1. Which of the following countries has a constitutional provision | for maintaining 70% of its: geographical area under forest? [UPPCS (Mains) 2016] (A) Maldives (B) Nepal (C) Bhutan (D) Afghanistan 2. The evergreen rainforests are found in [Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2002] (A) Australia. (B) Brazil (C) Canada (D) France 3. Which type of forests are found near the equator? _[IAS (Pre) 2007] (A) Deciduous forests (B) Coniferous forest (C) Meadows forest . (D) Tropical forest 4. Which one among the following covers the highest percentage of forest area in the world? [IAS (Pre) 2003] (A) Temperate Coniferous forests (B) Temperate Deciduous forests (C) Tropical Monsoon forests (D) Tropical Rain forestsCD) PVMUTA ye ce, tics of iga forests are characteris aaa [Punjab PSC (Pre) 2019 uUPPCS (Mains) 2016] (A) Equatorial region (B) Tropical region (C) Sub-tropical region (D) Temperate region 8. The world’s largest and most dense forests are in - [UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2004] (A) India . (B) Tanzania (C) Brazil (D) Canada | 9. Which country has the highest percentage of its geographical area under forests? [UP UDA/LDA (Spl)(Pre) 2010] (A) China (B) India (C) Indonesia (D) Japan 10. The coniferous forests are not found in [UPPCS (Pre) 2001] | (A) Amazonia (B) Scandinavia | (C) Canada (D) Finland ;12. In which of the following countrieg of Africa, dense, hot and humid forest are found? [UPPCS (Pre) 1993] _ (A) Ivory Coast (B) Kenya (C) Zimbabwe (D) South Africa — 13. If tropical rain forest is removed, it does not regenerate quickly as compared to a tropical deciduous forest. This is because [IAS (Pre) 2011] (A) The soil of rain forest is deficient in nutrients (B) Propagules of the trees in a rain _ forest have poor viability (C) The rain forest species are slow _ growing (D) Exotic species invade the fertile soil of rain forest :14. Which country of the world is the largest producer of wood pulp? [45t" BPSC (Pre) 2001) (A) U.S.A. (B) Norway (C) Sweden (D) Canada 15. Which one of the following countries is the largest producer of fuel wood in the world? a [TAS (Pre) 1997] (A) Indonesia (B) Russia (India -=—(D) China1. ‘Foehn’ is a local wind of [UP UDA/LDA (Pre) 2010) | (A) China (B) Korea (C) Japan (D) Switzerland 2. Which one of the following pairs is ' not correctly matched? [UPPCS (Pre) 2016] ; (A) Foehn = - Alps Mountain (B) Bora - Poland (C) Mistral - Rhine-Valley (D) Khamsin - Egypt : 3. Which one of the following is not | correctly matched? © . | [UPPCS (Pre) 2005] | (A) Chinook =. U.S.A. (B) Sirocco - Sicily6. Consider the following pairs. Name of the Related localWinds =——- country 1. Sirocco - France 2. Bora . - Italy 3. Blizzard - Canada Which one of the above pairs is n correctly matched? [UPPCS (Mains) 2013] (A) Only 1 (B) Only 2 (C) Only 2 and 3 (D) Only 31. The correct sequence of the Great | t Lakes of the USA from East to West | is [Jharkhand PCS (Pre) 2013] : (A) Huron - Michigan - Ontario - Superior - Erie ; (B) Superior - Ontario - Erie - ; Michigan - Huron ‘ (C) Ontario - Erie - Huron -: Michigan - Superior ‘ (D) Erie - Huron - Michigan -: Ontario - Superior : 2. Which of the following lakes lies entirely in the U.S.A.? : [UPPCS (Mains) 2015] (A) Lake Michigan (B) Lake Huron (C) Lake Superior (D) Lake Erie : 3. Which of the following is the second : deepest and the longest lake of the : world? [UPRO/ARO (Mains) 2014] : (A) Tanganyika Lake : (B) Baikal Lake (C) Superior Lake ! (D) Great Bear Lakewe : Which one is not a part of Great : Lakes? [Kerala PSC (Pre) 2017 | Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2010] | (A) Bear (B) Superior (C) Huron - (D) Michigan . The largest fresh water lake in the | world is [RAS/RTS (Pre) 1993] | (A) Lake Windermear } (B) Lake Loch Ness. (C) Lake Baikal (D) Lake Superior . Which is the deepest lake ‘of the world? [UPPCS (Mains) 2011 UPPCS (Pre) 2002] (A) Titicaca (B) Victoria (C) Baikal (D) Dead Sea7. Which of the following is the oldest ! and deepest lake of the world? ' [UPPCS (Pre) 2015] (A) Baikal Lake ‘ (B) Great Bear Lake (C) Karda Lake (D) Lincanbur Lake 8. On the basis of area and volume, | the largest lake of the world is [UPPCS (Spl)(Pre) 2008] | (A) Aral Sea (B) Caspian Sea (C) Baikal Lake (D) Michigan Lake 9. Finger Lake Regionislocatedin | [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2008] | (A) Australia (B) Austria (C) U.S.A. (D) Britain 10. Which of the following is called ‘Garden of Lakes’? [UPPCS (Mains) 2014] (A) Finland (B) Sweden (C) New Zealand (D) Greenland11. Which of the following is called the : 12. ‘land of one thousand lakes’? [UPPCS (Mains) 2015] : (A) Finland (B) Sweden (C) Greenland (D) U.S.A. : Which one of the following pairs is | not correctly matched? | [UPPCS (Pre) 2015] (A) BoilingLake - Dominica (B) FiveFlower - Mangolia Lake (C) RedLagoon - Bolivia (D) Great Slave - Canada Lake13. 14. 15. Which of the following Cities | located on Lake Superior? 1 [UPRO/ARO (Pre) 29; i (A) Chicago (B) Buffalo (C) Detroit (D) Duluth Which of the following is correctly matched? { [UPRO/ARO (Mains) 20 4] (A) Titicaca Lake - Bolivia - Peru — (B) Lake Urmia - Iran i (C) Lake Raindeer - Russia (D) Lake Athabaska - Canada 4 Which is highest waterfall of the world? [MPPCS (Pre) 2005] (A) Niagara : (B) Salto Angel (C) Ribbon (D) Tugela16. Which of the following waterfalls ig located in Venezuela? ‘ [UPPSC (RI) 2014) (A) Victoria Falls (B) Angel Falls (C) Alfred Creek Falls (D) Tugela Falls 17. The waterfall ‘Victoria’ is associate with the river 4 [Karnataka PSC (Pre) 2018 : IAS (Pre) 2003} (A) Amazon q (B) Missouri (C) St. Lawrence (D) Zambezi18. Which of the following lakes is world heritage site? [Andhra Pradesh PSC (Pre) 2 UPRO/ARO (Pre) 20 4 (A) Red Lagoon of Bolivia (B) Boiling Lake of Dominica (C) Five Flower Lake of China (D) Plitivice Lake of Croatia4. The largest Island of the Worldis . [UPPCS (Pre) 1993} | (A) Borneo (B) Greenland (C) Madagascar (D) New Guinea 2. The largest island (after Greenland) : of the world is [Uttarakhand PCS (Pre) 2010] (A) Borneo (B) Malagasy (C) Sumatra ‘ (D) New Guinea ‘ 3. Which of the following islands are ; known as ‘Sheep Islands’? [UP Lower Sub. (Pre) 2015] : (A) Canary Islands : (B) Madeira Islands | (C) Faroe Islands (D) Wellington Islands4. Which one of the following is the | largest in area? [UPPCS (Mains) 2015] : (A) New Zealand North Island (B) New Foundland (C) New Zealand South Island (D) Java : 5. Which one of the following | statements is correct? [UPPCS (Mains) 2012] : (A) Greenland is the second largest : (area) island in the World - (B) Nuuk is a small town of | Greenland ‘ (C) The elevation of Nuuk above - the sea level is 3 metre. (D) Greenland belongs to U.S.A. 6. Which one among the following Eastern islands is divided into three countries? [UPPCS (Pre) 2010] (A) Borneo (B) Celebes (C) New Guinea (D) Timor7, Kalimantan is a part of which of the following islands? ; [RAS/RTS (Pre) 2010] (A) Honshu : (B) Borneo (C) Cuba (D) Madagascar (Malagasy) 8. Madagascar is the largest islandin © [Uttarakhand UDA/LDA (Mains) 2007] (A) Indian Ocean (B) Pacific Ocean (C) Bay of Bengal (D) Red Sea9. Which one of the following islands ' is located in the South Indian : Ocean? [Assam PSC (Pre) 2019 ' UPPCS (Spl) (Mains) 2004] : (A) Chagos (B) Maldives (C) Mauritius (D) Seychelles 10. Which of the following islands : of the Pacific Ocean belongs to : Melanesia groups of islands. 1 [Sikkim PSC (Pre) 2019 : UPPCS (Spl)(Mains) 2004] : (A) Soloman island (B) Gilbert island (C) Society island : (D) Marshall island 11. Diego Garcia is situated in [MPPCS (Pre) 1999] : (A) Indian Ocean ‘ (B) Pacific Ocean (C) Arctic Ocean (D) Atlantic OceanW) Atlantic Ucean ' 12. The distance from Aceh in the far ‘ North-West to Torres Strait in the | East is 5000 miles, almost equal to ‘ the distance London and Baghadad. ‘ The archipelago has 14,000 islands, : some mere equatorial rocks, others : some of the largest in the world. ; This description best fits i [IAS (Pre) 1997] : (A) West Indies : (B) Japan : (C) Philippines ma Indonesia . Which of the following statement is ; not correct? [UPPCS (Pre) 1993] (A) Falkland Archipelago is located | in Indian ocean (B) Namibia is located in Africa , ‘ , . (C) Nicaragua is in central America : (D) Yemen is in Asia 14. Fiji Island is located in [44th BPSC (Pre) 2000] : (A) Atlantic Ocean (B) Pacific Ocean (C) Indian Ocean my Arabian Sea Ae (B) (C) (Dd) 18. Con resi