• Which Strait connects South China Sea and Andaman Sea?

a) Strait of Malacca
b) Palk Strait
c) Cook Strait
d) Sunda Strait

• The ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is on

a) Jupiter
b) Uranus
c) Earth
d) Moon
• In the southern hemisphere the westerlies blow form
a) North
b) North-East
c) North-West
d) South-East

• The core of the earth is also known as

a) Lithosphere
b) Mesosphere
c) Barysphere
d) Centrosphere
• What percentage of insolation is received by the earth’s surface?
a) 35%
b) 45% Sun rays reach earth in = 8min 20sec
Vitamin from sunrays = Vitamin D
c) 48%
d) 51%

• What percentage of Oxygen in the atmosphere is approximately?

a) 10%
b) 20%
c) 30%
d) 50%
• Which type of rainfall is often accompanied with lightning and thunder?
a) Orographic
b) Convectional
c) Frontal
d) None of these

• Doldrums are
a) High latitudes with heavy snow
b) Equatorial zone with low pressure
c) High pressure areas on mountains
d) Sub-polar zone with high pressure
Doldrums are the area = low pressure area
Belt of Doldrums is found = Equatorial Region
Doldrums bring = stormy, thunderstorm, heavy
rainfall
Latitude of Doldrums Belt = 5°N to 5°S
• The Yellow sea is located in
a) U.S.S.R
b) North Pacific Ocean
c) U.S.A
d) North Atlantic Ocean

• Which is a cash crop?

a) Maize
b) Potato Other examples = sugarcane
c) Rubber
d) Gram
• Solar System was discovered by
a) Kepler
b) Galileo
c) Copernicus
d) Eratosthenes

• Strait of Malacca separates

a) Sumatra and Malaysia
b) Java and Brunei
c) Sumatra and Java
d) Malaysia and Brunei
• The “ Contra rebels” belong
a) Argentina
b) Brazil
c) Nicaragua
d) Paraguay

• The North Star is a part of which constellation?

a) Orion
b) Big dipper Largest constellation – Hydra
Most easily recognizable constellation – Big dipper
c) Cassiopriea
d) Little dipper
• The bright heavenly body with a long luminous tail is called
a) a planet
b) a constellation
c) a comet
d) a satellite

• Which of the following are the most destructive earthquake waves?

a) Primary waves
b) Secondary waves
c) Surface waves
d) All of these
• Sandstone is metamorphosed into
a) Schist
b) Quartsite
c) Graphite
d) Gneiss

• In tundra region, most of the precipitation is received during

a) Summers
b) Winters
c) Spring
d) None of these
• The largest diamond mine is in
a) South Africa
b) USA
c) Poland
d) Ghana

• When do the south-west monsoon winds blow in India?

a) January to February
b) March to mid June
c) June to September
d) October to December
• Which of the following is the most prominent crops of dry crop; farming in India?
a) Paddy
b) Bajra
c) Wheat
d) Cotton

• The wet hills forests are found in the

a) Aravallis
b) Mahadev Hills
c) Nilgiris
d) Satpura Hills
• The reflected amount of radiation, back to space, is called
a) albedo of the earth
b) insolation
c) heat balance of the earth
d) None of these

• The ocean which has the greatest depth is the

a) Arctic ocean
b) Pacific ocean
c) Atlantic ocean
d) Indian ocean
• Pelagic fishes are found in
a) rivers
b) seas
c) open oceans
d) tanks

• The national symbol of Netherlands is

a) tulip
b) rose
c) lotus
d) sunflower
• The western littoral between Daman and Goa is called
a) Coromandal
b) Konkan
c) Malabar
d) None of these

• A series of step-like falls are called

a) cascades
b) rapids
c) waterfalls
d) all of these
• Cirrus clouds are generally found at the height of
a) 6-12 km
b) 10-20 km
c) 3-4 km
d) 2-3 km

• Shifting cultivation is also known as

a) rudimental cultivation
b) slash and burn agriculture
c) bush-fallow agriculture
d) All of these
• The Sunda Trench(Java Trench ) is located in which ocean ?
a) Indian
b) Pacific
c) Atlantic
d) Arctic

• Saddle Peak is situated in

a) Great Nicobar
b) Middle Andaman
c) Little Andaman
d) Northern Andaman
• Pollutant which causes acid rain is
a) SO2

b) CO2 Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) : Nitrous Oxide (NO)

c) CO
d) Hydrocarbons

• Environment Protection Act was enacted in

a) 1986
b) 1981
c) 1974
d) 1968
• Low tides are
a) Weak
b) Moderate
c) Strong
d) Very weak

• The innermost layer of the Earth is known as

a) Lithosphere
b) Mesosphere
c) Aesthenosphere
d) Barysphere
• Nappe is a kind of
a) Fluvial feature
b) Folded structure
c) Erosional plain
d) None of these

• Onshore breeze develops in

a) Day
b) Night
c) Both of these
d) Season
• Black forest is found in
a) France
b) Germany
c) Romania
d) Itlay

• The gap of a mountain which provides natural path is known as

a) Valley
b) Highway
c) Pass
d) Highland
• Which river originates out of India?
a) Brahmaputra
b) Beas
c) Ravi
d) Jhelum