More Questions on Earth
- Q. What is the interval between a high tide and low tide at a given place?
A)15 hours 30 minutes
B)12 hours
C)12 hours 26 minutes
D)24 hours
Answer: 12 hours 26 minutes
- Q. It is six months long day in the northern polar region and six months long night in the southern polar region because ________
A)Earth is rotating
B)Earth is revolving around the sun
C)Earth is inclined towards its orbital plane
D)None of these
Answer: Earth is inclined towards its orbital plane
- Q. The surface of Earth that lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is called ________
A)South Temperate Zone
B)North Temperate Zone
C)Frigid Zone
D)Torrid Zone
Answer: Torrid Zone
- Q. Which of the following are true regarding the Prime meridian? 1. It passes through the centre of a certain country 2. It passes through the centre of the Globe 3. It passes through the observatory at Greenwich, near London.
A)1, 2 and 3
B)1 and 2
C)1 and 3
D)2 and 3
Answer: 1, 2 and 3
- Q. The imaginary line which connects places of similar height on map, are?
A)Spot-Height
B)Hachure
C)Contour
D)Isometric
Answer: Contour
- Q. Maximum difference in the spacing of longitudes is ________
A)At tropics
B)At poles
C)At equator
D)At arctic circle
Answer: At equator
- Q. The word “Isoneph” represents the lines of equal
A)Rain
B)Cloudiness
C)Salinity
D)Pressure
Answer: Cloudiness
- Q. Antipodes are ________
A)Places located at a point where degree of latitude is equal to degree of longitude
B)Lines joining places having a time difference of 12 hours
C)Places diametrically opposite on earth's surface
D)Lines joining places having the same depths
Answer: Places diametrically opposite on earth's surface
- Q. Isobar lines show
A)Depth
B)Pressure
C)Rain
D)Time
Answer: Pressure
- Q. Spring tides occur when ________
A)The moon, the sun and the earth are at right angles with the earth at the apex
B)The moon is nearest to the earth
C)The moon is farthest from the earth
D)The moon, the sun and the earth are in the same line
Answer: The moon, the sun and the earth are in the same line
- Q. Due to gravity, acceleration at the Equator is
A)Equal to acceleration on poles
B)Less than acceleration on poles
C)More than acceleration on poles
D)Not dependant on the centrifugal acceleration of Earth
Answer: Less than acceleration on poles
- Q. Which of the following best describes longitude?
A)The angular distance east or west of the Greenwich meridian
B)An imaginary line joining north and south poles
C)The distance between a place east or west of the Greenwich Meridian
D)The position of a place on earth's surface with reference to the Prime Meridian
Answer: The angular distance east or west of the Greenwich meridian
- Q. Magnetic Meridian is a
A)Line joining the geographic north and geographic south of Earth
B)Line parallel to the equator of the Earth
C)Latitude
D)Plane passing through the magnetic north and magnetic south of Earth
Answer: Plane passing through the magnetic north and magnetic south of Earth
- Q. Evidence suggests that life on Earth has existed for about ________.
A)35 million years
B)3.5 million years
C)35 billion years
D)3.5 billion years
Answer: 3.5 billion years
- Q. On which date is India likely to experience the shortest day?
A)3rd January
B)22nd December
C)21st June
D)23rd March
Answer: 22nd December
- Q. Which of the following phenomenon is/are the effect of the rotation of the Earth? 1. Apparent movement of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars. 2. Flatness of the poles and bulge at the Equator. 3. Occurrence of sunrise, noon and sunset 4. Magnetic field of the earth.
A)1, 2 and 3
B)1 and 3
C)2 and 3
D)1, 2, 3 and 4
Answer: 1, 2, 3 and 4
- Q. The boundary between Earth’s Crust and Mantle is ________.
A)Conrad discontinuity
B)Moho discontinuity
C)Lehman discontinuity
D)Gutenberg discontinuity
Answer: Moho discontinuity
- Q. When it is nine o’clock in London, it will be the same time in ________
A)Latvia
B)Ghana
C)Babon
D)Norway
Answer: Ghana
- Q. What is the alternate name for contour lines?
A)Isohypse
B)Isopotential
C)Isotherm
D)Isohyet
Answer: Isohypse
- Q. The upper part of the mantle upon which the crust of the Earth floats is called ________
A)Mohorovic discontinuity
B)Barysphere
C)Mesophere
D)Asthenosphere
Answer: Asthenosphere
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