Important MCQ-Based Questions for class 11 Geography chapter-Water in the Atmosphere
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Important MCQ-based questions Geography class 11 chapter-Water in the Atmosphere Set-A
Geography - MCQ on Water in the Atmosphere
Class XI
Q.1. The temperature at which the water starts evaporating is called:
a) Heat
b) Latent heat
c) Temperature
d) None
Answer:
(b) Latent heat
Q.2. Evaporation increases with increase in:
a) The temperatureof air
b) The movement of the air
c) The pressure of the air
d) None
Answer:
(b) The movement of the air
Q.3. Transformation of water vapour into water is called:
a) Evaporation
b) Condensation
c) Sublimation
d) Saturation
Answer:
(b) Condensation
Q.4. Which water is directly condenses into solid form it is known as:
a) Sublimation
b) Saturation
c) Precipitation
d) None
Answer:
(a) Sublimation
Q.5. Dew refers to:
a) Cool air
b) When the moisture is deposited in the form of water droplets.
c) When the moisture deposited in the form of hail, snow etc.
d) All the above
Answer:
(b) When the moisture is deposited in the form of water droplets.
Q.6. Frost is formed when:
a) Condensation takes place above freezing point.
b) Condensation takes place below the freezing point.
c) Condensation takes place all of a sudden.
d) None
Answer:
(b) condensation takes place below the freezing point.
Q.7. Condensation takes place around the smoke, dust and salt particles produces:
a) Fog and Mist
b) Dew
c) Frost
d) Clouds
Answer:
(a) Fog and Mist
Explanation: - Mist – contains more moisture. Fogs – Fogs are denser than Mist.
Q.8. Which one of the following is the largest cloud:
a) Cirrus
b) Stratus
c) Cumuls
d) Nimbus
Answer:
(d) Nimbus
Q.9. Convectional rain refers to:
a) Rains due rising air
b) When the saturated air mass
c) Comes across a mountain
d) Rains due to cyclonic convergence
Answer:
(a) Rains due rising air
Q.10. As we move from the equator towards the poles:
a) Rainfall decreases
b) Rainfall increases
c) No change in the amount of rainfall
d) None
Answer:
(a) Rainfall decreases
Q.11. What is rain Shadow Zone?
a) Windward slopes of the mountains
b) Leeward side of the mountain
c) Mountainous area
d) All
Answer:
(b) Leeward side of the mountain
Q.12. Which one of the following is the most important constituent of the atmosphere for human beings?
a) Water vapour
b) Nitrogen
c) Dust Particle
d) Oxygen
Answer:
(d) Oxygen
Q.13. Which one of the following process is responsible for transforming pquid into vapour?
a) Condensation
b) Transpiration
c) Evaporation
d) Precipitation
Answer:
(c) Evaporation
Q.14. The air that contains moisture to its full capacity:
a) Relative humidity
b) Specific humidity
c) Absolute humidity
d) Saturated air
Answer:
(d) Saturated air
Q.15. Which one of the following is the highest cloud in the sky?
a) Cirrus
b) Stratus
c) Cumuls
d) Nimbus
Answer:
(a) Cirrus
Q.16. Which one of the following is not a form of condensation:
a) Dew
b) Frost
c) Fog
d) Smoke
Answer:
(d) Smoke
Q.17. Which one of the following does not influence the condensation:
a) Volume of air
b) Temperature
c) Pressure humidity
d) Direction of air
Answer:
(d) Direction of air
Q.18. Humidity refers to:
a) Temperature of the air
b) Moisture in the air
c) Salt in the air
d) None of the above
Answer:
(b) Moisture in the air
Q.19. The exchange of water between the atmosphere, oceans and continents can’t takes place through which of the following process:
a) Evaporation
b) Condensation
c) Precipitation
d) Radiation
Answer:
(d) Radiation
Q.20. The temperature at which saturation occurs in a given parcel of air is known as:
a) Saturation point
b) Dew point
c) Condensation point
d) Absolute humidity
Answer:
(b) Dew point
Q.21. The percentage of moisture in the air as compared to its full capacity at a given temperature:
a) Specific humidity
b) Relative humidity
c) Humidity
d) Absolute humidity
Answer:
(b) Relative humidity
Q.22. Which one of the following parts of the world does not receive through-out the year?
a) North America
b) Europe
c) Western coasts of the middle latitudes
d) Polar regions
Answer:
(d) Polar Regions
Q.23. Roaring Forties is/are:
a) One of the major water currents of the Atlantic Ocean.
b) Westerly winds
c) The biggest and most dangerous river of the U.S.S.R
d) The name given to the biggest waterfalls in the world
Answer:
(b) Westerly winds
Q.24. Relative humidity
a) Is lowest at the equator increasing towards the poles
b) Is maximum in sub-tropical anticyclones
c) Varies with latitudes seasonally
d) Is lower in winter than in higher latitudes
Answer:
(c) Varies with latitudes seasonally
Q.25. The Fog that commonly occurs along the sea-coasts is of the … type.
a) Radiation
b) Advection
c) Frontal
d) Convection
Answer:
(b) ASdvection
Important MCQ-based questions Geography class 11 chapter-Water in the Atmosphere Set-B
Q.1. Orographic rainfall is more on:
a. Windward slopes
b. Leeward slopes
c. Plains
d. None of the above
Answer:
(a)
Explanation. Windward slopes receive greater rainfall and the leeward slopes remain rainless and dry.