Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) and Answers on The Earth and The Universe
Question 1: Which one of the following layers of the atmosphere is responsible for the deflection of radio waves?
a) Troposphere
b) Stratosphere
c) Mesosphere
d) Ionosphere
Answer: (d)
Question 2: Who amongst the following was the first to state that the Earth was spherical?
a) Aristotle
b) Copernicus
c) Ptolemy
d) Strabo
Answer: (a)
Question 3: Continents have drifted apart because of
a) volcanic eruptions
b) tectonic activities
c) folding and faulting of rocks
d) All of the above
Answer: (b)
Question 4: Which of the following does not belong to solar system?
a) Asteroids
b) Comets
c) Planets
d) Nebulae
Answer: (d)
Question 5: The visible range of solar radiation is
a) 100-400 nm
b) 400-700 nm
c) 740-10000 nm
d) None of these
Answer: (d)
Question 6: Which is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth?
a) Gold
b) Antimony
c) Germanium
d) Astatine
Answer: (d)
Question 7: Great Bear is a
a) galaxy
b) planet
c) star
d) constellation
Answer: (d)
Question 8: How many hours of daylight does the equator experience on September equinox?
a) 8 hours
b) 9 hours
c) 10 hours
d) 12 hours
Answer: (d)
Question 9: Horse latitudes lie within the atmospheric pressure belts of
a) Polar high
b) Equatorial low
c) Sub-tropical high
d) Sub-polar low
Answer: (c)
Question 10: How many Kilometres are represented by 1 degree of latitude?
a) 321 Km
b) 211 Km
c) 111 Km
d) 91 Km
Answer: (c)
Question 11: Which one of the following diagrams shows the direction and duration of wind?
a) Cartogram
b) Climogram
c) Ergograph
d) Star diagram
Answer: (b)
Question 12: The mean distance from the Sun to the Earth is called
a) Light Year
b) Parallactic Second
c) Astronomical unit
d) Angstrom
Answer: (c)
Question 13: Foucault experiment is proof of which one of the following?
a) Revolution of Earth
b) Rotation of Earth
c) Rotation of Moon
d) Revolution of Moon
Answer: (b)
Question 14: Which one of the following is the largest satellite in the Solar system?
a) Titan
b) Ganymede
c) Europa
d) Triton
Answer: (b)
Question 15: Which one of the following is known as the great circle?
a) Tropic of Cancer
b) Tropic of Capricorn
c) Equator
d) Arctic Circle
Answer: (c)
Question 16: Which one of the following is the deepest point in the ocean floor?
a) Challenger Deep
b) Earth and Mars
c) Jupiter and Saturn
d) Saturn and Uranus
Answer: (a)
Question 17: The Asteroid Belt is found between which of the following?
a) Mars and Jupiter
b) Earth and Mars
c) Jupiter and Saturn
d) Saturn and Uranus
Answer: (a)
Question 18: How can the International Date Line explained in simple terms?
a) It is the Equator
b) It is the 180 degree longitude
c) It is the 90 degree East longitude
d) It is the 0 degree longitude
Answer: (b)
Question 19: The Earth’s crust is the thinnest
a) under the mountain ranges
b) under continental masses
c) at ocean bottoms
d) at mid-oceanic ridges
Answer: (c)
Question 20: Which among the following planets is smaller in size than the Earth?
a) Neptune
b) Venus
c) Saturn
d) Uranus
Answer: (b)
Question 21: Which one of the following gases is found in highest quantity in Exosphere?
a) Hydrogen
b) Helium
c) Nitrogen
d) Oxygen
Answer: (a)
Question 22: As we proceed from equator to poles, the daily range of temperature tends to
a) decrease
b) increase
c) be constant
d) fluctuate
Answer: (a)
Question 23: Which one of the following gases, present in the air near the surface of the Earth, has maximum concentrations?
a) Oxygen
b) Hydrogen
c) Nitrogen
d) Methane
Answer: (c)
Question 24: The time difference between the two cities city A (30′ N 60′ E) and city B (30′ N 80′ E) would be
a) 80 min
b) 0 min
c) 20 min
d) 34 min
Answer: (a)
Question 25: How much of a time period 15 degree of longitudes account for?
a) 4 min
b) 15 min
c) 30 min
d) 60 min
Answer: (d)
Question 26: Who among the following was first to measure the circumferences of the Earth?
a) Eratosthenes
b) Aristotle
c) Hecataeus
d) Herodotus
Answer: (a)
Question 27: Which one of the following regions on the surface of the Earth has Horse Latitudes?
a) Equatorial Low Pressure Belt
b) Sub-tropical High Pressure Belt
c) Sub-polar Low Pressure Belt
d) Polar High Pressure Belt
Answer: (b)
Question 28: From which one of the following is the percentage of reflected amount of radiation highest?
a) Wet ground
b) Thick cloud
c) Forest
d) Snow cover
Answer: (d)
Question 29: Which one of the following is different in local time between the places located at 165 degree East and 165 degree West?
a) 0 hr
b) 12 hr
c) 22 hr
d) 24 hr
Answer: (b)
Question 30: On planet Earth there is no centrifugal force at the
a) Equator
b) Tropic of Cancer
c) Tropic of Capricorn
d) Poles
Answer: (d)
Question 31: In which one of the following is a great dark plain called ‘Maria’ found?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Moon
Answer: (d)
Question 32: Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
a) Prime Meridian : 0 degree
b) International Date Line : 180 degree
c) Arctic Circle : 66 1/2 degree N
d) Tropic of Cancer : 23 1/2 degree S
Answer: (d)
Question 32: Which one of the following is not a cause for the present global warming and climate change?
a) CFC emission
b) Carbon dioxide emission
c) Deforestation
d) Methane emission
Answer: (a)
Question 33: Which one of the following does not have a common international border with Bangladesh?
a) Manipur
b) West Bengal
c) Tripura
d) Assam
Answer: (a)
Question 34: The International Date Line, passes through
a) Baffin Bay
b) Bering Strait
c) Denmark Strait
d) Hudson Bay
Answer: (b)
Question 35: When it is 12:00 noon in Allahabad, the time in Tokyo would be about
a) 9:30 am
b) 3:30 pm
c) 6:30 pm
d) 9:30 pm
Answer: (b)
Question 36: The surface temperature of the Sun is nearly
a) 2000 K
b) 4000K
c) 6000K
d) 8000K
Answer: (c)
Question 37: The Glacial control theory of ‘Coral Reefs’ has been put forward by
a) Daly
b) Lecante
c) Sluifer
d) Darwin and Dana
Answer: (d)
Question 38: The environmental temperature Lapse rate per 1000 m of ascent is
a) 4.6 degree centigrade
b) 5.8 degree centigrade
c) 6.4 degree centigrade
d) 6.8 degree centigrade
Answer: (c)
Question 39: Which one of the following planets is known as ‘morning star’ as well as ‘evening star’?
a) Jupiter
b) Mars
c) Mercury
d) Venus
Answer: (d)
Question 40: Which one of the following planets take maximum time for one revolution around the Sun?
a) Earth
b) Jupiter
c) Mars
d) Venus
Answer: (b)
Question 41: Which one of the following describes the Lithosphere?
a) Upper and lower mantle
b) Crust and upper mantle
c) Crust and core
d) Mantle and core
Answer: (b)
Question 42: Which one of the following is an object with such a strong gravitational field that even light cannot escape from its surface?
a) Neutron star
b) White Dwarf
c) Black hole
d) Supernova star
Answer: (c)
Question 43: Sun’s halo is produced by the refraction of light in
a) water vapour in Stratus clouds
b) ice-crystals in Cirro-Cumulus clouds
c) ice-crystals in Cirrus clouds
d) dust particles in Stratus clouds
Answer: (d)
Question 44: Which one of the following is correct?
a) Jupiter seems to be reddish in the day and night
b) Venus is also known as a star, which is morning star
c) Venus is the planet, having same area with Earth
d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Question 45: The distance between two consecutive longitudes (91 degree E and 92 degree E) poles is
a) 0 Km
b) 25 Km
c) 18 Km
d) 111 Km
Answer: (a)
Question 46: The visible range of solar radiation is
a) 100-400 nm
b) 400-700 nm
c) 740-10000 nm
d) None of these
Answer: (b)
Question 47: Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
a) Westerlies : Planetary wind
b) Trade winds : Planetary wind
c) Monsoon : Seasonal wind
d) Loo : Local wind
Answer: (d)
Question 48: The imaginary line on the Earth’s surface that closely follows the 180 degree Meridian is
a) Prime Meridian
b) Equator
c) International Date Line
d) Tropic of Cancer
Answer: (c)
Question 49: Which one of the following pairs is the tide produced as a consequence of Moon and Sun pulling the Earth in the same direction?
a) Spring tide
b) Neap tide
c) High tide
d) Low tide
Answer: (c)
Question 50: The Continental Drift Theory is given by
a) Alfered Wegener
b) Gutenburg
c) Wiechert
d) None of these
Answer: (a)