Multiple Choice Questions

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Which one of the following is the correct average slope of a typical 'front' in weather phenomena ?

  • 1:150

  • 1:100

  • 1:50

  • 1:5


B.

1:100

Fronts are zones of transition between two different air masses. The zone may be 20 miles across or it may be 100 miles across, but from one side of a front to the other , one clearly would sense that the properties of an air mass had changed significantly.


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Who stated that the slope profiles are convex, plane or concave according to the circumstances of the uplifting action ?

  • Penck

  • Davis 

  • Johnson

  • Wood


LIST I LIST II
(a) Glacial (1) Alluvial fan
(b) Marine (2) Yardangs
(c) Fluvial  (3) Arete
(d) Aeolian (4) Tombolo
  • a-2 , b-1 , c-3 , d-4

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-4

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-2 , d-1

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


LIST I 

(Conferences/Reports)

LIST II

(Held in/ Published in)

(a) Global climate change impacts in the UNITED STATES (1) 2007
(b) Stockholm Conference  (2) 1992
(c) Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (3) 1972
(d) Rio Conference  (4) 2009
  • a-1 , b-2 , c-4 , d-3

  • a-2 , b-1 , c-3  , d-4

  • a-4 , b-3 , c-2 , d-1

  • a-4 , b-3 , c-1 , d-2


LIST I

(Scholar)

LIST II

(Theory)

(a) Hall and Dana (1) Sea Floor Spreading 
(b) Hutton (2) Thermal Contraction Theory
(c) Harry Hess (3) Theory of Geosyncline
(d) Jeffrey (4) Doctrine of Uniformitarianism
  • a-1 , b-2 , c-4 , d-3

  • a-2 , b-1 , c-3 , d-4

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-3

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


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LIST I 

(Author)

LIST II

(Book)

(a) J.A.Steers (1) Morphological Analysis of Landforms
(b) S.W.Wooldridge (2) Principles of Geomorphology
(c) Walter Penck (3) Unstable Earth
(d) Thornbury (4) Spirit and Purpose of Geography
  • a-2 , b-3 , c-4 , d-1

  • a-1 , b-4 , c-2 , d-3 

  • a-4 , b-2 , c-1 , d-3

  • a-3 , b-4 , c-1 , d-2


The concept of Pediplain is associated with :

  • W.M.Davis

  • L.C.King

  • W.Penck

  • C.A.Cotton


The direction of a horizontal line on an inclined rock strata is known as 

  • Anticline

  • Syncline

  • Dip

  • Strike


ASSERTION (A) : There is a close relationship between volcanic activities and plate margins.

REASON (R) : A vast majority of the world's volcanoes are associated with the convergent plate margins.

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

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

  • (A) is true , but (R) is false.

  • (A) is false , but (R) is true.


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The premise that the present day processes have been operating throughout geological time is the principle of :

  • Isostasy

  • Diastrophism

  • Uniformitarianism

  • Catastrophism