Water (Oceans) MCQ Questions Class 11 Geography Chapter 13
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Multiple Choice Questions:
1.) Planet earth is also known as _____?
A.) Blue planet
B.) Black planet
C.) Green planet
D.) Yellow planet
Answer: blue planet
2.) From how many years water cycle has been functioning?
A.) Crore years
B.) Million years
C.) A thousand years
D.) A hundred years
Answer: crore years
3.) All forms of life on earth depend on which of the following?
A.) Water
B.) The sun
C.) The night
D.) Plants
Answer: water
4.) Which two of the following elements are important for life on earth?
A.) Forest, tree
B.) Land, mineral
C.) Air, water
D.) Air, tree
Answer: air, water
5.) Out of the following, what percentage of the water found on earth is found in the oceans?
A.) 71 percent
B.) 2 percent
C.) 7 percent
D.) 1 percent
Answer: 71 percent
6.) What percentage of the following water that falls on the ground goes to the atmosphere through oceans and evaporation elsewhere?
A.) 59 percent
B.) 5 percent
C.) 9 percent
D.) 14 percent
Answer: 59 percent
7.) Which two of the following forms water crisis?
A.) Spatial and temporal
B.) Permanent and manmade
C.) Incremental and local
D.) None of the above
Answer: spatial and temporal
8.) In which five oceans is the earth’s oceanic area divided?
A.) Pacific, Atlantic, Indian ocean, southern ocean, arctic
B.) Ganges, Atlantic, Indian, southern ocean, arctic
C.) Himalaya, pacific, Atlantic, Indian, arctic
D.) Pacific, Atlantic, ganges, pacific, arctic
Answer: pacific, Atlantic, Indian ocean, southern ocean, arctic
9.) Where are the ridges, hills, sea dunes, submerged islands, trenches and ravines etc.) Are found?
A.) On the ocean plains
B.) In the sea
C.) On the mountain
D.) None of the above
Answer: on the ocean plains
10.) What is average width of continental shelf?
A.) 4 kilometers
B.) 70 kilometers
C.) 8 kilometers
D.) 80 kilometers
Answer: 80 kilometers
11.) Which of the following shelves is the largest in the world?
A.) Antarctic shelf
B.) Siberian shelf
C.) Indian shelf
D.) Pacific shelf
Answer: siberian shelf
12.) What is the width of siberian shelf?
A.) 1500 km
B.) 500 km
C.) 1000 km
D.) 105 km
Answer: 1500 kms
13.) What connects the ocean basins and continental shelf?
A.) Trenches
B.) Continental shield
C.) Canyons
D.) None of the above
Answer: continental shield
14.) Which of the following is the depth of the shield region in meters?
A.) Between 200m and 3000m
B.) Between 100 m and 200 m
C.) Between 400m and 30m
D.) Between 8m and 9m
Answer: between 200m and 3000m
15.) Which of the following plains is the smoothest and flattest part of the universe?
A.) Deep oceanic plains
B.) Kenyan
C.) Shelf
D.) Shield
Answer: deep oceanic plains
16.) What is filled in deep oceanic plains?
A.) Silt and clay
B.) Stone
C.) Igneous rock
D.) Silt
Answer: silt and clay
17.) Which of the following is the depth of the deep ocean floor?
A.) 3000 to 6000 m
B.) 4000 to 2000 m
C.) 1000 to 2000 m
D.) 5000 to 6000 m
Answer: 3000 to 6000 m
18.) Which of the following troughs are important for the study of plateau flow?
A.) Oceanic trough
B.) Smooth soil
C.) The deceased
D.) Gad
Answer: oceanic trough
19.) How many troughs are discovered till now?
a) 57 troughs
b) 58 troughs
c) 5 troughs
d) 8 troughs
Answer: 57 troughs
20.) How many of the following troughs were discovered in the pacific ocean?
A.) 32 troughs
B.) 30 troughs
C.) 20 troughs
D.) 10 troughs
Answer: 32 troughs
21.) How many troughs are discovered in atlantic ocean?
a) 19 troughs
b) 2 troughs
c) 9 troughs
d) 1 trough
Answer: 19 troughs
22.) How many troughs are found in Indian ocean?
a) 6 troughs
b) 4 troughs
c) 5 troughs
d) 8 troughs
Answer: 6 troughs
23.) What forms by range of mountain separated by great depression
A.) Oceanic trough
B.) Plain
C.) Oceanic hill
D.) Mid-oceanic range
Answer: mid-oceanic ridge
24.) What could be the peak of the mid-oceanic mountain ridge?
A.) 2500 meters
B.) 150 meters
C.) 105 meters
D.) 2 meters
Answer: 2500 meters
25.) What is the example of mid-oceanic mountain located in the mid-atlantic ridge?
A.) Island
B.) Plain
C.) Slope
D.) None of the above
Answer: island
26.) Which of the following is the steepest peak mountain?
A.) Sea mound
B.) Island
C.) Troughs
D.) Shelf
Answer: sea mound
27.) How are sea mounds formed among the following?
A.) Due to volcanoes
B.) Due to waves
C.) Due to earthquake
D.) Due to tsunami
Answer: due to volcanoes
28.) What is the height of sea mounds?
A.) 3000 to 4500 meters high
B.) 2000 to 1000 meters high
C.) 6000 to 5000 meters high
D.) 8000 to 9000 meters high
Answer: 3000 to 4500 meters high
29.) Which of the following is an example of an extension of the hawaiian islands into the pacific ocean?
A.) Emperor sea mound
B.) Sand dune
C.) Colorado
D.) Shelf
Answer: emperor sea mound
31.) Which of the following is the well-known canyon in the universe?
A.) Hudson canyon
B.) Grand canyon
C.) Colorado
D.) Shelf
Answer: hudson canyon
32.) Which of the following oceans has more than ten thousand sea dunes and submerged islands?
A.) In the pacific ocean
B.) Arctic
C.) Indian ocean
D.) None of the above
Answer: in the pacific ocean
33.) Which of the following causes an increase in temperature between the east coast of america and the west coast of europe?
A.) Gulf stream
B.) Volcanos
C.) Earthquake
D.) Lava
Answer: gulf stream
34.) Which of the following is a labrador?
A.) Cold stream
B.) Hot stream
C.) Sea mounds
D.) Trough
Answer: cold stream
35.) What is called when there is a sudden drop in temperature among the following?
A.) Temperature gradient thermocline
B.) Temperature drop
C.) Hot drop
D.) None of the above
Answer: temperature gradient thermocline
36.) For which of the following is the word salinity used?
A.) To determine the amount of sea salt
B.) To determine the color of the sea
C.) To determine sea heat
D.) To determine sea size
Answer: to determine the amount of sea salt
37.) Which of the following is the salinity of normal sea?
A.) Between 33% to 37%
B.) 34% to 30%
C.) 10% to 20%
D.) 50% to 5%
Answer: between 33% to 37%
38.) Which of the following is the percentage of salinity in the red sea?
A.) 41 %
B.) 39 %
C.) 20 %
D.) 10 %
Answer: 41 %
39.) Which of the following is not a part of the aquatic cycle?
A.) Hydration
B.) Evaporation
C.) Precipitation
D.) Condensation
Answer: hydration
40.) What is the average continental depth?
A.) 200 – 2000 m
B.) 20-200 m
C.) 2-20 m
D.) 2000-20000 m
Answer: 200 – 2000 m
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