MCQs of Geography – Physical Geography

Length of river Nile is:

The Great Bear lake is situated in:

Volcanic Mt. Etna is located in:

Dendritic pattern of drainage is:

The height of Mt. Everest is:

Wind gap is associated with:

The magma not able to reach the surface crystallizes to form:

The white sands of New Mexico are composed chiefly of:

The American Dust Bowl is located along the:

The sands of Bermuda are composed of:

The rock most likely to be weathered by frost action is:

The atmospheric element which combines readily with many elements and compounds in rocks is:

A famous natural bridge is located in:

Artesian wells are common in:

Sinkhole lakes are common in:

Which deposit do not indicate the direction of the glacial movement?

Deflation/ corrosion and accumulation are processes in work of:

The Mississippi delta is stretched on an area:

Granite is famous as

Caledonian Hercynian and Alpine folding are associated with:

An active volcano Mauna Loa is located in:

The magma not able to reach the surface crystallizes to form:

Barkhans are found in:

An open mouth of river is termed as:

Ria shoreline is associates with:

A glacial depositional feature looking like an inverted boat:

Column rising up from the ground in limestone caves:

The delta of a river is:

Weathering is:

Ceustais

Shale is metamorphosed into

Anticlines are associated with:

Most widespread rocks in the world are:

Hanging valleys are formed by the action of:

Temperature

Seismic waves are the result of:

Dandritic pattern of drainage is:

Limestone is metamorphosed into:

Moraines are associated with:

U- shaped valleys are found in:

Quartz is a:

Wind gap is associated with:

Shore line developed by the drawing of the glacial valley is:

Ox- bow lakes are formed by the action of:

Barkhan is a name of:

Dip of rock is always :

The biggest desert on the earth is:

Karst is a limestone region associated with:

Stalactite and stalagmite are associated with:

Moraine is associated with:

One of the properties of the Mercator’s Projection is that it preserves:

An estuary at the mouth of river as a result of:

The formation of a plateaus is the outcome of:

The middle of stage of a river is:

Very extensive and unusually thick deposits of loss are found in:

Mass wasting is the spontaneous downward movement of rock and its disintegrated material under the influence of:

The composition of clay loam is such that it has:

The formation of plateaux is the outcome of:

The middle stage of a river is characterised by:

Cliff is formed as a result of:

A glaciated region is characterized by:

The lower stage of stream is marked by:

Counter equatorial current is present in:

Reversal of ocean current in winter:

Spring tides take place at:

Kuroshio is a surface current of:

The portion of the ocean floor closest to the land is known as:

High tides are experienced at:

Girdle of fire surrounds the:

Continental shelf is the:

High salinity in the sea result from:

The portion of floor skirting the land is called :

Spring tides occur:

Kuroshio is a current having its origin in:

At about the new moon the tides are:

a well – marked and wide continental: shelf is characteristics of

The atmospheric element which combines readily with many elements and compounds in rocks is:

Polar front theory deals with:

Cold winds blowing down slope by gravity are:

The mean thickness of troposphere over equator and poles is:

Fog:

Normal lapse rate of temp per 1000 meters

The most sever storm:

The clouds that herald the approach of the cyclonic storm are identified as:

Cyclones are:

An approaching cyclone leads to:

Rainfall in the equatorial region usually takes the form of:

Wind blowing from land to sea is called:

Weather during the passage of a could front is:

Invesion of temperature takes place in the valleys

Normal lapse rate of temperature means:

Dewpoint is:

In case temperature increases and absolute humidity remains unchanged:

Chernozem soils are formed in region where:

In Koppen classification of tropical climates, the average temperature of every month is:

The thermal equator is located:

Adiabatic lapse rate is high/ air is:

The winds which blow from sea to land are:

The critical temperature at which air is fully saturated is characterized by :

Mistral is a cold wind associated with:

With the increase in temperature

Dew point is reached at the temperature at which:

The air is chiefly heated by :

Temperature decreases at an average rate of above 3y of per 100 feet of altitude is observed in:

Hurricanes are:

One of the following wind system is seasonal in nature:

The intensity of insolation is greatest over:

The distribution of daily atmospheric condition over an area is shown in a:

A map of Germany drawn on a scale 1:1000/000 has shrunk that its length and breadth are now j of its original. The scale would be:

The show the distribution of ethnic should use:

An airline pilot flying nonstop from Narvic to San Francisco is likely to use:

Lines joining places of equal rainfall are called :

Density of population can be shown by:

Distribution of daily atmospheric conditions over an area is shown in a:

The method of transferring lines of latitude and longitude from globe to a plane surface is called:

The distribution of population in a map is least represented by

Point symbol and line symbol are used in preparation of

The best method of actual distribution of population is:

If you are asked to draw a map of an area showing the distribution of population you will use:

Average monthly temperature of a place can be represented by means of:

Isohytes stand for lines joining places of equal

Distribution maps are based on

To show the distribution of temperature ( mean monthly) of a station the best method is:

For mapping a vast temperature region the best suited projection is:

For drawing maps of polar region an ideal map projection would be:

Lines joining points of equal atmospheric pressure are known as:

One of the properties of Mercator projection is that it preserves:

For drawing map of Antarctica we use:

A straight line joining Islamabad with Makkah is the true direction of Qibla from the former city on a map drawn on:

Barometric gradient is the rate of fall of pressure measured in a direction:

Convert from centigrade to Fahrenheit and vice versa

The map projection suited for the world map showing wind direction is

The strength of wave action depends on all these except:

Which of these is not a metamorphic rock?

Which of the statement about troposphere is not true?

Temperature decreases with increasing altitude by 1 centigrade for every

Afternoon rain in the equatorial region are the result of

Mediterranean regions are useful for all these except

When earth and moon are farthest:

When earth and moon are nearest that position is called:

When three heavenly bodies are in same line, that situation is:

Spring tides occur at:

Karakatao volcano is situated in:

Trade winds are caused by:

Lines joining places having equal degree of salinity are called:

The only partially enclosed area in the world:

In the gulf of Karabugaz the salinity reaches up to:

A stony desert:

Tropical deserts:

Tombolo spit connects:

Karst region originally a landscape located in:

At present time volcanoes are chiefly found along:

It represents a stage in the formation of glacier:

Famous geyser which shows remarkable regularity is:

Caspian sea is:

Mariana Trench is about:

Continental shelf is entirely absent:

The principal device used to show elevations is associated with:

95-% of the lithosphere is composed of:

Directly above the focus of earthquakes on the surface of earth:

fujiyama in Japan is:

Mount Nuove is found in:

The velocity of earthquake waves in lithosphere:

Thickness of core is

Temperature of core could be:

Just beneath the rigid lithosphere a soft layer of upper mental is called:

The point where a big river catches all the water of small river through its tributary is called:

North equatorial current is caused under the influence of:

North equatorial current flows from

The southernmost tip of South America is called:

‘Kuroshio is a:

Isopleth maps are associated with

A dot map is associated with:

The exact slope and size of features can be obtained through:

Beten Guttenberg is the name of