Land Mass Formation – 200 MCQs (Page 2)

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MCQs (41–80)

41. What is air pressure?
A) Weight of air
B) Heat
C) Water
D) None

42. High pressure area is associated with:
A) Rising air
B) Sinking air
C) Rainfall
D) Storms

43. Low pressure area is associated with:
A) Sinking air
B) Rising air
C) Dry weather
D) None

44. Why do deserts form at 30° latitude?
A) Low pressure
B) High pressure
C) Rainfall
D) Snow

45. What is a pressure belt?
A) Wind zone
B) Area of similar pressure
C) Ocean
D) None

46. Equatorial region has:
A) High pressure
B) Low pressure
C) No pressure
D) None

47. What causes low pressure at equator?
A) Cold air
B) Heated rising air
C) Ice
D) None

48. What causes high pressure at 30°?
A) Rising air
B) Sinking air
C) Rainfall
D) None

49. What is wind?
A) Moving air
B) Water
C) Heat
D) None

50. Wind moves from:
A) Low to high pressure
B) High to low pressure
C) Same pressure
D) None

51. Trade winds blow from:
A) Equator to poles
B) 30° to equator
C) Poles to equator
D) None

52. Westerlies blow in:
A) Tropics
B) Mid-latitudes
C) Poles
D) None

53. Polar winds blow from:
A) Equator
B) Poles
C) Tropics
D) None

54. What is Coriolis effect?
A) Wind deflection
B) Heat
C) Rainfall
D) None

55. Coriolis effect is caused by:
A) Revolution
B) Rotation
C) Gravity
D) None

56. Winds are important because:
A) Move heat
B) Bring rainfall
C) Affect climate
D) All

57. What is monsoon?
A) Seasonal wind
B) Permanent wind
C) Ocean current
D) None

58. Monsoon is important for:
A) Agriculture
B) Industry
C) Buildings
D) None

59. What happens in low pressure area?
A) Rainfall
B) Dry weather
C) No wind
D) None

60. What happens in high pressure area?
A) Rainfall
B) Dry weather
C) Storm
D) None

61. What is jet stream?
A) Water flow
B) High speed wind
C) Rain
D) None

62. Jet streams occur in:
A) Surface
B) Upper atmosphere
C) Ocean
D) None

63. What affects wind direction?
A) Pressure
B) Rotation
C) Coriolis effect
D) All

64. What is global circulation?
A) Ocean flow
B) Air movement system
C) Rainfall
D) None

65. Hadley cell is found in:
A) Tropics
B) Poles
C) Mid-latitudes
D) None

66. Ferrel cell is found in:
A) Tropics
B) Mid-latitudes
C) Poles
D) None

67. Polar cell is found in:
A) Tropics
B) Mid-latitudes
C) Poles
D) None

68. What is convection?
A) Rising warm air
B) Cold air
C) Water
D) None

69. What causes rainfall at equator?
A) Convection
B) Pressure
C) Wind
D) None

70. Why are deserts dry?
A) Low pressure
B) High pressure
C) High rainfall
D) None

71. What is humidity?
A) Heat
B) Moisture
C) Pressure
D) None

72. What affects rainfall most?
A) Winds
B) Pressure
C) Temperature
D) All

73. What is cyclonic condition?
A) High pressure
B) Low pressure
C) No pressure
D) None

74. What is anticyclone?
A) Low pressure
B) High pressure
C) Rainfall
D) None

75. What is convergence?
A) Air meeting
B) Air separating
C) Water
D) None

76. What is divergence?
A) Air meeting
B) Air spreading
C) Heat
D) None

77. What happens at ITCZ?
A) High pressure
B) Low pressure
C) Cold
D) None

78. ITCZ is located near:
A) Poles
B) Equator
C) 30°
D) None

79. What is climate system driven by?
A) Sun energy
B) Wind
C) Ocean
D) None

80. What connects pressure, wind, and rainfall?
A) Climate system
B) Soil
C) Water
D) None

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Answer Key

41.A 42.B 43.B 44.B 45.B
46.B 47.B 48.B 49.A 50.B
51.B 52.B 53.B 54.A 55.B
56.D 57.A 58.A 59.A 60.B
61.B 62.B 63.D 64.B 65.A
66.B 67.C 68.A 69.A 70.B
71.B 72.D 73.B 74.B 75.A
76.B 77.B 78.B 79.A 80.A

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