More Questions on Geography
- Q. Soil erosion can be prevented by ________
A)Making the land sloppy
B)Allowing herbivorous animals to graze freely
C)Growing plants on a large scale to form soil cover
D)Adding chemicals to increase cohesion
Answer: Growing plants on a large scale to form soil cover
- Q. The shortest day in Australia will be on ________
A)01-09-2023
B)21-06-2021
C)01-12-2022
D)01-03-2021
Answer: 21-06-2021
- Q. The youngest mountain range in the world is ________
A)Aravallis
B)Western Ghats
C)Himalayas
D)Andes
Answer: Himalayas
- Q. Which sanctuary has been selected as an alternative home for the Indian lion?
A)Periyar Sanctuary (Kerala)
B)Bandipur Sanctuary (Karnataka)
C)Ghana Sanctuary (Bihar)
D)Chandra Prabha Sanctuary (UP)
Answer: Chandra Prabha Sanctuary (UP)
- Q. Coal, which is almost pure carbons which hardly has any impurities, which is smokeless and which finds use in the steel industry is called
A)Bituminous coal
B)Coking coal
C)Anthracite
D)Lignite
Answer: Coking coal
- Q. The radiation that heats earth’s atmosphere comes from the
A)Ionosphere
B)Sun
C)Earth
D)Sun and earth
Answer: Sun
- Q. Which of the following hill stations is not located in Himachal Pradesh?
A)Shimla
B)Kulu
C)Manali
D)Ranikhet
Answer: Ranikhet
- Q. Wular lake of Kashmir is a ________
A)Lake formed by terminal morainic dam
B)Ox- bow lake
C)Lake formed by blocking of ice
D)Lake formed by deposition of silt
Answer: Lake formed by terminal morainic dam
- Q. Which of the following is the longest mountain range?
A)The Andes
B)The Himalayas
C)The Rockies
D)The Caucasus
Answer: The Andes
- Q. Which is the group of languages spoken by the largest number of people in India?
A)Austro-Asiatic
B)Indo-Aryan
C)Dravidian
D)Sino-Tibetan
Answer: Indo-Aryan
- Q. The river transports material in
A)Traction
B)Suspension
C)Solution
D)All of these
Answer: All of these
- Q. The second largest basin in Peninsular India is ________
A)Narmada Basin
B)Cauvery Basin
C)Godavari Basin
D)Krishna Basin
Answer: Godavari Basin
- Q. Land masses are heated and cooled much faster than water bodies. Identify the true statements in this regard: I. Land gets heated by conduction II. Water has higher specific heat III. Only the surface layers of water are heated IV. Water gets heated by convection
A)I and IV
B)I, II and III
C)II and III
D)I, II and IV
Answer: I, II and IV
- Q. During the early period of Industrial Revolution industries were located primarily
A)Near coal fields
B)Near major ports
C)On the banks of navigable rivers
D)Near nodal centres
Answer: Near coal fields
- Q. Which city is located on the banks of the river Brahmaputra?
A)Dibrugarh
B)Kanpur
C)Srinagar
D)Lucknow
Answer: Dibrugarh
- Q. Deciduous trees
A)Do not lose their leaves
B)Depend on others for its food
C)Lose their leaves every year
D)Do synthesis of their food
Answer: Lose their leaves every year
- Q. Which of the following is the longest river in India?
A)Brahmaputra
B)Ganga
C)Narmada
D)Godavari
Answer: Ganga
- Q. The longest dam in India is
A)Hirakund Dam
B)Bhakra Dam
C)Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
D)Kosi Dam
Answer: Hirakund Dam
- Q. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the climatic regions while going from Zaire to Netherlands? 1. Equatorial climate 2. Mediterranean climate 3. Hot desert climate 4. West European climate
A)2, 3, 4, 1
B)1, 3, 2, 4
C)1, 4, 2, 3
D)3, 2, 1, 4
Answer: 1, 3, 2, 4
- Q. Fog can be classified as a
A)Cumulus cloud
B)Nimbus cloud
C)Cirrus cloud
D)Low Stratus cloud
Answer: Low Stratus cloud
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