hydrosphere & oceanography section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

A strait or straits is a narrow, typically navigable channel of water that connects two larger, navigable bodies of water.

It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two landmasses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example, because it is too shallow, or because it contains an un-navigable reef or archipelago.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

The Don (Russian river) rises in the town of Novomoskovsk and flows over 1800 Km distance into Sea of Azov.

Answer: (a)

The Pacific Ocean extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.

This largest division of the World Ocean – and, in turn, the hydrosphere – covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth's land area combined.

Answer: (b)

The correct order is South Equatorial ? Brazil ? South Atlantic Drift ?Benguela

Answer: (b)

Colour of the Yellow Sea is due to the colour of the silt-laden water discharged into it from the major Chinese rivers such as Huang He and the Yangtze River.