World Geography – Set 1 January 28, 2025January 27, 2025 by aasi 0% Report a question What’s wrong with this question? You cannot submit an empty report. Please add some details. 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829303132333435363738394041424344454647484950 World Geography – Set 1 Dear ! This is World Geography – Set 1 Quiz and it contains 50 questions. Keep Learning! 1 / 50 1) With the disintegration of USSR in end 1991, comprised of ____ Union Republics. 25 15 5 10 2 / 50 2) The largest dune files are found in both (a) and (b) None of the above North Africa Middle East 3 / 50 3) The grasslands in Canada are known as: Pampas Prairies. Dawns Steppes 4 / 50 4) The concept of sustainable development relates to: Extrageneration Equity Intergenerational Equity. All of the above Intrageneration Equity 5 / 50 5) The hazards of radiation belts include deterioration of electronic circuits All of these damage of solar cells of spacecraft adverse effect on living organisms 6 / 50 6) The largest country of the world by geographical area is Vatican City Russia Australia USA 7 / 50 7) The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are geographic grids longitudes latitudes None of the above 8 / 50 8) The largest gold producing country in the world is China South Africa USA Canada 9 / 50 9) The highest degree of concentration of mineral deposits are found in southern zone north western zone north eastern zone All of the above 10 / 50 10) The hot and cold deserts together occupy nearly ____ land area of the world. 1/3rd 3/4th 1/2 1/4th 11 / 50 11) The least explosive type of volcano is called Composite volcanoes Cinder cone Basalt plateau Shield volcanoes 12 / 50 12) The iron and steel industries of which of the following countries are almost fully dependent on imported raw materials? Germany Japan Britain Poland 13 / 50 13) The highest point of Australia is: Abbott Peak Mount Twonsend Mount Kosciusko. Mount Twynam 14 / 50 14) The largest glaciers are mountain glaciers alpine glaciers continental glaciers piedmont glaciers 15 / 50 15) The habitats valuable for commercially harvested species are called hot spots None of the above coral reefs sea grass bed 16 / 50 16) The group of minerals chemically containing hydrocarbons is hydride group organic group oxide group silicate group 17 / 50 17) The groundwater can become confined between two impermeable layers. This type of enclosed water is called artesian well confined groundwater artesian unconfined groundwater 18 / 50 18) Upper Volta is the old name of: Angola Burkina Faso Cape Verde Burkina 19 / 50 19) The higher the wind speed and the longer the fetch or distance of open water across which the wind blows and waves travel, the ____ waves and the ____ energy they process. smaller, less larger, less smaller, more larger, more 20 / 50 20) The leading state in producing paper is Kerala Bihar West Bengal Orissa 21 / 50 21) The Hwang Ho River falls into: Yellow Sea. Indian Ocean Red Sea Bay of China 22 / 50 22) The highest average salinity amongst the following seas is reported from Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Dead Sea Red Sea 23 / 50 23) Cincinnati (U .S .A.) is famous in the making of: Cement Industry Aviation Tools Machine Tools. Bio-technical Industry 24 / 50 24) The Harmattan is tertiary wind that carry great quantities of fine dust from the Sahara cool, extremely dry wind that forms over the Sahara and blows westward or south-westward to the Af wind that blows during the dry season from December to February All of these 25 / 50 25) Who constructed Suez Canal? Ferdinand de Lesseps Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Fyodor Litke Voin Rimsky-Korsakov 26 / 50 26) The great Victoria Desert is located in North America Australia West Africa Canada 27 / 50 27) Yokohama and Kobe are the main centres of ship building industry in: South Korea Japan China North Korea 28 / 50 28) India’s major contacts with out-side world for the last two millennia have been by sea there-by earning the title for India: The Mistress of the Southern Seas The Mistress of the Northern Seas The Mistress of the Eastern Seas The Mistress of the Western Seas 29 / 50 29) The Homolographic projection has the correct representation of baring area distance shape 30 / 50 30) Without ____ the equator would be much hotter than it is while the poles would be much cooler. latitudinal redistribution of heat All are similar terms cycle of air circulation global wind pattern 31 / 50 31) Which country is known as the “Sugar Bowl” of the world? Cuba India Australia China 32 / 50 32) Intensity of production declines with distance from the market and the type of land use varies with distance from the market are the two basic tenets of: Von Thunen’s Agriculture Location Theory. Probabilism Possibilism Environmental determinism 33 / 50 33) The hydrological cycle is a conceptual model that describes both (a) and (b) the movement of water between biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere None of the above the storage of water between biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere 34 / 50 34) The landmass of which of the following continents is the least? Asia Australia Europe Africa 35 / 50 35) The temperature increases rapidly after stratosphere exosphere troposphere ionosphere 36 / 50 36) The heavy day soils that show significant expansion and contraction due to the presence or absence of moisture is called histosols vertisols aridsols andisols 37 / 50 37) Brown Waterfalls are situated in: Australia SwitSwitzerland Canada New Zealand 38 / 50 38) The humidity of the air depends upon All of these location weather temperature 39 / 50 39) The ionosphere includes thermosphere, exosphere and mesosphere mesosphere thermosphere and exosphere thermosphere 40 / 50 40) Which of the following is tropical grassland? Savannah Taiga Pampas Prairies 41 / 50 41) The light of distant stars is affected by None of the above both (a) and (b) interstellar dust the earth's atmosphere 42 / 50 42) The largest fish exporting region in the world is the south-east asian region the north-east pacific region the north-east atlantic region the north-west pacific region 43 / 50 43) Greenland is under the rule of: Germany Denmark Portugal Turkey 44 / 50 44) The oldest rock system of the world is: The Archaean Rock system None of these The Zircons Rock system The Primitive Rock system 45 / 50 45) The Himalayan mountain system belongs to which of the following? Residual mountains Fold mountains Block mountains Volcanic mountains 46 / 50 46) The names of Harry Hess, R . S . Dietz, W . J . Morgan and Le Pichon are associated with: None of these Diversion of Wind Theory Agriculture Location Theory Plate Tectonics Theory 47 / 50 47) The latitudinal differences in pressure delineate a number of major pressure zones, which correspond with zones of climate zones of land zones of oceans zones of cyclonic depressions 48 / 50 48) Mindanoo Island is located in: North Atlantic The Indian Ocean The Pacific Ocean South Atlantic 49 / 50 49) Cocos plate lies between: None of Above Central America and Pacific Plate. North America and Pacific Plate. . South America and Pacific Plate. 50 / 50 50) The iron ore mined at Bailadila is mostly haematite magnetic siderite limonite Your score isThe average score is 0%🎉 Challenge alert! 💡 Share this quiz with your friends and see who scores the highest! 🏆🤩🔥 LinkedIn Facebook Follow Us @ 0% Restart quiz Exit We’d love to hear your thoughts! 📝 Share your valuable review with us. 🙌 🌟 Thank you for your support! 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