CSS Geography Questions & Answers - Part-2 - Set 16

1)   Which of the following parts of atmosphere is nearest to the earth?

a. Troposphere
b. Ionosphere
c. Thermosphere
d. Mengnosphere
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Troposphere

Explanation:
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2)   There is a path in the atmosphere which the earth follows as it moves around the sun, held by the force of gravity of the sun. Name the path?

a. Milky way
b. Radiant way
c. Steady way
d. Orbit
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Orbit

Explanation:
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3)   Why days as well as nights at the moon lasts for about two weeks?

a. The moon takes 27
b. The moon takes 30
c. The moon takes 55
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: The moon takes 27

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   When do the spring tides occur?

a. At only nes moon and full moon when the earth, the moon and the sun are in a line
b. At new moon and full moon when the earth, the moon and the sun are in a line
c. At full moon when the earth, the moon and the sun are in a line
d. At half moon and full moon when the earth, the moon and the sun are in a line
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: At new moon and full moon when the earth, the moon and the sun are in a line

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   In how much time the light of sun reaches to the earth?

a. One minute
b. 20 minutes
c. 15 minutes
d. 8 minutes
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 8 minutes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Which of the following is the shape of the earth?

a. Circle
b. Spherical
c. Semi-circle
d. Spheroidal
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Spheroidal

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   When the earth reaches its perihelion when:

a. it is farthest to sun
b. the day in it is the longest
c. the day in it is the shortest
d. it is nearest to the sun
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: it is nearest to the sun

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   What is the equatorial diameter of the earth?

a. 15,756 km
b. 19,756 km
c. 18,756 km
d. 12,756 km
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 12,756 km

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   The Earth consists of three main zones; hydrosphere; lithosphere, and:

a. Atmosphere
b. Ionosphere
c. Photosphere
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Atmosphere

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   The atmosphere provides the air for breathing, shields, plants and animals from excess heat from the sun. It filters out the shorter ultraviolet rays that would otherwise destroy life. Hydrosphere includes all the bodies of water and ice on earth. What is lithosphere?

a. Land masses
b. Sea beds
c. Inner mass of earth
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Name the narrow zone that supports life on our earth. It is limited to the waters of the earth, a fraction of its crust and the lower regions of the atmosphere?

a. Ionosphere
b. Biosphere
c. Hollowsphere
d. Exosphere
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Biosphere

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Climate is weather condition at a particular place over a period of time. Including the effect of latitude and the title of the earth's axis to the plan of the orbit about the sun, and the large scale movement of different wind belt's over the earth's surface, which of the following is primary factor that determine the variations of climate over the surface of earth?

a. Shapes of the ground
b. The temperature difference between land and sea
c. Location of the area in relation to ocean currents
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of these

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   Continental divide is a ridge of mountains that separates the streams that flow west into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow east into Atlantic Ocean and its marginal seas. Where continental divide is located?

a. South America
b. North America
c. Central sia
d. South Asia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: North America

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Scientists believe that continents are moving very slowly. What is this motion called?

a. Continental shake
b. Continental motion
c. Continental move
d. continental drift
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: continental drift

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Which of the following parts of earth is the central part of the earth below the crust and mantle?

a. Magma
b. Larva
c. Crater
d. Core
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Core

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   A hollow on the surface of the earth, Moon or other planets is known as:

a. Crater
b. Core
c. Hollowgraph
d. Depression
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Crater

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Which name is given to the surface or outer layer of the earth that is made of solid rocks?

a. Mental
b. Crust
c. Core
d. Crater
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Crust

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   What is called flow of a body of waer air, of heat, moving in a definite direction?

a. Mantel
b. Current
c. Core
d. Crater
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Current

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   What is cyclone?

a. Air whirl
b. Strong air
c. Heavy air
d. A low pressure area
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A low pressure area

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   Cyclones form over the warm Oceans in the low latitudes during the hottest months of the year. What should be the ration of storm's winds before it is designated as a cyclone?

a. Winds must surpass 119 km per hour
b. Winds must surpass 300 km per hour
c. Winds must surpass 50 km per hour
d. Winds must surpass 75 km per hour
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Winds must surpass 119 km per hour

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Name the piece of land at a rivers mouth which is composed of silt deposited as the water slows on entering the sea?

a. Liver month
b. Delta
c. Source
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Delta

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Which of the following term is used to describe a region of low atmospheric pressure?

a. Depression
b. Cyclone
c. Low
d. All of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   An arid area in which there is no enough rainfall to support vegetation on a scale useful to humans, is called:

a. Barren land
b. Desert
c. Dead land
d. Drought
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Desert

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   The Kalahari desert in southwest Africa, Sahara in North Africa, the Arabian in Middle East, the Gobi in East Asia are among the world's greatest deserts. Which is the largest one?

a. Kalahari
b. Gobi
c. Arabian
d. Sahara
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sahara

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   What is called the process in which deserts are created by changes in climate or by human-aided processes?

a. Drought
b. Desertification
c. Deforestation
d. Urbanization
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Desertification

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   In which region (s) about 135 million people are directly affected by desertification?

a. Africa
b. Indian Sub-continent
c. South America
d. All of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   How is termed a period of dry weather, caused by lack of rain?

a. Desertification
b. Famine
c. Dryness
d. Draught
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Draught

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   There are four kinds of drought, permanent drought is found in arid and semi-arid regions, seasonal drought occurs in climates with definite dry and rainy season, unpredictable drought, where normal rainfall has failed to come. What is invisible drought?

a. Unpredictable drought
b. When even frequent showers do not restore sufficient moisture to land.
c. Drought without any reason
d. Drought without any known reason
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: When even frequent showers do not restore sufficient moisture to land.

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   Earth is the only planet in the solar system on which the presence of living things is definitely known. Together with its single moon it revolves around the sun at an average distance of:

a. 149, 600, 100 km
b. 349, 600, 100 km
c. 249, 600, 100 km
d. 449, 600, 100 km
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 149, 600, 100 km

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   How much is earth old according to recent estimation?

a. 2.55 billion years
b. 4.55 billion years
c. 3.55 billion years
d. 5.55 billion years
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 4.55 billion years

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   what is called the shaking of earth due to sudden release of stresses built up in the earth's surface?

a. Drought
b. Cyclone
c. Earth shake
d. Earthquake
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Earthquake

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Seismology is:

a. Study of moon
b. Study of Earthquakes
c. Study of Nature
d. Study of Earth
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Study of Earthquakes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   The point at which an earthquake originates is called seismic focus. What is called the point on the earth surface directly above the seismic focus?

a. epicentre
b. seismic point
c. seismic plate
d. seismicentre
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: epicentre

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Equator or terrestrial equator is the great circle whose plane is perpendicular to the earth's axis. What is its length that is divided into 360 degrees of longitude?

a. 20, 092 km
b. 40, 092 km
c. 30, 092 km
d. 50, 092 km
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 40, 092 km

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   Forces such as wind or water wear down the land. How is known this process?

a. Erosion
b. Desertification
c. Mudsliding
d. Demudding
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Erosion

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   How is known a fracture of break in the Earth's crust which has allowed the rocks on either side of it to move in different directions during periods of geological stress and upheaval?

a. Crack
b. Fault
c. Break
d. Fracture
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Fault

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Generally, ear the Earth's surface the cloud is formed when the air has cooled so much that it cannot hold all its water vapour, and excess is precipitated in the form of water droplets. What is it called?

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

ANSWER: Fog

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Which time is mesured by the Geological time scale?

a. Time from earth's formation to 19th century
b. Time from present to future
c. Time from the earth's formation to the end
d. Time from the earth's formation to present
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Time from the earth's formation to present

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Who study the rocks and minerals near the earth's surface?

a. Geologists
b. Surveyor
c. Naturalists
d. Earth Researches
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Geologists

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Name the hot spring which along with the clouds of steam sends up great flow of hot water?

a. Lava
b. Geyser
c. Earthquake
d. Eruption
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Geyser

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Where Geysers are found?

a. In mountains
b. In lonosphere
c. In Oceans
d. In volcanic areas
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: In volcanic areas

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Glacier is a mass of ice that descends very gradually down the largest known to exist at present is in Antarctica. What is its length?

a. 200 km
b. 400 km
c. 300 km
d. 500 km
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 400 km

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Which of the following regions is known as Grassland?

a. Forests' area
b. Areas near sea
c. In which the dominant vegetation consists of grass
d. In which the bust vegetation consists of grass
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: In which the dominant vegetation consists of grass

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Cyclones is a revolving storm in tropical regions. What is it called in north pacific?

a. Typhoon
b. Willy willy
c. Hurricane
d. Tornados
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Typhoon

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   How is known a floating mass of ice which has broken off from glacier and drifts in Oceans until it melts?

a. Glacier
b. Iceberg
c. Island
d. Iceland
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Iceberg

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Igneous rock is one type of rocks which make up earth's surface. Which of the following is/are other ones?

a. Sedimentary
b. Metamorphic
c. Both of them
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Both of them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Igeous rock is formed from cooling magma or lava, and solidifying from molten state. Which of the following rock(s) is the example(s) of igneous rock?

a. Granite
b. Basalt
c. Both of them
d. None of them
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Basalt

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Ionosphere refers to:

a. Deepest part of the Earth's surface
b. Deep, outer part of the Earth's surface
c. Deep, inner part of the Earth's surface
d. Deepest, outer part of the Earth's surface
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Deep, outer part of the Earth's surface

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Why the deep, outer part of the Earth's surface is called lonosphere?

a. it is changed
b. it made up of ions
c. it is predominately ionized
d. Gas atoms in it are ions
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Gas atoms in it are ions

Explanation:
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50)   Ionosphere is very important in worldwide communication. When an atom becomes an ion?

a. When it gains electrons
b. When it loses electrons
c. When it splits up in electrons
d. When it gain or loses electrons
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: When it gain or loses electrons

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!