More Questions on Climate And Weather in India
- Q. Winter rains in North and North-West India are generally associated with the phenomenon of ________
A)Local thunderstorms
B)Retreating monsoon
C)Temperate cyclones
D)Shift in jet stream movement
Answer: Temperate cyclones
- Q. Which one of the following cities never experiences vertical rays of the sun during noon?
A)Mumbai
B)Chennai
C)Mangalore
D)New Delhi
Answer: New Delhi
- Q. Which of the following is recognised as a season by the meteorological department of India ?
A)Retreating monsoon
B)Cold weather
C)Hot weather
D)North-eastern monsoon
Answer: North-eastern monsoon
- Q. The place to receive annual rainfall below 50cm is
A)Coromandal Coast
B)Meghalaya
C)Leh in Kashmir
D)Konkan Coast
Answer: Leh in Kashmir
- Q. At which one of the following places is the monkey called Lion-tailed macaque naturally found?
A)Nallamalai hills
B)Shivaliks
C)Pachmarhi
D)Nilgiris
Answer: Nilgiris
- Q. The place in India receiving the lowest rainfall is
A)Bikaner
B)Leh
C)Jaisalmer
D)Jodhpur
Answer: Leh
- Q. The nature of the winter rainfall in north western India is ________
A)Monsoonal
B)Convectional
C)Orographic
D)Cyclonic
Answer: Cyclonic
- Q. Which one of the following states has the largest forest area to its total land area?
A)Sikkim
B)Mizoram
C)Arunachal Pradesh
D)Jammu and Kashmir
Answer: Mizoram
- Q. The mangrove forests are present in
A)The Western Ghats
B)The Eastern Ghats
C)The Sunderbans
D)The Aravallis
Answer: The Sunderbans
- Q. Open stunted forests with bushes and having long roots and sharp thorns or spines are commonly found in
A)Shiwaliks and Terai regions
B)Eastern Odisha
C)North-Eastern Tamil Nadu
D)Western Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Western Andhra Pradesh
- Q. The extreme of temperature between summer and winter is quite low in southern part of peninsular India mainly because ________
A)The sun's rays are almost vertical throughout the year
B)The adjoining oceans moderate the temperature
C)The sky is generally cloudy
D)Strong winds flow throughout the year
Answer: The adjoining oceans moderate the temperature
- Q. Among the following states, in which one is the percentage of forest area to total geographical area the highest?
A)Sikkim
B)Arunachal Pradesh
C)Himachal Pradesh
D)Uttarakhand
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
- Q. What is the nature of monsoon rain from Guwahati to Chandigarh?
A)Diminishing Nature
B)Irregular Nature
C)Crescent or Growing Nature
D)Cyclic Nature
Answer: Diminishing Nature
- Q. Most of the floods in the lowlands of north India, the Bihar plateau and Orissa are associated with ________
A)South-West Monsoon
B)Easterly depression
C)Orographic rainfall
D)Thunderstorm
Answer: Orographic rainfall
- Q. Riparian forest is found ________
A)On the foot hills of Eastern slope of Western Ghats
B)Along the banks of rivers and other wetland
C)The tarai region, on the foot hills of Himalayas
D)On the foot hills of Eastern slope of Eastern Ghats
Answer: Along the banks of rivers and other wetland
- Q. The retreating monsoon withdraws itself from
A)The north to the south
B)The west coast to the east coast
C)North-East India to the west coast
D)North-West India to Bengal and then to Kerala
Answer: North-West India to Bengal and then to Kerala
- Q. The premonsoon mango showers occur predominantly in
A)Gujarat and Maharashtra
B)West Bengal and Assam
C)Deccan Plateau
D)Kerala and Karnataka
Answer: Kerala and Karnataka
- Q. Among the following places, which one receives comparatively lowest average monsoon rainfall from June to September?
A)Punjab
B)Eastern Uttar Pradesh
C)Southern West Bengal
D)Western Uttar Pradesh
Answer: Western Uttar Pradesh
- Q. Which of the following wind is blowing from the Mediterranean sea to the North Western parts of India?
A)Loo
B)Western disturbances
C)Norwesters
D)Mango showers
Answer: Western disturbances
- Q. Which one of the following is the driest region in India?
A)Vidarbha
B)Telangana
C)Marwar
D)Marathwada
Answer: Marwar
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