Basic Science - Geography (Fundamental of World Geography) MCQ's




All Questions are from Year - 2018 or older

Question 451 :
Grand Bank, Sable Bank, Middle Bank and Jeffery Bank are the major fishing grounds of

  1. North West Atlantic
  2. North East Pacific
  3. North East Atlantic
  4. North West Pacific
  

Question 452 :
The biggest freshwater lake is

  1. Titicaca
  2. Baikal
  3. Superior
  4. Victoria
  

Question 453 :
Shifting agriculture is most commonly practised in

  1. forests
  2. deserts
  3. plain areas
  4. grass lands
  

Question 454 :
The first oil well in the world was drilled at

  1. Assam
  2. Japan
  3. Pensylvania
  4. Former USSR
  

Question 455 :
_____ grasses are known as elephant grasses.

  1. Prairie
  2. Steppe
  3. Savannah
  4. Llanos
  

Question 456 :
The correct sequence of different layers of the atmosphere from the surface of the Earth upwards is:

  1. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere
  2. Stratosphere, Troposphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere
  3. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Ionosphere
  4. Stratosphere, Troposphere, Mesosphere, Ionosphere
  

Question 457 :
The only land-locked country in South-East Asia is

  1. Laos
  2. Thailand
  3. Malaysia
  4. Kampuchea
  

Question 458 :
A landform composed of sediments brought by a river and found where it enters a main valley or emerges from a mountain on to a plain is called a/an

  1. meander
  2. alluvial fan
  3. oxbow lake
  4. levee
  

Question 459 :
Which of the following is not one of the three processes involved in the transfer of water between the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth?

  1. Insolation
  2. Evaporation
  3. Condensation
  4. Precipitation
  

Question 460 :
Wind erosion is dominant in

  1. Tropical regions
  2. Temperate regions
  3. Deserts
  4. Mediterranean regions
  

Question 461 :
International date line is a/an

  1. straight line
  2. curved line
  3. zigzag line
  4. elliptical line
  

Question 462 :
Valparaiso is an important port of

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

Question 463 :
Snow is formed by the process of

  1. condensation
  2. evaporation
  3. sublimation
  4. evaporation and condensation
  

Question 464 :
Along the coasts salinity is

  1. lowered
  2. increased
  3. stable
  4. unaffected
  

Question 465 :
Which country is known as the Cockpit of Europe?

  1. France
  2. Denmark
  3. Holland
  4. Belgium
  

Question 466 :
The length of its day and the tilt of its axis are almost identical to those of the earth. This is true of

  1. Uranus
  2. Neptune
  3. Saturn
  4. Mars
  

Question 467 :
World Environmental day is celebrated on ______ every year.

  1. May 1
  2. June 5
  3. October 24
  4. December 25
  

Question 468 :
On which or the following African riven is the Kariba Dam one of the world's largest hydel power systems located?

  1. The Nile
  2. The Niger
  3. The Congo
  4. The Zambezi
  

Question 469 :
The amount of dew is measured by

  1. Pluviometer
  2. Drosometer
  3. Anemometer
  4. Hygrometer
  

Question 470 :
The majority or the coal reserves found in India are of

  1. Tertiary formation
  2. Gondwana formation
  3. Quaternary formation
  4. Jurassic formation
  

Question 471 :
Podsol is a type of soil which is characteristic of a region under the cover of ____forest.

  1. deciduous
  2. coniferous
  3. evergreen
  4. alpine
  

Question 472 :
The Great Circle routes join

  1. London to Los Angeles and Amsterdam to Tokyo
  2. Vancouver to Quebec and Perth to Melbourne
  3. Perth to Tokyo and London to Quebec
  4. Los Angeles to Perth and Tokyo to Bombay
  

Question 473 :
The continents of the world are mainly composed of

  1. core
  2. mantal
  3. sial
  4. sima
  

Question 474 :
Which of the following are known as coastlines of submergence?

  1. Ria coasts
  2. Uplifted lowland
  3. Emergent upland
  4. Concordant coasts
  

Question 475 :
Mountain of accumulation is

  1. Volcanic mountains
  2. Block mountains
  3. Residual mountains
  4. Fold mountains
  

Question 476 :
The hair or Nordic races is generally

  1. blond
  2. woolly
  3. straight
  4. All of these
  

Question 477 :
Pedology is a science of the study of

  1. rocks
  2. soils
  3. earthquakes
  4. volcanoes
  

Question 478 :
What is a graticule?

  1. The network of intersecting parallels and meridians on a map
  2. The network of intersections of Equator and Prime Meridian
  3. The intersection of roads
  4. The intersection of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
  

Question 479 :
_______and _______ are called the 'Low countries' of Europe.

  1. Spain and Portugal
  2. Holland and Belgium
  3. England and Ireland
  4. Denmark and Germany
  

Question 480 :
Selvas is a word denoting

  1. long narrow depression formed in the land sunk between two parallel faults
  2. a southerly region of the oceans located between 45° S and 63° S
  3. the equatorial rain forest of the Amazon basin
  4. the grasslands of North America
  
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