Geography

Description: fundamentals of physical geography
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Which of the following scales is used for measuring the intensity of earthquake?

  1. Decibel

  2. Richter

  3. Del

  4. Mercalli

  5. Kelvin


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The intensity scale (range varies from 1-12) takes into account the visible damage caused by the event and is named after Mercalli, an Italian seismologist.

Reptiles dominated and replaced amphibians in which of the following periods?

  1. Cambrian

  2. Permian

  3. Triassic

  4. Jurassic

  5. Cretaceous


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In the Permian Period, reptiles dominated and replaced amphibians.

Which of the following has the shortest duration on geological time scale?

  1. Era

  2. Epoch

  3. Eons

  4. Period

  5. Supraeon


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Eon > era > period > epoch

Deccan Traps, presently covering most of the Maharashtra Plateau are an example of which of the following volcanoes?

  1. Composite volcanoes

  2. Mid-ocean ridge volcanoes

  3. Flood basalt province

  4. Shield volcanoes

  5. Caldera


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

These volcanoes outpour highly fluid lava that flows for long distances. There can be a series of flows with some flows attaining thickness of more than 50 m. Individual flows may extend for hundreds of kilometres.

Which one of the following is defined as thick horizontal deposits of intrusive igneous rocks?

  1. Phacolith

  2. Sill

  3. Lapolith

  4. Batholith

  5. Sheet


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The near horizontal bodies of the intrusive igneous rocks are called sill or sheet. The thinner ones are called sheets while the thick horizontal deposits are called sills.

Which one of the following is sometimes referred to as nife layer?

  1. Crust

  2. Mantle

  3. Asthenosphere

  4. Core

  5. Moho’s discontinuity


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Core is made up of very heavy material mostly constituted by nickel and iron. That is why, it is sometimes referred to as nife layer.

Which of the following processes is responsible for ‘loo’ in northern India during summer season?

  1. Conduction

  2. Convection

  3. Advection

  4. Deflection

  5. Inflection


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The transfer of heat through horizontal movement of air is called advection.

Which of the following waves travel only through solid materials?

  1. P-waves

  2. S-waves

  3. Sound waves

  4. Surface waves

  5. Both 1 and 2


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

S-waves (secondary waves) arrive at the surface with some time lag. An important fact about S-waves is that they can travel only through solid materials.

Approximately how many years ago is India supposed to have started her northward journey after the splitting of Pangaea?

  1. 40 - 50 million years

  2. 60 million years ago

  3. 200 million years

  4. 250 million years

  5. 300 million years


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

India is supposed to have started her northward journey about 200 million years ago at the time when Pangaea broke.

Which of the following statements about minor plates is correct?

  1. Cocos plate lies between Asiatic and Pacific plates.

  2. Caroline plate lies between Central America and Pacific plates.

  3. Philippine plate lies between Philippine and Indian plates.

  4. Fuji plate lies southwest of Australia.

  5. Nazca plate lies between South America and Pacific plates.


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Caroline plate is located between Philippine and Indian plates (North of New Guinea). Nazca plate lies between South America and Pacific plates.

Which of the following is defined as a barrier bar that gets keyed up to the headland of a bay?

  1. Bar

  2. Keyed barrier bar

  3. Lagoon

  4. Wave-cut platform

  5. Spit


Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Barrier bar, which gets keyed up to the headland of a bay is called a spit.

Which of the following processes is characterised by slipping of rock debris with a backward rotation with respect to the slope over which the movement takes place?

  1. Debris slide

  2. Rockslide

  3. Avalanche

  4. Slump

  5. Debris fall


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Slump is slipping of one or several units of rock debris with a backward rotation with respect to the slope over which the movement takes place.

Which of the following minerals composes half of the earth’s crust?

  1. Feldspar

  2. Quartz

  3. Pyroxene

  4. Mica

  5. Amphibole


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Half of the earth’s crust is composed of feldspar.

Which of the following depositional landforms has only one wing or point?

  1. Parabolic dune

  2. Barchan

  3. Seif

  4. Longitudinal dune

  5. Transverse dune


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Seif is similar to barchan but it has only one wing or point.

Which of the following patterns of wind direction is seen in anticyclone circulation in the Southern Hemisphere?

  1. Clockwise

  2. Anticlockwise

  3. Depends on pressure condition at the centre

  4. Depends on pressure condition at the periphery

  5. Static


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Anticyclone: Anticlockwise pattern in the Southern Hemisphere and Clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.

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