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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What was the island of Sri Lanka formerly known ? |
| A. | None of the above |
| B. | Tasmania |
| C. | Ceylon |
| D. | Madagascar |
| Answer» D. Madagascar | |
| 2. |
What does the major geological events of the Palaeozoic era include? |
| A. | None of the above |
| B. | Appalachians and Central European mountains come up |
| C. | both (a) and (b) |
| D. | Caledonian mountain rise, life comes ashore |
| Answer» D. Caledonian mountain rise, life comes ashore | |
| 3. |
The HBJ Upgradation project, upgraded the capacity of HBJ pipeline from 18.2 MM SC MD to _________________ |
| A. | 20 MM SC MD |
| B. | 33.4 MM SC MD |
| C. | 29.6 MM SC MD |
| D. | 22.3 MM SC MD |
| Answer» C. 29.6 MM SC MD | |
| 4. |
What is the greatest and the most productive industrial region in Asia? |
| A. | Southern Honshu |
| B. | Singapore |
| C. | Shanghai region |
| D. | Mumbai |
| Answer» C. Shanghai region | |
| 5. |
The American Dust Bowl is located along the _________________ |
| A. | Great plains |
| B. | Mississippi Valley |
| C. | None of these |
| D. | Pacific coast |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
What doesSiroccomean? |
| A. | an island |
| B. | a local wind |
| C. | a volcano |
| D. | an ocean current |
| Answer» C. a volcano | |
| 7. |
Where is counter equatorial current present ? |
| A. | Both of these |
| B. | Pacific ocean |
| C. | Atlantic ocean |
| D. | None Of These |
| Answer» B. Pacific ocean | |
| 8. |
What is the total area of North America ? |
| A. | 26,606,001 sq. km |
| B. | 27,701,201 sq. km |
| C. | 19,909,289 sq. km |
| D. | 24,256,000 sq.km |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
A well marked and wide continental shelf is characteristics of _________________ |
| A. | North Altantic ocean |
| B. | Indian ocean |
| C. | None Of These |
| D. | Northern Pacific ocean |
| Answer» B. Indian ocean | |
| 10. |
The groundwater can become confined between two impermeable layers. This type of enclosed water is called _________________ |
| A. | confined groundwater |
| B. | artesian well |
| C. | unconfined groundwater |
| D. | artesian |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Which of the following planet takes maximum time for one revolution around the Sun? |
| A. | Mars |
| B. | Jupiter |
| C. | Venus |
| D. | Earth |
| Answer» C. Venus | |
| 12. |
Anticlines are associated with _____________ |
| A. | Residual hills |
| B. | None Of These |
| C. | Fold mountains |
| D. | Volcanic mountains |
| Answer» D. Volcanic mountains | |
| 13. |
What is canyon a form of ? |
| A. | Gorge |
| B. | Badland |
| C. | Plucking |
| D. | Pediment |
| Answer» B. Badland | |
| 14. |
What causes the transport of warm air toward the poles and cold air toward the equator ? |
| A. | Mongolia and Tibet |
| B. | Sinkiang and Turkistan |
| C. | All of the above |
| D. | Kirghiz steppe |
| Answer» D. Kirghiz steppe | |
| 15. |
Asia is the largest continent of the earth, it has the area ? |
| A. | 39,121,000 sq. km |
| B. | 44,579,000 sq. km |
| C. | 44,111,000 sq. km |
| D. | 44,597,000 sq. km |
| Answer» C. 44,111,000 sq. km | |
| 16. |
What is subway? |
| A. | Underground passage |
| B. | Path above the ground level |
| C. | Path below the sea level |
| D. | Path ends at closed street |
| Answer» B. Path above the ground level | |
| 17. |
The phosphate are a group of minerals of one or more metallic elements chemically associated with the phosphate compound _________________ |
| A. | oxides |
| B. | silicates |
| C. | phosphates |
| D. | carbonates |
| Answer» C. phosphates | |
| 18. |
Continental shelf is the _________________ |
| A. | Water zone off the coast |
| B. | None Of These |
| C. | Shallow water zone between the continental slope and deep ocean floor |
| D. | Deep water zone in the mid ocean |
| Answer» B. None Of These | |
| 19. |
Where does the temperature increases rapidly after? |
| A. | troposphere |
| B. | exosphere |
| C. | stratosphere |
| D. | ionosphere |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
Where is Antarctica situated ? |
| A. | Western Hemisphere |
| B. | Eastern Hemisphere |
| C. | North Pole |
| D. | South Pole |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
The sulphites are a mineral group that contain one or more metallic elements in combination with the sulphate compound _________________ |
| A. | SO |
| B. | SO3 |
| C. | SO2 |
| D. | SO4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
What is the periodic rise and fall of the sea level on the earth that gives rise to tides ? |
| A. | the position of the moon with reference to the earth and the gravitational pull exerted mainly by the moon and partly by the sun |
| B. | None of the above |
| C. | ultraviolet rays from the sun |
| D. | infrared rays from the sun |
| Answer» B. None of the above | |
| 23. |
Which is the second largest continent of the world by area ? |
| A. | North America |
| B. | Australia |
| C. | Asia |
| D. | Africa |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
What is meant by Equinox? |
| A. | Day and night are equal |
| B. | The longest night |
| C. | the largest day |
| D. | The shortest day |
| Answer» B. The longest night | |
| 25. |
Suez canal is between ? |
| A. | Atlantic Ocean and Red Sea |
| B. | Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea |
| C. | North Sea and Japan Sea |
| D. | Indian Ocean and North Sea |
| Answer» C. North Sea and Japan Sea | |
| 26. |
Which of the following rivers is the largest? |
| A. | Nile |
| B. | Congo |
| C. | Volga |
| D. | Amazon |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
The Palaeozoic era starts at _________________ million years ago and ends at _________________ million years ago. |
| A. | 470, 150 |
| B. | 500, 100 |
| C. | 470, 225 |
| D. | 570, 225 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
What is the process that cause physical weathering or mechanical rupture called ? |
| A. | crystallization, carbonation, thermal insolation |
| B. | abrasion, crystallization, pressure release |
| C. | None of the above |
| D. | abrasion, oxidation, hydrolysis |
| Answer» C. None of the above | |
| 29. |
The monsoon climatic regions are _________________ |
| A. | Europe and South America |
| B. | Asia, Africa and Antarctica |
| C. | South-east Asia including Australia, Africa, America |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 30. |
What is the name of the strait where 'Adams bridge' is situated? |
| A. | Bering Strait |
| B. | Palk Strait |
| C. | Taiwan Strait |
| D. | Cook Strait |
| Answer» C. Taiwan Strait | |
| 31. |
After rains in the equatorial region are the result of influences ? |
| A. | Sea breeze |
| B. | Land breeze |
| C. | Convectional |
| D. | Monsoon |
| Answer» D. Monsoon | |
| 32. |
Which is the third largest continent of the world ? |
| A. | Australia |
| B. | North America |
| C. | Europe |
| D. | South America |
| Answer» C. Europe | |
| 33. |
The group of minerals chemically containing hydrocarbons is _____________ |
| A. | organic group |
| B. | hydride group |
| C. | silicate group |
| D. | oxide group |
| Answer» B. hydride group | |
| 34. |
What are the tertiary winds on the north of the Alps (Europe) called ? |
| A. | the loo |
| B. | the Chinook |
| C. | the foehn |
| D. | the sirocco |
| Answer» D. the sirocco | |
| 35. |
What does a continually rising air pressure indicate? |
| A. | Advent of a cyclone |
| B. | Fine and settled weather |
| C. | Advent of unsettled and cloudy weather |
| D. | Fine and unsettled weather |
| Answer» C. Advent of unsettled and cloudy weather | |
| 36. |
Which rives associates with The waterfall 'Victoria' ? |
| A. | Zambenzi |
| B. | St Lawrence |
| C. | Missouri |
| D. | Amazon |
| Answer» B. St Lawrence | |
| 37. |
The soil found in areas of heavy rainfall and high humidity, where there is good growth of vegetation is _________________ |
| A. | alluvial soil |
| B. | peat and marshy soil |
| C. | saline and alkaline soil |
| D. | black soil |
| Answer» C. saline and alkaline soil | |
| 38. |
Limestone is metamorphosed into _________________ |
| A. | Marble |
| B. | Slate |
| C. | Quartz |
| D. | None Of These |
| Answer» B. Slate | |
| 39. |
Which one of the following languages is spoken highest in the world? |
| A. | Arabic |
| B. | Hindi |
| C. | Spanish |
| D. | Portuguese |
| Answer» D. Portuguese | |
| 40. |
What does approaching cyclone leads ? |
| A. | Both |
| B. | Drop in pressure |
| C. | None Of These |
| D. | Rise in temperature |
| Answer» B. Drop in pressure | |
| 41. |
What are the major crops found in Sudan ? |
| A. | rice, barley, bananas, cocoa |
| B. | maize, cotton, bananas, groundnut |
| C. | wool, wine, jute |
| D. | bajra, oats, tobacco |
| Answer» C. wool, wine, jute | |
| 42. |
What are the planets that are called superior planets ? |
| A. | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter |
| B. | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto |
| C. | Mercury, Pluto, Venus, Neptune and Earth |
| D. | Earth, Uranus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter |
| Answer» C. Mercury, Pluto, Venus, Neptune and Earth | |
| 43. |
What does Kiel Canal connect? |
| A. | Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea |
| B. | Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean |
| C. | Baltic Sea and North Sea |
| D. | Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean |
| Answer» D. Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean | |
| 44. |
Which continents form a mirror image of each other? |
| A. | Asia and Africa |
| B. | Africa and South America |
| C. | Europe and Asia |
| D. | North America and South America |
| Answer» C. Europe and Asia | |
| 45. |
What does The Suez canal connect ? |
| A. | Baltic sea and the Caspian sea |
| B. | Mediterranean sea and the Red sea |
| C. | Red sea and the Caspian sea |
| D. | Mediterranean sea and the North sea |
| Answer» C. Red sea and the Caspian sea | |
| 46. |
The major events of Pre-Cambrian era include _________________ |
| A. | formation of crust, birth of oldest known rock, origin of life |
| B. | formation of present day atmosphere |
| C. | All of the above. |
| D. | formation of crust, continents and oceans |
| Answer» D. formation of crust, continents and oceans | |
| 47. |
The highest and lowest values of a weather element observed over the entire period of record are _________________ |
| A. | absolute extremes |
| B. | average extremes |
| C. | relative extremes |
| D. | extremes |
| Answer» B. average extremes | |
| 48. |
What is epicentre of an earthquake ? |
| A. | approximate centre of a group of related earthquakes |
| B. | point within the Earth where the movement along the fault occurs |
| C. | point on the surface directly above where the rupture along the fault zone occurs |
| D. | point where the seismograph is located |
| Answer» B. point within the Earth where the movement along the fault occurs | |
| 49. |
Where does The Aura Borealis occurs ? |
| A. | Ozonosphere |
| B. | Stratasphere |
| C. | Exosphere |
| D. | Ionsphere |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
An estuary at the mouth of river as a result of _________________ |
| A. | None Of These |
| B. | River erosion |
| C. | Tidal action |
| D. | Subsidence |
| Answer» D. Subsidence | |