Geography English Quiz 3 Physical Geography Our Universe

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Name

The permanent tilt of the earth's axis and the revolution of the earth its orbit together cause

Day and night

Varying lengths of day and night at different times of the year

Differences in time between place on different meridian .

The deflection of wind .

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

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Mercury

Who discovered the first four satellites of Jupiter ?

Newton

Copernicus

Galileo

Kepler

The approximate diameter of the earth is

4,200 km

12,800 km

15,600 km

6,400 km

Which of the following is called " Blue Planet " ?

Mars

Jupiter

Earth

Saturn

What is meant by the eclipse of moon ?

For any place , it is the average angle made by a line drawn from the moon to place and horizontal at midnight .

It occurs when the Earth comes between the Sun and the moon and the centres of all three are on the same straight line .

It is path along which the moon revolves .

When the moon comes between the Sun and the Earth it cause the shadows of the moon to fall on Earth .

When the sun is vertically overhead along the Tropic of Capricorn at midday

Nights are longer than days in the Southern Hemisphere .

Night is equal to 24 hours of the North pole .

Days and nights are of equal length at the poles .

Days and nights are of equal length in the Northern Hemisphere .

The distance of the earth from the sun is about

227 million km .

149 million km .

1500 million km .

300 million km .

Which one of the following is not connected with proofs of the earth's shape ?

Rotation and revolution

The Bedford level canal experiment

Circumnavigation

The Earth's shadow

10.

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

Mars

Venus

Pluto

Mercury

11.

The Earth makes one complete revolution in

365 days

360 days

365 ½ days

1 day

12.

Which of the following statements can be taken as evidence to show that the Earth is spherical ?

The earth horizon is seen to be curved when seer from an aeroplane .

The rotation of the earth from west to east .

Some parts of the earth have day when other parts have night .

The earth's revolution around the sun .

13.

What is the approximate equatorial circumference of the earth ?

35,000 km

45,000 km

40,000 km

30,000 km

14.

The first dinosaurs appeared in the

Jurassic period

Permian period

Triassic period

Cretaceous period

15.

An ape like creature identified as man appeared in the

Pleistocene epoch

Miocene epoch

Oligocene epoch

Pliocene epoch

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