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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The ‘Doctrine of Uniformitarianism’ was postulated by
Cotton
Dutton
Dalton
Hutton
The statement “The present is the key to the past” was made by-
James Hutton
Walther Penck
W.M Davis
F. Von Ricthofen
Which one of the following options best describes the world distribution of active
volcanoes?
They are found in association with young folded mountain systems.
They lead to form chains around ocean basins
They are associated with old eroded mountain chains.
They occur in river flood plains
Which one of the following groups of landforms are erosional features?
Natural Bridges, Beaches, Eskers, Star dunes
Stalagmites, Natural levees, Stacks, Talus
Corrie, Yardang, Gorge, Sinkholes
Flood plain, Moraina, Calderas, ‘U’ shaped Valley
Which one of the following comprises the largest reservoir of the earth’s oxygen?
Atmosphere
Biosphere
Hydrosphere
Lithosphere
Which of the following type of weathering is generally dominant in Greater Himalays?
Scree formation
Block disintegration
Granular disintegration
Exfoliation
In the process of erosion, the removal of materials by solution is called
Attrition
Corrosion
Sapping
Corrasion
Two cycle theory regarding the ‘origin of Limestone caves’ was propounded by-
W.M Davis
Gardner
Swinerton
Malott
The rigid masses surrounding the geosyncline were termed by Kober as-
Kratogen
Primarumph
Monadnock
Endrumph
The concept of ‘Panplain’ was propounded by
Johnson
Crickmay
Davis
Swinerton
In a fold if both limbs are parallel as well as horizontal to each other, it would be a case of which of the following types of fold?
Isocline
Recumbent
Open
Closed
The direction of dip in reference of strike is always at which of the following angles?
Right angle
Obtuse angle
Acute angle
Straight angle
Down-warping is produced on account of which of the following actions?
Submergence
Emergence
Crustal fracture
Crustal bending
Which of the following is not a part of Circum-Pacific Volcanic belt?
Aleutian islands
Mindanao island
Sakhalin island
Azores islands
The constructive magrin of lithospheric plates is presented by which of the following?
Mid-Atlantic ridge
Indo-Gangetic plain
Mariana trench
Ural mountains
Conrad discontinuity is found between
Upper mantle and Lower mantle
Outer and Inner core
Sima and Nife
Sial and Sima
The upper part of the mantle upon which the crust of the Earth floats is known as
Hydrosphere
Asthenosphere
Barysphere
Mesosphere
Which of the following groups of scholars stressed on the role of lateral erosion by streams in the formation of pediments?
Paige, Blackwelder, Johnson
Paige, Johnson, Lawson
McGee, Paige, Blackwelder
McGee, Blackwelder, Johnson
Which of the following features is formed due to tectonic forces?
Blind valley
Hanging valley
U-shaped valley
Rift valley
Which one of the following rocks is associated with “Cratons” ?
Conglomerate
Phyllite
Granite
Slate
The concept of geosyncline was propounded by:
Holmes
J.W. Powell
Hall and Dana
James Hutton
Gutenberg discontinuity is found between the:
Crust and mantle
Mantle and core
Upper Core and Lower Core
Upper Mantle and Lower Mantle
The direction of a horizontal line on an inclined rock strata is termed as:
Anticline
Free face
Strike
Dip
“The present is the key to the past.” This phase is related to the concept of:
Isostasy
Plate tectonics
Uniformatarianism
Diastrophism
San Andreas Fault is a:
Spreading fault
Submergent fault
Transform fault
Converging fault
