Top 25 physical and world geography MCQ part:1



1) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING NATURAL SATELLITES OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM IS SMALLER THAN MOON ?

(a) Callisto

(b)  Titan

(c)  Lo

(d) Europa

Ans)(d) Europa

2) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING IS THE CORRECT SET OF THREE LARGEST RIVER BASINS (BY AREA), FROM LARGEST TO SMALLEST ?

(a) Amazon, Congo, Ganga

(b) Amazon, Congo, Mississippi

(c) Amazon, Mississippi, Congo

(d) Amazon, Mississippi, Ganga

Ans)(b) Amazon, Congo, Mississippi

3) WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS/ARE THE CITED REASON(S) FOR THE EARTH’S WOBBLING TOWARDS EAST ?

  1.   Gain of ice in Greenland

  2.   Gain of ice mass in Western Antarctica

  3.   Dry spells across Eurasia

Select the correct option from codes given below:

(a) 3 Only

(b) 1 and 2 Only

(c) 2 and 3 Only

(d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans)(a) 3 only 

4) WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CORRECTLY DEFINES INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE ?

(a) Roughly corresponds to 180th meridian, the regions to the east of which are counted as being one day earlier in their calendar dates than regions

(b) Roughly corresponds to 180th meridian, the region to the west of which are counted as being one day earlier in their calendar dates than regions to the east

(c) Roughly corresponds to 90th meridian which falls on the opposite side of the Greenwich meridian

(d) Roughly corresponds to 135th meridian which falls on the opposite side of the Greenwich meridian

Ans)(b) Roughly corresponds to 180th meridian, the region to the west of which are counted as being one day earlier in their calendar dates than regions to the east

5) WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ARCHIPELAGO COMPRISES THE ISLANDS OF CANADIAN CONTINENT ?

(a) Arctic Archipelago

(b) Malay Archipelago

(c) Archipelago Sea 

(d) Black Sea

Ans)(a) Arctic Archipelago

6) BAFFIN ISLAND IS LOCATED IN WHICH COUNTRY ?

(a) Bahamas

(b) United States of America

(c) Japan

(d) Canada

Ans)(d) Canada

7) WHO COINED THE TERM ‘BIG BANG’ ?

(a) Sir Fred Hoyle

(b) Georges Lemaitre

(c) George Gamow

(d) Hermann Bondi

Ans)(a) Sir Fred Hoyle

8) WHICH GEOLOGIST NAMED THE CRUST, MANTLE AND THE CORE AS SIAL, SIMA AND NIFE ?

(a) Alexander Humboldt

(b) F. Hoyle

(c) Eduard Suess

(d) James Jeans

Ans)(c) Eduard Suess

9) WHICH IS THE LARGEST EARTHQUAKE MEASURED ON THE SEISMOGRAPH ?

(a) The Good Friday Earthquake

(b) Shaanxi Earthquake

(c) Tangshan Earthquake

(d) Chilean Earthquake

Ans)(d) Chilean Earthquake

10) WHICH IS THE LARGEST RIVER IN THE WORLD IN TERMS OF DISCHARGE VOLUME OF WATER ?

(a) Amazon River

(b) Niger River

(c) Ganges River

(d) Mekong River

Ans)(a) Amazon River

11) WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS THE EARLIEST STAGE IN THE LIFE OF A STAR ?

(a) Neutron star

(b) Protostar

(c) Supergiant

(d) Supernova

Ans)(b) Protostar

12) WHICH PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PHENOMENA ‘GREAT DARK SPOT’ ?

(a) Neptune

(b) Jupiter

(c) Saturn

(d) Uranus

Ans)(a) Neptune

13) WHO PROPOSED THE PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS ?

(a) Chamberlin-Moulten

(b) Kant-Laplace

(c) Hubble-Hoyle

(d) Jeans-Jeffrey

Ans)(a) Chamberlin-Moulten

14) IN WHICH EPOCH DID THE HOMO SAPIENS EVOLVE ?

(a) Eocene

(b) Oligocene

(c) Miocene

(d) Pleistocene

Ans)(d) Pleistocene

15) WHAT IS THE GENTLE SLOPE RESEMBLING A PEDIMENT BUT FORMED BY DEPOSITION OF WIND CALLED ?

(a) Bajada

(b) Chinook

(c) Loo

(d) Lahars

Ans)(a) Bajada

16) WHAT ARE BARKHANS WITH GREATER HEIGHT CALLED ?

(a) Seifs

(b) Lahars

(c) Gaur

(d) Oghards

Ans)(d) Oghards

17) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING FACTORS IS INVOLVED IN THE FORMATION OF AN IMPACT CRATER LAKE  ?

(a) Volcano

(b) Earthquake

(c) Meteor

(d) Plate tectonics

Ans)(c) Meteor

18) THE DHANDS OF WESTERN RAJASTHAN ARE THE EXAMPLE OF WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING ?

(a) Ox-bow Lake

(b) Crater Lake

(c) Aeolian Lake

(d) None of the above

Ans)(c) Aeolian Lake

19) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IS NOT CORRECT MOGOTES ?

(a) It is a karst landform

(b) It is an isolated steep sided hill formed of limestone or marble or dolomite

(c) A group of mogotes is called a pediplain

(d) They have a rounded tower like form

Ans)(c) A group of mogotes is called a pediplain

20) MT. ELBRUS IS LOCATED IN WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING MOUNTAIN RANGES ?

(a) Andes

(b) Altai

(c) Caucasus

(d) Appalachians

Ans)(c) Caucasus

21) IN WHICH NATION “ARENAL VOLCANO” IS LOCATED ?

(a) Philippines

(b) Chile

(c) Argentina

(d) Costa Rica

Ans)(d) Costa Rica

22) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING REGIONS IS ASSOCIATED WITH COLD AND MOIST CONDITIONS ?

(a) Sahara Desert

(b) Siberia

(c) Southern Ocean

(d) Northern Canada

Ans)(c) Southern Ocean

23) WHAT TYPE OF CLIMATE IS PRESENT IN MOST OF THE PENINSULAR PLATEAU BARRING THE COROMANDEL COAST ?

(a) Tropical Savannah

(b) Semi-arid Steppe type

(c) Hot desert type

(d) Monsoon Type with dry winters

Ans)(a) Tropical Savannah

24) WHICH AMONG THE FOLLOWING BIOMES IS NORMALLY SITUATED BETWEEN A FOREST AND A DESERT ?

(a) Taiga

(b) Tundra

(c) Grassland

(d) Rainforest

Ans)(c) Grassland

25) WHICH WATERBODY FORMS THE COASTLINE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA ?

(a) Coral Sea

(b) Caribbean Sea

(c) Celebes Sea

(d) Solomon Sea

Ans)(b) Caribbean Sea



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