Mock Test-4 (Paper-1) (Question 1-50)

Total Questions: 50

21. Who took over the 'Eka Movement' started by the Congress in Awadh during 1921-1922?

Correct Answer: (b) Madari Pasi
Solution:Eka Movement or Unity Movement is a peasant movement which surfaced in Hardoi, Bahraich and Sitapur during the end of 1921 by Madari Pasi, an offshoot of Non Cooperation Movement.

22. Which one of the following is a warm ocean current?

Correct Answer: (a) East Australian current
Solution:East Australian current is a warm ocean current that moves warm water from the tropical Coral Sea, where it splits from the South Equatorial Current, down the east coast of Australia.

23. Coral reef extending along with eastern coast of Australia is

Correct Answer: (b) Barrier reef
Solution:

Coral reef, the Great Barrier Reef extending along with eastern coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system.composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over 2,600 kilometres over an area of approximately 344,400-square kilometres.

24. The Agulhas Current flows in

Correct Answer: (a) Indian Ocean
Solution:The Agulhas Current is current of the southwestern Indian Ocean. It flows down the east coast of Africa from 27°S to 40°S.

25. Which of the following seas has the highest average salinity?

Correct Answer: (d) Dead Sea
Solution:The highest average salinity is found in the Dead Sea.

26. Tsunami waves are the undersea occurrence of earthquake exceeding 7.5 on Richter scale. Which one of the following statements regarding this is not correct?

Correct Answer: (d) Tsunami is a Latin word.
Solution:Tsunami, a Japanese word, is a series of waves generated in a water body due to the displacement of a large volume of water.

It is also called seismic sea wave (gravitational water waves) and can generate strong water waves. About 80% of tsunamis are witnessed in the Pacific Ocean.

27. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:

List-I (Strait)List-II (Countries)
A. Bass Strait1. UK and France
B. Davis Strait2. Australia and Tasmania
C. Dover Strait3. USA and Cuba
D. Florida Strait4. Canada and Greenland

Codes:

ABCD
(a)2413
(b)2143
(c)3412
(d)3142
Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:

Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria. Davis Strait is a northern arm of the Labrador Sea. It lies between mid-western Greenland and Nunavut, Canada's Baffin Island.

The Dover Strait, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and North Sea, separating Great Britain from continental Europe.

Florida Strait is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys and Cuba.

28. Jet stream is westerlies in upper part of Troposphere.

Correct Answer: (a) Fast blowing
Solution:

Jet stream is fast blowing westerlies in upper part of troposphere. Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow air currents found in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth.

The main jet streams are located near the tropopause, the transition between the troposphere (where temperature decreases with altitude) and the stratosphere (where temperature increases with altitude).

29. Tropical cyclones in Australia are called

Correct Answer: (a) Willy willy
Solution:Tropical cyclones in Australia are called Willy-willy. Willy willy is a small windstorm that mostly occurs in dry, outback areas. The term Willy Willy is of Aboriginal origin. Willy willies are normally tropical cyclones.

30. The sky looks blue because of

Correct Answer: (b) Selective scattering of radiation by atmosphere
Solution:The Sky appears blue due to scattering of light. Out of seven colors the lower wavelength blue light scattered more and it is reason behind the appearance of sky as blue.