More Questions on Geography
- Q. The Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle of ________ degrees from the perpendicular to its orbital plane.
A)36°
B)17.5°
C)23.5°
D)45°
Answer: 23.5°
- Q. India is divided into:
A)Eight Postal Zones.
B)Six Postal Zones.
C)Seven Postal Zones.
D)Nine Postal Zones.
Answer: Nine Postal Zones.
- Q. The term ‘transhumance’ means
A)Moving over to another neighbouring country
B)The practice of moving to a new clearing in the forest every few years
C)The seasonal movement of people along with their cattle in the mountains
D)Moving from place to place in search of work
Answer: The seasonal movement of people along with their cattle in the mountains
- Q. The Shimla Convention is an agreement that sets
A)boundary between India and Tibet
B)Shimla as a tourist spot
C)Shimla as the capital of Himachal Pradesh
D)None of the above
Answer: boundary between India and Tibet
- Q. Which of the following States is called the “Garden of Spices”?
A)Andhra Pradesh
B)Karnataka
C)Kerala
D)Tamil Nadu
Answer: Kerala
- Q. Which shipyard is known for the manufacture of bargets, coasters arid dredgers?
A)Garden Reach Shipyard
B)Hindustan Shipyard
C)Mazgaon Shipyard
D)Cochin Shipyard
Answer: Garden Reach Shipyard
- Q. The most important item of export among marine products from India is ________
A)Shrimp
B)Crabs
C)Lobsters
D)None of these
Answer: Shrimp
- Q. The study of plant communities in relation to their habitats of a given ecosystem is known as:
A)Ecology
B)Seneology
C)Synecology
D)Ecosystem
Answer: Synecology
- 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. Umiam Multipurpose Power Project is located in:
A)Sikkim
B)Himachal Pradesh
C)Meghalya
D)Nagaland
Answer: Meghalya
- Q. The greatest known ocean depth (which lies in the Pacific Ocean) is ________
A)10,589 m
B)8,890 m
C)9,653 m
D)11,021 m
Answer: 11,021 m
- Q. The Regur soil is:
A)Black Soil
B)Red Soil
C)Clay Soil
D)Sand Soil
Answer: Black Soil
- Q. Which one of the following deserts is famous for its deposits of nitrates?
A)Gobi
B)Atacama
C)Kalahari
D)Sahara
Answer: Atacama
- Q. Which of the following sequences of clouds in ascending order would one meet 500 metres and above the mean sea level?
A)Cirrostratus, Stratus, Cumulo-nimbus
B)Stratus, Nimbus, Cirrostratus, Cirrus
C)Nimbus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus, Stratus
D)Stratus, Cirrostratus, Cumulo-numbus, Cirrocumulus
Answer: Stratus, Nimbus, Cirrostratus, Cirrus
- Q. Which city is located on the banks of the river Brahmaputra?
A)Dibrugarh
B)Kanpur
C)Srinagar
D)Lucknow
Answer: Dibrugarh
- Q. The Earth rotates-around an axis pointing towards ________
A)The sun
B)The moon
C)The pole star
D)Venus
Answer: The pole star
- Q. Farakka barrage is a major reason for contention between India and ________.
A)China
B)Bangladesh
C)Pakistan
D)Nepal
Answer: Bangladesh
- Q. Which of the following celestial bodies bear, ‘The Sea of Tranquility’ and ‘The Ocean of Storms’ ?
A)Moon
B)Mars
C)Venus
D)Sun
Answer: Moon
- Q. Which one of the following is the most possible solution for planning improvement of a metropolitan city in India?
A)Building up suburbs and satellite towns around the main city
B)Constructing high rise building and sky scrapers
C)Dispersing the factories & industries to the neighbouring but independent location.
D)Preventing immigration of people into the metropolitan city
Answer: Dispersing the factories & industries to the neighbouring but independent location.
- Q. Masses of stars and galaxies are usually expressed in ________.
A)Lunar mass
B)Earth's mass
C)Solar mass
D)Neutron mass
Answer: Solar mass
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