Thursday, April 14, 2016

List of 50 Important Geography Questions and Answers

1).Lapps inhabit

a) European tundra
b) Russian tundra
c) Asiatic tundra
d) South American grasslands

Answer : a) European tundra

2).Which countries are separated by the Durand Line?

a) India and Sri Lanka
b) India and Pakistan
c) India and Afghanistan

d) India and China

Answer : c) India and Afghanistan

3).Which region is most famous for citrus fruits?

a) Deserts
b) Mediterranean regions
c) Temperate grasslands

d) Monsoon regions

Answer: b) Mediterranean regions

4).The most important crop of the temperate grassland is

a) Sugarcane
b) Citrus fruit
c) Cereals

d) Date

Answer : c) Cereals

5).Which country is the leading producer of Uranium?

a) India
b) Japan
c) Russia

d) Canada

Answer: d) Canada

6).Which area is important for soft wood forests?

a) Cold and temperate regions
b) Tundra regions
c) Monsoon regions

d) Mid-latitude deserts

Answer : a) Cold and temperate regions

7).The leading producers of rock phosphate are

a) Canada and Russia
b) India and Japan
c) USA and Russia

d) France and Russia

Answer : c) USA and Russia

8).The largest producer of mercury is

a) France
b) Russia
c) Spain

d) China

Answer : d) China

9).Which one of the following is the smallest state of India?

a) Tripura
b) Meghalaya
c) Sikkim

d) Nagaland

Answer : c) Sikkim

10).Which country is known as the sugar bowl of the world?

a) Cuba
b) Russia
c) India

d) China

Answer : a) Cuba

11).Which states of India have a common border with Pakistan?

a) Punjab, Himachal pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan
b) Punjab, jammu & Kasmir, Rajasthan, Gujarat
c) Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan
d) Jammu & kashmir, Punjab, Haryana,Rajasthan

Answer : b) Punjab, jammu & Kasmir, Rajasthan, Gujarat

12).One of the states not bisected by the Tropic of cancer is _________.

a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Madhya Pradesh
c) Odisha
d) Gujarat

Answer : c) Odisha

13).The highest peak in Indian territory is K2. In which range is it located?

a) Karakoram Range
b) Trans – Himalayas
c) Siwalik Range
d) Central Himalayas

Answer : a) Karakoram Range

14).The Gulf of Mannar is located __________.

a) West of Kerala
b) East of Tamilnadu
c) South of Kanyakumari
d) West of Gujarat

Answer : b) East of Tamilnadu

15).Trees shed their leaves in winter season to _______.

a) Conserve water
b) Escape being eaten by animals
c) Conserve heat
d) Take rest after the summer growth

Answer: c) Conserve heat

16).The other name for contour lines is __________.

a) Isopotential
b) Isotherm
c) Isohyet
d) Isohypse

Answer : d) Isohypse

17).The Siwalik’s stretch between _________.

a) Sutlej and Teesta
b) Sutlej and Kali
c) Indus and Sutlej
d) Potwar Basin and Teesta

Answer : d) Potwar Basin and Teesta

18).Duncan Pass is located between _______.

a) South and Little Andaman
b) North and South Andaman
c) North and South Andaman
d) Andaman and Nicobar

Answer : a) South and Little Andaman

19).India and its neigbouring countries are together called the Indian sub-continebt
because ________.

a) Political dominace of india
b) Typical economic links between the various member states
c) Vast size of the area
d) Region’s aloofnes from the rest of the world

Answer: d) Region’s aloofnes from the rest of the world

20).One of the states through which the Tropic of Cancer Passess is __________.

a) Jammu & Kashmir
b) Bihar
c) Odisha
d) Jharkhand

Answer : d) Jharkhand

21).The Pacific Ring of Fire is associated with_________.

a) Thermal power stations
b) Volcanoes and earthquakes
c) Oil well fires
d) Forest fires

Answer: b) Volcanoes and earthquakes

22).The rocks in the Himalayan system are mainly
a) dyke
b) igneous
c) plutonic
d) sedimentary

Answer: d) sedimentary

23).India is the seventh largest country in the world. It occupies about _________ per
cent of world area.
a) 2.6
b) 2.4
c) 4.2
d) 3.5

Answer : 
b) 2.4

24).Which of the following has the oldest rocks in the India?

a) The Siwaliks
b) The Himalayas
c) The Aravallis
d) The Satpura range

Answer: c) The Aravallis

25).The Red Sea is an example of a __________.

a) Faulted structure
b) Lava structure
c) Residual structure
d) Folded structure

Answer : a) Faulted structure

26).Echo-Sounding is the technique applied to __________.

a) Record the density of air in the atmosphere
b) Record earthquake waves
c) Measure the depth of the sea
d) Measure the amplitude of sound waves

Answer: c) Measure the depth of the sea

27).Which year Indian states first organized on a linguistic basis?

a) 1956
b) 1947
c) 1948
d) 1950

Answer : a) 1956

28).The total area of India is about ________.

a) 33 lakh sq.km
b) 34 lakh sq.km
c) 32 lakh sq.km
d) 31 lakh sq.km

Answer: a) 33 lakh sq.km

29).On which of the rivers is the famous Kariba Dam situated?

a) Nile
b) Amazon
c) Niger
d) Zambezi

Answer: d) Zambezi

30).The southern most limit of India is

a) 8⁰ 6’ N latitude
b) 8⁰ 4’ N latitude
c) 8⁰ 2’ N latitude
d) 4⁰ 6’ N latitude

Answer: b) 8⁰ 4’ N latitude

31).The Northern most limit of India is

a) 37⁰ 6’ N latitude
b) 37⁰ 4’ N latitude
c) 37⁰ 2’ N latitude
d) 36.6⁰ N latitude

Answer : a) 37⁰ 6’ N latitude

32).Where is the Maikal Range situated?

a) Tamil Nadu
b) Karnataka
c) Jammu Ǥ Kashmir
d) Chhattisgarh

Answer : d) Chhattisgarh

33).Which area of India receives the least rainfall?

a) Laddakh
b) Eastern Rajasthan
c) Western Tamil Nadu
d) The Western Ghats

Answer : a) Laddakh

34).Which part of the islands in the Arabian Sea is known as Minicoy islands?

a) Northern
b) Eastern
c) Southern
d) Western

Answer: c) Southern

35).The river flowing towards the west is the

a) Godavari
b) Kaveri
c) Krishna
d) Narmada

Answer: d) Narmada

36). Most rivers flowing west from the Western Ghats do not from deltas because of

a) Low velocity
b) The high gradient
c) Lack of vegetation-free area
d) Lack of eroded material

Answer: b) The high gradient

37).Which of the following are believed to be older than the Himalayas?

Ⅰ. Indus
Ⅱ. Ganga
Ⅲ. Brahmaputra
Ⅳ. Sutlej

a) Ⅱ, Ⅲ & Ⅳ
b) Ⅰ, Ⅱ & Ⅳ
c) Ⅰ, Ⅲ & Ⅳ
d) Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ & Ⅳ

Answer :d) Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ & Ⅳ

38).Rajasthan receives very little rain because

a) It is too hot
b) There is no water available and thus the winds remain dry
c) The monsoons fail to reach this area
d) The winds do not come across any barrier to cause the necessary uplift to
cool the air.

Answer : d) The winds do not come across any barrier to cause the necessary uplift to cool the air.

39). Which river forms its delta in odisha?

a) Tapti
b) Godavari
c) Narmada
d) Mahanadi

Answer : d) Mahanadi

40).Which one is not an important characteristic of Himalayan rivers?

a) They do not form gorges
b) They have a perennial flow
c) They have a great capacity for erosion
d) Many of them have their sources in the inner Himalayas

Answer : a) They do not form gorges

41).In which of the following areas is maximum precipitation received from the summer
monsoon?

a) The western Himalayas
b) The North – eastern hilly region
c) The coromandal coast

d) The central Indian hills

Answer: b) The North – eastern hilly region

42). Which are in India has an internal type of drainage?

a) Tamil Nadu
b) Central Himalayas
c) Chhota Nagpur Plateau

d) Western Rajasthan

Answer: d) Western Rajasthan

43). Which part of the country receives precipitation from the bay of Bengal branch of
the monsoons as well as the Arabian Sea branch?


a) The Jharkhand plateau
b) Maharashtra
c) West Bengal

d) The Punjab Plains

Answer : d) The Punjab Plains

44). When the temperatures is highest in Southern India?

a) June
b) July
c) May

d) April

Answer : d) April

45). Most of the precipitation in India is _______ in nature

a) Cyclonic
b) Orographic
c) Frontal

d) Convectional

Answer : b) Orographic

46). The climate around Bikaner can be described as

a) Semi- arid steppe
b) Mediterranean type
c) Hot desert

d) Tropical monsoon

Answer: c) Hot desert

47). Which of the following favours the onset of South – West monsoon?

a) Tropical easterly jet
b) EI Nino
c) Polar front jet

d) Subtropical Westerly jet

Answer : a) Tropical easterly jet

48). The Westerly disturbance causing winter rains in northern India originate in

a) Pakistan
b) The Arabian Sea
c) The Himalayas

d) The Mediterranean region

Answer : d) The Mediterranean region

49). If the time of Sunrise in Arunachal is 6.00am, what will be the probable time of

Sunrise in Saurashtra?

a) 7.30 am
b) 6.15 am
c) 8.00 am

d) 8.30 am

Answer : c) 8.00 am

50). Which place receives the maximum Solar energy in December?

a) Mangalore
b) Chennai
c) Mumbai

d) Hyderabad

Answer : b) Chennai





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