SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: Geography - 4 - SSC CGL MCQ

Karst is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks including limestone, dolomite and gypsum. It is characterized by sinkholes, caves, and underground drainage systems.

Kerala is famous for the cultivation of coconut, tea, coffee, cashew and spices.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world. It has a length of 9,289 km which connects Moscow to Vladivostok.

One of the Major objectives and advantages of rainwater harvesting is to reduce run off loss.

Brahmaputra River is one of the largest rivers in the world. The origin of Brahmaputra River is in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung River.

Thermal Power Plants consumes maximum industrial water in India.

The current sequence is Troposphere-StratosphereMesosphere-Ionosphere-Exosphere

The Earth and the atmosphere are heated by energy from the sun. The atmospheric heat budget of the Earth depends on the balance between insolation and outgoing terrestrial radiation.

The troposphere is the first layer above the surface and contains half of the Earth's atmosphere. Weather occurs in this layer. This is closest to the Earth's surface, extending up to about 10-15 km above the Earth's surface.

Sugarcane shows chloroplast dimorphism. The presence of bundle sheath with chloroplast in the leaves is granulated and lacking in starch. Such feature is known as chloroplast dimorphism.

The equator receives equal day and night throughout the year because it does not tilt in relation to the sun's location. Because of the tilted axis of the Earth, the poles and locations away from the equator lean towards or away from the sun as an orbit is completed, while the equator stays in essentially the same location relative to the sun.

In Equatorial region, convective rain occur throughout the year providing much needed water to plants which keeps them green throughout the year. The region lies with in Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn. It is multilayered dense forest. Few species are Westen Red Cedar, Scots, Jack Pine

Podsol soil is a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates underconiferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer.

Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty among countries to reduce greenhouse gases emissions based on the  premise that (i) global warming exists and (ii) man-made CO₂ emissions.

Glacial ice or Glaciers ar e the largest reservoir of freshwater on Earth.

The most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen, which makes up about 3/4 of all matter.
Helium makes up most of the remaining 25%. Oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe.

About 70 percent of the Earth’s sur face is watercovered and the oceans hold about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water.

Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion which stated that the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.

The Trans-Himalayan rivers originate beyond the great Himalayas. The name of the rivers are the Indus, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra river.

Black soil or Black Lava Soil is considered most suitable for sowing cotton crops.

Neyveli lignite field in Tamil Nadu is the largest lignite coal mine in India.

Sex ratio is used to describe the number of females per 1000 males in country. In the Population Census of 2011 it was revealed that the population ratio in India 2011 is 940 females per 1000 of males.

In Tamil Nadu, rain water harvesting was made compulsory for every building to avoid ground water depletion.

NASA has developed a series of interactive a maps and graphs to describe the global climte and how it change over time. The focus of 5 key climate indications include Arctic sea ice, carbon dioxide concentration, Global surface temperature, Sea level and land ice.

The area reserved for the welfare of wildlife is called National Park.

The National Green Tribunal deals with cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources.

Kuwait Spill in Persian Gulf, Kuwait of 19th January 1991 was the biggest oil spill in world history.

Japan has the high est life expectancy among th e countries given in the option.

Scattering of light causes redness in atmosphere at Sunrise and Sunset.

Pygmies follow practices of pastoral nomadism.