Earth MCQs

Question 1

If a solar eclipse occurs when the moon is quite far from the earth, the eclipse would likely to be ________

Accepted Answer

Annular

Answer

Total

Answer

Partial

Answer

None of these

Question 2

Which of the following best describes longitude?

Accepted Answer

The angular distance east or west of the Greenwich meridian

Answer

An imaginary line joining north and south poles

Answer

The distance between a place east or west of the Greenwich Meridian

Answer

The position of a place on earth's surface with reference to the Prime Meridian

Question 3

Bridgmanite is

Accepted Answer

Earth's most abundant mineral

Answer

A bridge on the river Thames

Answer

Name of a game

Answer

Name of a music

Question 4

Lunar eclipse is caused when the ________

Accepted Answer

Earth comes between the sun and the moon

Answer

Moon comes between the sun and the earth

Answer

Sun comes between the earth and moon

Answer

None of these

Question 5

Which one of the following is the time required for the Earth to return to a given point in its orbit with reference to fixed star, called?

Accepted Answer

Sideral year

Answer

Lunar year

Answer

Solar year

Answer

Tropical year

Question 6

Which of the following is not an effect produced by rotation of earth?

Accepted Answer

Poles have days and nights of 6 months duration

Answer

It causes days and nights

Answer

All heavenly bodies like sun, moon, planets appear to move from East to West

Answer

Winds change their directions

Question 7

The Tropic of Cancer does not pass through

Accepted Answer

Pakistan

Answer

India

Answer

Bangladesh

Answer

Myanmar

Question 8

The light of Sun takes how much time to reach to Earth

Accepted Answer

8 minutes 20 seconds

Answer

8 hours 20 seconds

Answer

8 seconds

Answer

20 seconds

Question 9

Who proposed Continental drift theory?

Accepted Answer

Alfred Wegener

Answer

Alfred Worwick

Answer

Alfred Hanks

Answer

Alfred Mane