Question # 1

The spring tide occurs when the moon, the sun and the earth make in angle of-

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180^o

90^o

45^o

33^o

What is the approximate equatorial circumference of the earth?

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30000 km

40000 km

50000 km

60000 km

Latitude of a point on the earth is measured by the distance in:

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Kilometers from the poles

Angles from the equator

Kilometers from the equator

None of these

Which sea on Earth has no beaches?

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Sargasso Sea

Bass Sea

Nomad Sea

Utopia Sea

Which is the largest desert in Australia?

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Simpson and Stony Sturt Desert

Great Sandy Desert

Great Victoria Desert

Tanami Desert

What is the temperature of a normal man?

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81.1^oC

37^oC

21.7^oC

90^oC

Red-Green color blindness in man is known as:

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Protanopia

Dueteranopia

Both (a) and (b)

None

The planet with the shortest year is--

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Earth

Mercury

Mars

Pluto

What bay in Canada could hold the entire state of Texas with room to spare?

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Hudson Bay

Bay of Fundy

James Bay

Baffin Bay

Accumulation of water in tissues is caused by the:

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Vitamin B

Vitamin C

Vitamin D

Vitamin A

Hormones are normally absent in:

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Rat

Monkey

Bacteria

Cat

What is Floriculture?

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Study of flower yielding plants

Study of female reproductive organ

Teaching by pictures and models

Silk industry (culture of silk)

Ready source of energy available for athletes is:

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Carbohydrate

fats

Protein

Vitamin

Which one of the following is not a satellite of Jupiter?

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Callisto

Lo

Eurpa

Titan

What is the name of the place where two streams meet?

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Convergence

Delta

Meander junction

Confluence

How is known the study of animals and plants that had lived on earth in the past?

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Histology

Paleontology

Hysteria

History

Which of the following is an amphibian?

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Whale

Turtle

Frog

Cow

Tectonic force is related with the building of various features of:

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Mountains

Earth's crust

Ocean floor

Earth's surface

Which is the brightest planet in the Solar System?

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Jupiter

Mercury

Uranus

Venus

One metric carat is equal to:

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200 milligrams

300 milligrams

400 milligrams

500 milligrams

What is the world's oldest lake?

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Lake oldfolk

Lake Berryessa

Lake Khuvsgul

Lake Baikal

Botany is the:

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Study of plants

Study of herbs

Study of forest

What are the two parts of the nervous system?

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Cranial and spinal

Central and peripheral

Parietal and occipital

Frontal and temporal

Our Sun is located where in the galaxy?

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Not in any galaxy

In the center of the galaxy

30,000 light years from the center

At the very outer edge of the galaxy

The most accepted theory of origin of life is:

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Theory of special creation

Oparin-Haldane Theory of Chemosynthesis

Catastrophe Theory

None of these

The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean to which Sea?

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Tyrrhenian Sea

Sea of Azov

The Red Sea

The lonian Sea

Laws of electrolysis were propound by:

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Kepler

Faraday

Dalton

Snell

The same side of the moon always faces the earth because:

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Moon and earth have gravitational force

Moon cannot change its position

The period of rotation of the moon on its axis and period of revolution around the earth is almost the same

None of these

A mixture of water and alcohol can be separated by:

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Filtration

Distillation

Evaporation

Decantation

The fastest planet is:

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Saturn

Jupiter

Mercury

None of these

The lower layer of the atmosphere is known as--

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Mesosphere

Ionosphere

Troposphere

Stratosphere

1000 nanometres are equal to:

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One micrometre

Two micrometre

Three micrometre

Four micrometre

The 'Solar Corona' mainly consists of:

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Cosmic rays

Molten rays

Molten lava

Gases

The science of celestial bodies is known as:

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Carpology

Agronomy

Radio astronomy

Astronomy

Most soluble in water is:

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Sugar

Camphore

Sulphur

Common salt

Japan is called ' the land of rising sun' because:

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Japan,being the eastern most country in the world,it has the earliest sunrise

Sun rises as soon there as it sets

Sun always remains in the eastern part

The rays of the sun get reflected from the waters of the sea and make the sun rise beautiful in Japan

The southernmost point of South America, Cape Horn, belongs to which country?

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Chile

Ecuator

Argentina

Peru

Petrol engine was invented by:

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Nikolaus otto

james watt

rudolf diesel

none of these

Which of the following is not a form of precipitation?

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Rainfall

Waterfall

Dew

Fog

Which is the hottest place of the word?

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Aziziyah

Seville

Death Valley

JaccZ

Which is the longest river in Europe?

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Danube

Volga

Dnepr

Thames

Light year is a unit of measurement of:

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Speed of light

Stellar distances

Speed of rockets

Speed of aeroplanes

Any foreign particle which stimulates the formation antibodies is called:

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Histone

Antigen

Receptor

Antibiotic

Water has maximum density at:

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-1°C

0°C

4°C

100°C

The crust forms what percentage of the volume of the earth:

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0.5%

2.5%

3.0%

3.5%

Which of the following is a small circle?

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Equator

23.5° E

20.5° E

25° S