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1) Sargasso sea is located in ________ 

(A) North Pacific Ocean
(B) North Atlantic Ocean
(C) North Sea
(D) South Atlantic Ocean
Correct Answer - Option (B)

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3) The 'Water table' refers to ________

(A) The lower limit of the zone of saturation
(B) The upper limit of the zone of saturation
(C) The contact zone of permeable and impermeable rocks
(D) Seepage of water into fissures lying below the earth's surface
Correct Answer - Option (B)

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4) Two main cold currents in the North Pacific Ocean are known as

(A) Oyashio and California currents
(B) Alaska and Kuroshio currents
(C) North Equatorial and Counter Equatorial currents
(D) North Pacific and Kuroshio currents
Correct Answer - Option (A)

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5) With reference to a fresh water lake, consider the following characteristics:
1. Richness in nutrients
2. Rapid turnover of phytoplankton
3. Depletion of dissolved oxygen
Which of the above is/are observed in a lake after its eutrophication?

(A) 1 only
(B) 1 and 2 only
(C) 3 only
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Correct Answer - Option (C)

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6) With reference to Ocean currents consider the following statements:
1. West Australian current is a warm current.
2. North East Monsoon Drift flows in the Indian Ocean during winter season.
3. Equatorial counter current does not flow in the Indian Ocean during winter season.
4. Kuroshic current in the Pacific Ocean is like Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean.

(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 2 and 4
Correct Answer - Option (D)

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7) Choose the correct option with the correct sequence of the layers of atmosphere

(A) Mesophere, Ionosphere, Exosphere, Troposphere, Stratosphere
(B) Ionosphere, Exosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
(C) Exosphere, Troposphere, Ionosphere Mesosphere, Stratosphere
(D) Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Ionosphere, Exosphere
Correct Answer - Option (D)

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8) Which of the following is especially true of anticyclones in the southern hemisphere?

(A) The air moves in a circular manner
(B) Pressure increases from the outside to the centre
(C) They often form over continents
(D) The air moves in an anti-clockwise direction
Correct Answer - Option (D)

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9) Countries favourably influenced by Westerlies are ________ 

(A) Western Europe, British Columbia and East of U.S.A.
(B) South-West Africa and South Chile
(C) New Zealand
(D) All of these
Correct Answer - Option (D)

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10) Which of the following is/are characteristic of a depression in the southern hemisphere?
I. It is a mass of air whose isobars form an oval or circular shape
II. Pressure is high in the centre and decreases towards the outside
III. Air moves anti-clockwise

(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and III
(D) All three
Correct Answer - Option (A)

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