the epicentre 4. Richter scale is a logarithmic scale
A)1 and 4
B)1, 2 and 3
C)1, 3 and 4
D)3 and 4
Answer: 1, 3 and 4
- Q. What is the usual altitude of the plains?
A)Less than 600 metres above sea level
B)Sea level
C)Less than 500 metres above sea level
D)Less than 800 metres above sea level
Answer: Less than 500 metres above sea level
- Q. Nights are cooler in the deserts than in the plains because ________
A)Sand absorbs heat more quickly than the earth
B)Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth
C)The sky remains clear most of the time
D)None of the above reasons
Answer: Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth
- Q. The paleomagnetic results obtained from India indicate that in the past, the Indian landmass has moved
A)Eastward
B)Northward
C)Southward
D)Westward
Answer: Northward
- Q. ________ forms the western boundary of the Indian sub-continent.
A)Karakoram
B)Aravalli
C)Pirpanjal
D)Hindukush
Answer: Hindukush
- Q. The Ganga-Brahmaputra Plain widens
A)At the middle
B)From east to west
C)From west to east
D)No where
Answer: From west to east
- Q. In which one of the following places is the headquarters of the North-Eastern Railway located?
A)Kolkata
B)Guwahati
C)Gorakhpur
D)Bhubaneswar
Answer: Gorakhpur
- Q. What is Pimpri, a place in Maharashtra, known for
A)Electric goods
B)Leather goods
C)Soaps
D)Penicillin
Answer: Penicillin
- Q. Hidkal Dam is on the river
A)Pennar
B)Krishna
C)Cauvery
D)Ghataprabha
Answer: Ghataprabha
- Q. Limestone changes into ________ due to metamorphism.
A)Gneiss
B)Marble
C)Quartzite
D)Schists
Answer: Marble
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