Practice Quiz set 3 - indian geography mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) How much of world’s surface is covered by water?
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Water makes up 70.8% of the Earth’s surface, while the other 29% consists of continents and islands. To break the numbers down, 96.5% of all the Earth’s water is contained within the oceans as salt water, while the remaining 3.5% is freshwater lakes and frozen water locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps.
Q-2) Persian Gulf does not form border with
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Q-3) Tsunamis are mainly produced by
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Tsunamis are mainly produced by submarine earthquakes.
Q-4) Which of the following is called the ‘land of one thousand lakes’?
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Q-5) A stretch of sea water, partly or fully separated by a narrow strip from the main sea is called
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Lagoon is a shallow stretch of water which is partly or completely separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land. In the case of coral reef, it is a channel of sea water between the reef and the main land. Lagoons are common coastal features around many parts of the world.
Q-6) In sea, plants are restricted up to the depth of
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In sea, vegetations are found upto the depth of 200 m.
Q-7) Which of the following rivers crosses the Equator twice?
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Q-8) The place where China has started construction of a dam on Brahmaputra River in Nov. 2010 is
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Q-9) The biggest island of the Indian Ocean is
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The biggest Island of the Indian ocean is Madagascar. Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Southeast Africa.
Q-10) Formation of delta is affected by
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