Geography for SSC Exam

1.What is the time taken by the Earth to complete one rotation on its imaginary axis?

a) 24 hr 37 min 23 sec                                     b) 24 hr                

c) 23 hr 56 min 4 sec                                        d)23 hr 52 min

2.The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through:

a) India                                 b) Egypt               c) Mexico            d) Iran

3. Eclipses occur due to which optical phenomena?

a) Reflection                                                      b) Refraction 

c) Rectilinear propagation                            d) Diffraction

4. During the recent venus transit (June 2012), the planet appeared as a tiny black circle moving on the Sun. The black colour on the Sun is because the planet:

a) Is black in colour   

b) Obstructed all light from the sun

c) was invisible due to bright rays from the sun

d) Behaved as a black hole during its transit

5. Which one among the following is called terrestrial planet?

a) Mercury          b)Jupiter              c) Saturn         d)Uranus

6. The twinkling of a star due to:

a) The variation in the intensity of light emitted by it with time                  

b) The variation in the composition of the star with time c) The transit of other celestial objects across the line of sight                  

d) The atmosphere refraction of starlight

7. The earth is at its maximum distance from the sun on:

a) January 30^th                                   b)December22^nd c)September 22^nd                          d) July 4^th

8. Why do we have a leap year every four years?

a) The Earth gets shifted out of orbit every four years

b) The revolution slow down a little once every four years                          

c) The length of a  year is not an integer number of days d) It is a convention

9. The brightest planet is:

a) Jupiter             b) Mars        c) venus       d) Mercury

10. What is meant by the term “midnight sun”?

a) Twilight                                           b)Rising Sun                      

c) Very bright moon       

d) Sun shining in the polar circle for long time

11. The name of Saturn’s largest moon is:

a) Mimas             b) Enceladus       c) Titan                         d) Tethys

12. Which discovered the first four satellites of Jupiter?

a) Galileo             b) Copernicus    c) Newton     d) Kepler

13. Which planet in our solar system is nearly as big as the earth?

a) Mercury          b) Mars             c) Venus         d) Pluto

14. The planet that takes 88 days to make one revolution of the sun is-

a) Mercury          b) Saturn          c) Jupiter        d) Mars

15. Which of the following is called “ Blue planet”?

a)  Saturn             b) Earth                             c)Jupiter        d) Mars

Answer

1.       C

2.       D

3.       C

4.       D

5.       A

6.       D

7.       B

8.       C

9.       C

10.   D

11.   C

12.   A

13.   C

14.   A

15.   B