NDA 2 Exam Geography Questions with Solution

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

(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

(d) 1 4 3 2

3) Which one of the following is a crater lake in India?

(a) Lonar Lake

(b) Sambhar Lake

(d) Vembanad Lake

4) Fine-grained bed of ephemeral lake in a desert is also known as

(a) Playa

(b) Oasis

(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

(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

(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

(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

(d) Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere

9) Which one of the following is not a soil forming factor?

(a) Parent material

(b) Topography

(d) Human habitation

10) Which one of the following best describes the Lithosphere?

(a) Upper and lower mantle

(b) Crust and core

(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

(d) Bhutan

12) The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through which of the following States?

(a) Manipur

(b) West Bengal

(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

(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.