Top 550+ Solved Indian Geography (GK) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Gujarat is the largest producer of salt in India because –
a. It has extensive dry coast
b. Its coastal waters are very saline
c. It has extensive shallow seas
d. Besides producing salt from saline water, it has reserves of rock salt
Q. 'Operation Flood' refers to –
a. increase in the production of milk
b. increase in the production of dairy products
c. controlling flood
d. increasing the production of agricultural crops
Q. Kharif crops are sown -
a. a the beginning of the South-West monsoon
b. at the end of the South-West monsoon
c. at the beginning of the North-East monsoon
d. at the end of North-East monsoon
Q. The term "Green Revolution" has been used to indicate higher production through –
a. creation of grasslands
b. planting more trees
c. enhanced agricultural productivity per hectare
d. creation of gardens in urban areas
Q. Which of the following is the correct description of the term 'sex ratio' as used in context of the census?
a. Number of females per 1000 persons
b. Number of females in a sample of 1000 persons
c. Number of males per 1000 females
d. Number of females per 1000 males
Q. Which of the following rock formations resulted in Eastern Ghats?
a. Charnockites, bauxite, granite gneiss and quartzite rock
b. Khondalites, bauxite, granite gneiss, metamorphic gneisses and quartzite rock
c. Charnockites, khondalites, metamorphic gneisses and quartzite rock
d. Charnockites, granite gneiss, quartzite rock, khondalites, metamorphic gneisses
Q. Which of the following is not a cause of low productivity in In-dian agriculture?
a. Co-operative farming
b. Inadequate inputs availability
c. Sub-division and fragmentation of land holdings
d. Poor finance and marketing facilities.
Q. Which of the following was not a purpose for building Farakka Barrage?
a. Checking water flowing into Bangladesh
b. Checking silting of Kolkata Port
c. Preventing erosion of Kolkata Port
d. Facilitating navigation in Ganga river
Q. From origin to the delta, the Brahmaputra traverses –
a. Tibet, China and Myanmar (Burma)
b. Bhutan, Nepal and India
c. China, India and Bangladesh
d. India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma)
Q. River Damodar is called 'Sorrow of Bengal' because it –
a. gets flooded often causing havoc
b. causes maximum soil erosion
c. forms number of dangerous waterfalls
d. is not a perennial river
Q. Crop rotation is being adopted –
a. to increase the productivity of the land
b. to increase the crop yield
c. to increase the soil water
d. to increase the crop resistance to pests.
Q. 82 longitude is geographically significant to India because –
a. it determines the Indian standard time
b. it has a bearing on the tropical climate of India
c. it divides India into eastern and western zones
d. it enables determining local time in eastern India
Q. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
a. Bhilai Steel Plant — Maharashtra
b. Bokaro Steel Plant — Bihar
c. Rourkela Steel Plant — Odisha
d. Durgapur Steel Plant — West Bengal
Q. In which of the following states can you find pink (laterite) soil?
a. West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh
b. Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh
c. Karnataka
d. Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal
Q. Which of the following industries are the major beneficiaries of the Mumbai port?
a. Iron and Steel industry
b. Sugar and Cotton textile industry
c. Cotton textile and Petrochemical industry
d. Engineering and Fertilizer industry