More Questions on Geography
- Q. India broke away from Australia and Antarctica and started moving north in the period of ________
A)Jurassic
B)Permian
C)Triassic
D)Cretaceous
Answer: Cretaceous
- Q. Venice in Italy and Vienna in Austria are famous for ________
A)Chemical industry
B)Pottery
C)Glass industry
D)Textile industry
Answer: Glass industry
- Q. Which metal is most abundant in the earth’s crust?
A)Aluminium
B)Calcium
C)Magnesium
D)Iron
Answer: Aluminium
- Q. Which one of the following statements on biosphere reserves is not correct?
A)Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve is located in Madhya Pradesh
B)In 1973, UNESCO launched a worldwide programme on man and biosphere
C)Biosphere reserves promote research on ecological conservation
D)Biosphere reserves are multipurpose protected areas to preserve the genetic diversity in ecosystems
Answer: Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve is located in Madhya Pradesh
- Q. The heavier silicates named ‘Sima’ or silica + magnesium are most abundant in the ________
A)Mantle
B)Crust
C)Core
D)Ocean floors
Answer: Ocean floors
- Q. The only zone in the country that produces gold is also rich in iron is
A)Southern zone
B)North-eastern zone
C)North-western zone
D)None of the above
Answer: Southern zone
- Q. India’s latitudinal and longitudinal extent measured in degrees are almost the same, but its north-south extent measured in km is greater than its east-west extent. This is due to the fact that
A)All longitudes with their opposites form great circles
B)Longitudes are not parallel lines
C)The distance between latitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the Equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join
D)The earth is not a perfect sphere
Answer: The distance between latitudes remains the same but the distance between longitudes is greatest at the Equator and nil at the poles where all longitudes join
- Q. There is a continual daylight or summer in the Arctic regions from ________
A)21st March to 23rd September
B)22nd December to 21st March
C)21st March to 21st June
D)21st June to 22nd December
Answer: 21st March to 23rd September
- Q. The water body separating Andaman and Nicobar is known as:
A)10° channel
B)9° channel
C)8° channel
D)Indira Point
Answer: 10° channel
- Q. Which of the following receives rainfall by north-eastern monsoon?
A)Kerala
B)Tamil Nadu
C)Assam
D)West Bengal
Answer: Tamil Nadu
- Q. Which of the following indicates the types of soil erosion in decreasing order of damage caused In India
A)Water-logging, weeds, salinity and ravine erosion
B)Ravine erosion .and gullies, alkalinity and salinity weeds and water-logging
C)Alkalinity and water-logging, ravine erosion and weeds
D)All are equally damaging
Answer: Ravine erosion .and gullies, alkalinity and salinity weeds and water-logging
- Q. Malaspine Glacier is in
A)Alaska
B)Karakoram Range
C)Alps
D)Hindukush
Answer: Alaska
- Q. Which one of the following does not border Panama?
A)Columbia
B)Costa Rica
C)Pacific Ocean
D)Venezuela
Answer: Venezuela
- Q. The process of water getting evaporated from the surface of leaves is known as
A)Transpiration
B)Evaporation
C)Evapo-transpiration
D)Transportation
Answer: Transpiration
- Q. The Marine cliffs are formed mainly due to
A)Coast of Sea
B)Ocean Currents
C)Structure of Shall
D)Depth of The Ocean
Answer: Ocean Currents
- Q. Which of the following have almost the same point of beginning?
A)Beas and Tapi
B)Ganga and Indus
C)Ganga and Brahmaputra
D)Indus and Brahmaputra
Answer: Indus and Brahmaputra
- Q. The major factors responsible for changes in the sizes of population are
A)Migrations
B)Births
C)Deaths
D)All the above
Answer: All the above
- Q. Arrange the following places from north to south of Kashmir region : 1. Srinagar 2. Gilgit 3. Kargil 4. Banihal
A)2 - 3 -1 - 4
B)1 - 2 - 3 - 4
C)4 - 3 – 2 - 1
D)2 - 1 – 3 - 4
Answer: 2 - 3 -1 - 4
- Q. Kanha National Park belongs to which one among the following biogeographical areas in the world?
A)Tropical Dry Forests
B)Tropical Sub-humid Forests
C)Tropical Humid Forests
D)Tropical Moist Forests
Answer: Tropical Dry Forests
- Q. Lunar eclipse does not occur every month because ________
A)The moon's orbit is not all the time in the same plane as the earth
B)The sun's orbit is not always in the same plane as the moon
C)The moon revolves at a slower speed than the earth
D)None of these
Answer: The moon's orbit is not all the time in the same plane as the earth
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