SSC CGL Geography – Hydrosphere – Oceans, Currents & Tides – Level 3 · Challenge
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SSC CGL Geography – Hydrosphere – Oceans, Currents & Tides – Level 3 · Challenge – 8 questions, subject: Geography – India & World. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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1.
Statement-basedConsider:
I. Continental shelves are rich fishing grounds.
II. Ocean trenches lie mostly along divergent plate boundaries.
III. Mumbai High lies on the continental shelf.
Which are correct?
I. Continental shelves are rich fishing grounds.
II. Ocean trenches lie mostly along divergent plate boundaries.
III. Mumbai High lies on the continental shelf.
Which are correct?
Correct Answer: C [I and III only]
Explanation:
Trenches lie mostly at convergent boundaries.
2.
Which of these is NOT a cold current?
Correct Answer: D [Agulhas Current]
Explanation:
Agulhas is warm (off south-east Africa).
3.
The currents of the northern Indian Ocean are special because they:
Correct Answer: A [reverse their direction with the monsoon winds]
Explanation:
Clockwise in summer, anticlockwise in winter.
4.
3 kg of sea water of salinity 35‰ is left in the Sun until 1 kg of water evaporates. The new salinity is:
Correct Answer: B [52.5‰]
Explanation:
Salt = 105 g; 105 ÷ 2 = 52.5‰.
5.
Arrange in orderArrange the parts of the ocean floor from the coast outward: Continental slope, Abyssal plain, Continental shelf
Correct Answer: C [Continental shelf, Continental slope, Abyssal plain]
Explanation:
Shallow shelf → steep slope → deep flat plain.
6.
Assertion–Reason
A: The Atacama is one of the driest deserts in the world.
R: The cold Peru Current flows along its coast and stops the air above it from rising to form rain.
A: The Atacama is one of the driest deserts in the world.
R: The cold Peru Current flows along its coast and stops the air above it from rising to form rain.
Correct Answer: D [Both A and R are true and R explains A]
Explanation:
Cold current + offshore trades + rain-shadow of the Andes.
7.
The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, lies off the coast of:
Correct Answer: A [Queensland, Australia]
Explanation:
North-east Australia.
8.
La Niña is best described as an unusual:
Correct Answer: C [cooling of the eastern and central Pacific, often linked with a good Indian monsoon]
Explanation:
It is the opposite of El Niño.
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