Hydrosphere & Oceanography Section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 1 [UP (Pre) 2015]

Chisapani Gorge is located in

a) Pakistan

b) Bangladesh

c) India

d) Nepal

Answer: (d)

Question : 2 [NDA 2010-II]

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

a) Oyashio : Cold ocean current

b) Benguela : Cold ocean current

c) Kuroshio : Warm ocean current

d) Labrador : Warm ocean current

Answer: (d)

The Labrador Current is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Question : 3 [PSC (Pre) 2017]

Which one of the following currents does not contribute to form a complete circle of currents in the South Atlantic Ocean?

a) West wind drift

b) Canary

c) Benguela

d) Brazil

Answer: (b)

Question : 4 [BPSC (Pre) 1992]

‘River Seine’ flows through the town

a) Frankfurt

b) Rome

c) London

d) Paris

Answer: (d)

Question : 5

Which one of the following is called marine snowfall?

a) Continuous fall of tiny marine sediments on ocean floors.

b) Continuous fall of snow pillets on ocean floors.

c) Fall of snowflakes on sea surface.

d) Fall of hail on sea surface.

Answer: (a)

In the deep ocean, marine snow is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column.

It is a significant means of exporting energy from the light-rich photic zone to the aphotic zone below. The term was first coined by the explorer William Beebe as he observed it from his bathysphere.

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