GK Geography MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1081 :
The Planets that have no natural satellites are____.

  1. Mercury and Venus
  2. Earth and Mars
  3. Jupiter and Saturn
  4. Uranus and Neptune
  

Question 1082 :
Blight' the disease of potato can be cured by

  1. Dionine
  2. Bordeaux mixture
  3. Diathane
  4. DDT
  

Question 1083 :
Rice crop needs

  1. low temperature and heavy rainfall
  2. high temperature and low rainfall
  3. annual rainfall of about 150 cm, high temperature and humidity
  4. low temperature and low rainfall
  

Question 1084 :
The world's major fishing grounds are located along the eastern shores of continents between 40º N and 50º N latitudes where cool and warm currents converge. An example or such area is

  1. The Grand Banks off Newfoundland
  2. The Dogger Bank in the North Sea
  3. The coastal region of Norway
  4. Fisheries off the coast of Peru
  

Question 1085 :
Coastline formed by a drowned river mouth is a

  1. Fjord
  2. Dalmatian
  3. Ria
  4. Haff
  

Question 1086 :
Three European cities viz Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade lie on the river

  1. Volga
  2. Rhone
  3. Rhine
  4. Danube
  

Question 1087 :
The only cereal crop which originated in America is

  1. rye
  2. barley
  3. oats
  4. corn
  

Question 1088 :
The Shatt-al-Arab waterway is associated with the

  1. Euphrates and Tigris
  2. White Nile and Blue Nile
  3. Jordan and Firat
  4. Oxus and Kabul
  

Question 1089 :
The Planet amongst the following (other than Saturn), that shows a faint ring is ______.

  1. Earth
  2. Jupiter
  3. Mars
  4. Pluto
  

Question 1090 :
The capital of the Ontario province of Canada situated on the Lake Ontario is the port city of

  1. Montreal
  2. Uruguay
  3. Chile
  4. Paraguay
  

Question 1091 :
Fjords abound the coast of

  1. Sweden
  2. France
  3. Norway
  4. Germany
  

Question 1092 :
Which or the following is not a proof of Earth being an oblate spheroid?

  1. When a ship goes out to sea, first the hull disappears then the upper parts
  2. The shadow of the Earth on the Sun during solar eclipse is always curved
  3. Photographs of the Earth taken by artificial satellites have confirmed the fact
  4. it has been found that polar circumference is lesser than equatorial circumference
  

Question 1093 :
The general direction or movement or a tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere is

  1. eastward then poleward
  2. eastward then towards the equator
  3. westward then poleward
  4. westward then towards the equator
  

Question 1094 :
Panama Canal has locks alone its path in order to

  1. regulate traffic
  2. permit check by customs staff
  3. control the level of water
  4. collect canal dues
  

Question 1095 :
Limestone changes into _____ due to metamorphism.

  1. marble
  2. quartzite
  3. gneiss
  4. schists
  

Question 1096 :
The smallest amongst the following islands is ______.

  1. Borneo
  2. Greenland
  3. Sumatra
  4. New Guinea
  

Question 1097 :
The most salty basin in the world is the

  1. Caspian Sea
  2. Dead Sea
  3. Red Sea
  4. Arabian Sea
  

Question 1098 :
Grasslands in Australia are known as the

  1. Downs
  2. Steppes
  3. Veldt
  4. Prairies
  

Question 1099 :
The major factors responsible for changes in the sizes of population are

  1. Births
  2. Deaths
  3. Migrations
  4. All the above
  

Question 1100 :
The countries with the lowest and worst economic conditions in the world referred to as the 'Pole of hunger' are

  1. European Countries
  2. Middle East Countries
  3. Mid-West Countries
  4. South East Asian Countries
  

Question 1101 :
Pilgrim Fathers are the earliest migrants to

  1. Australia
  2. South America
  3. North America
  4. Central America
  

Question 1102 :
The average salinity of the sea water is ____ parts per thousand.

  1. 25
  2. 35
  3. 50
  4. 60
  

Question 1103 :
The planet that is nearly comparable to Earth as regards its size and mass is

  1. Pluto
  2. Mars
  3. Venus
  4. Mercury
  

Question 1104 :
The length of the Suez Canal is approximately

  1. 80 km
  2. 110 km
  3. 140 km
  4. 170 km
  

Question 1105 :
of Indian tea production comes from Assam, West Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

  1. 50%
  2. 75%
  3. 98%
  4. 30%
  

Question 1106 :
Country peopled almost by migration is

  1. The USA
  2. Brazil
  3. Australia
  4. Hawaii
  

Question 1107 :
Silk production in the world has declined because of

  1. lack of demand
  2. lack of remunerative prices
  3. growing competition from man-made fibres
  4. dearth of skilled labour
  

Question 1108 :
The shortest air route from Moscow to San Francisco is

  1. Over the Atlantic Ocean
  2. Over the Pacific via Siberia
  3. Over the North Pole
  4. Through the latitude which passes through them
  

Question 1109 :
An estuary is a place where

  1. deposits of mud can be seen at a triangular piece of land
  2. silt is deposited near the mouth of a river
  3. fresh water collects at the mouth of a river
  4. fresh and salt water mix near the mouth of a river
  

Question 1110 :
What is the cloud burst? It is

  1. the states of sky with respect to clouds
  2. the disintergration of a huge cloud mass
  3. an abnormal heavy downpour of rain
  4. breaking up of clouds by high mountain ranges