CSS Geography Questions & Answers - Part-2 - Set 15

1)   Name a dusty whirlwind about loft in height and a few feet in diameter with low pressure zone at the centre:

a. Dunes
b. Denudation
c. Fjord
d. Dust devel
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dust devel

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   What is Escarpment?

a. A steep in land cliff
b. An equinox in land cliff
c. A fault in land cliff
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A steep in land cliff

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   A hole or vent in the ground in volcanic regions through with fumes or gases escape is called:

a. Fringing Reef
b. Fjord
c. Fauna
d. Fumarole
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fumarole

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Feather like crystals of ice deposited on the ground in the same manner as dew are called:

a. Hoar Frost
b. Horse Latitude
c. Hoar Ice
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hoar Frost

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Peat is a dark brown or black organic mass found in:

a. Wet ground
b. marshy ground
c. Both of these
d. none of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Ria is a long narrow sea inlet caused by:

a. flooding of narrow valley
b. blocking of a narrow valley
c. damaging to a narrow valley
d. sinking of a narrow valley
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: flooding of narrow valley

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   What the vast tropical forests of the Amazon and its tributaries are called?

a. Sargasso sea
b. selvas
c. spa
d. steppe
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: selvas

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   When the Tidal bore is produced?

a. When a weak tidal current meets with weak river current.
b. When the weak tidal current meets with strong river current.
c. When a strong tidal current meets with river current
d. When a strong tidal current meets with strong river current.
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: When a strong tidal current meets with strong river current.

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   What is True North?

a. Geographical meridian
b. Volcano
c. Time Determination
d. Tundra
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Geographical meridian

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Meddle level thick grey clouds that cover the sky is called:

a. Altocumulus
b. Altostratus
c. Cumulus
d. Cumulonimbus
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Altostratus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   The term referring to the half of the earth is:

a. Half pole
b. Hemisphere
c. Both of them
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hemisphere

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Name the strait which is situated between England and France?

a. Strait of Malacca
b. Bab-el-Mandeb
c. Bosporus
d. Strait of Dover
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Dover

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Mention the strait which connects Norht Sea with the English Channel?

a. Strait of Dover
b. Bosporus
c. Strait of Malacca
d. Bab-el-Mandeb
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Dover

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Which one is the only natural passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

a. Bering Strait
b. Strait of Gibraltar
c. Strait of Dover
d. Dardanelles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Gibraltar

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Name the strait which connects Mediterranean Sea with the Black Sea?

a. Bering Strait
b. Strait of Dover
c. Bosporus
d. Dardanelles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bosporus

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Which of the following strait connects Mediterranean Sea with the Black Sea?

a. Strait of Dover
b. Strait of Gibraltar
c. Strait of Malacca
d. Dardanelles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Dardanelles

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Dardanelles strait is in northwestern Turkey, situated between Asian Turkey and the Gallipoli (Gelibolu) Peninsula of European Turkey. It connects the Aegean Sea and the:

a. Strait of Hormuz
b. Strait of Malacca
c. Bering Strait
d. Sea of Marmara
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sea of Marmara

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   The Bering Strait is situated between Alaska and Siberia. Mention the Oceans those are connected with this strait?

a. Pacific & Arctic
b. Strait of Malacca
c. Strait of Hormuz
d. Pal Strait
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Pacific & Arctic

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Mention the strait which lie between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra?

a. Bering Strait
b. Strait of Gibraltar
c. Strait of Hormuz
d. Strait of Malacca
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Malacca

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Mention the strait which connects the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea?

a. Strait of Gibraltar
b. Bab-el-Mandeb
c. Strait of Malacca
d. Pal Strait
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Malacca

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   The Strait of Malacca links three of the world's most populous countries. Two of them are China and Indonesia. Which is the third one?

a. Pakistan
b. Philippine
c. Indonesia
d. India
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: India

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   The Strait of Malacca carries 50,000 vessels per year, carrying between one-fifth of the world's sea trade. Pick out the Strait through which would's quarter of all oil shipments carried by sea come through?

a. Strait of Malacca
b. Pal Strait
c. Strait of Gibraltar
d. Bering Strait
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Malacca

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Which of the following connects Red Sea to the Indian Ocean?

a. Dardanelles Straits
b. Bab-el-Mandeb
c. Strait of Malaka
d. Strait of Hormuz
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bab-el-Mandeb

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Mention the strait that connects Asia and North America?

a. Denmark Strait
b. Bab-el-Mandeb
c. Bering Strait
d. Strait of Dover
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Bering Strait

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Dardanelles Straits is situated between Europe and:

a. Asia
b. America
c. Africa
d. none of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Asia

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Mention the strait that is situated between Greenland and lceland?

a. Pas de Calais
b. Dragon's Mouth strait
c. Dardanelles Straits
d. Denmark Strait
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Denmark Strait

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Name the strait that separates England from France and the European continent, and connecting the English Channel and Atlantic Ocean with the North Sea

a. Strait of Dover
b. Pas de Calais
c. Both of these
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Drogon's Mouth strait is between Trinidad and:

a. Cuba
b. Venezuela
c. Singapore
d. Mexico
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Venezuela

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Pick out the strait which is situated between Iran and Arabia?

a. Denmark Strait
b. Strait of Gibraltar
c. Strait of Hormuz
d. Bab-el-Mandeb
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Strait of Hormuz

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Pak Strait is between India and:

a. Singapore
b. Nepal
c. Bhutan
d. Sri Lanka
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sri Lanka

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Mention the strait that is situated between Singapore and Indonesia?

a. Strait of Hormuz
b. Singapore Strait
c. Strait of Singapore
d. Strait of Indonesia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Singapore Strait

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Diameter of the Universe is at least:

a. 93 billion light years
b. 880 x 1024 metres
c. Both of them
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both of them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   In which colour earth seems from outer space?

a. Red and blue
b. Blue
c. White
d. Mixture of white and blue
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Mixture of white and blue

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   What is called the interval between two consecutive transits of a star of an observer?

a. A lunar day
b. A solar day
c. Both of them
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A solar day

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   What is the speed of light?

a. 186,000 miles per second
b. 286,000 miles per second
c. 386,000 miles per second
d. 486,000 miles per second
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 186,000 miles per second

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   The earth's motion round its axis once in 24 hours is called 'Rotation'. What its motion round the sun, approximately 365 days, is called?

a. Circulation
b. Revolution
c. Circular Movement
d. None
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Revolution

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   What is called that velocity which is required by an object to overcome the gravitational pull of the earth and other astronomical bodies as to move into space?

a. Gravitational velocity
b. Escape velocity
c. Base velocity
d. Initial velocity
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Escape velocity

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Sun is the nearest star to Earth. Its distance from Earth is:

a. 150 million km
b. 200 million km
c. 250 million km
d. 300 million km
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 150 million km

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   What is parsec unit?

a. Unit for measuring distance on moon
b. Unit used for measuring distances in solar system
c. Unit used in Oceanography
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Unit used for measuring distances in solar system

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   About 75% of total mass of the atmosphere and 90% of its water vapour is contained in the lowest zone which extends from the earth's surface to an altitude of about 8 km at the poles and 16 km at the equator. What is called this lowest zone?

a. Stratosphere
b. Aerosphere
c. Troposphere
d. Ionosphere
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Troposphere

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   In which zone of the earth, the ozone layer filters out the sun's ultraviolet radiation?

a. Ionosphere
b. Stratosphere
c. Troposphere
d. Magnosphere
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Stratosphere

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   What is contained in the zone of earth, named as ionosphere?

a. Electrically Charged gasses
b. Electrically charged acids
c. Electrically charged particles that reflect radio signals
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Electrically charged particles that reflect radio signals

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Oxygen (21%) orgon (0.93%) and carbon dioxide (0.03%) are the components of atmosphere. What is the percentage of Nitrogen (by volume) in the composition of atmosphere?

a. 57%
b. 75%
c. 70%
d. 78%
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 78%

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions are called:

a. Cosmos
b. Spectrum
c. Ionization
d. Aurora
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Aurora

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   All the matter in the universe was once packed close together. A huge explosion made all this matter fly apart. All the galaxies were formed from this matter and they are still moving away from each other. What this theory about the beginning of the universe is called?

a. Black hole
b. Big Bang
c. Steady state
d. Binary theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Big Bang

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Clouds are visible collection of water droplets that are suspended in the atmosphere. What are called those clouds whose lower surfaces touch the ground?

a. Fog
b. Condensation
c. Smog
d. Snow
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fog

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   What is called the blocking off of light from the sun from one celestial body by another?

a. Hide
b. Penumbra
c. Eclipse
d. Temporary Eclipse
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Eclipse

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   An Eclipse of the Moon (lunar Eclipse) occurs when the moon enters the shadow of the Earth? When does the solar Eclipse occur?

a. Earth enters the shadow of the moon
b. Any satellite enters the shadow of the moon
c. When earth, moon and sun comes at 180 moon
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Earth enters the shadow of the moon

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   The equator runs through the centre of the earth and the centre of earth remains exactly in the same position in relation to the sun throughout the year. Due to this phenomenon where the days and nights are equal throughout the year?

a. At South Africa
b. At equator
c. At North Pole
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: At equator

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   What is most important effect of moon on earth?

a. Effects warmest
b. Effects tides of ocean
c. Effects water evaporation
d. Does not affect the earth
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Effects tides of ocean

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!