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The following question based on Geomorphology & Earth landforms topic of indian geography mcq
(a) Italy
(b) Alaska
(c) Japan
(d) Hawaii
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (d)
Mauna Loa is an active volcano of Hawaii. Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
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Question : 1
Lake formed in a cut off river, meander is called:
a) Ox-Bow Lake
b) Playa Lake
c) Crater Lake
d) Meteoric Lake
Answer »Answer: (a)
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped body of water formed when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off to create a lake. This landform is called an oxbow lake for the distinctive curved shape, named after part of a yoke for oxen.
Question : 2
Oil is found in petroliferous rock. Which one among the following structures demonstrates an ideal trap?
a) Synclinal structure
b) Horizontal structure
c) Anticlinal structure
d) Fault structure
Answer »Answer: (d)
Fault trap is a kind of structural trap.Here, the fracture and slippage of rock along a fault line may bring an impermeable stratum in contact with a layer of permeable reservoir rock and thus forms a barrier to petroleum migration.
Question : 3
With reference to Kober’s Theory of Geosyncline, consider the following Term and Meaning:
- Orogen : Geosyncline
- Kratogen : Foreland
- Randketten : Marginal ranges
a) 2 and 3 only
b) 1 only
c) 1, 2 and 3
d) 1 and 2 only
Answer »Answer: (c)
A geosyncline may be defined as “a thick, rapidly accumulating body of sediment formed within a long, narrow, subsiding belt of the sea which is usually parallel to a plate margin”. (Oxford Dictionary of Geography).
Or we may say a geosyncline is a “very large linear depression or down-warping of the earth’s crust, filled (especially in the central zone) with a deep layer of sediments derived from the landmasses on each side and deposited on the floor of the depression at approximately the same rate as it slowly, continuously subsided during a long period of geological time”.
Question : 4
Valley of the King is located in
a) Greece
b) Egypt
c) Turky
d) Nigeria
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 5
The mountain formed on the earth crust due to tension is called
a) Laccolith mountain
b) Young folded mountain
c) Block mountain
d) Old folded mountain
Answer »Answer: (c)
The Block Mountains were formed on the crust due to tension. Faults are formed due to tensional forces.
A part of the land block is depressed so that the remaining block stands conspicuously above the surroundings. Mountains formed in this way are called Block Mountains and the depressed portion is known as Rift Valley.
Question : 6
Statement (A):
Time interval at the dateline is 12 hours from the Greenwich.
Reason (R):
Dateline is situated at 180º meridian.
Using following options choose the correct answer.
a) (A) is correct, but (R) is false
b) (A), (R) both are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
c) (R) is correct, but (A) is false
d) (A) and (R) both are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of(A)
Answer »Answer: (b)
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