FUNDAMENTAL OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY MCQS SET 43

FUNDAMENTAL OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY MCQS SET 43

1. The largest country in the world (area-wise) is
(a) China
(b) India
(c) Russia
(d) the USA
Ans: (c)

 
2. Which among the following is a renewable source?
(a) forest
(b) coal
(c) limestone
(d) sand
Ans: (a)
 

3. "The length of its day and the tilt of its axis are almost identical to those of the earth". This is true of
(a) Uranus
(b) Neptune
(c) Saturn
(d) Mars
Ans: (d)
 

4. Monazite is an ore of
(a) copper
(b) iron
(c) thorium
(d) titanium
Ans: (c)
 

5. The years 1700, 1800 and 1900 were
(a) leap years
(b) not leap years
(c) famine years
(d) years of natural calamities
Ans: (b)
 

6. The snowline is the line on mountain or hill slope which
(a) is the highest limit of perpetual snow .
(b) is the lowest limit of perpetual snow
(c) represents the highest amount of snowfall received
(d) represents the lowest amount of snowfall received
Ans: (b)
 

7. The yield or food grain per man is high under
(a) intensive cultivation
(b) extensive cultivation
(c) mono cultivation
(d) farm cultivation
Ans: (b)
 

8. The general direction or movement or a tropical cyclone in the northern hemisphere is
(a) eastward then poleward
(b) eastward then towards the equator
(c) westward then poleward
(d) westward then towards the equator
Ans: (c)
 

9. The relative humidity or the atmospheric air
(a) increases with increase in temperature
(b) decreases with increase in temperature
(c) decreases with decrease in temperature
(d) is independent of temperature
Ans: (b)
 

10. Ferrel's Law is associated with the
(a) velocity of winds
(b) high pressure of winds
(c) low pressure of winds
(d) direction of winds
Ans: (d)