Geomorphology & Earth Landforms Section 1 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 41 [PSC (Pre) 2019]

The wide treeless grassy plain in South America are called

a) Prairies

b) Selvas

c) Steppes

d) Pampas

Answer: (d)

Question : 42 [UGC (Geog) 2016]

Which one of the following is not a glacio-fluvial depositional feature?

a) Horn

b) Drumlin

c) Kame

d) Esker

Answer: (a)

Drumlin, Esker and Kame are Glaciofluvial depositional features, but Horn is a Glacier erosional feature.

Question : 43

Wind erosion may be carried out in the following ways:

  1. Deflation
  2. Abrasion
  3. Attrition
Choose the correct option from the following codes:

a) 1 and 3

b) 1 and 2

c) 1, 2 and 3

d) 2 and 3

Answer: (c)

Wind erosion may be carried out through deflation, abrasion and attrition :

  1. Deflation: This involves the lifting and blowing away of loose materials from the ground.
  2. Abrasion: The sand-blasting of rock surfaces by winds when they hurl sand particles against them is called abrasion.
  3. Attrition: When wind-blown particles roll against one another in a collision they wear each other away so that their sizes are generally reduced and grains are rounded into millet seed sand, the process is called attrition.

Question : 44 [ PSC (Pre) 2019]

Which of the following temperate grasslands are found in Eurasia?

a) Steppes

b) Downs

c) Prairies

d) Velds

Answer: (a)

Question : 45

Which of the following are true with respect to sedimentary rocks?

  1. the rocks are deposited in layers
  2. at times the particles of rock are wholly organic in nature
  3. the rocks are not crystalline
  4. their structure is determined by great pressure or heat
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:

a) 1 and 4

b) 1, 2 and 3

c) 1 and 2

d) 2 and 3

Answer: (b)

Sedimentary rocks are deposited in layers.

At times the particles of rocks are wholly organic in nature. And the rocks are not crystalline.

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