Top 250+ Solved The Water World, Facts and Countries MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which one of the following countries does not border Mediterranean Sea? [NDA 2004]
a. Malta
b. Libya
c. Italy
d. Bulgaria
Q. The direction of ocean currents is reversed with season: [CDS 1991]
a. in the Pacific Ocean
b. in the Atlantic Ocean
c. in the Indian Ocean
d. in the Mediterranean Sea
Q. Which one of the following factors is responsible for the change in the regular directionof the ocean currents in the Indian Ocean? [IAS 1997]
a. Indian Ocean is ‘half an ocean’
b. Indian Ocean has Monsoon drift
c. Indian Ocean is a land-locked ocean
d. Indian Ocean has greater variation in salinity
Q. One will NOT have to pass through the Suez Canal while going from Bombay to: [IAS1997]
a. Alexandria
b. Suez
c. Port Said
d. Benghazi
Q. With reference to Ocean currents consider the following statements: 1. West Australian current is a warm current. 2. North East Monsoon Drift flows in the Indian Ocean during winter season. 3. Equatorial counter current does not flow in the Indian Ocean during winter season. 4. Kuroshic current in the Pacific Ocean is like Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean. [NDA 2001]
a. 1 and 2
b. 1 and 4
c. 2 and 3
d. 2 and 4
Q. The oceanic current named as 'Kuroshio, Kurile and Alaskan' are located in [CDS2001]
a. North Atlantic Ocean
b. South Atlantic Ocean
c. North Pacific Ocean
d. North Indian Ocean
Q. Which one of the following seas is without a coastline? [CDS 1999]
a. White sea
b. Sargasso sea
c. Sea of Okhotsk
d. Tasman sea
Q. Which one of the following cities is associated with the river Mekong ? [IES 2003]
a. Hong Kong
b. Phnom-Penh
c. Shanghai
d. Yangon
Q. A ship met with an accident at 30ºC and 35ºN. The ship was sailing in the: [CDS 2000]
a. Baltic Sea
b. Black Sea
c. Mediterranean Sea
d. Red Sea
Q. The Grand Banks are famous fishing grounds in the _____ region.
a. North-West Pacific
b. South-East Pacific
c. North-West Atlantic
d. North-East Atlantic
Q. When water freezes in the polar seas the salts:
a. form a layer on top
b. remain in the subsurface water that does not freeze
c. sink to the bottom
d. partly freeze and partly sink to the bottom
Q. Which of the following features are formed by the river in its upper course? 1. Gorge 2. Canyon 3. Meander
a. 1 and 2
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 3
d. 1, 2 and 3
Q. Which of the following is not helpful for delta formation? [CRPF 1990]
a. Fast movement of river in mountains to cut sediments
b. Slow speed
c. Long river course
d. Tidal nature of waves
Q. An ox-bow lake is a : [IFS 1993]
a. lake formed behind an off-shore bar
b. lake occupying a volcanic crater
c. lake formed due to cut off meander
d. lake occupying a hollow scooped by a glacier