Multiple Choice Questions

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Paternoster lakes are features typical of :

  • Lava plains 

  • Piedmonts

  •  Deserts

  • Glacial Troughs


D.

Glacial Troughs


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What is the correct sequence of the cloud types in a warm front away from its trailing edge ?

  • Altostratus-Nimbostratus-Cirrus-Cirrostratus

  • Cirrostratus-Nimbostratus-Altostratus-Cirrus

  • Nimbostratus-Altostratus-Cirrostratus-Cirrus

  • Cirrus-Nimbostratus-Altostratus-Cirrostratus


Which one of the following processes is typical to glacial erosion ?

  • Plucking

  • Hydraulic erosion

  • Deflation

  • Corrosion


Westerlies are examples of 

  • Macro atmospheric motions

  • Tornadoes

  • Microscale atmospheric motions

  • Gusts


Which of the following is strongly presumptive faultine scarps ?

  • Superimposed drainage across a fault

  • Poor correlation between rock resistance and topographic forms

  • Frequent severe earthquakes 

  • Actual Fault Plane identified along a scarp


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Crickmay , while disagreeing with Davis , supplanted peneplain with the term :

  • Pediplain

  • Panplane

  • Etch plain

  • Structural plain


LIST I LIST II
(a) Geomorphology (i) Woolridge and Morgan
(b) Essays in Geomorphology (ii) Strahler
(c) Physical Geography (iii) Lobeck
(d) An outline of Geomorphology (iv) Dury

    ASSERTION (A) : Deep chemical decay of rocks is one of the outstanding features of humid tropical regions.

    REASON (R) : Intensity of chemical weathering depends to a large degree upon an abundance of water and high air temperature.

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

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

    •  (A) is true , but (R) is false.

    • (A) is false , but (R) is true.


    LIST I LIST II
    (a) Two cycle theory (i) Davis
    (b) Water table theory (ii) Garner
    (c) Static waterzone theory (iii) Malott
    (d) Invasion theory (iv) Swinnerton
    • a-i , b-iv , c-ii , d-iii

    • a-i , b-ii , c-iii , d-iv

    • a-iv , b-iii , c-i , d-ii

    • a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii


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    Lateral Planation Theory of pediment formation was proposed by 

    • Lawson

    • Davis

    • Gilbert

    • McGee