GK Practice Test: Question Set - 08
1. The mean basin area of successive ordered streams formed a linear relationship when graphed. This statement is given by
- (A) Morph metric analysis
- (B) Law of drainage composition
- (C) Law of basin areas
- (D) None of the above
2. The highest mountains on earth namely mount Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga are located in
- (A) The greater Himalayas
- (B) The Lesser Himalayas
- (C) The outer Himalayas
- (D) None of the above
3. The model which explains the various types of igneous rocks
- (A) Rock cycle
- (B) Bowens reaction series
- (C) Both are similar terms
- (D) None of the above
4. The most notable example of a tectonic valley is that of the
- (A) Doon valley
- (B) Kashmir valley
- (C) Plains of Aksai Chin
- (D) None of the above
5. The length of the day is determined in
- (A) Astronomical units
- (B) Solar terms
- (C) Length of the hours
- (D) None of the above
6. The largest continent in the world is
- (A) Africa
- (B) Asia
- (C) Australia
- (D) Antarctica
7. Which of the following is a warm current?
- (A) Benguela current
- (B) Labrador current
- (C) Kurosiwo current
- (D) South Pacific current
8. The main crops of kharif are
- (A) Rice, jowar, bajra
- (B) Ragi, maize
- (C) Cotton, jute
- (D) All of the above
9. The length of the tropical years (the time interval between successive occurrences of the spring equinox) is decreasing very slowly as a result of
- (A) Small, progressive changes in the earth's rotational speed
- (B) Small, progressive change in earth's orbit around the sun
- (C) Both (a) and (b)
- (D) None of the above
10. The longest era of the classification of the history of earth is
- (A) Cainozoic era
- (B) Pre-Cambrian era
- (C) Palaeozoic era
- (D) Mesozoic era
11. The temperature increases rapidly after
- (A) Ionosphere
- (B) Exosphere
- (C) Stratosphere
- (D) Troposphere
12. The rock formations that cannot store groundwater are called
- (A) Aquifers
- (B) Aquicludes
- (C) Perched aquifer
- (D) Spring
13. The ocean water is saline due to
- (A) Evaporation of its surface
- (B) Volume of fresh water added by rainfall
- (C) Salts are already present in sea water
- (D) Both (a) and (b)
14. The process of soil development is called
- (A) Leaching
- (B) Illuviation
- (C) Eluviations
- (D) Pedogenesis
15. The processes that may cause physical weathering or mechanical rupture are
- (A) Abrasion, crystallization, pressure release
- (B) Abrasion, oxidation, hydrolysis
- (C) Crystallization, carbonation, thermal insulation
- (D) None of the above