More Questions on Geography
- Q. The hot dry local winds that blow on the eastern side of the Alps Mountain are known as ________
A)Khamsin
B)Chinook
C)Foehn
D)Sirocco
Answer: Foehn
- Q. The incoming short-wave solar radiation is balanced by an equal amount of long-wave radiation from earth going back to space. This is known as ________
A)Heat balance of earth
B)Earth radiation
C)Wave balance of earth
D)Radiation exchange
Answer: Heat balance of earth
- Q. What is the most important geographic use of the Himalayas to India?
A)They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow
B)Prevention of invasions
C)Valuable source of timber
D)They protect India from the icy cold north winds
Answer: They prevent the monsoons from crossing to the north and also serve as a reservoir of water from which our perennial rivers flow
- Q. Where is Sunda Trench?
A)Atlantic Ocean
B)Indian Ocean
C)Pacific Ocean
D)Gulf of Mexico
Answer: Indian Ocean
- Q. Which one of the following groups of Indian states has a common frontier with Bhutan?
A)Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and West Bengal
B)Assam, Bihar, Sikkim and West Bengal
C)Bihar, Meghalaya, Sikkim and West Bengal
D)Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and West Bengal
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Sikkim and West Bengal
- Q. Silent valley is located in
A)Africa
B)Assam
C)Kerala
D)Andhra Pradesh
Answer: Kerala
- Q. Namdhapa National Park is in
A)Tripura
B)Mizoram
C)Manipur
D)Arunachal Pradesh
Answer: Arunachal Pradesh
- Q. The National Highway – 1 connects Delhi to
A)Mumbai
B)Chennai
C)Kolkata
D)Amritsar
Answer: Amritsar
- Q. From north towards South, which one of the following is the correct sequence of the given rivers in India?
A)Zaskar - Shyok - Sutlej - Spiti
B)Shyok - Spiti - Zaskar - Sutlej
C)Shyok - Zaskar - Spiti - Sutlej
D)Zaskar - Sutlej - Shyok – Spiti
Answer: Shyok - Zaskar - Spiti - Sutlej
- Q. The Sahyadri is another name of:
A)Shivalik Range
B)Western Ghat
C)Vindhya Range
D)Eastern Ghat
Answer: Western Ghat
- Q. The deflection of the wind to the right in the northern hemisphere and to Its left in the southern hemisphere is caused by the
A)Uneven heating of the Earth
B)Rotation of the Earth
C)Revolution of the Earth
D)All the above
Answer: Rotation of the Earth
- Q. Operation Flood refers to
A)White revolution
B)Blue revolution
C)Green revolution
D)All the three
Answer: White revolution
- Q. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the four stages of water movement in a hydrological cycle?
A)Infiltration – Evaporation – Condensation – Infiltration
B)Evaporation – Condensation – Precipitation – Infiltration
C)Evaporation – Precipitation – Condensation – Infiltration
D)Condensation – Precipitation – Evaporation – Infiltration
Answer: Evaporation – Condensation – Precipitation – Infiltration
- Q. Grasses are almost absent in ________
A)Tropical semi-evergreen forest
B)Tropical moist deciduous forest
C)Tropical dry evergreen forest
D)Tropical wet-evergreen forest
Answer: Tropical wet-evergreen forest
- Q. HBJ pipe line is being laid for a distance of 1730 km in order to
A)Provide feedstock for six large fertilisers
B)Provide cooking gas for villages
C)Provide employment for rural population
D)Serve the power requirements of many states
Answer: Provide feedstock for six large fertilisers
- Q. The Bhutia group of languages does not include
A)Lepcha
B)Laddakhi
C)Tibetan
D)Sherpa
Answer: Lepcha
- Q. Which of the following mountain range is located in India?
A)Salt range
B)Arakan yoma
C)Sulaiman
D)Pir Panjal
Answer: Pir Panjal
- Q. What is meant by ‘brain drain’?
A)The marriage of highly intellectual people so as to add more intelligent progency to the population
B)Increase in the population of mentally retarded or brainless people
C)The increasing medical facilities which have resulted in decrease in the number of mentally retarded people
D)The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
Answer: The migration of highly qualified or skilled people to better places of employment
- Q. Grasslands are called Pampas in
A)Britain
B)Africa
C)South America
D)USA
Answer: South America
- Q. Pykara hydroelectric power project is located at:
A)Pykara River
B)Godavari
C)Kaveri
D)Mahanadi
Answer: Pykara River
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