Geography quiz 1 Leave a Comment / PRACTICE TESTS / By JOBGOGY 1. The soils whose parent material tend to be rich in the sand are podsols alfisols aridsols ultisols 2. The oldest oil refinery in India is at Digboi, Assam Koyali, near Baroda Noonmati, Assam Haldia, near Kolkata 3. The oldest mountains in India are Nilgiri hills Aravalis Satpuras Vindhyas 4. The second-largest continent in the world is Africa Australia Asia Europe 5. The storms or frontal systems develop where All of the above air is rising at the equator and in the mid-latitudes atmospheric pressure is low 6. Which of the following union territories of India has the highest density of population per sq km? Delhi Chandigarh Lakshadweep Pondicherry 7. The study of day-to-day variations in weather called is called meteorology cyclogenesis None of the above climatology 8. The south-west monsoon contributes ____ of the total rain in India. 22% 50% 86% 100% 9. The tide produced when the moon and the sun are at right angles to the earth, thus pulling in opposite directions, is called ebb tide spring tide neap tide diurnal tide 10. The thickness of biosphere is 10-12 km above the earth’s surface 5-8 km above the earth’s surface 5-10 km above the earth’s surface 8-10 km above the earth’s surface 11. The temperature increases rapidly after ionosphere troposphere exosphere stratosphere 12. The type of soil needed for rice is rich, muddy and saturated with water deep, loamy, well-drained humus, rich in Fe and potash clayey loam 13. which atomic power station in India is built completely indigenously? Kalpakkam Tarapore Narora Rawat Bhata 14. The spiral flow in a stream caused by channel shape is called laminar flow streamflow helical flow turbulent flow 15. The minimum values of annual receipts of solar radiation occur at the equator the arctic None of the above the tropics Loading … Question 1 of 15
