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Earth Multiple Choice Questions & Answers
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1. Which of the following are true regarding equinoxes? ,1. They occur on March 21st and September 23rd,2. They depict equal days and equal nights on March 21st and September 23rd on all places of the earth,3. All places on the earth have equal temperature during equinoxes.
2. Choose the incorrect statement
3. During Lunar eclipse, which of the following is at the centre?
4. Which one of the following would have occurred if the earth had not been inclined on its own axis?
5. The seasonal contrasts are maximum in ________
6. At the summer solstice, which one of the following latitudes will have the longest night?
7. Tides are complied and they vary from place to place because of ________
8. The local time at A is 4 pm, when Greenwich Mean Time is 2 p.m. This indicates:,1. A is east of Greenwich,2. the longitude of A is 30°
9. Latitude and longitude both ________
10. The region which is resistant to the transformation of macro structure, is called?
11. Latitude of place is indicative of its ________
12. Which of the following is the International Date line?
13. Equinox occurs when the Sun is vertically above
14. The word “Isoneph” represents the lines of equal
15. Owing to the equatorial bulge and the polar flattening, the polar radius of the earth falls short of the equatorial radius by about ________
16. The process of water getting evaporated from the surface of leaves is known as
17. Geostationary orbit is at a height of ________
18. The position of the earth in its orbit, when it is at its greatest distance from the Sun causing summer in the Northern hemisphere is ________
19. At 12 noon of December 21, you observe that you cast no shadow as you stand in bright sunlight. So you must be, somewhere near ________
20. At neap tide:,1. the sun and moon exert their force at right angles,2. the tidal amplitude is high,3. the low tides are very low
21. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the
22. The sunlight is available 24 hours on the longest day at which of the following latitudes of the Earth?
23. The phenomenon of an opening occurring in the Earth’s surface through which a Jet of hot water and steam is forced out at irregular intervals is called
24. We always see the same surface of the Moon because
25. The location of a place A is at 60° E longitude and 30° S latitude while the location of B is at 60° E longitude and 45° N latitude. Time at B will be ________