More Questions on Geography
- Q. The river that runs along the USA-Mexico boundary is
A)Mississippi
B)Rio-Grande
C)Gila
D)Colorado
Answer: Rio-Grande
- Q. Agriculture involving both crops and livestock is known as
A)Dry farming
B)Dairy farming
C)Mixed farming
D)Truck farming
Answer: Mixed farming
- Q. Savanna is a
A)Grassland
B)Desert
C)Forest
D)Snowclad mountain
Answer: Grassland
- Q. The Farakka Project is mainly aimed towards
A)Preserving the port of Kolkata
B)Irrigating more land in West Bengal
C)Utilizing maximum of Ganga water
D)Production of electricity
Answer: Preserving the port of Kolkata
- Q. A ship met with an accident at 30ºC and 35ºN. The ship was sailing in the ________
A)Mediterranean Sea
B)Baltic Sea
C)Black Sea
D)Red Sea
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
- Q. Fjords abound the coast of
A)Norway
B)Sweden
C)France
D)Germany
Answer: Norway
- Q. The average annual temperature of a meteorological station is 26°C, its average annual rainfall is 63 cm and the annual range of temperature is 9°C. The station in question is ________
A)Cherapunji
B)Allahabad
C)Chennai
D)Kolkata
Answer: Chennai
- Q. Who among the following was first to measure the circumference of the Earth?
A)Hecataeus
B)Eratosthenes
C)Aristotle
D)Herodotus
Answer: Eratosthenes
- Q. A place having an average annual temperature of 27°C and an annual rainfall of over 200 cm. could be ________
A)Nagpur
B)Tehran
C)Singapore
D)Moscow
Answer: Singapore
- Q. Grasses are almost absent in ________
A)Tropical semi-evergreen forest
B)Tropical moist deciduous forest
C)Tropical dry evergreen forest
D)Tropical wet-evergreen forest
Answer: Tropical wet-evergreen forest
- Q. All the watches of a country are set according to ________
A)Greenwich mean time
B)Local time
C)Standard time of the country
D)Time of sunrise and sunset
Answer: Standard time of the country
- Q. The Outer Himalayas correspond with
A)The Kailas range
B)The Karakoram range
C)The Shiwalik range
D)The Hindukush range
Answer: The Shiwalik range
- Q. The altitudes of heavenly bodies appear to be greater than they actually are. This is due to ________
A)Atmospheric refraction
B)Vertical motion of these heavenly bodies
C)Motions of the earth
D)These are visible because of light of the sun reflected from their surface
Answer: Atmospheric refraction
- Q. The total length of the oceanic ridge systems is of the order of
A)95000 km
B)40000 km
C)65000 km
D)150000 km
Answer: 65000 km
- Q. A continuous belt of urban population progressively linking several cities is known as
A)Conurbation
B)Metropolis
C)Megalopolis
D)City sprawl
Answer: Conurbation
- Q. The largest amongst the following seas is ________.
A)The Caribbean Sea
B)The Red Sea
C)The South China Sea
D)The Andaman Sea
Answer: The South China Sea
- Q. The place to receive annual rainfall below 50cm is
A)Coromandal Coast
B)Meghalaya
C)Leh in Kashmir
D)Konkan Coast
Answer: Leh in Kashmir
- Q. The country which is commonly known as ‘The Land of Golden Fleece’ is ________
A)France
B)Australia
C)Britain
D)Japan
Answer: Australia
- Q. Khartoum is situated at the confluence of ________
A)Tigris and Euphrates
B)Murray and Darling
C)Porena and Prague
D)White Nile and Blue Nile
Answer: White Nile and Blue Nile
- Q. The NTPC has decided to set up its first coal-based power plant in which of the following North-Eastern States?
A)Mizoram
B)Assam
C)Arunachal Pradesh
D)Meghalaya
Answer: Assam
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