More Questions on Geography
- Q. Contours’ are lines connecting places having ________
A)Equal rainfall
B)Equal temperature
C)Equal pressure
D)Equal height
Answer: Equal height
- Q. Consider the following pairs: Tributary River Main River 1. Chambal Narmada 2. Sone Yamuna 3. Manas Brahmaputra Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched?
A)2 and 3 only
B)1, 2 and 3
C)1 and 2 only
D)3 only
Answer: 3 only
- Q. The features produced by glacial deposition are: 1. outwash plains 2. drumlins 3. eskers 4. levees
A)2, 3, 2004
B)1, 2, 2003
C)1, 3, 2004
D)1, 2, 3, 4
Answer: 1, 2, 2003
- Q. Rice crop needs
A)Annual rainfall of about 150 cm, high temperature and humidity
B)Low temperature and heavy rainfall
C)High temperature and low rainfall
D)Low temperature and low rainfall
Answer: Annual rainfall of about 150 cm, high temperature and humidity
- Q. Agents of fog formation do not include ________
A)Winter season
B)High relative humidity
C)Diurnal temperatures of short ranges
D)Rapid radiation
Answer: Diurnal temperatures of short ranges
- Q. The capital of Lakshadweep is ________
A)Aizawl
B)Port Blair
C)Silvassa
D)Kavaratti
Answer: Kavaratti
- Q. What is the main cause of Tsunami?
A)Earthquake on Sea Surface
B)Volcano
C)Cyclone
D)Gravitation of Moon
Answer: Earthquake on Sea Surface
- Q. Which of the following rivers lies in a rift valley?
A)Son
B)Luni
C)Chambal
D)Tapi
Answer: Tapi
- Q. Which planet is known as the Earth’s Twin?
A)Uranus
B)Venus
C)Mars
D)Neptune
Answer: Venus
- Q. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? Waterfall : River 1 Kapildhara Falls : Godavari 2 Jog Falls : Sharavati 3 Sivasamudram Falls : Cauvery
A)1 and 3 only
B)1 and 2 only
C)2 and 3 only
D)1, 2 and 3
Answer: 2 and 3 only
- Q. Which is the largest freshwater lake in the world ?
A)Lake Baikal
B)Lake Tanganyika
C)Lake Superior
D)Lake Michigan
Answer: Lake Superior
- Q. Major coal deposits of India occur in
A)Seams separated by metamorphic rocks
B)Seams separated by igneous rocks
C)Seams separated by sedimentary rocks
D)Open cast mines
Answer: Seams separated by sedimentary rocks
- Q. The Black soil is related to which of the following crop
A)Tea
B)Cotton
C)Sugarcane
D)Coffee
Answer: Cotton
- Q. The Asian and North American continents almost meet at the narrow and shallow Bering Strait, only ________ kilometres across.
A)22
B)4
C)10
D)45
Answer: 4
- Q. When dew point is reached it is said that at that temperature
A)The atmosphere can hold no more water vapour
B)The atmosphere is said to be saturated with water vapour
C)The relative humidity of the atmosphere is 100%
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Kalbaisakhis or Norwesters originate in
A)Coromandal Coast
B)Chhota Nagpur Plateau
C)Karnataka Coast
D)Malwa Plateau
Answer: Chhota Nagpur Plateau
- Q. For short-term climatic predictions, which one of the following events, detected in the last decade, is associated with occasional weak monsoon rains in the Indian subcontinent?
A)El Nino and southern oscillations
B)La Nina
C)Movement of jet streams
D)Green-house effect on global level
Answer: El Nino and southern oscillations
- Q. A river erodes by
A)Attrition
B)Hydraulic action
C)Corrosion
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Where has the Geological Survey of India located most of India’s Chromite?
A)Manipur
B)Cuttack
C)Singhbhum
D)Hubli
Answer: Cuttack
- Q. The Richter scale on which intensity/magnitude of a quake is measured was developed in:
A)1935
B)1933
C)1932
D)1939
Answer: 1935
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