1. In mountainous areas a natural cause for road blocks is often :
A. road repairs and construction
B. land slides
C. tree felling
D. traffic congestion
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Physical Geography
2. The Milky Way Galaxy was first observed by –
A. Galileo
B. Maarten Schmidt
C. Marconi
D. Newton
✅ The correct answer is option A.
3. Brightest planet in our solar system is –
A. Venus
B. Mercury
C. Mars
D. Jupiter
✅ The correct answer is option A.
4. The deflection of the winds to the right in the northern hemisphere is caused by :
A. revolution of the earth
B. rotation of the earth
C. uneven heating of the earth
D. All the above
✅ The correct answer is option B.
5. The rhythmic rise and fall of ocean water twice in a day called –
A. Tide
B. Ocean current
C. Wave
D. Water cycle
✅ The correct answer is option A.
6. The solar radiation coming to Earth is called –
A. Radiant energy
B. Insolation
C. Sunshine
D. Terrestrial radiation
✅ The correct answer is option B.
7. Which of the following winds is called anti-trade wind? (1)
A. Chinook
B. Cyclone
C. Typhoon
D. Westerlies
✅ The correct answer is option A.
8. Which of the following reasons is responsible for lack of vegetation in the deserts?
A. Heavy volume of sands
B. Absence of B-horizon in the soil
C. High temperature
D. Lack of rainfall
✅ The correct answer is option D.
9. Solar energy is received by the earth through –
A. conduction
B. radiation
C. convection
D. refraction
✅ The correct answer is option B.
10. Atmospheric temperature increasing at the higher altitudes is called –
A. Radiation
B. Inversion
C. Conduction
D. Convection
✅ The correct answer is option B.