GEOGRAPHY QUESTION AND SOLUTION(QUIZ) - WBCS PRELIMS 2016
In West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) Preliminary Examination 2016, total of 24 questions was asked from Geography in between 17 questions from Indian Geography and 7 questions from West Bengal Geography.
1. Which one of the following is the junction point of the Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats ?
Correct Answer: [C] Nilgiri Hills
Correct Answer: [C] Gujrat coast
3. The largest area under wasteland in India is in :
Correct Answer: [C] Rajasthan
4. Nagaland mountains are becoming increasingly barren mountains, mainly due to :
Correct Answer: [B] Shifting cultivation
Correct Answer: [C] Isodapanes
6. Which one of the following states in India has higher percentage of tank irrigation ?
Correct Answer: [A] Tamil Nadu
7. Growth rate of population 1911-21, as West Bengal experienced, is:
Correct Answer: [D] -2.91 %
8. Largest tobacco producer district of West Bengal is :
Correct Answer: [C] Cooch Bihar
9. Tropopause is :
Correct Answer: [A] A region between troposphere and stratosphere
10. The tropic of Cancer passes through which district of West Bengal ?
Correct Answer: [B] Nadia
Correct Answer: [A] Tropical Monsoon
12. A person overlying India saw the natural vegetation below in the sequential order of tropical evergreen forest, savanna, dry deciduous and deciduous. His flight was from
Correct Answer: [C] Trivandrum to Delhi
13. Which one of the following mountains has two dissimilar types of vegetation on its two slopes ?
Correct Answer: [D] Western Ghats
14. The Amarkantaka Hill is the source of two rivers flowing in two different directions (West and East). They are :
Correct Answer: [B] Narmada and Mahanadi
15. Which of the following rivers of India, is older than the Himalayas?
Correct Answer: [A] Sutlej
16. Shillong plateau is also known as ‘Meghalaya’. It was named by :
Correct Answer: [B] S.P. Chatterjee
17. Highest peak of West Bengal belongs to which of the following mountain ranges?
Correct Answer: [B] Singalila range
18. What is the length of international boundary with Bangladesh shared by West Bengal in Km.
Correct Answer: [C] 2272
Notes: 2217 km correct answer.
19. Forest Cover in which State(s) have shown an increase in the last two years, according to Forest Survey of India ?
Correct Answer: [D] Both [A] and [C]
20. The longest river of Western West Bengal is :
Correct Answer: [C] Subarnarekha
21. Singlila National park located in which of the districts of West Bengal?
Correct Answer: [A] Darjeeling
22. Which of the following states has least population density, as per census 2011 ?
Correct Answer: [C] Arunachal Pradesh
23. Highest urbanised state, as per census 2011, is:
Correct Answer: [B] Goa
24. Which of the following states has recorded negative population growth during 2001-11?
Correct Answer: [C] Nagaland