More Questions on Geography
- Q. The Doctor is a wind which
A)Is injurious to health
B)Is enervating
C)Withers plants
D)Is conducive to health
Answer: Is conducive to health
- Q. Which of the following method does not help in conservation of the fertility and moisture of soil?
A)Strip cropping
B)Contour ploughing
C)Dry farming
D)Shifting cultivation
Answer: Shifting cultivation
- Q. Which of the following is the smallest in terms of area?
A)Nauru
B)Vatican City
C)Monaco
D)San Marino
Answer: Vatican City
- Q. Cloud burst means ________
A)Presence of scattered flakes of cloud in the sky
B)Abnormally heavy downpour of rain, associated with a thunderstorm
C)Formation of artificial rain
D)Sowing of seeds of a crop in a cloudy weather
Answer: Abnormally heavy downpour of rain, associated with a thunderstorm
- Q. The winter snow-house or Eskimos is known as
A)Igloo
B)Yurt
C)Tupic
D)Tent
Answer: Igloo
- Q. An active volcano was reported at ________ India in 1991.
A)Rameshwaram Island, Tamil Nadu
B)Barren Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
C)Aliabet Island, Gujarat
D)Mumbai Island, Maharashtra
Answer: Barren Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- Q. A rain shadow zone is present in India
A)Along the western slopes of the Eastern Ghats
B)Along western flanks of the Aravallis
C)Along the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats
D)Along the northern flanks of the Vindhyas
Answer: Along the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats
- Q. Which is the world’s largest desert?
A)Thar
B)Sahara
C)Gobi
D)Takala Makan
Answer: Sahara
- Q. Which one of the following statements is not true?
A)Tidal bore occurs when a tide enters the narrow and shallow estuary of a river
B)Gulfs with narrow fronts and wider rears experience high tides
C)Tidal currents take place when a gulf is connected with the open sea by a narrow channel
D)The tidal nature of the mouth of the river Hooghly is of crucial importance to Kolkata as port
Answer: Gulfs with narrow fronts and wider rears experience high tides
- Q. Cold currents have cooling effect on the shore of ________
A)Western Europe
B)Peru
C)Japan
D)Alaska
Answer: Peru
- Q. The light coming from stars gives the idea of their ________
A)Mass
B)Size
C)Rotational speed
D)Temperature
Answer: Temperature
- Q. In the earliest days when life originated on earth, the atmosphere contained ________
A)Oxygen in fixed form
B)Free oxygen
C)No oxygen
D)Oxygen bound to carbon
Answer: Oxygen bound to carbon
- Q. The national highway from Amritsar to Kolkata via Delhi is numbered
A)4
B)1
C)2
D)8
Answer: 2
- Q. Littoral forests occur
A)Where the rainfall is heavy
B)On hills
C)Along the sea coasts and tidal creeks
D)At elevated places
Answer: Along the sea coasts and tidal creeks
- Q. In the northern hemisphere, currents are deflected to their right due to ________
A)Cyclonic storms
B)Centrifugal force
C)Coriolis force
D)None of these
Answer: Coriolis force
- Q. The capital of South Sudan is
A)Khartoum
B)Suva
C)Juba
D)Taichung
Answer: Juba
- Q. Lake Sambhar is nearest to which one of the following cities of Rajasthan?
A)Jodhpur
B)Bharatpur
C)Jaipur
D)Udaipur
Answer: Jaipur
- Q. Among the following states, the literacy rate is highest in
A)Maharashtra
B)Odisha
C)Punjab
D)Mizoram
Answer: Mizoram
- Q. Which of the following important rivers of India does not originate from the Western Ghats?
A)Krishna
B)Cauvery
C)Godavari
D)Mahanadi
Answer: Mahanadi
- Q. Fold mountains are formed due to forces born out of
A)Expansion
B)Tension
C)Compression
D)Volcanoes
Answer: Compression
- Indian Geography
- Universe
- Earth
- Atmosphere
- Hydrosphere
- Lithosphere
- Political Geography in India
- Climate And Weather in India
- Agriculture And Soil in India
- Rivers And Lakes in India
- Natural Resources And Industries In Indian
- Transportation system of India
- Environment and Ecology in Indian
- Population and Tribes in Indian
- World Geography