NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Geography MCQs (Practice_Test 56 of 118)
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- Social forestry aims at
- adopting scientific silvicultural practices for healthy growth of plants
- motivating villagers in the generation and management of forests
- bringing wastelands under massive afforestation programme
- adopting measures for the maximum utilisation of forest products
- Which of the following statements are correct?
- The Peninsular India has not undergone marine submergence since Archaean times.
- The Aravalli mountains were one of the oldest geosyn-clines of the world.
- Dharwar system is rich in minerals.
- The Peninsular block of India is regarded as an earth quake-free zone.
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below4:
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- l and 2
- 1,2 and 3
- Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Granites
- Match Item 2: Batholiths
- Match Item 1: Marble
- Match Item 2: Hogback ridges
- Match Item 1: Quartzite
- Match Item 2: Ridge crests
- Match Item 1: Hard rocks
- Match Item 2: Monadnocks
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- 1,2 and 3
- Human Geography is ‘Human Ecology’ This definition was given by
- Barrow
- Huntington
- Ratzel
- Vidal de la Blache
- Which one of the following factors caused the recent depletion of rain forests in Indonesia?
- Growth of forest based industries
- Encroachment by urban areas
- Forest fires in peat-bogs in marshy areas
- Lack of proper management of forests
- The climate graph (showing mean monthly distribution of temperature and rainfall) in the figure depicts conditions ob tainting at
- Bangalore
- Nagpur
- Chennai
- Jodhpur
- During the passage of a tropical cyclone at sea coast, the following atmospheric conditions are observed:
- Torrential rainfall with gusty winds.
- Barometric fall with dark clouds.
- Total calm and clear sides.
- The correct sequence of the occurrence of these conditions is
- 2,1, 3
- 1,2, 3
- 3,2, 1
- 2,3, 1
- Match List I with List I and select the correct answer:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Geography MCQs (Practice_Test 56 of 118) List-I List-II - Jarawa
- Todas
- Angami
- Saura
- Shifting cultivation
- Terraced cultivation
- Pastroal
- Food gathering
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 1
- Non-commercial pastoral nomadism is a way of life in the
- velds of South Africa
- Steppes of Mangolia
- Fairies of Canada
- Australian downs
- In India, the tropical moist deciduous forests form the In India, the tropical moist deciduous forest form the natural cover in nearly, all the places where the annual rainfall is between
- 201 cm and 250 cm
- 251 cm and 300 cm
- 70 cm and 100 cm
- 101 cm and 200 cm
- Match List I (Isoclines) with List II (Features) and select
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Geography MCQs (Practice_Test 56 of 118) List-I List-II - Isotrpes
- Isopachs
- Isopytes
- Isohypes
- Rainfall
- Cloud base
- Potential temperature
- Cumulonimbus
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 1
- Consider the following statements: According to the Malthusian model
- Population tends to increase arithmetically.
- Positive and preventive checks prevent excessive growth rate of population.
- the basic of preventive checks is moral restraint
- Postponement of marriage is to be emphasized.
- Of these statements
- 1 and 2 are correct
- 1,2 and 3 are correct
- 2,3 and 4 are correct
- 1,3 and 4 are correct
- The shaded regions in the given world map represent
- temperate grasslands
- temperate deciduous forests
- tropical grasslands
- mixed deciduous forests
- Which one of the following species has the largest areal coverage in India?
- Chir
- Deodar
- Sal
- Teak
- In the case of saturated air, the column of air tends to be in stable equilibrium when the prevailing lapse rate
- is equal to the wet-adiabatic lapse rate
- is more than the wet-adiabatic lapse rate
- is less than the wet-adiabatic lapse rate
- does not vary with the wet-adiabatic lapse rate