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