More Questions on Geography

  • Q. Which of the following combinations of riven and cities situated on their banks is wrong?
    A)Badrinath - Alaknanda
    B)Lucknow - Gomati
    C)Ayodhya - Saryu
    D)Vijayawada - Narmada
    Answer: Vijayawada - Narmada
  • Q. Cement industry is generally known as:
    A)Source of end products
    B)Source of raw material
    C)Real Industry
    D)All of the above
    Answer: Source of raw material
  • Q. The correct descending order of the leading producers of milk is
    A)U.S.A., India, China, Russia
    B)China, India, Russia, U.S.A.
    C)India, U.S.A., China, Russia
    D)India, China, U.S.A., Russia
    Answer: India, U.S.A., China, Russia
  • Q. The Yarlung Zangbo river, in India, is known as
    A)Brahmaputra
    B)Ganga
    C)Indus
    D)Mahanadi
    Answer: Brahmaputra
  • Q. Which of the following factors does not have influence on the Indian climate?
    A)Monsoons
    B)Presence of Indian Ocean
    C)Nearness to equator
    D)Ocean currents
    Answer: Ocean currents
  • Q. The World’s major commercial fishing grounds are located in the ________
    A)Temperate waters of tropical seas
    B)Cool waters of the northern hemisphere in comparatively higher latitudes
    C)Equatorial water
    D)Warm water of seas in southern hemisphere
    Answer: Cool waters of the northern hemisphere in comparatively higher latitudes
  • Q. ________ forms the western boundary of the Indian sub-continent.
    A)Karakoram
    B)Aravalli
    C)Pirpanjal
    D)Hindukush
    Answer: Hindukush
  • Q. Coniferous forests are in the region of ________
    A)Low mean annual temperature throughout the year and very cold winter
    B)High humidity and high temperature
    C)Low rainfall and very low temperature throughout the year
    D)Heavy rainfall and high temperature during summer
    Answer: Low rainfall and very low temperature throughout the year
  • Q. The soil of northern plain of India is formed by
    A)Weathering in situ
    B)Degradation
    C)Aggradation
    D)Erosion
    Answer: Aggradation
  • Q. In which country, slash and burn agriculture is known as “Milpa”?
    A)Central America
    B)Venezuela
    C)Brazil
    D)Mexico and Central America
    Answer: Mexico and Central America
  • Q. To which group do belong?
    A)Mongoloids
    B)Negritoes
    C)Proto-Australoids
    D)Western Brachycephals
    Answer: Proto-Australoids
  • Q. Which of the following set of country is known as “Golden Crescent”, world’s largest opium Industry?
    A)Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
    B)Myanmar, Laos and Thailand
    C)Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq
    D)Myanmar, Malaysia and Thailand
    Answer: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran
  • Q. The Trans-Siberian railway links
    A)Buanos Aires with Valparaiso
    B)The Baltic coast with the North Sea
    C)Leningrad with Oldiotsk
    D)Leningrad with Vladivostok
    Answer: Leningrad with Vladivostok
  • Q. Of the following the busiest oceanic trade route is ________
    A)Panama canal
    B)Cape route
    C)North Atlantic route
    D)Suez canal
    Answer: North Atlantic route
  • Q. Which one of the following countries has the highest average of road length on per thousand square kilometer area basis?
    A)USA
    B)India
    C)Japan
    D)France
    Answer: Japan
  • Q. The distance between two consecutive longitudes (91° E and 92° E) at the Poles is
    A)25 km
    B)0 km
    C)18 km
    D)111 km
    Answer: 0 km
  • Q. Amritsar and Shimla have the same latitude yet Shimla is cooler than Amritsar because it ________
    A)Is at a higher elevation
    B)Lies north of Amritsar
    C)Comes under the influence of cold winds
    D)Receives a lot of snow
    Answer: Is at a higher elevation
  • Q. Economically exploitable gypsum occurs in
    A)Rajasthan
    B)Andhra Pradesh
    C)Bihar
    D)Maharashtra
    Answer: Rajasthan
  • Q. The contact of two air masses differing sharply in humidity originates:
    A)Temperate cyclones
    B)Tropical cyclones
    C)Inter-tropical convergence
    D)Tropospheric instability
    Answer: Temperate cyclones
  • Q. India is divided into:
    A)Eight Postal Zones.
    B)Six Postal Zones.
    C)Seven Postal Zones.
    D)Nine Postal Zones.
    Answer: Nine Postal Zones.

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