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Q71
The highest and lowest values of a weather element observed over the entire period of record are
  • A extremes
  • B average extremes
  • C absolute extremes
  • D relative extremes
Answer: Option C
Q72
The highest mountain peak of Oceania is
  • A Mt. Victoria, Papua New Guinea
  • B Mt. Kosciusko, Australia
  • C Mt. Cook, South Island (New Zealand)
  • D Puncak Jaya, Indonesia.
Answer: Option D
Q73
The length of the tropical years (the time interval between successive occurrences of the spring equinox) is decreasing very slowly as a result of
  • A small, progressive changes in the earth's rotational speed
  • B small, progressive change in earth's orbit around the sun
  • C both (a) and (b)
  • D None of the above
Answer: Option C
Q74
The largest gulf in the world is
  • A Gulf of Mexico
  • B Persian Gulf
  • C Gulf of Carpentaria
  • D Gulf of Mannar
Answer: Option A
Q75
The hunting and gathering economy can support only
  • A 1 person per sq. km
  • B 3 persons per sq. km
  • C 5 persons per sq. km
  • D 7 persons per sq. km
Answer: Option A
Q76
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
  • A term contracts
  • B term tenders
  • C monthly tenders
  • D All the above
Answer: Option A
Q77
The land-sea distribution or the positions of the world's continents and major oceans influences
  • A the major pressure belts that develop from the general circulation of the atmosphere
  • B the development of the mid-latitude cyclonic depressions, at the convergence zone between polar and subtropical air masses
  • C both (a) and (b)
  • D None of the above
Answer: Option C
Q78
The knowledge about the topography of the ocean basins has been derived from
  • A seismic surveying
  • B echo sounder
  • C side-scan sonar
  • D All of the above
Answer: Option D
Q79
The headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), formed out of erstwhile USSR, is at
  • A Minsk in Byelorussia
  • B Moscow in Russia
  • C Kiev in Ukraine
  • D Kistiner in Moldavia
Answer: Option A
Q80
The longest inland waterways in the world is-
  • A Mississippi river system
  • B The Great Lakes
  • C St. Lawrence
  • D River Rhine
Answer: Option A

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