NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Geography MCQs (Practice_Test 65 of 118)
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- The North Pole lies within the Arctic Ocean whereas the South Pole is located within the Antarctica Continent Which of the following hypotheses uses this phenomenon as a supportive argument?
- Tetrahedron theory
- Theory of Isostasy
- Theory of Continental Drift
- Convective Current Theory
- Lines joining places of same total transportation costs in Weber՚s theory are termed
- isotims
- isogonic lines
- isodapanes
- isochrones
- If the highest point in locality is 1500 meters and the lowest is 1000 meters, 500 meters represents the
- height above base-level
- gradient
- elevation
- relative relief
- The age and sex composition of the population is best represented by
- choropleths
- isopleths
- pie diagram
- pyramid diagram
- The proportion of the area of the surface at various elevations above or depths below a given datum is properly represented by the
- Clinographics curve
- Altimetric frequency curve
- Hypsometric curve
- Lorenz curve
- Topographical maps are distinguished from atlas maps as they
- represent only relief
- are large-scale maps
- are small-scale maps
- are drawn on a different projection
- The usage of the term ‘ecosystem’ for the whole complex f organisms-both animals and plants, and their habitat has been proposed by
- Cole
- Tansley
- Forbes
- Sukachev
- The gravity and potential models in geography were the contribution of
- Stewart
- Clark and Evans
- Haggett and Chorley
- Bunge
- The rank-size rule is useful in studies of
- Plant communities
- climetic regions
- settlement systems
- soil types
- From the viewpoint of laud forms, which of the following pairs of continents are mirror images of one another?
- Africa-Australia
- Africa-south America
- Asia-Africa
- Australia-South America
- Which of the following features is common to the Deccan Plateau, the Columbian Plateau and Iceland?
- Composed of lava
- Extremely rugged
- Great height above sea level
- Inland drainage
- Which one of the following climatic types identified by Koppen occurs in both China and Japan?
- Cwa
- Cfa
- Dfb
- Dwb
- The deep chernozem soil rich in humus is found in
- Amazon basin
- Congo basin
- Egypt
- Ukraine
- Terra rossa typically develops in terrains composed of
- limestone
- basalt
- granite
- red sandstone
- What natural vegetation can be expected in subhumid middle latituded where evaportanspiration almost balances precipitation?
- Conifers
- Prairies
- Savanna
- Selvas