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Question : 31 [UGC-II (Geog) 2016]

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List I List II
(River) (Type of Delta)
A. Nile 1. Estuarine
B. Mississippi 2. Arcuate
C. Ganga 3. Bird foot
D. Tiber 4. Cuspate
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 3 1 4

b) 1 4 2 3

c) 2 4 3 1

d) 4 2 1 3

Answer: (a)

  1. Nile - Arcuate
  2. Mississippi - Bird foot
  3. Ganga - Estuarine
  4. Tiber - Cuspate

Question : 32 [UPRO/ARO (Mains) 2014]

Which of the following is the second deepest and the longest lake of the world?

a) Great Bear Lake

b) Superior Lake

c) Tanganyika Lake

d) Baikal Lake

Answer: (c)

Question : 33 [NDA/NA 2014-II]

Which one of the following is a warm ocean current?

a) Benguela current

b) Peru current

c) Labrador current

d) Kuroshio current

Answer: (d)

Kuroshio current is a warm current in the Pacific Ocean along the southern and eastern shores of Japan.

Question : 34 [PCS (Pre) 2010]

The largest part of our hydrosphere is

a) Antarctica ocean

b) Pacific ocean

c) Atlantic ocean

d) Indian ocean

Answer: (b)

Question : 35

The concept of sea floor spreading was first propounded by

a) A. Holmes

b) Lowthian Green

c) F.B. Taylor

d) Harry Hess

Answer: (d)

The concept of seafloor spreading was first propounded by Harry Hess. Harry Hammond Hess was a geologist and the United States Navy officer in World War II.

Considered one of the “founding fathers” of the unifying theory of plate tectonics, Rear Admiral Harry Hammond Hess was born on May 24, 1906, in New York City.

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