World Geography – Set 1 January 28, 2025January 27, 2025 by aasi Home › Geography › World Geography World Geography World Geography – Set 1 📝 Model Practice Set ⚡ Instant Answers & Explanation 🎯 Exam Oriented 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) The iron and steel industries of which of the following countries are almost fully dependent on imported raw materials? Germany Japan Poland Britain 2 / 50 2) The heavy day soils that show significant expansion and contraction due to the presence or absence of moisture is called andisols vertisols histosols aridsols 3 / 50 3) The Harmattan is tertiary wind that carry great quantities of fine dust from the Sahara wind that blows during the dry season from December to February cool, extremely dry wind that forms over the Sahara and blows westward or south-westward to the Af All of these 4 / 50 4) Brown Waterfalls are situated in: Canada Australia SwitSwitzerland New Zealand 5 / 50 5) The largest fish exporting region in the world is the south-east asian region the north-west pacific region the north-east atlantic region the north-east pacific region 6 / 50 6) The groundwater can become confined between two impermeable layers. This type of enclosed water is called artesian well unconfined groundwater artesian confined groundwater 7 / 50 7) The landmass of which of the following continents is the least? Asia Australia Europe Africa 8 / 50 8) Upper Volta is the old name of: Angola Cape Verde Burkina Faso Burkina 9 / 50 9) The great Victoria Desert is located in Canada North America Australia West Africa 10 / 50 10) The highest degree of concentration of mineral deposits are found in southern zone north eastern zone All of the above north western zone 11 / 50 11) The hazards of radiation belts include All of these damage of solar cells of spacecraft deterioration of electronic circuits adverse effect on living organisms 12 / 50 12) The humidity of the air depends upon temperature weather All of these location 13 / 50 13) Yokohama and Kobe are the main centres of ship building industry in: Japan China South Korea North Korea 14 / 50 14) The oldest rock system of the world is: The Primitive Rock system The Zircons Rock system The Archaean Rock system None of these 15 / 50 15) The group of minerals chemically containing hydrocarbons is organic group silicate group hydride group oxide group 16 / 50 16) The hydrological cycle is a conceptual model that describes the movement of water between biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere both (a) and (b) the storage of water between biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere None of the above 17 / 50 17) The largest gold producing country in the world is South Africa Canada China USA 18 / 50 18) The light of distant stars is affected by None of the above both (a) and (b) the earth's atmosphere interstellar dust 19 / 50 19) The largest country of the world by geographical area is Russia Vatican City Australia USA 20 / 50 20) The highest average salinity amongst the following seas is reported from Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Red Sea Dead Sea 21 / 50 21) The names of Harry Hess, R . S . Dietz, W . J . Morgan and Le Pichon are associated with: Plate Tectonics Theory Diversion of Wind Theory None of these Agriculture Location Theory 22 / 50 22) The intersecting lines drawn on maps and globes are geographic grids None of the above latitudes longitudes 23 / 50 23) The Hwang Ho River falls into: Red Sea Bay of China Yellow Sea. Indian Ocean 24 / 50 24) The grasslands in Canada are known as: Steppes Pampas Dawns Prairies. 25 / 50 25) With the disintegration of USSR in end 1991, comprised of ____ Union Republics. 15 10 25 5 26 / 50 26) The Homolographic projection has the correct representation of area baring shape distance 27 / 50 27) The habitats valuable for commercially harvested species are called hot spots None of the above sea grass bed coral reefs 28 / 50 28) Cincinnati (U .S .A.) is famous in the making of: Machine Tools. Cement Industry Aviation Tools Bio-technical Industry 29 / 50 29) Cocos plate lies between: Central America and Pacific Plate. None of Above South America and Pacific Plate. North America and Pacific Plate. . 30 / 50 30) Which country is known as the “Sugar Bowl” of the world? India Cuba Australia China 31 / 50 31) The Himalayan mountain system belongs to which of the following? Block mountains Fold mountains Volcanic mountains Residual mountains 32 / 50 32) The largest dune files are found in North Africa Middle East both (a) and (b) None of the above 33 / 50 33) Greenland is under the rule of: Turkey Denmark Portugal Germany 34 / 50 34) The iron ore mined at Bailadila is mostly magnetic haematite limonite siderite 35 / 50 35) The largest glaciers are continental glaciers alpine glaciers piedmont glaciers mountain glaciers 36 / 50 36) The hot and cold deserts together occupy nearly ____ land area of the world. 1/4th 1/2 3/4th 1/3rd 37 / 50 37) The latitudinal differences in pressure delineate a number of major pressure zones, which correspond with zones of land zones of oceans zones of climate zones of cyclonic depressions 38 / 50 38) Who constructed Suez Canal? Voin Rimsky-Korsakov Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky Ferdinand de Lesseps Fyodor Litke 39 / 50 39) 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: Environmental determinism Probabilism Possibilism Von Thunen’s Agriculture Location Theory. 40 / 50 40) The temperature increases rapidly after stratosphere exosphere ionosphere troposphere 41 / 50 41) 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. larger, more smaller, more larger, less smaller, less 42 / 50 42) Which of the following is tropical grassland? Pampas Taiga Prairies Savannah 43 / 50 43) Mindanoo Island is located in: The Indian Ocean South Atlantic North Atlantic The Pacific Ocean 44 / 50 44) The least explosive type of volcano is called Shield volcanoes Cinder cone Basalt plateau Composite volcanoes 45 / 50 45) 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 Northern Seas The Mistress of the Western Seas The Mistress of the Eastern Seas The Mistress of the Southern Seas 46 / 50 46) The concept of sustainable development relates to: Intrageneration Equity Intergenerational Equity. All of the above Extrageneration Equity 47 / 50 47) Without ____ the equator would be much hotter than it is while the poles would be much cooler. global wind pattern cycle of air circulation latitudinal redistribution of heat All are similar terms 48 / 50 48) The leading state in producing paper is West Bengal Orissa Bihar Kerala 49 / 50 49) The highest point of Australia is: Mount Twynam Abbott Peak Mount Twonsend Mount Kosciusko. 50 / 50 50) The ionosphere includes thermosphere, exosphere and mesosphere thermosphere and exosphere thermosphere mesosphere 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! Your feedback means the world to us. 🙏💖 Send feedback
