More Questions on Geography
- Q. What does the 17th parallel separate?
A)South and North Vietnam
B)South and North America
C)North and South Korea
D)South and North Yemen
Answer: South and North Vietnam
- Q. The ‘Water table’ refers to ________
A)The contact zone of permeable and impermeable rocks
B)The lower limit of the zone of saturation
C)The upper limit of the zone of saturation
D)Seepage of water into fissures lying below the earth's surface
Answer: The upper limit of the zone of saturation
- Q. “They are people of yellow complexion, oblique eyes, high chick bones, spare hair and medium height,” The reference here is to
A)Negroids
B)Nordic Aryans
C)Austrics
D)Mongoloids
Answer: Mongoloids
- Q. The Palk Bay lies between
A)Lakshadweep and Maldive Islands
B)Gulf of Kachchh and Gulf of Khambhat
C)Gulf of Mannar and Bay of Bengal
D)Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Answer: Gulf of Mannar and Bay of Bengal
- Q. The Radcliffe line is a boundary between
A)India and Myanmar
B)India and Pakistan
C)India and China
D)India and Afghanistan
Answer: India and Pakistan
- Q. Which of the following is not a species of tropical moist deciduous forests?
A)Shisham
B)Mahagony
C)Sal
D)Teak
Answer: Mahagony
- Q. The oldest oil refinery in India is at
A)Koyali, near Baroda
B)Digboi, Assam
C)Haldia, near Kolkata
D)Noonmati, Assam
Answer: Digboi, Assam
- Q. What is the most important geographic use of the Himalayas to India?
A)They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow
B)Prevention of invasions
C)Valuable source of timber
D)They protect India from the icy cold north winds
Answer: They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow
- Q. Pochampat irrigation project lies on:
A)Krishna
B)Narmada
C)Godavari
D)Kaveri
Answer: Godavari
- 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 distance of the nearest star besides the sun from the earth is ________
A)4.3 light years
B)4.9 × 1111 m
C)95 × 1015 m
D)4.2 light years
Answer: 4.2 light years
- Q. Loktak Lake, a big lake of North East India, is located in
A)Manipur
B)Assam
C)Arunachal Pradesh
D)Tripura
Answer: Manipur
- Q. The National Highway – 1 connects Delhi to
A)Mumbai
B)Chennai
C)Kolkata
D)Amritsar
Answer: Amritsar
- Q. The Green Revolution was most successful in
A)Haryana
B)Punjab and Tamil Nadu
C)Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh
D)Uttar Pradesh and MaHarasthra
Answer: Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh
- Q. Which one of the following States in India has the broadest continental shelf?
A)Karnataka
B)Andhra Pradesh
C)Gujarat
D)Tamil Nadu
Answer: Tamil Nadu
- Q. Which of the following continent is located in Northern-Southern and Eastern-Western hemisphere of the earth?
A)Europe
B)Australia
C)Africa
D)South America
Answer: Africa
- Q. Which one of the following groups comprises of States sharing borders with Chhattisgarh ?
A)Bihar, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Orissa
B)Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Orissa
C)Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh
D)Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
Answer: Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Orissa
- Q. The latitude of a place expresses its angular position relative to the plane of
A)North pole
B)Axis of the Earth
C)Equator
D)South pole
Answer: Equator
- Q. Shortest air route from New Delhi to Vancouver will be ________
A)New Delhi - Moscow - London - Vancouver
B)New Delhi - Bangkok - Tokyo - Vancouver
C)New Delhi - London - New York - Vancouver
D)New Delhi - Paris - New York - Vancouver
Answer: New Delhi - Bangkok - Tokyo - Vancouver
- Q. The incoming short-wave solar radiation is balanced by an equal amount of long-wave radiation from earth going back to space. This is known as ________
A)Heat balance of earth
B)Earth radiation
C)Wave balance of earth
D)Radiation exchange
Answer: Heat balance of earth
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