Geography GK Questions and Answers Quiz
Q. Climate change resulting in the rise of temperature may benefit which of the countries/regions?
1) Russia and Northern Europe
2) South Africa
3) East Indies islands comprising of Java, Sumatra and Borneo
4) The western coasts of South America
Q. Which of the following statements regarding ozone layer within the atmosphere is/are correct?
1. It absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation found in the Sun's rays.
2. Chlorofluorocarbons are serious threat to the ozone layer.
Select the correct answer using the code given below -
1) 1 only
2) 2 only
3) Both 1 and 2
4) Neither 1 nor 2
Q. When we consider 15 degree meridian on a world map or globe and count them in an eastward direction starting with Greenwich meridian (0 degree), we find that the time of this meridian is-
1) 1 hour fast
2) same as Greenwich
3) 1 hour slow
4) 12 hours fast
Q. Fire fly gives us cold light by virtue of the phenomenon of -
1) Bioluminescence
2) Fluorescence
3) Phosphorescence
4) Effervescence
Q. The broken hills famous for zinc and lead are located in -
1) Australia
2) Turkey
3) France
4) Germany
Q. Kanha National Park belongs to which one among the following biogeographical areas in the world?
1) Tropical Sub-humid Forests
2) Tropical Humid Forests
3) Tropical Dry Forests
4) Tropical Moist Forests
Q. 'EI Nino' associated with the formation of the South West Monsoon of India is-
1) an abnormally warm ocean current
2) a periodic warm air-mass
3) a periodic warm wind
4) a periodic low pressure centre
Q. The thermal equator is found -
1) at the equator
2) north of the geographical equator
3) south of the geographical equator
4) at the tropic of cancer
Q. Horse latitudes lie within the atmospheric pressure belts of -
1) Sub-tropical high
2) Polar high
3) Equatorial low
4) Sub-polar low
Q. The warm and dry winds that blow down the steep valleys in Japan are called -
1) Zonda
2) Yamo
3) Tramontane
4) Santa Ana
