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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. |
Where is Takla Makan Desert located ? |
| A. | Chile |
| B. | China |
| C. | Magnolia |
| D. | Iran |
| Answer» C. Magnolia | |
| 2. |
Dendritic pattern of drainage is _____________ |
| A. | Radial |
| B. | Lake the tree with branches |
| C. | Rectangular in shape |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Rectangular in shape | |
| 3. |
Why is the ocean water saline? |
| A. | both (a) and (b) |
| B. | volume of fresh water from rainfall |
| C. | salts are already present in sea water |
| D. | evaporation of its surface |
| Answer» B. volume of fresh water from rainfall | |
| 4. |
Which is the lowest point of Europe ? |
| A. | Death Valley |
| B. | Peninsul Valdes |
| C. | Caspian Lake |
| D. | Eyre Lake |
| Answer» D. Eyre Lake | |
| 5. |
What does Johar strait separate ? |
| A. | Florida and Sicily |
| B. | Singapore and Malaysia |
| C. | Italy and Japan |
| D. | France and Germany |
| Answer» C. Italy and Japan | |
| 6. |
Where is Diamantine Trench situated? |
| A. | Indian Ocean |
| B. | Pacific Ocean |
| C. | Arctic Ocean |
| D. | Atlantic Ocean |
| Answer» B. Pacific Ocean | |
| 7. |
The typical soil of tropical region, formed by the weathering of laterite rock, which promotes leaching of the soil is _________________ |
| A. | red and yellow soil |
| B. | laterite soils |
| C. | peat and marshy soil |
| D. | black soil |
| Answer» C. peat and marshy soil | |
| 8. |
What is the portion of the ocean floor closest to the land called ? |
| A. | None Of These |
| B. | Continental Shelf |
| C. | Ocean deep |
| D. | Continental slope |
| Answer» C. Ocean deep | |
| 9. |
Deflation/corrosion and accumulation are processes in work of ________________ |
| A. | Wind |
| B. | Glacier |
| C. | None Of These |
| D. | River |
| Answer» B. Glacier | |
| 10. |
On Which island is Mount Merapi located ? |
| A. | Borneo |
| B. | Celebes |
| C. | Java |
| D. | Sumatra |
| Answer» D. Sumatra | |
| 11. |
What are the major crude oil markets ? |
| A. | both (a) and (b) |
| B. | None of the above |
| C. | Middle East regions |
| D. | far east regions |
| Answer» B. None of the above | |
| 12. |
What is the lowest part of the earth ? |
| A. | Death Valley |
| B. | Dead Sea |
| C. | Eyre lake |
| D. | Mariana Trench |
| Answer» C. Eyre lake | |
| 13. |
What is area of the Mississippi delta in sq. km ? |
| A. | None Of These |
| B. | 96,000 |
| C. | 35,000 KM |
| D. | 70,000 km |
| Answer» D. 70,000 km | |
| 14. |
Which water has the highest salinity? |
| A. | Great Salt Lake |
| B. | Lake Van |
| C. | Atoll |
| D. | Dead Sea |
| Answer» C. Atoll | |
| 15. |
Which is the largest fish exporting region in the world ? |
| A. | the north-east atlantic region |
| B. | the north-east pacific region |
| C. | the south-east asian region |
| D. | the north-west pacific region |
| Answer» B. the north-east pacific region | |
| 16. |
Where is the main area of production of iceberg found ? |
| A. | The North Coast of Siberia |
| B. | the East Coast of Japan |
| C. | the West Coast of Africa |
| D. | the West Coast of Greenland |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
When is the spring season in the north temperate zone ? |
| A. | the sun returns to equator |
| B. | the sun is at the Tropic of Cancer |
| C. | the sun is directly overhead the Tropic of Cancer |
| D. | the sun is directly overhead the equator |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Which of the following features is the product of vulcanicity? |
| A. | Geosynclines |
| B. | Caldera |
| C. | Escarpment |
| D. | Fold Mountain |
| Answer» C. Escarpment | |
| 19. |
Out of the total area of the world Australia contains ? |
| A. | 6.10% |
| B. | 5.90% |
| C. | 4.90% |
| D. | 5.20% |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
What is Mistral ? |
| A. | All of the above |
| B. | swift, dry, cold northerly wind that blows down from the western Alps and the plateau of SouthernFrance and out over the Mediterranean |
| C. | wind that blows for 100 days a year and may cause extensive frost damage to plants |
| D. | very cold wind, which blows down from the plateau of central France |
| Answer» B. swift, dry, cold northerly wind that blows down from the western Alps and the plateau of SouthernFrance and out over the Mediterranean | |
| 21. |
The knowledge about the topography of the ocean basins has been derived from _________________ |
| A. | side-scan sonar |
| B. | All of the above |
| C. | echo sounder |
| D. | seismic surveying |
| Answer» C. echo sounder | |
| 22. |
Which one of the following causes mist? |
| A. | Sublimation |
| B. | Condensation |
| C. | Saturation |
| D. | Evaporation |
| Answer» C. Saturation | |
| 23. |
The magnetic field generated due to magnetic storm is directed in the _____________ direction to the earth's main field. |
| A. | southward |
| B. | northward |
| C. | opposite |
| D. | same |
| Answer» D. same | |
| 24. |
Which layer reflects Radio waves back to Earth ? |
| A. | Ionosphere |
| B. | Exosphere |
| C. | Stratosphere |
| D. | Troposphere |
| Answer» B. Exosphere | |
| 25. |
The mean basin area of successive ordered streams formed a linear relationship when graphed. This statement is given by ______________ |
| A. | morph metric analysis |
| B. | law of drainage composition |
| C. | law of basin areas |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 26. |
What is the ratio of land to ocean in the southern hemisphere ? |
| A. | 1 to 1.5 |
| B. | 1 to 1 |
| C. | 1 to 10 |
| D. | 1 to 4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
What is the main vegetation of the steppe type climatic regions ? |
| A. | large grasslands |
| B. | coniferous forests |
| C. | evergreen forests |
| D. | evergreen deciduous forests |
| Answer» B. coniferous forests | |
| 28. |
What are Granite and Basalt examples of ? |
| A. | Calcareous rocks |
| B. | Igneous rocks |
| C. | Sedimentary rocks |
| D. | Metamorphic |
| Answer» C. Sedimentary rocks | |
| 29. |
The south temperature zone is a region lying between _________________ |
| A. | the Antarctic circle and the South pole |
| B. | the Tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn |
| C. | the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle |
| D. | the Tropic of Capricorn and the equator |
| Answer» D. the Tropic of Capricorn and the equator | |
| 30. |
Why clouds do not precipitate in deserts? |
| A. | Low pressure |
| B. | High temperature |
| C. | High wind velocity |
| D. | Low humidity |
| Answer» C. High wind velocity | |
| 31. |
What is the lowest point of South America ? |
| A. | Dead Sea |
| B. | Valdes Peninsula |
| C. | Eyre Lake |
| D. | Assal Lake |
| Answer» C. Eyre Lake | |
| 32. |
The hydrological cycle is a conceptual model that describes _________________ |
| A. | the movement of water between biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere |
| B. | None of the above |
| C. | the storage of water between biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere |
| D. | both (a) and (b) |
| Answer» E. | |
| 33. |
What is the study of day-to-day variations in weather called ? |
| A. | meteorology |
| B. | cyclogenesis |
| C. | climatology |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. cyclogenesis | |
| 34. |
Which is the most severe storm ? |
| A. | Typhoon |
| B. | Hurricane |
| C. | Tornado |
| D. | None Of These |
| Answer» D. None Of These | |
| 35. |
What are Cyclones ? |
| A. | Low pressure areas |
| B. | High pressure areas |
| C. | Both |
| D. | None Of These |
| Answer» B. High pressure areas | |
| 36. |
The important mountains of Europe include _________________ |
| A. | Andes, Alps, Pyrenees |
| B. | Alps, Carpathians, Pyrenees, Apennines |
| C. | None of the above |
| D. | Alps, Himalayas, Rock mountains |
| Answer» C. None of the above | |
| 37. |
What is it when high and low tides that occur at the time of the new moon or the full moon when the Sun, the Moon and the Earth are approximately aligned called? |
| A. | Fall |
| B. | Neap |
| C. | Spring |
| D. | Diurnal |
| Answer» D. Diurnal | |
| 38. |
What is the longest river in the Common wealth of independent states ? |
| A. | Ob river |
| B. | Volga river |
| C. | Irtysh river |
| D. | Yenisei river |
| Answer» C. Irtysh river | |
| 39. |
What are the minerals of sulphide group ? |
| A. | All of the above |
| B. | Cinnabar |
| C. | Pyrite |
| D. | Galena |
| Answer» B. Cinnabar | |
| 40. |
Stalactite and stalagmite are associated with _____________ |
| A. | Limestone region |
| B. | Arid region |
| C. | None of above |
| D. | Tropical region |
| Answer» B. Arid region | |
| 41. |
What is the highest point of South America ? |
| A. | Mt. McKinley |
| B. | Mt. Aconcagua |
| C. | Elbrus |
| D. | Kosciusko |
| Answer» C. Elbrus | |
| 42. |
The atmospheric element which combines readily with many elements and compounds in rocks is _________________ |
| A. | Hydrogen |
| B. | None Of These |
| C. | Oxygen |
| D. | Nitrogen |
| Answer» B. None Of These | |
| 43. |
What are the main properties of cosmic ray particles ? |
| A. | its energy |
| B. | All of these are its properties |
| C. | its rest mass |
| D. | its electric charge |
| Answer» C. its rest mass | |
| 44. |
Which of the following is a baltic state? |
| A. | Romania |
| B. | Bulgaria |
| C. | Estonia |
| D. | Serbia |
| Answer» D. Serbia | |
| 45. |
When did the mountain building in Himalayas began ? |
| A. | about 45 million years ago |
| B. | both (a) and (b) |
| C. | None of the above |
| D. | when the continental plates of India and Eurasia converged on each other |
| Answer» C. None of the above | |
| 46. |
Where does the river Jordan drain into ? |
| A. | Gulf of Suez |
| B. | Resaca Garden |
| C. | Adriatic Garden |
| D. | Dead Sea |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
The formation of plateaux is the outcome of _________________ |
| A. | Orogenic movements |
| B. | Epeirogenesis movement |
| C. | None Of These |
| D. | Continental drift |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
What is the short term variations of the atmosphere, ranging from minutes to months called ? |
| A. | weather |
| B. | temperature |
| C. | humidity |
| D. | climate |
| Answer» B. temperature | |
| 49. |
What is Green Peace? |
| A. | A term used in geography |
| B. | An organisation that maintains a peace in the world |
| C. | An organisation that stresses the need to maintain a between human progress and environmental conservation |
| D. | Geological Society of New York |
| Answer» D. Geological Society of New York | |
| 50. |
What is the tide produced as a consequence of the moon and the sun pulling the earth in the same direction called ? |
| A. | spring tide |
| B. | ebb tide |
| C. | high tide |
| D. | neap tide |
| Answer» B. ebb tide | |