Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Geography

Which one of the following correctly lists the primary forces that initiate ocean currents?

  1. Temperature, salinity, continental shelves and tidal bars.
  2. Solar heating, wind, gravity and the Coriolis force.
  3. Tides, submarine canyons, earthquakes and precipitation.
  4. Atmospheric pressure, ocean depth, river discharge and wave frequency.
  1. A geological survey records the following intrusive bodies: Body P is thin and nearly horizontal. Body Q is…
  2. A place has the following characteristics: Its underlying land surface heats rapidly during summer and cools…
  3. A stream on one side of a divide has a steeper gradient and receives more precipitation than a neighbouring…
  4. A survey identifies three plate-boundary settings: At boundary X, normal and reverse magnetic strips parallel…
  5. Although the vertical pressure-gradient force in the lower atmosphere is much greater than the horizontal…
  6. An earthquake releases energy at a point below the Earth’s surface. Which one of the following correctly…