Geography QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

General Knowledge : Geography QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part15 : 11 to 15

Following General Knowledge Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in TRB, SSC and UPSC 2014 examinations :

11.Days and nights are equal throughout the globe when Sun is above

Poles

Tropic of Cancer

Equator

Tropic of Capricorn

12.When a ship crosses Date line from west to east

It loses one day

It gains one day

It loses half a day

It gains half a day

13.Latitude of a point on the earth is measured by the distance in

kilometres from the Poles

kilometres from the Equator

Angles from the Equator

14.The international Date Line makes slight deviation from 180 degree meridian so that it

divides the land masses under the same administration

does not divide the Bering strait

does not divide a group of islands under the same administration

divides the Pacific Ocean into two equal halves

15.Sense of time is due to

rotation of the earth

revolution of the earth

rotation of moon

Aoth (A) and (B) above

More Geography QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS available in next pages

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