NDA 2 Exam Geography Questions with Solution (14th November 2021)
1) Which one from the following planets is largest in size?
(a)
Earth
(b)
Venus
(c)
Mars
(d)
Mercury
2) Match List I with List II and select the
correct answer using the code given below the list :
List
I (Place) List II
(Feature)
A Mumbai 1 Queen of the Arabian
Sea
B Vishakhapatnam 2 Biggest port of India
C Chennai 3 Land–locked
harbour
D Kochi 4 Oldest port on the
Eastern Coast
Code:
A B C D
(a) 2 4 3 1
(b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 1 3 4 2
(d) 1 4 3 2
3) Which one of the following is a crater lake in India?
(a) Lonar Lake
(b) Sambhar Lake
(c) Chilika Lake
(d) Vembanad Lake
4) Fine-grained bed of ephemeral lake in a desert is also
known as
(a) Playa
(b) Oasis
(c) Drumlin
(d) Natural levee
Note : Ephemeral ponds or lakes also known as playas, pans, chottes, and sebkas.
Ephemeral lakes
and ponds are basins that remain flooded for short periods of time during a
year but may not hold water for several years if the rainfall regime is not
suitable to produce flooding. Ephemeral waters are essential for the long-term
survival of desert amphibians.
Playa,
(Spanish: shore or beach), also called pan, flat, or dry lake, flat-bottom
depression found in interior desert
basins and adjacent to coasts within arid and semiarid regions, periodically covered
by water that slowly filtrates into the ground water system or evaporates into
the atmosphere, causing the deposition of salt, sand and mud along
the bottom and around the edges of the depression.
Playas are among
the flattest known landforms. Their slopes are
generally less than 0.2 metre per kilometre. A saline
playa may be called a salt flat, salt
marsh, salada, salar, salt pan, alkali flat, or salina. A salt-free
playa may be termed a clay pan, hardpan, dry
lake bed, or alkali flat. In Australia and South Africa small playas
are generally referred to as pans. The terms takyr, sabkha and kavir
are applied in Central Asia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, respectively.
5) Which one of the following factors does not affect the
distribution of groundwater?
(a) Amount of precipitation
(b) Rate of evaporation
(c) Ability of the ground surface to allow water to
infiltrate into the groundwater system
(d) Distance from the sea
6) Which one of the following statements about
biodiversity in not correct?
(a) The term ‘biodiversity’ was coined by Walter G Rosen
in 1986
(b) The term ‘biodiversity hotspots’ was coined by Norman
Myers in 1988
(c) The regions having richest biodiversity are called
‘biodiversity hotspots’
(d) More then 100 hotspots of biodiversity are
identified in the world.
Note :- The
word biodiversity is a contraction of the phrase "biological
diversity" and was first coined in 1985 by Walter Rosen of
the National Research Council as a title word in a seminar he was organizing to
discuss biological diversity.
The term 'biodiversity hotspot' was given by Norman Myers in 1988. He first identified 10 hotspots based on the high degree of endemism and habitat loss, i.e. the regions of richest biodiversity and most endangered.
There
are 36 places or regions on Earth that are biologically rich called the
biodiversity hotspots.
7) The Earth atmosphere is mainly heated by which one of
the following?
(a) Short wave solar radiation
(b) Reflected solar radiation
(c) Long wave terrestrial radiation
(d) Scattered solar radiation
8) Which one of the following is the correct sequence of
layers as we move from the Earth’s surface upwards?
(a) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere
(b) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere,
Thermosphere
(c) Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
(d) Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere
9) Which one of the following is not a soil forming
factor?
(a) Parent material
(b) Topography
(c) Climate
(d) Human habitation
10) Which one of the following best describes the
Lithosphere?
(a) Upper and lower mantle
(b) Crust and core
(c) Crust and upper mantle
(d) Lower mantle and core
11) Which one of the following countries has the maximum
time difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)?
(a) India
(b) Nepal
(c) Sri Lanka
(d) Bhutan
12) The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through which of
the following States?
(a) Manipur
(b) West Bengal
(c) Gujrat
(d) Jharkhand
13) Which of the following pairs of crop and product
is/are correctly matched?
1. Food Crop Ragi
2. Cash Crop Jute
3. Plantation Crop Coconut
Select the correct
answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 3 only
Note :
'Ragi' also known as Finger Millet, is a robust, popular food and
marvellous grain crop in India. It is called dry land
crops, mostly cultivated by the people of Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu & Kerala, both tropical and sub-tropic
regions.
Jute is one of the most important cash crops of eastern India. It is the crop of hot and humid climate and is exported as goods and as a raw fibre. The crop is mainly grown
in West Bengal, Assam, Northern Bihar, south-eastern Orissa, Tripura and
eastern Uttar Pradesh. Jute is rightly called the second important fibre crop of India, next to cotton.
Coconut
is a Tropical fruit plant grown on a large scale as a Plantation
Crop in a number of countries in tropical and sub-tropical areas.
14) Which one of the following coalfields is not located
in Jharkhand?
(a) Jharia
(b) Ramgarh
(c) Deogarh
(d) Umaria
Note - Umaria coalfield is located in Madhya Pradesh
15) Which one of the following is the longest parallel of
latitude?
(a) Tropic of Cancer
(b) Tropic of Capricorn
(c) Arctic Circle
(d) Equator
16) The periodie rise and fall of ocean water in response
to gravitational force is called
(a) Current
(b) Waves
(c) Tides
(d) Tsumani
17) Match List I with List II and select the correct
answer using the code given below the list:
List I (Dam) List II (State)
A Hirakund 1 Gujrat
B Panchet 2 Bihar
C Kosi 3 Odisha
D Ukai 4 Jharkhand
Code:
A B C D
(a) 3 4 2 1
(b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 1 2 4 3
(d) 1 4 2 3
18) Which one of the following features is the result of
erosion and deposition work of a river?
(a) Pothole
(b) Oxbow Lake
(c) Levee
(d) Rapid
19) Which one of the following is not a feature of
agriculture in India?
(a) Subsistence agriculture
(b) Pressure of population on agriculture
(c) Dependence upon Monsoon
(d) Predominance of cash crops
20) Which one of the following nations is not a permanent
member of G7?
(a) India
(b) Canada
(c) France
(d) Italy
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