More Questions on Climate And Weather in India
- Q. Which one of the following is the driest region in India?
A)Vidarbha
B)Telangana
C)Marwar
D)Marathwada
Answer: Marwar
- Q. How do dust storms in summer affect the temperature?
A)No effect
B)Increase it
C)Decrease it
D)Cannot say
Answer: Decrease it
- Q. Which one of the following pairs of cities have the largest annual average rain difference as compared to the other three pairs?
A)Kolkata and Bhubaneshwar
B)Jabalpur and Nagpur
C)Mumbai and Pune
D)Guwahati and Shillong
Answer: Mumbai and Pune
- 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. The Mangrove forests of Ganga delta are known as
A)Tropical forest
B)Monsoon forest
C)Sundarban
D)Swamp forest
Answer: Sundarban
- Q. Which one of the following shows the correct sequence of places in descending order of the average summer rainfall ?
A)Allahabad, Pune, Jaisalmer, Cherapunji
B)Jaisalmer, Pune, Allahabad, Cherapunji
C)Cherapunji, Jaisalmer, Pune, Allahabad
D)Cherapunji, Allahabad, Pune, Jaisalmer
Answer: Cherapunji, Allahabad, Pune, Jaisalmer
- Q. Operation Flood refers to
A)White revolution
B)Blue revolution
C)Green revolution
D)All the three
Answer: White revolution
- Q. Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa often face natural disasters due to ________
A)Landslides
B)Cyclones
C)Earthquakes
D)Tornadoes
Answer: Cyclones
- Q. National Flood Commission is related to
A)Drought and flood
B)Flood
C)Disaster Management
D)Poverty Alleviation
Answer: Flood
- Q. Which of the following two states are prone to cyclones during retreating Monsoon season?
A)Bihar and Assam
B)Kamataka and Kerala
C)Punjab and Haryana
D)Andhra Pradesh and Orissa
Answer: Andhra Pradesh and Orissa
- Q. Who introduced the term ‘monsoon’?
A)The Arabs
B)The British
C)The Mughals
D)The Chinese
Answer: The Arabs
- Q. Which of the following does not affect Indian climate?
A)Proximity to equator
B)Monsoon
C)Ocean currents
D)Existence of Indian Ocean
Answer: Ocean currents
- Q. In which of the following states, retreating monsoon has more effect?
A)Punjab
B)Orissa
C)West Bengal
D)Tamil Nadu
Answer: Tamil Nadu
- Q. Which one of the following cities never experiences vertical rays of the sun during noon?
A)Mumbai
B)Chennai
C)Mangalore
D)New Delhi
Answer: New Delhi
- Q. What do you mean by ‘reserved forest’ ?
A)Reserved for hunting
B)Reserved for local use
C)Reserved for commercial exploitation
D)Reserved for growing medicinal herbs
Answer: Reserved for commercial exploitation
- Q. Monsoon is caused by
A)Humidity difference
B)Temperature changes
C)Seasonal reversal of winds
D)Pressure differences
Answer: Pressure differences
- Q. There is heavy rainfall on the western coast of India but very little in the Deccan because
A)Lack of high mountains in the Deccan
B)The Deccan plateau is situated in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats
C)The region is bypassed by the south-west monsoons
D)Of some unknown reason
Answer: The Deccan plateau is situated in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats
- Q. Winter rains in North and North-West India are generally associated with the phenomenon of ________
A)Local thunderstorms
B)Retreating monsoon
C)Temperate cyclones
D)Shift in jet stream movement
Answer: Temperate cyclones
- Q. The retreating monsoon withdraws from the ________
A)North-east India to the west coast
B)West coast to the east coast
C)North to the south
D)North-west India to Bengal
Answer: North-west India to Bengal
- Q. The “Central India Teak” is an Example of
A)Dry Deciduous Forest
B)Tropical Evergreen Forest
C)Moist Deciduous Forest
D)Montane Forest
Answer: Moist Deciduous Forest
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