Geography: MCQs from 131-140

131. “Cloud Burst” means ______?

(a) Sowing of seeds of a crop in a cloudy weather

(b) Formation of artificial rain

(c) Presence of scattered flakes of cloud in the sky

(d) Abnormally heavy downpour of rain associated with a thunderstorm

132. Which one of the following is an ore of iron ______?

(a) Gypsum

(b) Haematite

(c) Bauxite

(d) Ilmentie

133. Which one of the following is correct ______?

(a) All latitudes and longitudes are great circles

(b) All longitudes and equator are great circles

(c) All longitudes are not great circles

(d) All latitudes and Greenwich meridian are great circles

134. The rocks formed by direct cooling and solidification of magma are called ______?

(a) Metamorphic rocks

(b) Sedmentary rocks

(c) Igneous rocks

(d) Derivative rocks

135. Which one of the following is correct with respect to the Mediterranean type of climate ______?

(a) Warm and wet summers are cold and dry winters

(b) Warm winters

(c) Warm and dry summers and cold and wet winters

(d) Cold and dry summers

136. The shortest day in the Northern hemisphere is ______?

(a) 22 June

(b) 22 December

(c) 25 December

(d) 15 June

137. Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of Good Hope in ______?

(a) 1502

(b) 1498

(c) 1494

(d) 1506

138. The Earth revolves around the Sun in its orbit by approximately ______?

(a) 3⁰ per day

(b) 5⁰ per day

(c) 1⁰ per day

(d) 2⁰ per day

139. One degree longitude on the Equator is equal to a distance of ______?

(a) 80 kilometers

(b) 96 kilometers

(c) 56 kilometers

(d) 112 kilometers

140. Which of the following countries has the longest land frontiers ______?

(a) Laos

(b) Burma

(c) China

(d) Russia