More Questions on Geography

  • Q. Urea is prepared by the chemical reactions of
    A)Chlorine and water
    B)Ammonium sulphate and calcium chloride
    C)Ammonia and carbon dioxide
    D)Acetamide and ethyl alcohol
    Answer: Ammonia and carbon dioxide
  • Q. The Tropical Savanna Climate located in South Brazil is known as
    A)Campos
    B)Llanos
    C)Sudan climate
    D)None of these
    Answer: Campos
  • Q. Consider the following statements: 1. Cherrapunji is located on the south side of Garo hills. 2. Cherrapunji is about 1700 m above mean sea level. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
    A)Both 1 and 2
    B)1 only
    C)2 only
    D)Neither 1 nor 2
    Answer: Both 1 and 2
  • Q. You find some local people living in log cabins in
    A)Deserts
    B)Tropical rainforest
    C)Taiga regions
    D)Mediterranean regions
    Answer: Taiga regions
  • Q. Social forestry is
    A)Growing plants of same species on public land
    B)Growing plants of various species on private land
    C)Management of forests by cooperative council
    D)Growing and managing useful plants on public land
    Answer: Growing and managing useful plants on public land
  • Q. A block of the earth’s crust that has remained in position while the ground around it has subsides is known as ________
    A)Plateau
    B)Horst
    C)Plain
    D)Young folded mountain
    Answer: Horst
  • Q. Moraine is
    A)A salt water lake in Arabia
    B)A tribe inhabiting the equatorial region
    C)The debris of fragments of rock material brought down with the movement of a glacier
    D)A nocturnal animal found in Amazon forests
    Answer: The debris of fragments of rock material brought down with the movement of a glacier
  • Q. Which of the following Indian States broadly as large as the European nation Poland?
    A)Maharashtra
    B)Bihar
    C)Odisha
    D)Madhya pradesh
    Answer: Madhya pradesh
  • Q. The Sonapani glacier is the longest glacier of:
    A)The Western Ghat
    B)Sivalik range
    C)Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas
    D)The Eastern Ghat
    Answer: Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas
  • Q. Ten Degree Channel is between ________
    A)Little Andaman and Car Nicobar
    B)Dover and Calais
    C)Alaska and Russia
    D)North Korea and South Korea
    Answer: Little Andaman and Car Nicobar
  • Q. The first large scale modern machine tool factory set up in public sector is :
    A)1957
    B)1953
    C)1955
    D)1959
    Answer: 1953
  • Q. Which of the following statement is correct?
    A)Relative humidity is denoted in gram per cubic meter of air.
    B)Air capacity of vaporization reduces with the rise in the temperature of air.
    C)Atmospheric pressure reduces due to rise in temperature.
    D)Temperature decreases 10°C at every 165 height
    Answer: Atmospheric pressure reduces due to rise in temperature.
  • Q. The glacier of the Nubra Valley the longest one with a length of over 72 km is called the ________ glacier.
    A)Biafo
    B)Hispar
    C)Siachen
    D)Baltaro
    Answer: Siachen
  • Q. What is multiple cropping?
    A)Raising in succession only one type of crop in the same piece of land
    B)When seeds are sown on a piece of land and then seedings are transplanted in different fields
    C)Dividing a field in two or more parts and then sowing different crops in each part
    D)Raising two or more crops in succession in a year on the same land
    Answer: Dividing a field in two or more parts and then sowing different crops in each part
  • Q. “Reserved Forests” are forests
    A)Reserved for local use
    B)Reserved for hunting
    C)Reserved for commercial exploitation and prohibited for grazing
    D)Reserved for growing medicinal herbs
    Answer: Reserved for commercial exploitation and prohibited for grazing
  • Q. Nights are cooler in the deserts than in the plains because ________
    A)Sand absorbs heat more quickly than the earth
    B)Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth
    C)The sky remains clear most of the time
    D)None of the above reasons
    Answer: Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth
  • Q. What is the International Date Line?
    A)Region within 5º of the Equator
    B)An imaginary line connecting places of the same altitude
    C)It is 180º Meridian from Greenwich
    D)None of these
    Answer: It is 180º Meridian from Greenwich
  • Q. In the coastal lowland of Kerala two crops of rice is grown per year because of: 1. high temperature in winter 2. adequate rain throughout the year 3. adequate irrigation facility 4. presence of water retentive clayey loam soil
    A)1 and 2
    B)Only 1
    C)2 and 3
    D)1, 3, and 4
    Answer: 1 and 2
  • Q. How old is Earth, It is decided by which of the following processes?
    A)Gravity Method
    B)Geologic Time Scale
    C)Radiometric Dating
    D)Fossil Dating
    Answer: Radiometric Dating
  • Q. Zozila Pass connects ________
    A)Leh and Kargil
    B)Kashmir and Tibet
    C)Nepal and Tibet
    D)Leh and Srinagar
    Answer: Leh and Srinagar

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