GK Geography MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 1171 :
Moho discontinuity refers to a discontinuity between the _____ and _____ layers of the earth.

  1. Sial and Sima
  2. Sima and Mantle
  3. Sial and Mantle
  4. Mantle and Core
  

Question 1172 :
Which of the following is not one of the by-products of mineral oil?

  1. Naphtha
  2. Sulphur
  3. Aniline dyes
  4. Paraffin wax
  

Question 1173 :
Imaginary lines connecting places in oceans having equal salinity are called

  1. Isotherms
  2. Isobars
  3. Isohalines
  4. Isohyets
  

Question 1174 :
Cloudy nights are warmer compared to clear cloudless nights, because clouds

  1. Prevent cold waves from the sky from descending on earth
  2. Reflect back the heat given off by earth
  3. Produce heat and radiate it towards earth
  4. Absorb heat from the atmosphere and send it towards earth
  

Question 1175 :
Suez Canal route handles more traffic than the Panama Canal route mainly because

  1. Suez Canal has no locks
  2. Suez Canal links developing nations of Asia with the developed nations of Europe and North America
  3. Suez Canal is older
  4. Panama Canal has limited capacity
  

Question 1176 :
To which group do belong?

  1. Negritoes
  2. Proto-Australoids
  3. Mongoloids
  4. Western Brachycephals
  

Question 1177 :
Which of the following is the busiest of ocean trade routes?

  1. Suez Canal
  2. Cape of Good Hope
  3. North Atlantic
  4. Panama Canal
  

Question 1178 :
In spite of the very high temperature at the Earth's centre, the inner core is not in a molten state because the

  1. core has a very high melting point
  2. core is full of gases
  3. great pressure at the centre raises the melting point of the rocks
  4. core is impervious to heat
  

Question 1179 :
The most common igneous rock is

  1. basalt
  2. granite
  3. limestone
  4. cobalt
  

Question 1180 :
Some riven and canals have locks across them in order to

  1. collect taxes
  2. ensure safety
  3. control the level of water
  4. load or unload freight
  

Question 1181 :
Coal, which is almost pure carbons which hardly has any Impurities, which is smokeless and which finds use in the steel industry is called

  1. coking coal
  2. anthracite
  3. bituminous coal
  4. lignite
  

Question 1182 :
Fish farming is practised in

  1. Africa
  2. South Africa
  3. China
  4. Peru and Brazil
  

Question 1183 :
The river Mahaweli flows through

  1. India
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Sri Lanka
  4. Pakistan
  

Question 1184 :
Which one of the following is present in the largest amount in terms of per cent by man In the earth's crust?

  1. Silicon
  2. Oxygen
  3. Carbon
  4. Calcium
  

Question 1185 :
Which of the following is a renewable source of energy?

  1. atomic power
  2. hydro electric power
  3. thermal power
  4. natural gas
  

Question 1186 :
Volcanic eruption does not occur in the

  1. Black Sea
  2. Caspian Sea
  3. Baltic Sea
  4. Caribbean Sea
  

Question 1187 :
A narrow strip of land connecting two large land masses is known as

  1. Strait
  2. Isthmus
  3. Headland
  4. Bay
  

Question 1188 :
Sunspots generally wax and wane over a/an

  1. 11-year cycle
  2. 25-year cycle
  3. 3-year cycle
  4. 15-year cycle
  

Question 1189 :
What does the machine tool industry produce?

  1. It produces tools for the repair of machines
  2. It produces machines with a high component of precision tools
  3. It produces machines which can be used by other industries for the production of their finished goods
  4. None of these
  

Question 1190 :
The country worst affected by cyclones and accompanying floods is ______.

  1. Indonesia
  2. Sri Lanka
  3. Pakistan
  4. Bangladesh
  

Question 1191 :
Madagascar is the only home of many species of

  1. giraffe
  2. hippopotamus
  3. lemur
  4. orangutan
  

Question 1192 :
In the Himalayas the melting or the snow is more on the

  1. southern slopes
  2. northern slopes
  3. eastern slopes
  4. western slopes
  

Question 1193 :
Hydro-electric power provides more than 90% of the total power consumed in

  1. Norway
  2. Sweden
  3. India
  4. UK
  

Question 1194 :
Iron ore mining in the former Soviet Union are in

  1. Kiruna
  2. Mesabi and Gegobic
  3. Krivoi Rog and Kerch basin
  4. Lorraine field
  

Question 1195 :
Where is the Port City of Cork located?

  1. Italy
  2. France
  3. Greece
  4. Ireland
  

Question 1196 :
The relative humidity or the atmospheric air

  1. increases with increase in temperature
  2. decreases with increase in temperature
  3. decreases with decrease in temperature
  4. is independent of temperature
  

Question 1197 :
The Hawaiian Islands specialise in the cultivation of

  1. cotton
  2. rice
  3. sugarcane
  4. tobacco
  

Question 1198 :
Suez Canal has reduced the distance between London and Mumbai by about

  1. 1000 km
  2. 5000 km
  3. 6000 km
  4. 7000 km
  

Question 1199 :
The forces responsible for the movements of the earth's crust, eruption of volcanoes and earthquakes are

  1. terrestrial forces
  2. tectonic forces
  3. gravitational forces
  4. mountain building movements
  

Question 1200 :
The mode or lire or people living in Monsoon regions is

  1. commercial grainfarming
  2. cattle rearing
  3. intensive subsistence cultivation
  4. plantation agriculture