General Geography MCQs

1. The Bay of Bengal is located to the of _____ India?

2. The source of River Ganga

3. The Himalayas are known as_____.

4. India is connected to European countries through the _______ canal

5. India is the _______ largest country in Asia?

6. India is politically divided into ________.

7. _______ receives the highest rainfall in India

8. Minerals and fossil fuels are examples of ______ resources

9. The capital of Uttar Pradesh is

10. Gol Gumbaz is

11. The farthest planet from the Sun is

12. Which is the Land of the Rising Sun?

13. The most populous city in the world is

14. Indian standard time is the local time of

15. Rice is produced more in

16. The largest mountain range in the world is

17. The Newzealanders are known as

18. Earth revolves around the sun in every

19. The state which has the largest forest area is

20. The longest river in the world is

21. Calcutta is situated on the banks of the river

22. Which one of the following states is landlocked

23. The country with the largest population of Muslims is

24. Silver is found in

25. Security Printing Press is at

26. Corbett National Park is in

27. Diamond mines in India are found in

28. The tiger sanctuary in Tamil Nadu is located at

29. Yellow river is

30. In which part of India is known as the Land of Sunrise?

31. As the speed and length of a wave decrease, the wave _____.

32. Biomagnification is most closely associated with ________.

33. ________ is famous for diamonds in sub-saharan africa.

34. __________ is the study of fauna in spatial perspective.

35. Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have ________ in common.

36. In the northern hemisphere gyres _____

37. A mt air mass ________ than a ct air mass.

38. A mt air mass is likely to be ________ than a ct air mass because the mt air mass ________.

39. Kashmir has a predominately ________ population.

40. Most grasses of the prairies _____.

41. The moon's average density is about the same as the density of earth's ____________________ layers.

42. A hot spring which lacks water is known as a ________.

43. An alternate term for tropical rainforest biomes is ________.

44. ________ is not one of the world's biomes.

45. Mexico city is an example of how humans alter their environment because it was __________.

46. Oftentimes, our physical environment is _______________.

47. An unusually high tide is called a _______ tide.

48. Elastic rebound is similar to what happens when you release _____.

49. Out of all the water present in the earth systems, ________ is stored in the atmosphere.

50. In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minute particles called ________.

51. Our sun is not ____.

52. Sublimation can occur because solids, like liquids, have a _____.

53. The following picture shows the cycle for the production of _______.

54. The total amount of water vapor leaving the earth's surface is called ________.

55. The benguela current, the peru current, and the california current _____.

56. _____ are geological features created by rhyolitic magma. rhyolitic magma promotes _____ eruptions.

57. The sun has _____ times more mass than the earth.

58. One reason that life as we know it is unlikely to exist on venus is because _____.

59. The greatest level of biodiversity in the tropical rainforest is found in the _______.

60. Cerro tololo is home to ___

61. Cotopaxi is the ___

62. A fault is a _____ in the earth's crust, and a fold is a _____ of the earth's crust.

63. A foliated metamorphic rock forms when crystals _____.

64. A volcanic island arc forms when ________.

65. As a market moves from a single seller to a competitive one, a product's price _____.

66. Clouds release moisture on the ____ of mountains

67. A population that has stopped increasing in size because of limited resources has __________.

68. Deforestation in the amazon peaked in _____. since then, deforestation has been __________.

69. Demonstrations quickly picked up momentum during the ""arab spring"" due to the use of _____.

70. In a destructive wave ___

71. Melinda lives in a larger, u-shaped valley. it was most likely formed by _____.

72. The height, length, and period of a wave comprise the _____.

73. Because desert soils contain little organic material, their soil profiles have ____ horizons

74. _______ refers to a series of vertical zones with distinctive climate and vegetation regimes

75. Granitic igneous rocks are all of the following except ____.

76. Soils in ____ contain little organic material and are thin.

77. In central america, the richest people are _____.

78. Guangdong province faces the _________________.

79. About 80% of the ocean's water exists in the ________.

80. An important tool in understanding the actual numerical dates of past geologic events is ________.

81. Europeans took bananas from their point of origin in ________ and replanted them in south america.

82. Europe?s relative location is ____:

83. ________ is the type of remote sensing imagery best suited to use at night.

84. An example of a geostrophic wind is ________.

85. Most of the earth's cloudiness results directly from ________.

86. Near the north pole, one degree of latitude extends ________ kilometer(s) on the ground.

87. The ________ is a prominent location of sinking water in earth's thermohaline circulation.

88. An individual raindrop consists of approximately ________ moisture droplets.

89. In contact metamorphism, ________ is the dominant agent of change.

90. A rainshadow desert forms ________.

91. Most dry lands lie between ________ degrees north and south of the equator.

92. A midlatitude anticyclone ________.

93. Southeast asian physiography is dominated by _____________.

94. Prevailing surface winds are named for the ________.

95. Africas largest lake is lake __________.

96. A meteorologist might forecast precipitation if he sees _____.

97. About ___ percent of australians live in cities or towns.

98. Prescribed burns would be used in forests ________.

99. After the rainforest is cleared for agriculture, the most typical occurrence is that ________.

100. Alluvial fans are formed as flowing water ________ as it leaves a constricted channel.

101. Most orogenesis occurs along ________ plate boundaries.

102. The rub al khali (empty quarter) lies near the border between saudi arabia and ______________.

103. Water moving roughly parallel to the shoreline is called ________.

104. Exfoliation and pressure-release jointing are examples of ________ weathering processes.

105. Geography as a discipline links the _________________ with the _____________________.

106. In folded terrain, a simple symmetrical downfold is termed a(n) ________.

107. The most advanced stage of tropical reef formation is exhibited in ________.

108. The most massive form of igneous intrusion is a ________.

109. Research since the 1970s has identified the cause of plate tectonics to be ________.

110. Water entering a confined aquifer takes ________________.

111. The united states trade deficit first became a problem in the 1970s because _____.

112. The __________ are nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the kalahari desert.

113. The suns absolute magnitude is described as _______ in comparison to other stars.

114. Unlike a volcanic mountain, a batholith forms from magma that _____.

115. When land has been overfarmed or overgrazed, _______ occurs.

116. The nigerian letter scam is an example of ________.

117. Animals in the desert have adopted a ___________ lifestyle to survive the heat.

118. When air __________, it is compressed and warmed.

119. ________ is the term for solution topography in areas of limestone bedrock.

120. A large percentage of the population of both latvia and estonia is _____.

121. Addiction is __________

122. Africa's best example of an exotic river is the ________.

123. Air pressure is greatest ____ because there are more molecules of air pushing down from above.

124. All spheres of earth are interrelated or interdependent. this means _____.

125. An area in which a single culture or cultural trait is dominant is called a ____________.

126. An atoll is approximately ________ in shape because it forms ________.

127. An effusive eruption ________, whereas an explosive eruption ________.

128. Because of isostasy, a mountain will ultimately _____.

129. Because of russia's religion and geography, the country was ____________ in the 1600s.

130. Beryl is shaped like a six-sided prism. beryl is part of the _____.

131. Between 25 and 35 latitude, salinity is likely to be ________.

132. Concerning the biosphere, the geographic viewpoint is most often concerned with ________.

133. Cultures often develop along with science and ____________.

134. Followers of dharmic religions, such as hinduism and buddhism, __________.

135. For a ______ conviction of a dui you could be imprisoned for not more than twelve months.

136. Geologists use _________________ to determine a rock layer's absolute age

137. Ghana relies on __________ for most of its national budget.

138. Glen murcutts plan of the minerals and mining museum is long and narrow in order to ____________.

139. How explosively or quietly a volcano erupts is not affected by the _____.

140. If alaska and california are ignored, the list of 10 largest u.s. earthquakes shows ____________.

141. In 1453 the ___________________ conquered constantinople and renamed it istanbul.

142. In a grassy pine savannah, a longer interval between prescribed burns typically leads to _____.

143. Stable anticyclones act as a ________ to moving cyclones.

144. The "eye" of the hurricane is a zone characterized by ________.

145. The achievements of the tang and song dynasties include __________.

146. The area of japan best situated to do business with korea and china is _____________.

147. The southernmost of china's three great rivers is the _______________.

148. The type of lava least likely to form a pyroclastic flow is _____.

149. An age structure diagram plots the number or percentage of ____.

150. Between 1849 and 1852, the population of __________ more than doubled.

151. If a population overshoots its _________, it may have a population crash. (2 words)

152. A species that has experienced a severe bottleneck event would be expected to _______.

153. A school of tuna fish exhibits a ____________ distribution pattern.

154. Doubling time concept may be applied to _____.

155. Inexhaustible and renewable resources are used less than ______ resources.

156. The central plateau contains most of mexicos population because this region has _____.

157. The continental margins of the pacific ocean are _____.

158. In most of south asia, the winter is characterized as a ________ climate.

159. The doctrine of christs incarnation is best seen in ____________.

160. Regions that produce surpluses of goods needed elsewhere exhibit ______:

161. In addition to coffee, costa rica also produces _____________

162. In candombl, orixs are __________.

163. In comparison with a gentle slope, a steep slope _____.

164. The circle of illumination just touches the antarctic circle on or about ________.

165. In mexico the poorest states tend to lie ________________.

166. The coconut palm is now widely dispersed in the world because of ________.

167. Lithogenous sediments include all of the following except __________.