World Geography Questions and Answers
General Knowledge World Geography Questions with Answers explore continents, countries, and climate patterns. Commonly found in UPSC, SSC, and CDS exams, these questions improve global awareness and mapping skills
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71. The highest and lowest values of a weather element observed over the entire period of record are
- extremes
- average extremes
- absolute extremes
- relative extremes
72. The highest mountain peak of Oceania is
- Mt. Victoria, Papua New Guinea
- Mt. Kosciusko, Australia
- Mt. Cook, South Island (New Zealand)
- Puncak Jaya, Indonesia.
73. The length of the tropical years (the time interval between successive occurrences of the spring equinox) is decreasing very slowly as a result of
- small, progressive changes in the earth's rotational speed
- small, progressive change in earth's orbit around the sun
- both (a) and (b)
- None of the above
74. The largest gulf in the world is
- Gulf of Mexico
- Persian Gulf
- Gulf of Carpentaria
- Gulf of Mannar
75. The hunting and gathering economy can support only
- 1 person per sq. km
- 3 persons per sq. km
- 5 persons per sq. km
- 7 persons per sq. km
76. The important of crude oil and petroleum done from national oil companies of producer countries, which have a net exportable surplus of oil is by
- term contracts
- term tenders
- monthly tenders
- All the above
77. The land-sea distribution or the positions of the world's continents and major oceans influences
- the major pressure belts that develop from the general circulation of the atmosphere
- the development of the mid-latitude cyclonic depressions, at the convergence zone between polar and subtropical air masses
- both (a) and (b)
- None of the above
78. The knowledge about the topography of the ocean basins has been derived from
- seismic surveying
- echo sounder
- side-scan sonar
- All of the above
79. The headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), formed out of erstwhile USSR, is at
- Minsk in Byelorussia
- Moscow in Russia
- Kiev in Ukraine
- Kistiner in Moldavia
80. The longest inland waterways in the world is-
- Mississippi river system
- The Great Lakes
- St. Lawrence
- River Rhine