GK-World Geography Question and Answer
GK-World Geography Question and Answer
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—
the world is—
- Mississippi river system
- The Great Lakes
- St. Lawrence
- River Rhine