Geography Test

Description: GEOGRAPHY TEST
Number of Questions: 25
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Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is the branch of science dealing with the study of soil?

  1. Mycology

  2. Rheumatology

  3. Toxicology

  4. Pedology


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

_______ is a deep valley with steep to straight sides.

  1. V-shaped

  2. Gorge

  3. Canyon

  4. W-shaped


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

A mass of ice flowing as sheets over the land or as linear flows down the slope of mountains in trough like valley is called

  1. meander

  2. glaciers

  3. gorge

  4. stalactites


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which among is the most common landform seen in desert?

  1. Pediment

  2. Pediplain

  3. Playas

  4. Sand dunes


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which is the most common landform of glaciated mountains?

  1. Moraines

  2. Troughs

  3. Cirque

  4. Depositional land forms


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is called as geomorphic agent?

  1. Ground water

  2. Glaciers

  3. Wind

  4. All of the above


Correct Option: D

_____ refers to the series of processes by which the major features of Earth's crust are formed and changed.

  1. Geomorphism

  2. Isomerism

  3. Diastrophism

  4. Catastrophism


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

The percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is

  1. 12%

  2. 88%

  3. 0.036%

  4. 19%


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Gently inclined a rocky floor which close to the mountains at their foot with or without the thin cover of debris is known as?

  1. Pediplains

  2. Pediments

  3. Barchans

  4. Seifs


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which of the following gases is responsible for the green house effect?

  1. Hydrogen

  2. Nitrogen dioxide

  3. Fluorine

  4. Carbon dioxide


Correct Option: D

Which of the following is not a factor controlling the formation of soil?

  1. Topography

  2. Climate

  3. Biological activity

  4. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Topography, climate, biological activity, time and parent material are the controlling factors for the formation of soil.

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Which of the following factors is mainly responsible for the rise in temperature of atmosphere?

  1. Increase in the atmospheric density

  2. Increase in the usage of renewable energy

  3. Increase in the amount of carbon dioxide

  4. Decrease in the atmospheric humidity


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which of the following is formed when the sand surface is partially covered with vegetation?

  1. Parabolic dunes

  2. Barchans

  3. Seifs

  4. Strait


Correct Option: A

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Ozone layer is the part of the

  1. mesosphere

  2. stratosphere

  3. ionosphere

  4. troposphere


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Arrange the various layers of the earth in the correct order? A. Ionosphere B. mesosphere C. Troposphere D. Stratosphere E. Exosphere

  1. BACDE

  2. ACDEB

  3. EDCAB

  4. CDBAE


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which is the lowest part of the atmosphere?

  1. Ionosphere

  2. Mesosphere

  3. Stratosphere

  4. Troposphere


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

The radio waves which were transmitted from the earth are reflected back to earth by

  1. mesosphere

  2. ionosphere

  3. stratosphere

  4. troposphere


Correct Option: B

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

In the atmosphere oxygen can be hardly seen at height of ______?

  1. 100 km

  2. 120 km

  3. 150 Km

  4. 180 km


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

120 km (and CO2 and water vapour are hardly seen above 90 km above the surface of earth)

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Tropopause is the zone between

  1. ionosphere and troposphere

  2. mesosphere and ionosphere

  3. exosphere and stratosphere

  4. troposphere and stratosphere


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

The atmosphere which is important for human beings is

  1. troposphere

  2. mesosphere

  3. stratosphere

  4. ionosphere


Correct Option: A

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Which gas is transparent to incoming solar radiation and opaque to terrestrial radiations?

  1. Nitrogen

  2. Oxygen

  3. Carbon dioxide

  4. Helium


Correct Option: C

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

During the revolution around the sun, the point of earth which is farthest from the sun is known as

  1. aphelion

  2. perihelion

  3. comelion

  4. sonatelion


Correct Option: A

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The playa plain covered with salt is known as

  1. alkali flats

  2. sediment flats

  3. deflation hollows

  4. pediments


Correct Option: A

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Which of the following act as filter and absorb the UV rays radiating from the sun?

  1. Stratosphere

  2. Ionosphere

  3. Mesosphere

  4. Ozone


Correct Option: D

Directions: Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Which of the following gases is the major part of the atmosphere?

  1. Oxygen

  2. Nitrogen

  3. Carbon dioxide

  4. Helium


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Nitrogen which is around 78.08 %

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