Practice Quiz set 9 - indian geography mcq Online Quiz (set-1) For All Competitive Exams
Q-1) What is the name of mid-latitude grassland in South America?
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Q-2) What percentage of the world’s freshwater is stored as glacial ice?
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About 70% of the world’s freshwater is stored as glacial ice. Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted.
Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. This means less than 1% freshwater is found in lakes, rivers and underground.
Q-3) When there is mid-day in the Greenwich, local time of a place is 5 O' clock evening. At which of the following longitude (meridians) that place will be located?
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Q-4) Sink hole is a phenomenon of
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Karst topography is landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite and gypsum. Sinkhole vary in size from 1 to 600 m both in diameter and depth.
Q-5) Summer Solstice occurs every year on
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Q-6) Hanging Valley is formed due to the action of
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A hanging valley is a tributary valley with the floor at a higher relief than the main channel into which it flows. They are most commonly associated with U-shaped valleys when a tributary glacier flows into a glacier of larger volume.
The main glacier erodes a deep U-shaped valley with nearly vertical sides while the tributary glacier, with a smaller volume of ice, makes a shallower U-shaped valley. Since the surfaces of the glaciers were originally at the same elevation, the shallower valley appears to be ‘hanging’ above the main valley
Q-7) When the earth is at the maximum distance from the Sun, it is called
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Aphelion is the point in the path of a celestial body (as a planet) that is farthest from the sun. Its opposite is Perihelion which is the point on its orbit when the Earth is closest to the sun.
Q-8) How much of the Earth's land surface is desert?
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Deserts take up about one third (33%) of the Earth’s land surface. Hot deserts usually have a large diurnal and seasonal temperature range, with high daytime temperatures, and low nighttime temperatures (due to extremely low humidity).
In hot deserts, the temperature in the daytime can reach 45 °C/113 °F or higher in the summer and dip to 0 °C/32 °F or lower at nighttime in the winter.
Q-9) The largest desert of South Asia is
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Q-10) An earthquake is also known as
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An earthquake is also known as a quake, tremor or temblor. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground.
It is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.