More Questions on Geography
- Q. Which one of the following factors is responsible for the change in the regular direction of the ocean currents in the Indian Ocean?
A)Indian Ocean is a land-locked ocean
B)Indian Ocean is 'half an ocean'
C)Indian Ocean has Monsoon drift
D)Indian Ocean has greater variation in salinity
Answer: Indian Ocean has Monsoon drift
- Q. Narmada river originates from Amarkantak in ________
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)Gujarat
C)Maharashtra
D)Chhattisgarh
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Q. What is the most important characteristic of the islands (Indian) located in the Arabian Sea?
A)They have a very dry climate
B)They are all very small in size
C)They are all of coral origin
D)They are extended parts of the mainland
Answer: They are all of coral origin
- Q. Which region in India receives substantial rain during the winter month of January ?
A)Punjab
B)Kerala coast
C)Central India
D)Rajasthan
Answer: Punjab
- Q. Where is Sunda Trench?
A)Atlantic Ocean
B)Indian Ocean
C)Pacific Ocean
D)Gulf of Mexico
Answer: Indian Ocean
- Q. Where are Rain forests found?
A)North-Eastern Himalayas and Western Ghats
B)Central India
C)Eastern Ghats
D)North-Western Himalayas and Eastern Ghats
Answer: North-Eastern Himalayas and Western Ghats
- Q. The position of the sun is annually twice overhead at Singapore because of the ________
A)Elliptical path of the earth's orbit
B)Rotation of the earth
C)Revolution of the earth
D)Parallelism of inclined axis of the earth
Answer: Parallelism of inclined axis of the earth
- Q. The minimum fore at cover necessary to maintain ecological balance is
A)33% of the total land area
B)50% of the total land area
C)40% of the total land area
D)25% of the total land area
Answer: 33% of the total land area
- Q. Which of the following pair is incorrect?
A)0° latitude - Equator
B)0° longitude - Prime Meridian
C)0° longitude - Equator
D)23.5° North - Tropic of Cancer
Answer: 0° longitude - Equator
- Q. The cold and dense air blowing down the mountain slope during the night is known as ________
A)Katabatic wind
B)Anabatic wind
C)Khamsin
D)Harmattan
Answer: Katabatic wind
- Q. Rainfall from the south-west monsoon reaches ________
A)Tamil Nadu
B)Lahauland Spiti
C)Ladakh
D)Delta region of Mahanadi
Answer: Delta region of Mahanadi
- Q. Which of the following is not an agent which produces physical features ?
A)Volcanic eruption
B)Denudation
C)Deposition
D)Conduction
Answer: Conduction
- Q. The amount of dew is measured by
A)Anemometer
B)Pluviometer
C)Drosometer
D)Hygrometer
Answer: Drosometer
- Q. The Standard Meridian of India is
A)90.5 E longitude
B)75.5 E longitude
C)82.5 E longitude
D)0 E longitude
Answer: 82.5 E longitude
- Q. How are the caves of the world’s greatest fold mountains formed?
A)Horizontal movement
B)Regular movement
C)Vertical movement
D)Compressional movement
Answer: Compressional movement
- Q. Which of the following is least likely to be an effect of global warming?
A)Decreased rate of photosynthesis in vegetation
B)Increased frequency of hurricanes
C)Loss of fertile delta region as for agriculture
D)Shrinking of the polar ice regions
Answer: Decreased rate of photosynthesis in vegetation
- Q. The surface temperature of the Sun is measured
A)18000°C
B)6000°C
C)12000°C
D)24000°C
Answer: 6000°C
- Q. The nature of the winter rainfall in north western India is ________
A)Monsoonal
B)Convectional
C)Orographic
D)Cyclonic
Answer: Cyclonic
- Q. Which of the following ports are on the west coast? 1. Marmugao 2. Cochin 3. New Mangalore 4. Paradeep
A)2, 3 and 4
B)1, 2 and 3
C)1 and 3
D)2 and 3
Answer: 1, 2 and 3
- Q. Duncan passage is located between
A)North and Middle Andaman
B)South and Little Andaman
C)North and South Andaman
D)Andaman and Nicobar
Answer: South and Little Andaman
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