R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | NCERT Class 11 MCQ Questions for Class 11 Geography sets 2

What was the name given to the massive ocean by Wegener?

1. Pangaea
2. Panthalassa
3. Angaraland
4. Gondwanaland

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The continental drift theory was propounded by

1. Alfred Wegner
2. Aortelius
3. Hall and Danna
4. Abraham Ortelius

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Indian subcontinent was located at

1. 60 degree South latitude
2. 30 degree South latitude
3. 50 degree South latitude
4. 40 degree South latitude

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is not a minor plate?

1. Nazca
2. Arabia
3. the Philippines
4. Antarctica

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did Alfred Wegener give continental drift theory?

1. 1920
2. 1946
3. 1912
4. 1948

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following terms is related to Polar fleeing force?

1. Revolution of the Earth
2. Gravitation
3. Rotation of the Earth
4. Tides

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is a tectonic plate that lies between the Asiatic and Pacific Plate?

1. Cocos Plate
2. Nazca Plate
3. Arabian Plate
4. Philippine Plate

✅ Correct Answer: 4

McKenzie, Parker and Morgan

1. molten rock
2. hot rock
3. solid rock
4. small rocks

✅ Correct Answer: 3

According to the Plate Tectonic concept, how many major plates are there?

1. 7
2. 9
3. 12
4. 11

✅ Correct Answer: 1

By which method has facilitated correlating the rock formation from different continents across oceans?

1. The radiometric dating methods
2. Carbon 14 method
3. Radioactive methods
4. Fling method

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What was the name given by Alfred Wegener to a large continent surrounded?

1. Pangaea
2. Panthalassa
3. Angaraland
4. Gondwanaland

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The ocean floor may be segmented into how much division based on the depth as well as the forms of relief?

1. 3
2. 4
3. 5
4. 7

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following is the type of plate boundary of the Indian plate along the Himalayan Mountains?

1. Ocean- Continents convergence
2. Divergent boundary
3. Transform boundary
4. Continent convergence

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Tillite is formed due to

1. (a) deposits on mountains
2. deposits of volcanoes
3. deposits of glaciers
4. deposits of gold

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is not among the eight elements?

1. Oxygen and Silicon
2. Aluminium and Iron
3. Calcium and Sodium
4. Mica and Granite

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not an example of metamorphic rocks?

1. Slate
2. Marble
3. Limestone
4. Schist

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which mineral group is abundantly found in the earth’s crust?

1. Mica group
2. Felspar group
3. Oxide group
4. Silicate group

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following is the salient feature of metamorphic rocks?

1. Changeable
2. Quite
3. Crystalline
4. Foliation

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following are the hardest minerals?

1. Topaz
2. Diamond
3. Quartz
4. Feldspar

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is a ferrous mineral?

1. Copper
2. Aluminium
3. Iron Ore
4. Tin

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A non-metallic mineral in the following minerals is

1. Silver
2. copper
3. zinc
4. coal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Igneous rocks are

1. primary rocks
2. secondary rocks
3. tertiary rocks
4. soft rocks

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following is the component of sand and granite?

1. Amphibol
2. Quartz
3. Pyroxene
4. Mica

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The most abundant rocks found on the earth’s crust are

1. (a) igneous rocks
2. sedimentary rocks
3. metamorphic rocks
4. granite rock

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Rocks that were originally either sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic and have been changed further by heat and pressure are called:

1. Volcanic
2. Sedimented
3. Metamorphic
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is not a sedimentary rock?

1. )Tillite
2. Borax
3. Breccia
4. Marble

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Iron is a

1. ferrous metal
2. non-ferrous metal
3. precious metal
4. non-precious metal

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What kind of colour does Pyroxene consist of?

1. Green
2. Black
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The minerals that do not contain metal contend are known as

1. precious minerals
2. ferrous minerals
3. non-metallic minerals
4. non-ferrous minerals

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The parent material of soils is derived from

1. Igneous rockS
2. Metamorphic rocks
3. Sedimentary rocks
4. Biological action

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What kind of changes are bought by internal forces?

1. It gives birth to new landforms
2. It promotes moistures
3. Both a and b
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The expansion of the salt depends on

1. temperature
2. hails
3. atmospheric pressure
4. winds

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following processes is a degradational process?

1. Deposition
2. Diastrophism
3. Volcanism
4. Erosion

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Rapid rolling or sliding of earth debris without backward rotation of mass is known as

1. debris slide
2. slump
3. rockslide
4. mudflow

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following helps in aerating the soil?

1. Microfaun
2. Meso fauna
3. Macrofauna
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Debris avalanche can be included in which category?

1. Landslide
2. Slow flow mass movements
3. Rapid flow mass movements
4. Subsidence

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The capacity of rocks to allow water to pass through it is called_________

1. porosity
2. wedging
3. exfoliation
4. hydration

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which is the force that continuously elevates or build up parts of the earth’s surface?

1. Exogenic forces
2. Endogenic forces
3. Gradation
4. Degradation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Weathering is an important to process for what? Weathering is an important to process for what?

1. Formation of clouds
2. Formation of soil
3. Formation of water
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following materials is affected by the hydration process?

1. Granite
2. Clay
3. Quartz
4. Salts

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What do you mean by all Earth materials having a sloping surface?

1. Soil erosion
2. Landslides
3. Volcanism
4. Slump

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is a type of mass movement?

1. Slow movements
2. Rapid movements
3. Landslides
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In weathering ________

1. No motion of material takes place
2. Materials move from one place to another
3. The deposition of material takes place
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is a form of weathering?

1. Physical
2. Chemical
3. Biological
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Weathering can be defined as ___________

1. Mechanical disintegration of rocks
2. Disintegration and deformation of rocks with the help of climatic factors
3. Chemical decomposition of rocks
4. All of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is an example of endogenic forces?

1. Erosion
2. Volcanism
3. Weathering
4. Balance

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The erosional landform consists of

1. valleys
2. floodplains
3. deltas
4. alluvial fans

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A deep valley characterized by steep step-like side slopes is known as?

1. U-shaped valley
2. Gorge
3. Blind valley
4. Canyon

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A deep valley characterized by steep step-like side slopes is known as?

1. U-shaped valley
2. Gorge
3. Blind valley
4. Canyon

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The depositional landform consists of

1. levees
2. gorge
3. river terraces
4. valley

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is a deep, long, and wide trough or basin with very steep concave high walls at its head as well as insides is known as?

1. Cirque
2. Glacial valley
3. Lateral Moraine
4. Esker

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Natural levees and point bars are a depositional landform of

1. glaciers
2. waves
3. winds
4. rivers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is a type of channel pattern?

1. Floodplains
2. Deltas
3. Meander
4. Alluvial Fans

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which one of the following regions the chemical weathering process is more dominant than the mechanical process?

1. Humid region
2. Limestone region
3. Arid region
4. Glacier region

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which of the following regions the chemical weathering process is more dominant than the mechanical process?

1. desert region
2. arid region
3. limestone region
4. glacier region

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Erosional landforms are the

1. levees
2. deltas
3. braided channels
4. river terraces

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In the mature stage, what are the loop-like channel patterns that develop in rivers?

1. Meanders
2. Canyon
3. Delta
4. Cirque

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Erosion causes

1. Changes
2. No change
3. Upliftment
4. Construction of land

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Deflation and abrasion activities are associated with

1. waves
2. rivers
3. winds
4. glaciers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are the most important landforms in desert areas?

1. Chardong
2. Interbedded rocks
3. Sand dunes
4. Valleys

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In the middle stages, erosion of valley sides is

1. vertical
2. lateral
3. gradual
4. negligible

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is created by soil erosion by the rivers?

1. V-shaped valley
2. Waterfall
3. Delta
4. Sand dunes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The total number of wings a seif has is

1. 1
2. 3
3. 5
4. 6

✅ Correct Answer: 1