GK Geography MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 781 :
In which state the largest slum area in India situated:

  1. West Bengal  
  2. Haryana      
  3. Maharashtra  
  4. Tamil Nadu
  

Question 782 :
‘Hinterland’ as applied to:

  1. The areas commanding a central position                      
  2. The areas served by port                                
  3. The areas in the middle of the plateau                          
  4. None of the above
  

Question 783 :
The Earth's population has _____ since the turn of the century.

  1. stayed the same
  2. doubled
  3. trebled
  4. multiplied ten times
  

Question 784 :
Which approach is related on the phrase of ‘There is no real world’?

  1. Positivist approach          
  2. Humanistic approach              
  3. Structuralist approach      
  4. Postmodern approach
  

Question 785 :
In which year, the concept of The Multiple Nuclei Model was proposed?

  1. 1928        
  2. 1933    
  3. 1939    
  4. 1945
  

Question 786 :
In which zone China Town is found in Burgess Concentric Model?

  1. CBD      
  2. Commuters’ Zone      
  3. Zone in Transition          
  4. Residential Zone
  

Question 787 :
C. B. D. refers to:

  1. Central Banking District    
  2. Central Business District    
  3. Corporation Board District  
  4. None of these
  

Question 788 :
Apart from Tamil Nadu, lignite is found in: [IAS 2003]

  1. Gujarat
  2. U.P.
  3. West Bengal
  4. Orissa
  

Question 789 :
Lakshadweep is a group of how many islands? [Teachers' Exam 1994]

  1. 22
  2. 25
  3. 32
  4. 35
  

Question 790 :
The mountain range which stretches from Gujarat in west to Delhi in the north is the:

  1. Aravallis
  2. Vindhyas
  3. Satpuras
  4. Kaimur range
  

Question 791 :
All notified areas in a town or city notified as ‘slum’ by State, UT Administration or Local Government under any act including a ‘Slum Act' are considered as:

  1. Declared slums      
  2. Undeclared slums    
  3. Notified slums      
  4. Act slums
  

Question 792 :
The approximate distance between the Earth and the Moon is

  1. 380000 km
  2. 180000 km
  3. 280000 km
  4. 50000 km
  

Question 793 :
World’s smallest populated countries is:

  1.  Ceylon      
  2. Sumatra  
  3. Philippines      
  4. Vatican City
  

Question 794 :
Christaller’s K=7 represents:

  1. Marketing principle  
  2. Traffic principle    
  3. Administrative principle    
  4. None of these
  

Question 795 :
The total surface area that the city of Mumbai covers comes to

  1. 108 sq. km.      
  2. 402 sq. km.      
  3. 603 sq. km.      
  4. 809 sq. km
  

Question 796 :
The world’s most populous city is:

  1. Karachi      
  2. Moscow  
  3. New York    
  4. Tokyo
  

Question 797 :
In Aizawl city, generally slum people are live in the area of:

  1. Inner city      
  2. Northern part    
  3. Southern part    
  4. Peripheral area
  

Question 798 :
A comprehensive theory of which explain the size spacing and interrelationship of settlement is called:

  1. Sector Theory    
  2. Concentric Zone Theory      
  3. Location Theory      
  4. Central Place Theory
  

Question 799 :
Prognathiam rerers to

  1. slanting forehead
  2. protruding jaw
  3. slit eye
  4. None of these
  

Question 800 :
Which one is the modern approach to study Urban Geography?

  1. Site and situation      
  2. Positivism      
  3. Urban Morphology        
  4. None of these
  

Question 801 :
The concentric or zonal theory was propounded by:

  1. Murphy      
  2. Vance        
  3. Burgess      
  4. Ullman
  

Question 802 :
How many populations are there in Class IV towns classified by Census of India

  1.  5, 000 – 9, 999    
  2. 10, 000 – 19, 999        
  3. 20, 000 – 49, 999    
  4. 50, 000 – 99, 9999
  

Question 803 :
The population density of Mumbai is approximately

  1. 323 per sq. km      
  2. 20, 000 per sq. km.      
  3. 32, 000 per sq. km.      
  4. 44, 400 per sq. km.
  

Question 804 :
Structural Analysis in Urban Geography has been based primarily on the work of:

  1. Marx    
  2. Soja        
  3. Burgess      
  4. Gidden
  

Question 805 :
The route is connecting Western Europe, Africa and Australia by way of the Cape of Good Hope.

  1. Panama route
  2. Cape route
  3. North Pacific route
  4. South Atlantic route
  

Question 806 :
Which country is known as the Emerald Isle?

  1. Great Britain
  2. Ireland
  3. Japan
  4. New Zealand
  

Question 807 :
Which city has the highest vehicle density in India:

  1. Delhi city      
  2. Mumbai City  
  3. Bangaluru        
  4. Kolkata
  

Question 808 :
The percentage of slums population from the total population in Greater Mumbai is around:

  1. 30%      
  2. 40%          
  3. 50%          
  4. 0.6
  

Question 809 :
Carbonaceous rocks which produce coal and of belong to the category of rocks called

  1. metamorphic
  2. igneous
  3. sedimentary
  4. inorganic
  

Question 810 :
Countries favourably influenced by Westerlies are:

  1. Western Europe, British Columbia and East of U.S.A.
  2. South-West Africa and South Chile
  3. New Zealand
  4. All of these