More Questions on Geography
- Q. Which among the following currents is produced by upwelling of water off the coast of Chile and Peru?
A)Benguela Current
B)Canarie Current
C)Humboldt Current
D)Kuroshio Current
Answer: Humboldt Current
- Q. Which of the following features is the product of vulcanicity ?
A)Geosynclines
B)Fold Mountain
C)Escarpment
D)Caldera
Answer: Caldera
- Q. Japan experiences frequent earth-quakes because it is located ________
A)Amidst the ocean
B)On the eastern coast of Asia
C)On the meeting point of two plates of the earth's crust
D)In the volcanic belt
Answer: In the volcanic belt
- Q. Silk production in the world has declined because of
A)Growing competition from man-made fibres
B)Lack of demand
C)Lack of remunerative prices
D)Dearth of skilled labour
Answer: Growing competition from man-made fibres
- Q. Garampani Wildlife Sanctuary is located in:
A)Madhya Pradesh
B)West Bengal
C)Assam
D)Karnataka
Answer: Assam
- Q. Which one of the following constituents of the atmosphere causes greatest changes in climate and weather?
A)Ozone
B)Nitrogen
C)Oxygen
D)Water Vapour
Answer: Water Vapour
- Q. Pyranees form a the boundary between
A)Poland and Russia
B)Spain and Portugal
C)France and Spain
D)Hungary and Rumania
Answer: France and Spain
- Q. When a descending air contracts and its volume decreases, what happens to its temperature?
A)Its temperature remains constant
B)Its temperature decreases
C)Its temperature increases
D)Its temperature first increases, then decreases
Answer: Its temperature increases
- Q. Which of the following is not a satellite of Jupiter?
A)Callisto
B)Europa
C)Ganymede
D)Deimos
Answer: Deimos
- Q. What does the machine tool industry produce?
A)It produces machines which can be used by other industries for the production of their finished goods
B)It produces tools for the repair of machines
C)It produces machines with a high component of precision tools
D)None of these
Answer: It produces machines which can be used by other industries for the production of their finished goods
- Q. Which one of the following is the largest country area-wise?
A)Kazakhastan
B)Argentina
C)India
D)Sudan
Answer: India
- Q. Caldera is a feature associated with ________
A)Folding of rocks
B)Volcanoes
C)Earthquakes
D)Faulting of mountains
Answer: Volcanoes
- Q. The fishing grounds in the Pacific Ocean, the world’s greatest fishing regions, lie between the ________
A)The East China Sea and the Bering Sea
B)Bering Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
C)The North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea
D)The Mediterranean Sea and the Arabian Sea
Answer: The East China Sea and the Bering Sea
- Q. Isolines are lines Joining places having
A)Equal salinity
B)Equal temperature
C)Equal diurnal range of temperature
D)Equal cloud cover
Answer: Equal salinity
- Q. The highest point of the Nilgiri Hills is
A)Doda Betta
B)Kalsubai
C)Salher
D)Pushpagiri
Answer: Doda Betta
- Q. Sundarban was declared a World Heritage Site because of its:
A)Nearest to Bay of Bengal
B)River Delta
C)Mangroves Forests and Biodiversity
D)None of Above
Answer: Mangroves Forests and Biodiversity
- Q. Lakes formed due to marine deposits are
A)Ox-bow lakes
B)Crater lakes
C)Cirque lakes
D)Lagoons
Answer: Lagoons
- Q. Which one of the following scholars suggests the earth’s origin is from gases and dust particles?
A)F. Hoyle
B)James Jeans
C)H. Alfven
D)O. Schmidt
Answer: O. Schmidt
- Q. The Sea water is more salty than rain water because
A)Rivers pours salt from the soil into sea
B)Sea creatures salt
C)Air around sea is salty
D)There are salt mines in sea surface
Answer: Rivers pours salt from the soil into sea
- Q. Which of the following belts are associated with seismic activity? 1. Circum-Pacific Belt 2. Circum-Atlantic Belt 3. Mid-Continental Belt 4. Mid-Atlantic Belt
A)1, 2 and 3
B)1, 2 and 4
C)1, 3 and 4
D)2, 3 and 4
Answer: 1, 3 and 4
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