Q. Which of the following is concerned with the study of characteristics, origin and development of land forms?
? Geomorphology
Q. The soils common to the south eastern USA are called
? Ultisols
Q. The Suez canal connects the
? Mediterranean sea and the Red sea
Q. The uppermost epoch of the Neogene period is
? the Pliocene epoch
Q. The slow down slope movement of soil and sediment because of frost heaving and thawing is called
? Frost creep
Q. The smallest country of the world is
? Vatican city
Q. The smallest annual temperature range occurs in the
? Equatorial tropical climate zone
Q. The short term variations of the atmosphere, ranging from minutes to months are called
? Weather
Q. The tide produced as a consequence of the moon and the sun pulling the earth in the same direction is called
? Spring tide
Q. The tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of 33 ms are called
? Hurricane
Q. The typical soil of tropical region, formed by the weathering of laterite rock, which promotes leaching of the soil is
? Laterite soils
Q. The troughs of the waves are where the jet stream of waves is closest to the
? Equator