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(a) 1971
(b) 1969
(c) 1963
(d) 1953
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (b)
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Question : 1
Consider the following statements regarding asteroids and comets?
- Asteroids are small rocky planetoids, while comets are formed of frozen gases held together by rocky and metallic material.
- Asteroids are found mostly between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, while comets are found mostly between Venus and Mercury.
- Comets show a perceptible glowing tail, while asteroids do not.
a) 1 and 3 only
b) 1, 2 and 3
c) 1 and 2 only
d) 1 only
Answer »Answer: (a)
Asteroids are small rocky planetoids, while comets are formed of frozen gases held together by rocky and metallic material.
Comets show a perceptible growing tail, while asteroids do not.
Question : 2
Which one of the following is the largest planet ?
a) Saturn
b) Uranus
c) Venus
d) Jupiter
Answer »Answer: (d)
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in the Solar System combined.
Question : 3
Match the following List-I & II with Longitudes & Dates
List I | List II |
(Longitudes) | (Dates) |
A. Prime Meridian | 1. 180º longitude |
B. Tropic of Cancer | 2. 23½º N latitude |
C. International Date Line | 3. 0º longitude |
D. Arctic Circle | 4. 23½º S latitude |
E. Tropic of Capricorn | 5. 66½º N latitude |
a) 3 1 4 5 2
b) 3 4 5 2 1
c) 3 2 1 5 4
d) 2 4 5 1 3
Answer »Answer: (c)
- A prime meridian is a meridian (a line of longitude) in a geographical coordinate system at which longitude is defined to be 0°. A prime meridian and its opposite in a 360°-system, the 180th meridian (at 180° longitude), form a great circle. This great circle divides the sphere, e.g., the Earth, into two hemispheres.
- The Tropic of Cancer also referred to as the Northern Tropic, is the most northerly circle of latitude on the Earth at which the Sun may appear directly overhead at its culmination.
- The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of longitude on the Earth’s surface located at about 180 degrees east (or west) of the Greenwich Meridian.
- Arctic Circle is an imaginary circle around the earth, parallel to the equator, at latitude66° 32' N; it marks the northernmost point at which the sun appears above the level of the horizon on the winter solstice.
- Tropic of Capricorn is the parallel of latitude that is approximately $23 1/2$ degrees south of the equator and that is the southernmost latitude reached by the overhead sun 40.
Question : 4
Which of the following is known as the Morning Star?
a) Mars
b) Venus
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer »Answer: (b)
One of the nicknames of Venus is “the Morning Star”. It is also known as the Evening Star.
Venus is called so because it appears brightest shortly before sunrise and shortly after sunset.
Question : 5
Consider the following statement:
- Mechanical weathering takes place only in sedimentary rocks.
- The rain-water reacts with rocks to form new chemical substances.
a) Both 1 and 2
b) Neither 1 nor 2
c) 2 only
d) 1 only
Answer »Answer: (c)
Question : 6
Hottest planet of the solar system is
a) Mars
b) Earth
c) Venus
d) Mercury
Answer »Answer: (c)
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