hydrosphere & oceanography section 8 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 11

Consider the following statements:

  1. The Earth does not move along its orbit at a constant rate
  2. The Earth moves fastest at perihelion and slowest at aphelion.
The above statements are true of which one of the following laws?

a) Newton’s law of gravitation

b) Ohm’s law

c) Kepler’s second law

d) Newton’s second law of motion

Answer: (c)

The point of Kepler’s IInd law is that, although the orbit is symmetric, the motion is not. A planet speeds up as it approaches the sun, gets its greatest velocity when passing closest, then slowest down again and the earth moves fastest at perihelion and slowest at aphelion.

Question : 12 [SSC IT 2007]

The largest ocean is

a) Pacific Ocean

b) Arctic Ocean

c) Atlantic Ocean

d) Indian Ocean

Answer: (a)

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth’s oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.

This largest division of the World Ocean – and, in turn, the hydrosphere – covers about 46% of the Earth’s water surface and about one-third of its total surface area, making it larger than all of the Earth’s land area combined.

Question : 13 [UPPCS (Pre) 1990]

When was Macau island transferred to China?

a) 1999

b) 1997

c) 1990

d) 1992

Answer: (a)

Question : 14 [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2008]

Finger Lake Region is located in

a) Britain

b) U.S.A.

c) Australia

d) Austria

Answer: (b)

Question : 15

Mahaweli Ganga is a river of

a) Nepal

b) Sri Lanka

c) Bangladesh

d) India

Answer: (b)

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