More Questions on Earth
- Q. What is the difference between the Local time and Greenwich time one degree longitude?
A)6 minutes
B)2 minutes
C)4 minutes
D)8 minutes
Answer: 4 minutes
- Q. The tide at its maximum height is known as ________
A)Spring tide
B)Equinox
C)Neap tide
D)Tsunami
Answer: Spring tide
- Q. What is the name of the maps, natural and manmade, portray the large forms?
A)Graffito
B)Thematic Maps
C)Atlas Maps
D)Topographic Maps
Answer: Thematic Maps
- Q. Japan is called ‘land of the rising sun’ because ________
A)Japan being the Eastern most country in the World, it has the earliest sunrise
B)Sun rises there as soon as it sets
C)Sun always remains in the eastern part of the sky throughout the day in Japan
D)The rays of the sun get reflected from the waters of the sea and make the sunrise beautiful in Japan
Answer: Japan being the Eastern most country in the World, it has the earliest sunrise
- Q. If news is broadcast from London at 10:30 AM, at what time it will be heard at Baghdad (45°E)?
A)1:30 PM
B)7:30 AM
C)9:00 AM
D)12:00 Noon
Answer: 1:30 PM
- Q. One day in Mumbai a tide occurs at 8.00 A.M. The next day it will occur at ________
A)8.52 AM
B)8.13 AM
C)8.26 AM
D)8.56 AM
Answer: 8.52 AM
- Q. Days and nights are similar here
A)Antarctica
B)Poles
C)Main time zone
D)Equator
Answer: Equator
- 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. What is the alternate name for contour lines?
A)Isohypse
B)Isopotential
C)Isotherm
D)Isohyet
Answer: Isohypse
- Q. The mapping of which of the following is most difficult ?
A)Interior of the Earth
B)Mountains
C)Plateaus and Plains
D)Oceans and their depth
Answer: Interior of the Earth
- Q. The Equator does not pass through which of the following?
A)Indonesia
B)Kenya
C)Mexico
D)Brazil
Answer: Mexico
- Q. The desert regions of the world occupy about ________ part of the land surface of the earth.
A)43132
B)1/3
C)1.6
D)None of the above
Answer: 1/3
- Q. During Lunar eclipse, which of the following is at the centre?
A)Sun
B)Earth
C)Moon
D)Any other planet
Answer: Earth
- Q. The time of Cairo is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich time Cairo is situated at ________
A)30° East
B)27° East
C)27° West
D)30° West
Answer: 30° East
- Q. The latitude of a place is the same as the ________
A)Angle between the horizon and the equator
B)Maximum altitude attained by the Sun at noon
C)Altitude of the celestial pole
D)Zenith distance of the full moon when on the meridian
Answer: Zenith distance of the full moon when on the meridian
- Q. The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through
A)Bangladesh
B)India
C)Pakistan
D)Myanmar
Answer: Pakistan
- Q. Lunar eclipse is caused when the ________
A)Sun comes between the earth and moon
B)Moon comes between the sun and the earth
C)Earth comes between the sun and the moon
D)None of these
Answer: Earth comes between the sun and the moon
- 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. Which of the following statements is true?
A)Both latitudes and longitudes are great circles
B)Arctic circle, antarctic circle and equator are great circles
C)Both equator and longitudes are great circles
D)Both equator and latitudes are great circles
Answer: Both equator and longitudes are great circles
- 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
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