Multiple Choice Questions

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Polar frontal theory is associated with

  • Origin of trade wind tract

  • Origin of tropical cyclones

  • Origin of tornadoes

  • Origin of Jet Stream


B.

Origin of tropical cyclones


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Which of the following types of clouds occupy the lowest layer 

  • Stratus

  • Cumulus

  • Cumulonimbus

  • Cirrus


The ocean current Benguala is noticed in

  • Pacific ocean

  • Indian ocean

  • Atlantic ocean

  • Arctic ocean


Th term "Pangea" was coined by

  • Alfred Weegener

  • A.N.Strahler

  • Sharp

  • W.M. Smith


V-shaped valley is formed during the 

  • Mature stage of glacial erosion

  • Old age of fluvial of erosion

  • Yothful stage of fluvial cycle of erosion

  • Old age of arid cycle


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Atoll is one of the stages of

  • A natural reservoir

  • A pressure system

  • A coral development

  • Development of the carbon sink in the ocean


The concept  "landscape is a function of structure , process and stage" was evolved by

  • Griffith Taylor

  • Davis

  • Penck

  • Thornbury


Potection plume is the result of

  • A regional wind caused by a pressure gradient

  • Unequal distribution of temperature

  • Abnormalities caused by latent heat of condensation

  • Interaction among different types of air masses


Acid rain is caused by

  • Excess CO2 in the atmosphere 

  • Washout of Sulfuric acid by precipitation

  • Excess in greenhouse gases emission from tropical forests

  • Abnormal variations in composition of gases in the atmposphere.


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ASSERTION (A) : The river valleys are usually narrow shaped in the youthful stage.

REASON (R) : Pothole drilling is a dominant erosional process responsible for down cutting of river valleys.

  • Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanantions of (A).

  • Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanantions of (A).

  • (A) is true but (R) is false

  • (A) is false but (R) is true.