More Questions on Geography
- Q. Which of the following is not one of the reasons for concentration of jute mills in Kolkata?
A)A large supply of cheap labour and water required for industry
B)Cheap and abundant power supply
C)Availability of coal
D)The port of Kolkata can easily export all the jute goods
Answer: Cheap and abundant power supply
- Q. The time required by moonlight to reach the earth is ________
A)2 sec
B)1 sec
C)1.3 sec
D)2.3 sec
Answer: 1.3 sec
- Q. In India, during the last decade, the total cultivated land for which one of the following crops has remained more or less stagnant?
A)Pulses
B)Rice
C)Oilseeds
D)Sugarcane
Answer: Pulses
- Q. ________ is a planned city in India.
A)Pune
B)Varanasi
C)Srinagar
D)Chandigarh
Answer: Chandigarh
- Q. In the history of India population, which duration period is referred to as ‘A great leap forward’?
A)1951 - 1961
B)1921 - 1931
C)1941 - 1951
D)1971 - 1981
Answer: 1951 - 1961
- Q. The highest mountain peak of peninsular India is
A)Mahendragiri
B)Anaimudi
C)Doddabetta
D)Nilgiri
Answer: Anaimudi
- Q. Which of the following States of India do not lie entirely in the Tropical Zone of the Earth?
A)Karnataka
B)Kerala and Tamil Nadu
C)Gujarat
D)Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Gujarat
- 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. Bowl shaped depression created as a result of glacial erosion high on a mountain side is called ________
A)Hanging Valley
B)Glacial trough
C)Hum
D)Cirque
Answer: Cirque
- Q. Which of the following is a reason for the increase in population of the developing countries?
A)Both of these
B)Increase in birth rate due to reluctance to accept family planning measures
C)Increase in life expectancy and decrease of death rate due to medical facilities
D)None of these
Answer: Increase in life expectancy and decrease of death rate due to medical facilities
- Q. The largest and the most important soil group of India contributing to the country’s major agricultural production is
A)Red
B)Laterite
C)Alluvial
D)Peat
Answer: Alluvial
- Q. Xinhua is the Official News Agency of:
A)South Korea
B)Japan
C)China
D)North Korea
Answer: China
- Q. The melting down of glacier is normal event regarding the rising sea level. Most of the glaciers are found in
A)Himalaya
B)Green Land
C)South Pole
D)North Pole
Answer: South Pole
- Q. The plane of contact of the troposphere and stratosphere is known as ________
A)Stratopause
B)Mesosphere
C)Ionosphere
D)Tropopause
Answer: Tropopause
- Q. The Earth’s population has ________ since the turn of the century.
A)Trebled
B)Stayed the same
C)Doubled
D)Multiplied ten times
Answer: Trebled
- Q. What is meant by ‘brain drain’?
A)The marriage of highly intellectual people so as to add more intelligent progency to the population
B)Increase in the population of mentally retarded or brainless people
C)The increasing medical facilities which have resulted in decrease in the number of mentally retarded people
D)The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
Answer: The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
- Q. Moist tropical evergreen forests are found in ________
A)The Deccan plateau
B)The Shillong plateau
C)The Siwaliks
D)Southern India
Answer: The Shillong plateau
- Q. Choose the crops which were cropped by using high yielding seeds in India during Green Revolution?
A)Rice, wheat, jowar, millet and maize
B)Rice, wheat, pulses, oilseeds and sugarcane
C)Maize, gram, jowar, coffee and tea
D)Wheat, rice, sugarcane, pulses and maize
Answer: Rice, wheat, jowar, millet and maize
- Q. Which state irrigation is done by Rihand Dam project?
A)Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
B)Gujarat and Maharashtra
C)Orissa and West Bengal
D)Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
Answer: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
- Q. Which is the smallest among the following water bodies?
A)Japan Sea
B)Arctic Sea
C)Hudson Bay
D)Okhotsk Sea
Answer: Japan Sea
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