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1. Which of the following represents the inner planets?

Answer: b) Planet between sun and the asteroid belt such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars known as

inner planets

2. What is the average density of the earth as a whole? Answer: b) Density of earth is 5.5 gram per cubic cm or 3.2 ounce per cubic inch.

3. Equinox refers to

Answer: b) On equinox days and nights are equal

4. Wegener put forward the theory of continental drift in the year

Answer: b) 1912

5. Cirques are the landforms of Answer: c) third order. Exampled of landforms of third order: sand dunes, river valleys, cirques,

moraines etc.

6. Doldrum is associated with

Answer: d) Doldrum is equatorial low pressure belt

7. Escarpment appears

Answer: b) Escarpment result from block moving down vertically along a fault plane.

8. Chagos Saint Paul Ridge is located in

Answer: a) Indian Ocean

9. Phenomenon of river capture is associated with

Answer: c) Headward erosion by river

10. Which one of the following is not a current of the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: d) Peru Current is a cold-water current of the southeast Pacific Ocean,

11. Playas are formed in

Answer: b) low-lying areas found in desert basins

12. Under the in?uence of which force do winds change their direction or deflected from their original

path?

Answer: c) Coriolis force



13. Graben is

Answer: b) Graben is a dropped block bordered by faults.

14. Who believed that the State is an organic unit?

Answer: c) Friedrich Ratzel

15. Most of the thunderstorms occur in

Answer: d) Most thunderstoms occur in cumulonimbus cloud.

16. Which one of the following activities comes under secondary sector?

Answer: a) Manufacturing is secondary sector as it utilizes output of primary sector.

17. Albedo is de?ned as

Answer: d) Albedo is the ratio of solar radiation reflected on a surface to radiation falling on asurface.

18. Terrain irregularities produce

Answer: d) Chinook wind. The Chinook wind occurs when air passes over a uneven terrain such as

mountain range.

19. In which area most of the cyclones occur

Answer: a) Equatorial ocean. Most cyclones develop over oceans between Tropics of Cancer and

Capricorn. They normally don’t develop too near or too far from Equator. Extra-tropical cyclones

develop between mid and high latitude.

20. Which one of the following is correctly matched?

Answer: a) Labrador Current is a cold current in North Atlantic ocean

21. Active coal growth is seen along

Answer: a) East Australian coast. Not sure, as question is not clear for us. Australian coal mostly

found in Queensland and New South Wales. That is South East Coast or East Coast.

22. Baku is famous for it

Answer: b) Baku is Azerbaijan is known for it’s oil fields

23. Lumbering has emerged as an important and a well-organised activity in

Answer: a) Lumbering is well-organized in temperate forests, which provided majority of timbers of

the world.



24. Which of the following ?shes has the most demand in the world?

Answer: a) Salmon. According to US govt data, demand of Salmon is more than others.

25. Ganges delta is an example of

Answer: d) Ganges delta is arcuate or arc-shaped delta

26. Lignite coal has carbon content in the order of

Answer: c) Not sure as Lignite is said to have 35-40% carbon. But it can go upto 60% – 70%

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27. Match the following and choose the correct answer from the given options :

Answer: a) abcd – 3124 Malaysia – Rubber, Brazil – Coffee, Cuba – Sugar, Egypt – Cotton

28. Which one of the following countries of North America has the highest population density?

Answer: b) Cuba. With average 102 people per sq km Cuba tops, followed by Mexico (53), USA

(30), and Canada (3).

29. The constituents of population growth are

Answer: d) All of the above. fertility, mortality and net migration forms the basis of Population growth.

30. The largest exporter of tea in the world is

Answer: a) China (Actually Kenya 1, China 2, Sri Lanka 3)

31. Transhumance is associated with

Answer: d) Seasonal migration of nomadic people

32. Cinchona grows widely in

Answer: c) Species of the Cinchona genus that produce quinine naturally grows in Columbia

33. Who advanced the theory of demographic transition?

Answer: c) Thompson and Notestain

33. Approximately one-third of the world’s ?sh catch is obtained from

Answer: b) North-East Atlantic Ocean

34. The largest peninsular river in India is

Answer: C) Godavari river



36. Krivoirog is a famous steel centre in

Answer: c) Krivoi rog or Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine is known for Steel industry.

37. Cattle herders of East Africa are known as

Answer: a) Maasai people are cattle herders of Kenya (East Africa)

38. Bhakra Dam is on the river

Answer: b) Bhakra Dam is on Sutlej river in Himachal Pradesh.

39. State of Assam covers the area of the Indian landmass by

Answer: b) Area of Assam is 2.39% of the India’s total area

40. Coal deposition of the Gondwana system is found in

Answer: d) India’s largest coal deposits are found in the Gondwana System of Damodar Valley of

West Bengal, jharkhand, the Mahanadi valley of Orissa and Chhattisgarh, the Godavari valley of

Andhra Pradesh and the Satpura basin of Madhya Pradesh

41. Terpen is

Answer: Terpens are artificial hills made by men, common in Netherlands.

42. Match the following:

Answer: c) 2134 Kirgiz – Siberia, Yakut – Central Asia (Turkey), Lapps – Scandinavia, Eskimo –

Canada

43. More internal air routes are found in:

Answer: b) Latin America. There are more than 2400 internal air routes in Latin America.

44. When adjoining towns grow and merge together, it is known as

Answer: c) Conurbation. It denotes formation of large urban area as a result of merger of separate

towns or cities.

45. The Trans-Siberian Railway runs between

Answer: b) Trans-Siberian Railway , the longest railway line in the world runs between Saint

Petersburg and Vladivostak in Russia

46. Which of the following tribes has its concentration covering Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya

Pradesh and Rajasthan?

Answer: a) Bhil tribe found in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan

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47. Which of the following races is clustering around the Pacific and Arctic Oceans?

Answer: c) Mongoloid races found in central asia, South east Asia, West America, Arctic region. So,

they are clustering around Arctic and Pacific.

48. Which one of the following is known as population axis of Europe? Answer: d) English Channel in west to Dnieper river in Russia is called Population Axis of Europe.

49. Selvas are known as

Answer: c) Selvas are equatorial rain forests.

50. Which of the following cities is called the lake city in Madhya Pradesh?

Answer: d) Lake City is Bhopal.

51. Tea was discovered in Assam in the year Answer: b) Tea was discovered in Assam by Robert Bruce in 1823.

52. What is the latitudinal location of the southernmost point of India?

Answer: a) 6°45′N or Indira Point (thanks Durga Upadhya for pointing out the mistake)

53. A large animal grazing areas in prairies are known as

Answer: b) Prairies were known for large open area ranches.

54. The approximate equatorial circumference is Answer: c) Equatorial circumference is 40,075 km.

55. The ionosphere includes

Answer: d) The upper region of atmosphere includes thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere

and exosphere.

56. Which of the following routes connects the west coasts of America to the east coasts of Asia?

Answer: d) North Pacific route connects East of Asia with west of America.

57. ‘Soo’ canal joins

Answer: a) Soo canal connects Lake Superior and Lake Huron

58. Which of the following types of settlements is found in Ganga-Yamuna doab?

Answer: b) Nebular settlements are commonly found in Ganga Yamuna doab



59. Which of the following is called Heart of the city?

Answer: a) Central business district

60. The highest average salinity is reported from which of the following areas?

Answer: a) Dead Sea

61. Kochi and Karwar are the example of

Answer: d) Kochi and Karwar are examples port town in India

62. Which of the following is a land locked harbour?

Answer: a) Vishakhapatnam is a land-locked harbour

63. Which one of the following basins experiences convectional rainfall?

Answer: c) Amazon Basin receives convectional rainfall

64. Longes continuous mountain range in the world is

Answer: d) Andes Mountains in South America is the longest continuous mountain range in the

world

65. The length of day is determined in

Answer: Astronomical Unit. Day is the astronomical unit of time. To be exact 86400 seconds is a

day.

66. Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of

Answer: d) Great Barrier reef is in Australia

67. How many zones has the railway system in India been divided?

Answer: b) 16. Actually there are 17 including Kolkala Metro – the 17th zone.

68. Which one of the following South Indian states has the highest groundwater utilization (in

percentage) of its total groundwater potential?

Answer: As per 2011 data: Tamil Nadu (80.79%), Andhra Pradesh (42.12%), Karnataka (63.72%),

Kerala (29.21%). So, answer is a) Tamil Nadu.

69. Brahmaputra river entering Bangladesh is known as

Answer: c) Brahmaputra enters Bangalseh as Jamuna. In Ganges delta region, it merges with

Padma and Meghna. Finally it falls into the Bay of Bengal.



70. Which one of the following is the largest linguistic group of India?

Answer: As per Govt of India data, Sino-Tibetan (1%), Austric (1.11%), Indo-aryan (76.86%),

Dravidian (20.82%). Answer is c) Indo-aryan

71. Nathu la Pass is in Answer: d) Sikkim

72. Geodesy is a science which studies

Answer: b) Geodesy is measurement and representation of the Earth.

73. Which one of the following states has the highest proportion of Scheduled tribe population to the

total population?

Answer: As per 2011 data, Manipur (35.1%), Meghalaya (86.1%), Tripura (31.8%) and Nagaland

(86.5%). So, Answer is d) Nagaland.

74. Mal Plateau is eroded by the rivers

Answer: Not sure. Is it Malwa Plateau?

75. What is the approximate length of the Indian coastline?

Answer: c) 6100 km. But that’s wrong data. Total length of coastline is 7516.6 km (5422.6 km of

mainland and 2094 km islands)

76. The Rabaris is

Answer: a) Rabaris are herders found in Guajarat and rajasthan.

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77. Match the following rivers and tributaries of Assam and select the correct answer from the given

options:

Answer: c) abcd – 2431. Barak – Jatinga, Dhansiri – Daiyang, Jia Bharali – Tipi, Bhrhi Dihing –

Namchang.

78. Total area of Assam as per 2011 census

Answer: b) 78438 sq km.

79. How many islands of India are located in Bay of Bengal

Answer: Not sure. According to books, Andaman comprises of 204 islands and Nicobar has 19

islands. But as per Govt of India data, there ate 572 islands in Andaman and Nicobar.



80. Highest coal producing mine is

Answer: d) Jharia. Jharia coalfield in Bihar is the topmost coal producing mine in India.

81. Deepening of river valley is caused by

Answer: b) Exogenetic force. Deepening of valleys occur due to erosive or exogenic process. Riveris an exogenic agent.

82. Term plate was first used by

Answer: a) Canadian geologist John Tuzo Wilson coined the term plate.

83. Zone of shallow bottom of the continental slope is called

Answer: a) Offshore. Offshore is the zone of shallow bottom of the continental slope. Foreshore is

from level of low tide water to high hide. Backshore is the beach area.

84. The glacial control theory was proposed by

Answer: c) Glacial control theory was proposed by Reginald Aldworth Daly in 1910.

85. Halocline is a term associated with

Answer: b) Ocean Salinity. Halocline is a term related with oceanography. It denotes a well-defined

vertical salinity gradient in ocean water.

86. Among the following agents of degradation which one is the most effective agent?

Answer: d) Running water

87. Push and pull theory is related with

Answer: Lee’s Push-pull theory is related with migration

88. The hanging masses of limestone from the roof of a cavern are called

Answer: d) The beautiful hanging structures formed due to dropping waster are called stalactites.

89. Ozone is found in

Answer: b) Ozone is found in the stratosphere.

90. Which one of the following regions of India is considered to be the zone of minimum seismic

intensity?

Answer: d) Peninsular region is considered stable, hence called zone of minimum seismic intensity.



91. Horse latitudes lie within

Answer: a) sub-tropical high. Horse latitude lies between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south of

equator, ie sub-tropical high.

92. Primitive people who live in the Kalahari desert are known as Answer:b) San people of Kalahari desert in Africa are also known as Bushmen.

93. Which one of the following is considered as the least important factor of industrial location?

Answer: c) compared to other options population density is least important

94. Potholes are the landforms of

Answer: d) fluvial topography. Potholes are holes found in river bed.

95. Antarctic ice sheet is the best example of Answer: b) Continental glacier. Antarctic ice sheet, the largest single mass of ice on Earth is a

continental glacier.

96. The layer of atmosphere where most of the weather phenomena occur is

Answer: d) Troposphere

97. Which one of the following is a temperate desert?

Answer: c) Gobi. Gobi is a temperate desert.

98. Which one of the following oceans is S-shaped?

Answer: a) Atlantic. Between America and Africa, Atlantic ocean takes 2 curves and forms the S

shape.

99. The difference between Indian Standard Time (IST) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is

Answer: b) IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of GMT

100. Which one of the following Greek philosophers coined the term Geography?

Answer: d) Eratosthenes, the Greek Philosopher and librarian of Alexandria library, first coined

Geography.

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