HSST JUNIOR
GEOGRAPHY SR FOR SC/ST
1.What is
“Baku”famous for?
A.Petroleum
B.Iron
smelting
C.Locomotion
D.Silk
industry
Ans:A
2.The
first bank to get online banking facility in India”
A.HDFC
C.ICICI
D.Canara
bank
Ans:A
3.The
book “Vision,values and velocity”wrote by:
A.Sam
Pitroda
B.Bill Gates
C.Sakundala
Devi
D.N.R.Narayan
Ans:A
4.The
power of Judicial review in India is:
A.Given by
the Parliament
B.Given by
the President
C.Explicit
D.Implicit
Ans:D
5.The
Mamamkam,festival of Kerala celebrated in:
A.Once in 10
years
B.Once in 12
years
C.Once in 5
years
D.Every year
Ans:B
6.The
Kurichia revolt began on:
A.25th
March 1812
B.25th
March 1810
C.12th
March 1810
D.12th
March 1809
Ans:A
7.The
first Malayalam Grammar book “Leelathilakam”prepared by:
A.Herman
Gundert
B.Father
Kariyattil Ouseph
C.Arnos
Pathiri
D.Dr.Angelos
Francis
Ans:D
8.The
‘World Ozone Day’observed on:
A.September
16
B.October 16
C.September
21
D.October 21
Ans:A
9.The
National Judicial Academy of India situated in:
A.Nagpur
B.Mumbai
C.Delhi
D.Bhopal
Ans:D
10.The
first Malayalam newspaper “Rajyasamacharam”published by:
A.Dr.Angelos
Francis
B.G.Kesavan
C.Herman
Gundert
D.K.Kelappan
11.The
marumakkathayam Act passed in Kerala in the year:
A.1913
B.1923
C.1933
D.1943
Ans:C
12.Who
founded the organization “Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangham”?
A.Vagbhadanatha
B.Ayyankali
C.Chattampi
Swamikal
D.Ayyaguru
Ans:B
13.The
first Nair Act in Travancore passed in the year:
A.1906
B.1908
C.1910
D.1912
Ans:D
14.The
Sahodara Prasthanam started by:
A.V.T.Bhattathiripad
B.K.Kelappan
C.K.Ayyappan
D.Vagbhatananda
Ans:C
15.The
Hindu Succession Act passed in the year:
A.1959
B.1958
C.1957
D.1956
Ans:D
16.The
Sanskrit book”Bhakti Manjary”wrote by:
A.Gauri
Lakshmi Bhai
B.Swati Tirunal
C.Kalidasa
D.V.T.Bhattathiripad
Ans:B
17.Indian
Constitution adopted concurrent lists from the constitution of:
A.Canada
B.Australia
C.Ireland
D.U.S.A
Ans:B
18.Among
the fundamental rights of Indian Constitution the Right to Property eliminated by the:
A.42nd
Amendment Act
B.43rd
Amendment Act
C.44th
Amendment Act
D.45th
Amendment Act
Ans:C
19.The
financial emergency declared by the
President of India mentioned in the :
A.Article
352
B.Article
356
C.Article
360
D.Article
370
Ans:C
20.Part
XVIII(18th)of Indian Constitution contains:
A.Fundamental
duties
B.Emergency
provisions
C.Municipalities
D.Panchayats
Ans:B
21.Development
of democratic citizenship is:
A.A goal of
education
B.A learning
outcome
C.A process competency
D.An
Instructional objective
Ans:A
22.Which
of the following methods can enhance
pupil-pupil interaction in a class?
A.Experiment
B.Lecture
C.Peer
tutoring
D.Problem
solving
Ans:C
23.Which
of the following is the most important duty of a teacher?
A.To come
regularly and attend students feeling
B.To create
a classroom environment
C.To guide
them to appear for examinations without anxiety
D.To
motivate the learner to learn how to learn
Ans:D
24.Which
one is an advantage of expository teaching?
A.Higher
learner participation
B.Highly
interactive
C.More
content coverage
D.Suitable
for small groups
Ans:C
25.Which
of the following will be the most popular for assessing students attitude towards study tasks?
A.Internal
tests
B.Scales
C.Observation
D.Sociometric
techniques
Ans:B
26.A
researcher studies the effect of anxiety on students achievement.Which category of variable is anxiety?
A.Control
B.Dependent
C.Independent
D.Intervening
Ans:C
27.If a
researcher sends a questionnaire to every 5th person from the sample frame,sampling technique is:
A.Cluster
sampling
B.Judgemental
sampling
C.Stratified
sampling
D.Systematic
sampling
Ans:D
28.Qualitative
research is characterized by:
A.Context
specifically
B.Deductive
C.Generalizability
D.Hypotheses
testing
Ans:A
29.What
is ISSN?
A.International
Specific Series Number
B.International
Standard Serial Number
C.International
Standard Subscriber Number
D.International
Subscriber Standard Number
Ans:B
30.A
research result that cannot be generalized is lacking in:
A.External
criticism
B.External
validity
C.Internal
criticism
D.Internal
validity
Ans:B
31.The
person who enunciated the principle of Uniformitarianism
A.James
Hutton
B.Penk
C.V.M.Davis
D.Huss
Ans:A
32.The
largest division of the Geologic time scale:
A.Division
B.Eons
C.Periods
D.Epochs
Ans:B
33.The
person associated with the concept of Isostasy:
A.Airy
B.Wegner
C.W.M.Davis
D.Hess
Ans:A
34.The
process of temperature decrease due to the expansion of rising air is called as:
A.Adiabatic
cooling
B.Inversion
of temperature
C.Adiabatic
heating
D.Latent
heat of condensation
Ans:A
35.The
percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere:
A.30%
B.25%
C.24%
D.21%
Ans:D
36.A line
which connects points of equal wind speed:
A.Isobar
B.Isotach
C.Isohaline
D.Isopycnal
Ans:B
37.Which
is the high cloud?
A.Cirrus
B.Altocumulus
C.Altostratus
D.Stratocumulus
Ans:A
38.The
Humboldt Current is the ocean current of:
A.Indian
Ocean
B.Atlantic
Ocean
C.Arctic
Ocean
D.Pacific
Ocean
Ans:D
39.A sand
or gravel bar that connect an island with another island or the mainland:
A.Haffs
B.Spits
C.Hook
D.Tombolo
Ans:D
40.The
place or set of environmental condition in which a particular organism lives is called:
A.Mutation
B.Habitat
C.Epiphyte
D.Locality
Ans:B
41.The
country which shares shortest border with India:
A.Bangladesh
B.China
C.Afghanistan
D.Nepal
Ans:C
42.A
tributary of Krishna River:
A.Musi
B.Kolar
C.Sabari
D.Jonk
Ans:A
43.Which
year is called ‘Demographic Divide’in india?
A.1924
B.1921
C.1923
D.1920
Ans:B
44.The
headquarter of North Eastern Railway Zone:
A.New Delhi
B.Guwahati
C.Gorakhpur
D.Kolkata
Ans:C
45.The
plant TISCO located:
A.Bihar
B.Jharkhand
C.Chattisgarh
D.West
Bengal
Ans:B
46.The
land share of Kerala in India:
A.1.25%
B.1.66%
C.1.18%
D.2%
Ans:C
47.The
largest coffee producing state in India:
A.Tamil Nadu
B.Karnataka
C.Kerala
D.Assam
Ans:B
48.The
Manchester of South India:
A.Chennai
B.Salem
C.Hyderabad
D.Coimbatore
Ans:D
49.The
least populated district in Kerala according to 2011 Census
A.Wayanad
B.Idukki
C.Kasaragod
D.Alappuzha
Ans:D
50.The
longest river in South India:
A.Mahanadi
B.Krishna
C.Godavari
D.Cauvery
Ans:C
51.The
supporter of Pragmatism:
A.Plato
B.Raztel
C.John Dewey
D.Store
Kierkegaard
Ans:C
52.The
book ‘Almagest’was written by:
A.Ptolemy
B.Huntington
C.Semple
D.Frobel
Ans:A
53.The
‘T-in-O’map was constructed during the period of:
A.Modern
period
B.Early
Medieval period
C.Ancient
period
D.Late
Medieval period
Ans:B
54.The
Heartland Theory is the contribution of:
A.Ratzel
B.Emmanuel
Kant
C.M.Davis
D.Halford
John Mackinder
Ans:D
55.The
person who first attempted to calculate the circumference of the earth:
A.Eratosthenes
B.Strabo
C.Herodotus
D.Aristotle
Ans:A
56.The
supporter Stop and Go Determinism:
A.Slache
B.Al-Masudi
C.Griffith
Taylor
D.Jean
Brunhes
Ans:C
57.Who
invented the instrument ‘Astrolabe’for the determination of latitudes and longitudes?
A.Ptolemy
B.Eratosthenes
C.Homer
D.Hipparchus
Ans:D
58.The
approach which describes physical setting is the more dominant factor than human is:
A.Possibilism
B.Determinism
C.Social
Darwinism
D.Stop and
Go Determinism
Ans:B
59.The
book of Thomas Kuhn:
A.The
Structure of Scientific Revolutions
B.Historical
memoir
C.Outline of
geography
D.Almagest
Ans:A
60.The
father of Exceptionalism in geography:
A.Strabo
B.Huntington
C.Emmanuel
Kant
D.Hutton
Ans:C
61.The
lines which connect places of same rainfall:
A.Isochrones
B.Isohyets
C.Isotherms
D.Isohels
Ans:B
62.Data
that describe the characteristic of spatial features:
A.Non
spatial data
B.Colour
data
C.Discrete
data
D.Attribute
data
Ans:D
63.A
spatial data model that uses a grid to represent the spatial variation of a feature:
A.Vector
data model
B.Raster
data model
C.Spatial
model
D.Relational
data model
Ans:B
64.Data
that provide information about spatial data:
A.Meta data
B.Vector
data
C.Raster
data
D.Digital
data
Ans:A
65.Processes
of superimposing two or more images or photographs so that equivalent geographic point coincide is called:
A.Referencing
B.Redundancy
C.Registration
D.Refraction
Ans:C
66.Which
is the large scale map
A.Wall map
B.Atlas map
C.Thematic
map
D.Cadastral
map
Ans:D
67.International
map projections is a modification of:
A.Bonnes
projection
B.Polyconic
projection
C.Sterographic
projection
D.Orthographic
projection
Ans:B
68.The
process of converting raster line into vector lines through tracing is called as:
A.Polarization
B.Scanning
C.Vectorization
D.Data
formatting
Ans:C
69.The
Hythergraph is used to show the distribution of:
A.Temperature
and Rainfall
B.Humidity
and Temperature
C.Rainfall
and Crops
D.Snowfall
Ans:A
70.A
sub-field of mathematics that is applied in GIS to ensure that the spatial relationships between features are expressed explicity
is known as:
A.Taxonomy
B.Topology
C.Topostudy
D.Toponomism
Ans:B
71.The
term used to indicate the stage of world urbanization:
A.Megalopolis
B.Metropolis
C.Ecumonopolis
D.Tyranopolis
Ans:C
72.The
hypothetical pattern of multiple nuclei theory was developed by:
A.Harris and
Ullman
B.Homer Hoyt
C.R.M.Hurd
D.E.W.Burgess
Ans:A
73.The
concept ‘Umland’means:
A.Land
around industry
B.Land
around slum
C.Land
around village
D.Land
around a city
Ans:D
74.An
example for ghost city:
A.Harappa
B.Raipur
C.Jaipur
D.Bhopal
Ans:A
75.According
to Christaller,K 7 in the hierarchy of central places theory stands for:
A.Marketing
principle
B.Transportation
principle
C.Administrative
principle
D.Trade
principle
Ans:C
76.The
periods of Second Five Year Plan in India:
A.1955-1960
B.1957-1962
C.1954-1959
D.1956-1961
Ans:D
77.The
First Five Year Plan of India gave more importance to:
A.Industry
B.Air
transportation
C.Agriculture
D.Trade
Ans:C
78.The
Growth pole theory originally developed by:
A.Christaller
B.Francis
Perroux
C.Zipf
D.Ullman
Ans:B
79.The
programme sponsored by Government of India for rural development:
A.IRDP
B.IAAP
C.IADP
D.HYVP
Ans:A
80.The
first Chairman of Planning Commission of India:
A.Sardar-Vallabhbhai
Patel
B.Jawaharlal
Nehru
C.Dr.Radhakrishnan
D.Rjagopalachari
Ans:B
81.A
region which is characterized by high temperature and heavy rainfall throughout the year
A.Tropical
Monsoon region
B.Tropical
high land region
C.Mediterranean
region
D.Equatorial
region
Ans:D
82.The
temperature grasslands of South Africa:
A.Prairies
B.Velds
C.Pampas
D.Downs
Ans:B
83.An
example for Non renewable resource:
A.Coal
B.Solar
energy
C.Water
D.Wind
Ans:A
84.The
third largest populated country in the world:
A.Brazil
B.United
State of America
C.Indonesia
D.Pakistan
Ans:B
85.Name
of the shifting cultivation in North-East India:
A.Chena
B.Tamrai
C.Milpa
D.Jhuming
Ans:D
86.Viticulture
meant for:
A.Lemon
cultivation
B.Apple
cultivation
C.Orange
cultivation
D.Grape
cultivation
Ans:D
87.The
longest railway line in the world:
A.Canadian
railway
B.Sydney-Porth
railway
C.Tran-Siberian
railway
D.Philadelphia
railway
Ans:C
88.The
term Boreal refers to:
A.Taiga
forest
B.Swampy
forest
C.Mangrove
forest
D.Monsoon
forest
Ans:A
89.The
Kalahai Desert is located at:
A.North
America
B.South
America
C.South
Africa
D.Australia
Ans:C
90.The
development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs is called:
A.Biological
development
B.Urban
development
C.Economic
development
D.Sustainable
development
Ans:D
91.Which
gas increase in the atmosphere –is major cause to global warming?
A.Argon
B.Oxygen
C.Carbon
dioxide
D.Hydrogen
Ans:C
92.The
Kyoto Protocol:
A.Treaty for
trade
B.Treaty to
reduce greenhouse gases emissions
C.Treaty for
deforestation
D.Treaty to
ban child labour
Ans:B
93.The
satellite,Astrosat launched by India for the study of:
A.Resource
mapping
B.Disaster
management
C.Weather
phenoma
D.Celestial
objects
Ans:D
94.Who
described the quantitative revolution in geography as”a radical transformation of the spirit and purpose of
Geography”?
A.Ptolemy
B.Humboldt
C.Burton
D.Huntington
Ans:C
95.A
philosophical view that man is responsible for making his own nature:
A.Idealism
B.Radicalism
C.Rationalism
D.Existentialism
Ans:D
96.A
sudden,aggressive and very heavy rainfall is called:
A.Storm
burst
B.Water
burst
C.Thunder
burst
D.Cloud
burst
Ans:D
97.The
headquarter of Survey of India:
A.Dehra Dun
B.Mumbai
C.New Delhi
D.Kolkata
Ans:A
98.Which
method of data collection is called as ‘the Social Microscope’by Burgess?
A.Interview
method
B.Observation
method
C.Case Study
method
D.Sample
method
Ans:C
99.The
process of examining the collected raw
data to detect its errors,omission and
correction is called as:
A.Classification
B.Coding
C.Editing
D.Tabulation
Ans:C
100.In
the layout of research report,’acknowledgement’comes under:
A.Appendix
B.The main
text
C.Reference
D.Preliminary
section
Ans:D
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