More Questions on Geography
- Q. The exact time taken by the earth for single rotation on its own axis is ________
A)23 hrs 50 minutes 7.2 sec
B)24 hrs
C)24 hrs 35 sec
D)23 hrs 56 minutes 4.09 sec
Answer: 23 hrs 56 minutes 4.09 sec
- Q. Along the coasts salinity is
A)Stable
B)Lowered
C)Increased
D)Unaffected
Answer: Lowered
- Q. In the Semi-arid and Temperate grasslands, the most commonly found animals are ________
A)Camels
B)Donkeys and horses
C)Reindeers
D)Sheep and goats
Answer: Sheep and goats
- Q. Which planet is known as the ‘Watery Planet’ ?
A)Mars
B)Mercury
C)Earth
D)Jupiter
Answer: Earth
- Q. Panama Canal has locks alone its path in order to
A)Control the level of water
B)Regulate traffic
C)Permit check by customs staff
D)Collect canal dues
Answer: Control the level of water
- Q. The difference in the duration of day and night increases as one moves from ________
A)Poles to equator
B)West to east
C)East and west of the prime meridian
D)Equator to poles
Answer: Equator to poles
- Q. Science dealing with study of soil is called
A)Ecology
B)Pedology
C)Pedagogy
D)Pomology
Answer: Pedology
- Q. The Atlantic Ocean routes are busier than the Pacific Ocean routes because Atlantic Ocean ________
A)Is surrounded on both sides by industrialised nations
B)Routes are shorter
C)Routes are not so dangerous
D)Has better shipping facilities
Answer: Is surrounded on both sides by industrialised nations
- Q. Which one of the following continents has the lowest birth and death rates?
A)North America
B)Europe
C)Australia
D)South America
Answer: Australia
- Q. What is meant by ‘brain drain’?
A)The marriage of highly intellectual people so as to add more intelligent progency to the population
B)Increase in the population of mentally retarded or brainless people
C)The increasing medical facilities which have resulted in decrease in the number of mentally retarded people
D)The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
Answer: The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
- Q. Which of the following is true with regard to the, characteristics of the Himalayan rivers? I. Many of them have their sources in the Inner Himalayas II. They have a perennial flow III. They have a great capacity for erosion IV. They do not form gorges
A)III and IV
B)I and II
C)I, II and III
D)II and IV
Answer: I, II and III
- Q. Snow is formed by the process of
A)Sublimation
B)Condensation
C)Evaporation
D)Evaporation and condensation
Answer: Sublimation
- Q. What is the difference between the Local time and Greenwich time one degree longitude?
A)6 minutes
B)2 minutes
C)4 minutes
D)8 minutes
Answer: 4 minutes
- Q. To which group do belong?
A)Mongoloids
B)Negritoes
C)Proto-Australoids
D)Western Brachycephals
Answer: Proto-Australoids
- Q. A landform composed of sediments brought by a river and found where it enters a main valley or emerges from a mountain on to a plain is called a/an
A)Oxbow lake
B)Meander
C)Alluvial fan
D)Levee
Answer: Alluvial fan
- Q. Which of the following are not kharif crops?
A)Sugarcane and Groundnut
B)Bajara and Maize
C)Rice and Jowar
D)Barley and Mustard
Answer: Barley and Mustard
- Q. In which one of the following States, Mangla, Bhagyam and Aishwarya oil fields are located?
A)A.P.
B)Assam
C)Gujarat
D)Rajasthan
Answer: Rajasthan
- Q. Which of the following are correctly matched? 1. Active volcano : Stromboli (Sicily) 2. Dormant volcano : Vesuvius (Italy) 3. Extinct volcano : Fujiyama (Japan)
A)1 and 3
B)1 and 2
C)2 and 3
D)1, 2 and 3
Answer: 1, 2 and 3
- Q. The International Date Line makes slight deviation from 180° meridian so that it ________
A)Does not divide a group of islands under the same administration
B)Divides the land masses under the same administration
C)Does not divide the Bering strait
D)Divides the Pacific Ocean into two equal halves
Answer: Does not divide a group of islands under the same administration
- Q. The Biosphere is a region of earth which supports life. It includes- 1. Hydrosphere 2. Lithosphere 3. Stratosphere 4. Troposphere
A)1 and 4
B)1 and 3
C)1, 2 and 4
D)2, 3 and 4
Answer: 1, 2 and 4
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