More Questions on Geography
- Q. Some people in Manipur live in houses bunt on floating islands of weeds and decaying vegetation held together by suspended slit. These islands are called
A)Phoomdis
B)Tipis
C)Barkhans
D)Izba
Answer: Phoomdis
- Q. The originating in the Himalayan mountain complex consists of how many distinct drainage systems of the Indian Subcontinent?
A)Four
B)Two
C)Three
D)Five
Answer: Three
- Q. The coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa have to face which of the following natural calamity?
A)Landslide
B)Cyclone
C)Earthquake
D)Tornado
Answer: Cyclone
- Q. Belt of Doldrums exists in which of the following regions?
A)Sub-Polar region
B)Polar region
C)Equatorial region
D)Sub-Tropical region
Answer: Equatorial region
- Q. When total land is divided by total population, we get?
A)Agriculture Density
B)Population Density
C)Nutritional Density
D)Industrial Density
Answer: Population Density
- Q. The tropical rain forests are dense and varied because of ________
A)An abundance of moisture and warm temperature throughout the year
B)Their remote and inaccessible locations
C)Very little interference from man
D)Poor economic development
Answer: An abundance of moisture and warm temperature throughout the year
- Q. The instrument to measure the magnitude of Earthquake is called
A)Argograph
B)Ideograph
C)Pantograph
D)Seismograph
Answer: Seismograph
- Q. Project Tiger in India was started in:
A)The year 1980
B)The year 1985
C)The year 1982
D)The year 1973
Answer: The year 1973
- Q. India conducted its first nuclear explosion at
A)Koyana
B)Apsara
C)Pokharan
D)Kalpakkam
Answer: Pokharan
- Q. The pygmies are found in ________.
A)Queenslands, Australia
B)The Congo Basin, Africa
C)Bihar, India
D)Finland, Northern Europe
Answer: The Congo Basin, Africa
- Q. When it is noon IST at Allahabad in India, the time at Greenwich, London, will be
A)0630 hours
B)midnight, GMT
C)1730 hours
D)None of the above
Answer: 0630 hours
- Q. Which of the statements given are correct about the soils of India : 1. High temperature during most of the year retards formation of humus 2. Soils which have humus require regular application of chemical fertilizers to remove nitrogen deficiency 3. Titanium salts in basalt impart black, colour to the soils of the Indian plateau 4. Red soils are confined to the peripheral areas of the Indian plateau
A)2 and 3
B)1 and 2
C)1, 3 and 4
D)2 and 4
Answer: 1, 3 and 4
- Q. The earth rotates around its axis from ________
A)South to north
B)North to south
C)East to west
D)West to east
Answer: West to east
- Q. Nathu La a place where India China border trade has been resumed after 44 years is located on the India border in
A)Himachal Pradesh
B)Sikkim
C)Arunachal Pradesh
D)Jammu and Kashmir
Answer: Sikkim
- Q. The material carried by the glacier such as rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited, which are called glacial ________.
A)Plateaus
B)Moraines
C)Deltas
D)Grooves
Answer: Moraines
- Q. Ankleshwar Basin (offshore) oil-fields is located in:
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)Gujarat
C)Assam
D)Maharashtra
Answer: Gujarat
- Q. Economically the most important forests of India are
A)Evergreen forest
B)Tidal forest
C)Thorn forest
D)Tropical deciduous forest
Answer: Tropical deciduous forest
- Q. Consider the following astral bodies: 1. Sirius 2. Venus 3. Mars The correct sequence in decreasing order of their brightness is:
A)3, 2, 2001
B)2, 3, 2001
C)1, 2, 2003
D)2, 1, 2003
Answer: 2, 1, 2003
- Q. A person of mixed European and Indian blood in Latin America is called a ________
A)Meiji
B)Mulatto
C)Mestizo
D)Mau Mau
Answer: Mestizo
- Q. Mixed farming involves
A)Specialised cultivation of vegetables and fruits
B)Both crops and livestock
C)Growing a series of different crops
D)Pooling land voluntarily and managing it jointly under a democratic constitution
Answer: Both crops and livestock
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