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The following question based on Hydrosphere & Oceanography topic of indian geography mcq
(a) Mediterranean Sea to Black Sea
(b) Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean
(c) Indian Ocean to China Sea
(d) Red Sea to Mediterranean Sea
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (c)
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Question : 1
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.
List I | List II |
(City) | (River) |
A. Rotterdam | 1. Seine |
B. Paris | 2. Potomac |
C. Budapest | 3. Rhine |
D. Washington | 4. Danube |
a) 4 3 2 1
b) 3 1 4 2
c) 2 3 1 4
d) 1 3 4 2
Answer »Answer: (b)
Question : 2
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the following topographical features found from the upper to lower course of a river?
a) Estuary → Ox-bow lake → Rapids
b) Rapids → Ox-bow lake → Estuary
c) Ox-bow lake → Rapids → Estuary
d) Rapids → Estuary → Ox-bow lake
Answer »Answer: (b)
The correct sequence is Rapids- Ox-bow Lake-Estuary
- Rapids are sections of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient, causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence.
- An ox-bow lake is a U-shaped body of water that forms when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.
- An estuary is a body of water formed where freshwater from rivers and streams flows into the ocean, mixing with seawater.
Question : 3
Strait of Hormuz lies between
a) Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea
b) Arabian Sea and Red Sea
c) Black Sea and Marmara Sea
d) Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman
Answer »Answer: (d)
Question : 4
The riverbank is weakest where the river turns. This is because water
a) reacts more effectively with the bank at a turn
b) flows faster as it turns
c) gets concentrated on the inner bank of the turn, making it denser
d) effectively bounces off the outer bank as it turns exerting an extra pressure on the bank
Answer »Answer: (d)
Water effectively bounces off the outer bank as it turns exerting an extra pressure on the bank. This is why the river bank is weakest where the river turns.
Question : 5
Which among the following statements characterized EI Nino?
- It occurs at irregular intervals
- It carriers warmer water
- It carries less saline water
- Its atmospheric equivalent is southern oscillation.
a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
b) 3 and 4 only
c) 1 and 2 only
d) 2 and 3 only
Answer »Answer: (a)
El Niño is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along the equator toward the coast of South America.
Normally, these warm water pools near Indonesia and the Philippines. During an El Niño, the Pacific’s warmest surface waters sit offshore of northwestern South America.
Question : 6
The largest current, because of its dark waters is known as the ‘black current’ and that is :
a) Antarctic Current
b) California Current
c) Gulf Stream
d) Kuroshio Current
Answer »Answer: (d)
The word ‘Kuroshio’ means ‘Black Current’ in Japanese. Also known as Japan Current, it is a warm ocean current that flows up the East coast of Asia and under the influence of the westerly winds towards North America.
It is the counterpart of the Gulf Stream. However, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the largest oceanic current on Earth.
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