More Questions on Geography
- Q. Latvia does not share its borders with which one of the following countries?
A)Lithuania
B)Russia
C)Estoma
D)Poland
Answer: Poland
- Q. Which among the following imaginary line lies at 0° latitude?
A)Tropic of Capricorn
B)Equator
C)Tropic of Cancer
D)Prime Meridian
Answer: Equator
- Q. Which of the following rocks is transformed into marble?
A)Peat
B)Granite
C)Limestone
D)Shale
Answer: Limestone
- Q. Why do Fold Mountains have enormous thickness of sedimentary rocks?
A)The plains were folded into mountains
B)Due to deposition of sediments in a valley for millions of years
C)Due to accumulation of sediments in a geosyncline
D)The sediments were folded into recumbent and nappe folds
Answer: Due to accumulation of sediments in a geosyncline
- Q. Which of the following state is the member of “Seven Sisters”?
A)Orissa
B)West Bengal
C)Tripura
D)Bihar
Answer: Tripura
- Q. The crust and the upper-most part of the mantle up to a depth of 200 km from the surface of the earth is called:
A)Cyrosphere
B)Pyrosphere
C)Osophere
D)Lithosphere
Answer: Lithosphere
- Q. Although hot deserts have a very low annual rainfall, occasional heavy rain storms do occur and these sometimes produce steep-sided, flat-floored valleys called ________
A)Canyons
B)Gorges
C)Wadi
D)Barchans
Answer: Wadi
- Q. The Naharkatiya oil field is located in:
A)Assam
B)Gujrat
C)Bihar
D)Madhya Pradesh
Answer: Assam
- Q. The state having a largest area of forest cover in India is
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)Arunachal Pradesh
C)Haryana
D)Assam
Answer: Madhya Pradesh
- Q. Where in India is mica mined?
A)Nellore (Andhra Pradesh)
B)Nasirabad (Rajasthan)
C)Gaya (Bihar)
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Which of the following Scientist proved that the path of each planet around the Sun is elliptical?
A)Newton
B)Kepler
C)Galileo
D)Copernicus
Answer: Kepler
- Q. Shivpuri National Park of Madhya Pradesh is famous for which of the following?
A)Birds
B)Tiger and elephant
C)Wild Bison
D)Leopard and Spotted deer
Answer: Leopard and Spotted deer
- Q. The highest annual precipitation occurs in ________
A)Siberian Plains
B)Canadian Shield
C)Ganga basin
D)Amazon basin
Answer: Amazon basin
- Q. The equator cuts through which of the following islands ________
A)Java
B)Madagascar
C)Tasmania
D)Borneo
Answer: Borneo
- Q. A drainage pattern where a river is joined by its tributaries approximately at right angles is
A)Rectangular
B)Dendritic
C)Trellis
D)Radial
Answer: Trellis
- Q. The earth revolves round the sun in its orbit by approximately ________
A)3° per day
B)1° per day
C)2° per day
D)5° per day
Answer: 1° per day
- Q. The orbits of planets around the Sun, or of satellites around the Earth, can be ________
A)Elliptic and parabolic
B)Circular and elliptic
C)Circular and hyperbolic
D)Parabolic and hyperbolic
Answer: Circular and elliptic
- Q. According to census 2001, the highest density of population is in the state of
A)Chhattisgarh
B)Maharashtra
C)Karnataka
D)Delhi
Answer: Delhi
- Q. Which of the following colour types do not indicate fair or fine weather?
A)Altocumulus
B)Cirrus
C)Cumulus
D)Cumulonimbus
Answer: Cumulonimbus
- Q. Which of these statements are correct with reference to tornadoes? 1. Tornadoes are smaller and more intense than hurricanes. 2. Tornadoes are most abundant along the eastern coast of India. 3. The average tornado lasts for less than one hour. 4. Tornadoes are most common in the afternoons in the early summer.
A)1, 2 and 4
B)1, 3 and 4
C)2, 3 and 4
D)1, 2 and 3
Answer: 1, 3 and 4
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