GK Geography 3

1. What are clouds with vertical development called?

a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) cirrocumulus
d) cumulo-nimbus

2. Which of the following is a feature formed by rivers?

a) moraine
b) inselberg
c) cirque
d) meander

3. What is the study of spatial distribution of plants and animals called?

a) zoogeography
b) biogeography
c) plant geography
d) ecology

4. The Himalayan rivers are

a) monsoon fed
b) snow-fed
c) ephemeral
d) seasonal

5. Rhine valley in France is known for mineral deposits of

a) Bauxite
b) copper
c) Nickel
d) Zinc

6. Which of the following are linked by the Panama Canal?

a) Atlantic Ocean and Pacific ocean
b) Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean
c) Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea
d) Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea

7. Which of the following was absent in the atmosphere of the primitive earth?

a) oxygen
b) carbon dioxide
c) nitrogen
d) ammonia

8. Which one of the following is responsible for the change of seasons over the surface of earth?

a) rotation of earth
b) revolution of earth
c) inclination of earth
d) declination of earth

9. When the wind is deflected due to the rotation of the earth, it is called as

a) geotropic wind
b) polar wind
c) Westerlies
d) Trade winds

10. Which one of the following is most destructive?

a) Tornado
b) cyclone
c) typhoon
d) Willy Willy

11. By what name is the saline-desert-cum-marsh known in India?

a) Dhand
b) kaher
c) lagoon
d) rann

12. Seasonal variation is the least in

a) In the Arctic Circle
b) At 45 0 N latitude
c) in the Tropic of Cancer
d) At the Equator

13. The equatorial radius of the earth is approximately

a) 7000 km
b) 6000 km
c) 5000 km
d) 4000 km

14. The speed of rotation of the earth is the highest

a) along the Equator
b) Along the tropic of cancer
c) along the Arctic circle
d) at the North pole

15. Which one of the following rocks is a metamorphic equivalent of sandstone?

a) marble
b) quartzite
c) Gneiss
d) Granite

Answers

1. Cirrocumulus
2. meander
3. biogeography
4. snow-fed
5. bauxite
6. Atlantic ocean and Pacific ocean
7. Oxygen
8. revolution of earth
9. geotropic wind
10. cyclone
11. rann
12. in the Arctic circle
13. 6000 km
14. at the North Pole
15. Quartzite