Indian Geography Objective GK Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams

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Indian Geography Objective GK Questions and Answers
Q :  

What is the number of earth planets?

(A) 5

(B) 8

(C) 4

(D) 7


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Which of the following is a star?

(A) Earth

(B) Venus

(C) Sun

(D) Moon


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Which of the following is called the father of human geography?

(A) Karl Ritter

(B) Jean Brunche

(C) Humboldt

(D) Hipparkus


Correct Answer : A
Explanation :

Human Geography 

It is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and the spaces and places they then travel to, as people continually move across various areas. 

Human geography is also called cultural geography. 

Fredrich Ratzel was a German Geographer and ethnographer. He is the father of Human Geography.

Vidal de la Blanche was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. 

He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.


Q :  

Who is considered the father of geomorphology?

(A) peshal

(B) Davis

(C) Pank

(D) None of these


Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Which scholar is responsible for presenting information about the solar system to the world?

(A) Copernicus

(B) Kepler

(C) Galileo

(D) None of these


Correct Answer : A
Explanation :

Copernicus finished the first manuscript of his book, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") in 1532. In it, Copernicus established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth. He discovered the model of the solar system and the path of the planets.


Q :  

Who said this is a study of ground floor?

(A) Varenius

(B) Taylor

(C) Kant

(D) Karl Ritter


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

What is a small celestial body revolving around a planet?

(A) Tailed star

(B) planets

(C) Satellite

(D) All these


Correct Answer : C

Q :  

Which state is known as the "Tiger State" ? 

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Karnataka

(C) Andhra Pradesh

(D) Himachal Pradesh


Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Which of the following is/are not an artificial lake?
1- Govind Sagar
2- Chilka lake
3- Naini lake
4- Bhimtal lake 

(A) 2 and 3 only

(B) 3 and 4 only

(C) 1 only

(D) 1 and 4 only


Correct Answer : A

Q :  

Which was the first hydro power project in India?

(A) Pallivasal in Kerala

(B) Paikara in Tamil Nadu

(C) Nizamnagar in Andhra Pradesh

(D) SivaSamudram in Karnataka


Correct Answer : D

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