(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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