1. Which one of the following states has the lowest percentage of Scheduled
Tribes population as a percentage of its total population according to Census
2011?
Answer: a
Answer: d
Answer: c
4. Which of the following cities is known as the oil capital of Europe?
Answer: d
Answer: c
Answer: d
Answer: d
Answer: c
Answer: a
Answer: d
Answer: b
Answer: b
Answer: a
Answer: c
Answer: d
Answer: d
Answer: c
Answer: d
Answer: a
Answer: a
Answer: b
Answer: c
Answer: b
(a) Uttar Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) Tamil Nadu
(d) Kerala
Answer: a
2. Which of the following
is not a cold ocean current?
(a) Canaries
(b) Humboldt
(c) Oyashio
(d) Agulhas
Answer: d
3. Which of the following
is not correctly matched?
Mountain
pass State
(a) Sipkila –
Himachal Pradesh
(b) Bomdila –
Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Nathula –
Meghalaya
(d) Zojila –
Jammu & Kashmir
Answer: c
4. Which of the following cities is known as the oil capital of Europe?
(a) Belfast
(b) Aberdeen
(c) Leeds
(d) Liverpool
Answer: b
4. Which of the following
groups of countries share a border with Israel?
(a) Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, Egypt
(b) Egypt, Turkey,
Jordan, Cyprus
(c) Lebanon, Syria,
Turkey, Jordan
(d) Turkey, Syria, Iraq,
Yemen
Answer: a
5. Which one among the following is the Largest plateau?
(a) Coconino
(b) Aquarius
(c) Colorado
(d) Columbia
Answer: d
6. India’s deepest
port is :
(a) Kandla
(b) Cochin
(c) Paradip
(d) Marmagoa
Answer: c
7. Which of the
following is the largest glacier?
(a) Sasaini
(b) Gangotri
(c) Zemu
(d) Siachin
Answer: d
8. Which of the
following iron and Steel plants is not close to the raw material area?
(a) Jamshedpur
(b) Rourkela
(c) Durgapur
(d) Salem
Answer: d
9. The red sea is an example of
:
(a) Volcanic valley
(b) Eroded valley
(c) Axial trough
(d) U-shaped valley
Answer: c
10. The Tropic of
cancer passes through which of the following states?
Select the correct
answer from the codes given below:
1. Gujarat
2. Chattisgarh
3. Uttar Pradesh
4. Jharkhand
Codes :
(a) 1,2 and 4
(b) 1,2,3 and 4
(c) 1,3 and 4
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Answer: a
11. Identify the
correct west-to-east sequence of the following Hilly Castes?
(a) Khasi – Garo – Naga
– Jaintia
(b) Naga – Jaintiya –
Khasi – Garo
(c) Garo – Khasi –
Jaintia – Naga
(d) Jaintia – Naga –
Garo – Khasi
Answer: c
12. Which of the following
pairs are correctly matched?
1. Idukki: Thermal Power
Station
2. Sabarigiri:
Hydroelectric project
3. Ghatprabha: An irrigation project
4. Ramganga:
Multipurpose project
(a) 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(c) 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 2
Answer: a
13. Match List I with List
II and select the correct answer using the code given below :
List I [Waterfall]
A. Dudhsagar
B. Duduma
C. Gokak
D. Jog
List II [River]
1. Ghatprabha
2. Machhkund
3. Sharavati
4. Mandavi
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 4 2 1 3
(b) 4 2 3 1
(c) 2 4 1 3
(d) 2 3 4 1
Answer: a
14. Which of the
following rock systems provides over 90% of the coal of India?
(a) Vindhyan system
(b) Dharwar system
(c) Tertiary system
(d) Gondwana system
Answer: d
15. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below :
The list I [Area]
A. Western Ghat
B. South-east Rajasthan
C. North-east India
D. Madhya Pradesh and
Chattisgarh
List II [Shifting
Cultivation]
1. Dahiya
2. Walter
3. Jhum
4. Kumari
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 4 2 3 1
(b) 4 3 2 1
(c) 3 4 1 2
(d) 3 2 1 4
Answer: b
16. Match List I with List
II and select the correct answer using the code given below :
The list I [Aluminium
company]
A. Balco
B. Hindalco
C. Indian Aluminium
Company
D. NALCO
List II [Location]
1. Hirakud
2. Korba
3. Koraput
4. Renukut
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 3 1 4 2
(b) 2 4 1 3
(c) 3 4 1 2
(d) 2 1 4 3
Answer: b
17. Match List I with List
II and select the correct answer using the code given below :
The list I [City]
A. Khartoum
B. Brazzaville
C. Rotterdam
D. Paris
List II [River]
1. Zaire
2. Nile
3. Seine
4. Rhine
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 2 1 4 3
(b) 1 2 3 4
(c) 4 3 2 1
(d) 3 4 1 2
Answer: a
18. Which of the
following canals is used as an inland waterway in Southern Germany?
(a) Volga-Don Canal
(b) Sault – Sainte Marie
Canal
(c) Ludwigs Canal
(d) White Sea Canal
Answer: c
19. Large coffee
plantations in Brazil are called
(a) Estate
(b) Estancias
(c) Kalkhozes
(d) Fazendas
Answer: d
20. Which of the following
pairs is not correctly matched?
Country Capital
(a) Guinea
Bissau – Bissau
(b) Taiwan – Taipei
(c) Nicaragua – Managua
(d) Maldives – Malabo
Answer: d
21. Rani Jhansi
maritime National Park was founded in :
(a) 1994
(b) 1995
(c) 1996
(d) 1997
Answer: c
22. The size of the
Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter [R.S.P.M] in the air is :
(a) more than 7 μm
[microne]
(b) more than 6 μm
[microne]
(c) more than 5 μm
[microne]
(d) less than 5 μm
[microne]
Answer: d
23. How many agro
climatic zones are found in Uttar Pradesh?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 9
(d) 12
Answer: a
Assertion [A]: Climate
change is leading to an increase in social tension in India.
The reason [R]: The
frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will have serious repercussions
on food security.
Choose the correct
answer from the code given below :
Codes :
(a) Both [A] and [R] are
true and [R] is the correct reason for [A]
(b) Both [A] and [R] are
true and [R] is not the correct reason for [A]
(c) [A] is true but [R]
is false
(d) [A] is false but [R]
is true
Answer: a
25. Which one of the
following is the First National Park established in India?
(a) Chandoli National
Park
(b) Jim Corbett National
Park
(c) Gir Forest National
Park
(d) Dudhwa National Park
Answer: b
26. Which one of the
following is the correct order of biological organization ranging from the organism
to the biosphere?
(a) Population → Ecosystem → Community → Landscape
(b) Landscape → Community → Ecosystem → Population
(c) Population → Community → Ecosystem → Landscape
(d) Population → Landscape → Community → Ecosystem
Answer: c
27. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
Green House
Gas – Source
(a) Carbon
dioxide – Thermal Power Stations
(b) Chloro Fluro carbon
– Automobile
(c) Nitrous
Oxide – Waterlogged Paddy fields
(d) Sulfur
dioxide – Brick Kilns
Answer: c
28. Which one of the
following atmospheric changes takes place due to the greenhouse effect?
(a) Increase in carbon
dioxide concentration in the atmosphere
(b) Increase in humidity
in the atmosphere
(c) Increase in
biological population
(d) Increase in wind
speed
Answer: b
29. ‘The Decade of
Sustainable Energy for All’ is the initiative of :
(a) United Nations
(b) India
(c) Germany
(d) World Bank
Answer: a
30. Bhopal Gas Tragedy was
caused due to the leakage of :
(a) Methyl Isocyanate
(b) Nitrogen dioxide
(c) Sulfur dioxide
(d) Carbon monoxide
Answer: a
Answer: a
31. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
Pollutant – Disease
caused
(a)
Mercury – Minamata disease
(b)
Cadmium – Itai – Itai disease
(c) Nitrate
Ion – Blue baby syndrome
(d) Fluoride Ion –
Indigestion
Answer: a
Answer: a
32. Which of the following
is considered to be the optimum concentration of carbon dioxide for natural
balance in the atmosphere?
(a) 0.02 %
(b) 0.03%
(c) 0.04%
(d) 0.05%
Answer: b
Answer: b
33. Amount of rain
depends on :
(a) Air pressure
(b) Humidity in the atmosphere
(c) Water cycle
(d) Temperature
Answer: b
Answer: b
34. Which one of the
following is not correctly matched?
(a) World Environment
day – 5th June
(b) Earth
day – 22nd April
(c) Anti-tobacco day –
5th May
(d) Ozone
day – 16th September
Answer: c
35. Biodiversity has maximum danger from
Answer: c
35. Biodiversity has maximum danger from
(a) destruction of
natural habitats and vegetation
(b) Improper
agricultural operations
(c) Climate change
(d) Water pollution
Answer: a
36. Which of the following are the primary causes of climate change?
Answer: a
36. Which of the following are the primary causes of climate change?
1. Excessive burning of
fossil fuels
2. Exploding numbers of
automobiles are driven by oil
3. Increasing solar
flares
4. Heavy deforestation
Select the correct
answer using the code given below :
(a) 2 and 3 only
(b) 1, 2, and 4 only
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 4 only
Answer: c
Answer: c
37. Which one of The following is not correctly matched?
Nitrogen-fixing
agent – Crop
(a) Blue-green
algae – Paddy
(b) Rhizobium
Leguminisarum – Pea
(c)
Azotobacter – Wheat
(d) Azolla – Maize
Answer: d
Answer: d
38. Which one of the following ecosystems has the maximum plant bio-mass?
(a) Tropical deciduous
forest
(b) Tropical rainforest
(c) Temperature deciduous
forest
(d) Desert shrubs
Answer: b
Answer: b
39. The Government of India
enacted the Forest Conservation Act in the year :
(a) 1976
(b) 1980
(c) 1983
(d) 1988
Answer: b
Answer: b
40. Match List I with List
II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists :
List – I
A. Tropical forest
B. Conifer forest
C. Mangroves
D. Deciduous forest
List – II
1. Sunderbans
2. Himachal Pradesh
3. Rajasthan
4. Silent Valley
Codes :
A B C D
(a) 1 2 4 3
(b) 2 1 4 3
(c) 1 4 2 3
(d) 4 2 1 3
Answer: d
Answer: d
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