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The following question based on World Physical Geography topic of indian geography mcq
List I | List II |
A. Isobars | 1. Temperature |
B. Isohyets | 2. Pressure |
C. Isotherms | 3. Rainfall |
D. Isohel | 4. Snowfall |
5. Sunshine |
(a) 2 3 1 5
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 2 1 3 5
(d) 2 3 5 1
The correct answers to the above question in:
Answer: (a)
- Isobars are lines on a weather map joining together places of equal atmospheric pressure.
- A line drawn on a map connecting points, having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period is called Isohyet.
- Isotherms, lines connecting points of equal air temperature are used to map the geographic pattern of temperature across the earth’s surface. The spacing of isotherms depicts the temperature gradient across a portion of the Earth’s surface.
- Isohel is a line on a map connecting places with an equal period of sunshine.
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Question : 1
The driest location on Earth is in which country?
a) Chile
b) Kenya
c) Libya
d) Congo
Answer »Answer: (a)
According to the latest research, the driest location on Earth lies in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The location is called Maria Elena South (MES).
The site has a mean atmospheric relative humidity (RH) of 17.3 per cent and a soil RH of a constant 14 per cent at a depth of one meter
Question : 2
The highest altitude (4411 meters above sea level) is of:
a) Heathrow Airport
b) Daocheng Yading Airport
c) Bangda Airport
d) Kathmandu Airport
Answer »Answer: (b)
With the height of 4,411 meters above sea level, the Daocheng Yading Airport has become the highest civil airport in the world. It is located in Daocheng County of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
Question : 3
Which one of the following countries of South-West Asia does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea?
a) Jordan
b) Syria
c) lsrael
d) Lebanon
Answer »Answer: (a)
Jordan does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea.
Question : 4
Match List–I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
List I | List II |
(River) | (Dam) |
A. Colorado | 1. Aswan |
B. Damodar | 2. Kariba |
C. Nile | 3. Panchet |
D. Zambezi | 4. Hoover |
a) 1 3 4 2
b) 1 2 3 4
c) 4 3 1 2
d) 3 4 1 2
Answer »Answer: (c)
All these dams are important dams on respective rivers.
Question : 5
The rigid lithospheric slabs are known as ‘Plates’. What would be the result, if the oceanic plate collides with the continental plate?
- Oceanic plate is forced below the continental plate.
- Continental plate is forced below the oceanic plate.
- Continental and oceanic plates never collide.
a) 2 only
b) 1 only
c) 1, 2 and 3
d) 1 and 2 only
Answer »Answer: (b)
When two rigid slabs of lithospheric, known as plate collid with an another. The plate made of heavier material is tend to below the plate made of lights material (SIAG).
Question : 6
Select the correct chronological order of the following organic cycles from the codes given below:
- Alpine
- Torridonian
- Caledonian
- Hercynian
a) 2, 3, 4,1
b) 2, 4, 1,3
c) 4, 3, 2, 1
d) 1, 3, 4, 2
Answer »Answer: (a)
In geology, the term Torridonian is the informal name for the Torridonian Supergroup, a series of Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic arenaceous and argillaceous sedimentary rocks, which occur extensively in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
The Caledonian orogeny was a mountain-building era recorded in the northern parts of Ireland and Britain, the Scandinavian Mountains, Svalbard, eastern Greenland and parts of north-central Europe. The Caledonian orogeny encompasses events that occurred from the Ordovician to Early Devonian, roughly 490–390 million years ago (Ma).
It was caused by the closure of the Iapetus Ocean when the continents and terranes of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia collided.
The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny is a geologic mountain-building event caused by the Late Paleozoic continental collision between Euramerica (Laurussia) and Gondwana to form the supercontinent of Pangaea.
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