(a) Tsunami (b) Spring Tide (c) Equinoxes (d) Neap Tide
Ans: b
2. Which of the following planets is smaller than earth?
(a) Neptune (b) Uranus (c) Saturn (d) Venus
Ans: d
3. Hawaiian Islands are located in:
(a) North Atlantic Ocean (b) South Atlantic Ocean
(c) North Pacific Ocean (d) South Pacific Ocean
Ans: c
4. Which one of the following continents does not have a real desert?
(a) Europe (b) Australia (c) Asia (d) North America
Ans: a
5. How fast the earth spins at the north pole?
(a) 1038 miles/hr (b) 700 miles/hr
(c) Almost zero (d) 850 miles/hr
Ans: c
6. Name the continents that form mirror images:
(a) North America and South America (b) Asia and Africa
(c) Africa and South America (d) Europe and Asia
Ans: c
7. A region of weak winds is called:
(a) Doldrum (b) Dum Dum (c) Chilka (d) None of these
Ans: a
8. How many times in a year, day and nights are of equal duration anywhere on earth?
(a) Once (b) Four (c) Twelve (d) Twice
Ans: d
9. Which one of the following is a land-locked sea?
(a) Aral Sea (b) Timor Sea (c) North Sea (d) Red Sea
Ans: a
10. Troposphere is the hottest part of the atmosphere is because:
(a) It is the closest layer of the Sun
(b) There are charged articles in it
(c) It is heated by the earth's surface
(d) Heat is generated in it
Ans: c
11. Which one of the following are known as 'Anti-trade winds'?
(a) Chinook (b) Cyclones (c) Typhoons (d) Westerlies
Ans: d
12. The outermost layer of the sun is called:
(a) Chromosphere (b) Photosphere
(c) Corona (d) Lithosphere
Ans: c
13. Geostationary satellite is at a height of:
(a) 6km (b) 1000 km (c) 3600km (d) 35900 km
Ans: d
14. The orbits of planets around the sun can be:
(a) Elliptic and parabolic (b) Parabolic and hyperbolic
(c) Circular and hyperbolic (d) Circular and elliptic
Ans: d
15. What is Super Nova?
(a) A black hole (b) A dying star (c) An asteroid (d) A comet
Ans: b
16. Which of the following is a land locked country?
(a) Ukraine (b) Romania (c) Hungary (d) Bulgaria
Ans: c
17. The tide produced in an ocean when the pull on the earth by the Sun and Moon is unidirectional is called:
(a) High tide (b) Spring tide (c) Neap tide (d) Low tide
Ans: b
18. The Gulf Stream is an ocean current which begins in:
(a) Off the coast of Florida (b) From the Bay of Bengal
(c) Gulf countries coastline (d) In the Philippines
Ans: a
19. Which of the following volcanoes is situated in Mexico?
(a) Colima (b) Purace (c) Semen (d) Etna
Ans: a
20. The humidity of the air depends upon:
(a) Temperature (b) Location (c) Weather (d) All of these
Ans: d
21. The latitude of a place expresses its angular position relative to the plane of:
(a) Axis of earth (b) North pole (c) South pole (d) Equator
Ans: d
22. The greatest variety of animal and plant species is fund in:
(a) Temperate grasslands (b) Tropical moist forests
(c) Tundra regions (d) In hot deserts
Ans: b
23. The largest part of our hydrosphere is:
(a) Atlantic Ocean (b) Pacific Ocean
(c) Indian Ocean (d) Arctic Ocean
Ans: b
24. Which river begins at Tana lake in Ethiopia?
(a) Blue Nile (b) White Nile (c) Congo (d) Zambezi
Ans: a
25. In which country does the river Amazon originate?
(a) Brazil (b) Colombia (c) Peru (d) Bolivia
Ans: c
