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Questions : The Sargasso sea is situated in the :

(a) Arctic Ocean

(b) Indian Ocean

(c) Atlantic Ocean

(d) Pacific Ocean

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

The Sargasso Sea is a region in the gyre in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Sargasso Sea is home to seaweed of the genus Sargassum (origin of its name), which floats en masse on the surface there.

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Question : 1

The longest river of South America

a) Ganga

b) Mississippi

c) Nile

d) Amazon

Answer: (d)

Question : 2

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below the lists:

List I List II
(Rivers) (Flowing into)
A. Lena 1. Persian Gulf
B. Amur 2. Arctic Ocean
C. Tigris 3. Arabian Sea
D. Mahi 4. Pacific Ocean
Codes: A B C D

a) 1 3 2 4

b) 4 1 3 2

c) 2 4 1 3

d) 3 2 4 1

Answer: (c)

  • Lena - Arctic Ocean
  • Amur - Pacific Ocean
  • Tigris - Persian Gulf
  • Mahi - Arabian Sea

Question : 3

On the sea level, nearest place to the centre of Earth is?

a) Tropic of equator

b) Tropic of Cancer

c) North Pole

d) Tropic of Capricorn

Answer: (c)

Question : 4

Which of the following pairs of countries are around Aral Sea?

a) Kazakhstan – Russia

b) Azerbaijan - Uzbekistan

c) Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan

d) Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

The gentle ‘seaward sloping’ surface from the coasts is called __________.

a) Submarine ridges

b) Abyssal plains

c) Continental shelf

d) Continental rise

Answer: (c)

Continental Shelf is a gentle seaward sloping surface extending from the coasts towards the open sea. In all, about 7.5% of the total area of the oceans is covered by continental shelves.

The shelf is formed by the drowning of a part of a continent with a relative rise in sea level or marine deposition beneath the water.

Question : 6

The largest delta of the world is

a) Godavari basin

b) Sundervan delta

c) Amazon basin

d) Congo basin

Answer: (b)

The Sunderban forest lies in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal formed by the super confluence of the Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers across southern Bangladesh. The seasonally flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests on the coastal fringe.

The forest covers 10,000 km2. of which about 6,000 are in Bangladesh. It became inscribed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1997.

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