GK - Geography 6

1. What type of climate is known for the minimum range of annual temperature?

a) monsoon
b) equatorial
c) tropical desert
d) Mediterranean

2. What is a narrow stretch of water, connecting two large bodies of water or seas called?

a) bay
b) isthmus
c) strait
d) peninsula

3. Which of the following words refers to a narrow strip of land separating two seas?

a) isthmus
b) strait
c) bay
d) peninsula

4. If the earth’s direction of rotation is reversed, what would be the IST when it is noon at the International Date Line?

a) 06: 30 hrs
b) 05:30 hrs
c) 18:30 hrs
d) 17:30 hrs

5. Arabia is the largest peninsula in the world. Which is the second largest?

a) Alaska
b) India
c) Labrador
d) Scandinavia

6. The violent and destructive tropical cyclones in China and Japan are called

a) hurricanes
b) tornadoes
c) typhoons
d) Willy-willies

7. Which of the following represents the zone between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?

a) Frigid zone
b) torrid zone
c) temperate zone
d) sub-tropical zone

8. The ideal monsoon system is the one that is experienced in

a) Mexico
b) India
c) Thailand
d) China

9. Which of the following cities has equatorial climate?

a) Khartoum
b) Bombay
c) Calcutta
d) Singapore

10. What is the shape of the earth?

a) oblate spheroid
b) true sphere
c) oval
d) round

11. Which is the longest day in the northern hemisphere?

a) 20th June
b) 21st June
c) 22nd December
d) 23rd December

12. Which is the biggest hot desert in the world?

a) Sahara
b) Gobi
c) Australian
d) Thar

13. In which month does the South-West monsoon bid an annual farewell to India?

a) October
b) September
c) November
d) December

14. What are funnel-shaped clouds with violent whirl-winds called?

a) tsunami
b) cirrus
c) tornado
d) stratus

15. The climate of India is typically

a) subtropical
b) tropical
c) torrid
d) tropical monsoonal

16. In which of the following regions is plantation agriculture largely practiced?

a) semi-arid
b) subtropical
c) tropical
d) temperate

17. Which of the following is an igneous rock?

a) granite
b) limestone
c) slate
d) quartzite

18. Equinox occurs when the sun is vertically over the

a) equator
b) tropic of cancer
c) tropic of Capricorn
d) poles

19. Which of the following types of soil has the property of holding moisture for release to plants during the dry period?

a) alluvial
b) black or regur
c) lateritic
d) red and yellow

20. When rain falls through a cold layer of air near the earth’s surface, raindrops get frozen into ice. What is this type of precipitation called?

a) sleet
b) hail
c) snowfall
d) ice crystals

21. Which of the following is the most salty sea in the world?

a) Red Sea
b) Dead Sea
c) Arabian Sea
d) Mediterranean Sea

22. Which of the following soil is typical of tropical regions which receive heavy rain fall?

a) alluvial
b) lateritic
c) saline
d) black

23. Which set of two rivers given below together forms the world’s largest delta before their waters flow into the respective seas?

a) Seine and Rhine
b) Danube and the Thames
c) Euphrates and the Nile
d) Ganges and the Brahmaputra

24. Which of the following navigational canals links Baltic Sea and North Sea?

a) Kiel Canal
b) Panama Canal
c) Suez Canal
d) none of these

25. What are lines drawn on a map connecting places having equal annual rainfall called?

a) isobars
b) isotherms
c) isohels
d) isohyets

Answers

1. equatorial
2. strait
3. isthmus
4. 06:30 hrs
5. India
6. typhoons
7. torrid zone
8. India
9. Khartoum
10. oblate spheroid
11. 21st June
12. Sahara
13. September
14. Tornado
15. Tropical monsoonal
16. Tropical
17. granite
18. equator
19. black or regur
20. hail
21. Dead Sea
22. Lateritic
23. Ganges and the Brahmaputra
24. Kiel Canal
25. Isohyets