Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Answers on Physiography of India
Question 1: The soil formed by wind dust in and around hot desert is called
a) silty soil
b) loamy soil
c) sandy soil
d) loess soil
Answer: (d)
Question 2: Pir Panjal range in the Himalayas is a part of
a) Shiwalik
b) Trans Himalaya
c) Central Himalaya
d) Lesser Himalaya
Answer: (d)
Question 3: Which one of the following Indian states shares international boundaries with three nations?
a) Uttarakhand
b) Himachal Pradesh
c) Arunachal Pradesh
d) Assam
Answer: (c)
Question 4: Where is Aghil pass located?
a) Nepal Himalayas
b) Sikkim Himalayas
c) Eastern Himalayas
d) Trans Himalayas
Answer: (d)
Question 5: Duncan passage is located between
a) South and little Andaman
b) Little and Great Nicobar
c) North and Middle Andaman
d) Middle and South Andaman
Answer: (a)
Question 6: The Pennines (Europe), Appalachians(America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of
a) old mountains
b) young mountains
c) fold mountains
d) block mountains
Answer: (a)
Question 7: Which one of the following states has the world’s largest freshwater island?
a) Uttar Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Bihar
d) Assam
Answer: (d)
Question 8: Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
a) Dodabetta : Tamil Nadu
b) Guru Shikhar : Rajasthan
c) Kalsubai : Maharashtra
d) Dhupgarh : Odisha
Answer: (d)
Question 9: Which one of the following is the highest mountain peak?
a) Nanga Parbat
b) Nanda Devi
c) Kanchenjunga
d) K2
Answer: (d)
Question 10: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Baghelkhand : Madhya Pradesh
b) Kuttanad : Kerala
c) Saurashtra : Gujrat
d) Rarh : Bihar
Answer: (d)
Question 11: Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the hills of Meghalaya from east to west?
a) Garo-Khasi-Jaintia
b) Khasi-Jaintia-Garo
c) Jaintia-Khasi-Garo
d) Jaintia-Garo-Khasi
Answer: (c)
Question 12: Which one among the following peaks is the highest?
a) Dhaulagiri
b) Namcha Barwa
c) Nanda Devi
d) Nanga Parbat
Answer: (a)
Question 13: The channel separating the Andaman island from the Nicobar island is known as?
a) Coco Channel
b) 10 degree Channel
c) Duncan Passage
d) Sombararo Channel
Answer: (b)
Question 14: The Karewas of Kashmir refers to which among the following types of deposists?
a) Aeolian and glacial
b) Fluvial
c) Lacustrine
d) Volcanic
Answer: (c)
Question 15: Which one of the following is the oldest mountain range in India?
a) Himalayas
b) Aravalli
c) Satpura
d) Nilgiri
Answer: (b)
Question 16: Which one of the following cities will never get the vertical rays of the Sun?
a) Srinagar
b) Mumbai
c) Kolkata
d) Thiruvananthapuram
Answer: (a)
Question 17: In which one of the following islands of India is an active volcano found?
a) Car Nicobar Island
b) Nancowry Island
c) Barren Island
d) Maya Bunder Island
Answer: (c)
Question 18: Structurally, Meghalaya region is a part of
a) Shiwalik Range.
b) Deccan Plateau
c) Greater Himalaya
d) Aravalli Range
Answer: (b)
Question 19: Which of the following soils is the most common in Northern plains?
a) Laterite
b) Regur
c) Alluvial
d) Red soil
Answer: (c)
Question 20: Veliconda group of low hills is a structural part of
a) Nilgiri hills
b) Western ghats
c) Eastern ghats
d) Cardamom hills
Answer: (c)
Question 21: Which one of the following lakes in India has the highest salinity?
a) Dal
b) Chilika
c) Wular
d) Sambhar
Answer: (d)
Question 22: Which one of the following pairs of states of India indicates the easternmost and westernmost state?
a) Assam and Rajasthan
b) Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan
c) Assam and Gujarat
d) Arunachal Pradesh and Gujarat
Answer: (d)
Question 23: Where are Shevaroy Hills located?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Kerala
d) Tamil Nadu
Answer: (d)
Question 24: In which state is the Guru Shikar Peak located?
a) Rajasthan
b) Gujrat
c) Maharashtra
d) Madhya Pradesh
Answer: (a)
Question 25: Veliconda Hills, is situated in
a) Odisha
b) Tamil Nadu
c) Karnataka
d) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: (d)
Question 26: The shifting sand dunes in the Thar region are locally known as?
a) Dhrian
b) Daurs
c) Dhoros
d) Dhaya
Answer: (a)
Question 27: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Miri Hills : Arunachal Pradesh
b) Mikir Hills : Assam
c) Lushai Hill : Mizoram
d) Abor Hills : Tripura
Answer: (d)
Question 28: The Nanda Devi Peak is located in
a) Himachal Pradesh
b) Jammu and Kashmir
c) Sikkim
d) Uttarakhand
Answer: (d)
Question 29: Which one among the following are the Southernmost Hills?
a) Cardamom Hills
b) Javadi Hills
c) Nallamalai Hills
d) Nilgiri Hills
Answer: (a)
Question 30: Which one among the following is the habitat of a species of monkey called lion-tailed macaque?
a) Garo Hills
b) Kullu Valley
c) Nallamalai Hills
d) Silent Valley
Answer: (d)
Question 31: Which one of the following statements is/are correct?
a) Kanchenjunga is the second highest mountain peak in the world.
b) Chilika Lake is the largest brackish water lake in India.
c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Question 32: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Markha valley : Sikkim
b) Dzukou valley : Nagaland
c) Sangla valley : Himachal Pradesh
d) Yumthang valley : Sikkim
Answer: (a)
Question 33: Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a) Rajmahal highlands consist of lava flow deposits.
b) Bundelkhand gneiss belong to the oldest Achaean rocks of India
c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Question 34: Which of the following is/are biodiversity hot spot?
a) Western Ghats
b) Eastern Himalayas
c) Aravalli Hills
d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
Answer: (d)
Question 35: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Kolkata : Zone III
b) Guwahati : Zone V
c) Delhi : Zone IV
d) Chennai : Zone I
Answer: (d)
Question 36: Which of the following statements regarding laterite soils of India is/are correct?
a) They are generally red in colour
b) Tapioca and cashewnuts grow well on these soils
c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Question 37: Deserts, fertile plains and moderate mountains are the characteristic features of which one of the following regions?
a) South-Western border along sea
b) Coromandel Coast
c) North-Eastern Frontier
d) North-Western India
Answer: (d)
Question 38: Which of the following statements regarding Andaman and Nicobar Islands is/are correct?
a) It enjoys equatorial climate.
b) This is the only place in India where a volcano is located.
c) This is the only place in India where a coral bed is found.
d) Only ‘a’.
Answer: (d)
Question 39: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Nanga Parbat : Jammu and Kashmir
b) Nanda Devi : Uttarakhand
c) Kanchenjunga : Sikkim
d) Gurushikhar : Odisha
Answer: (d)
Question 40: Which of the following statements regarding the Deccan traps is/are correct?
a) The volcanic lava spread out in horizontal sheets.
b) The Regur soil found here is rich in nitrogen.
c) Only ‘a’.
d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
Answer: (c)
Question 41: Tamil Nadu shares its border with
a) Odisha
b) Kerala
c) Goa
d) Maharashtra
Answer: (b)
Question 42: Which of the following statements is/are correct?
a) The plains of Ganga is the most fertile part of India.
b) It is famous for rice and jute.
c) Only ‘a’.
d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’
Answer: (d)
Question 43: Which one of the following does not characterise the Himalayas?
a) The Himalayas are wider in the East than in the west.
b) Various parallel ranges of the Himalayas form a convex arc.
c) Only ‘a’
d) None of the above
Answer: (c)
Question 44: What is the correct sequence of the location of the following sea ports of India from south to north?
a) Cochin-Thiruvananthapuram-Calicut-Mangalore
b) Calicut-Thiruvananthapuram-Cochin-Mangalore
c) Thiruvananthapuram-Cochin-Calicut-Mangalore
d) Thiruvananthapuram-Calicut-Mangalore-Cochin
Answer: (c)
Question 45: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Kolaghat : West Bengal
b) Chandrapur : Maharashtra
c) Suratgarh : Rajasthan
d) Unchahar : Bihar
Answer: (d)
Question 46: Which of the following statements is not correct regarding the Himalayas?
a) Himalayas contain three mountain ranges-Shiwalik, Great Himalayas and Kunlun Ranges.
b) Himalayas rose up from the Tethys Sea
c) Himalayas have nappe and recumbent folds
d) None of the above
Answer: (a)
Question 47: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Kadana : Gujarat
b) Kalinadi : Karnataka
c) Machkund : Odisha
d) Vaiterna : Maharashtra
Answer: (c)
Question 48: From West to East which one of the following is the correct sequence of the hills?
a) Mahadeo Hills-Maikala Hills-Garhjat Hills
b) Mahadeo Hills-Garhjat Hills-Maikala Hills
c) Maikala Hills-Mahadeo Hills-Garhjat Hills
d) Maikala Hills-Garhjat Hills-Mahadeo Hills
Answer: (a)
Question 49: Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
a) Palitana : Gujarat
b) Kasia : Uttar Pradesh
c) Munnar : Kerala
d) Amaravati : Maharashtra
Answer: (d)
Question 50: Out of four southern states Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, which shares boundaries with maximum number of Indian states?
a) Andhra Pradesh
b) Karnataka
c) Each of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka
d) Each of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Answer: (b)