WBBSE Class 10 Geography And Environment Chapter 1 Exogenic Processes And Resultant Landforms MCQs

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WBBSE Class 10 Geography Chapter 1 Exogenic Processes And Resultant Landforms MCQs

Question 1. The process by which, the elevation of the earth’s surface decreases, is called:

  1. Volcanic
  2. Aggradation
  3. Deposition
  4. Degradation

Answer: 4. Degradation

Question 2. The highland between two river basins is called:

  1. Water divide
  2. River Terrace
  3. Natural levee
  4. Doad

Answer: 1. Water divide

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Question 3. A lake carved out by glacier is:

  1. Corrie lake
  2. Playa lake
  3. Ox-bow lake
  4. Lagoon

Answer: 1. Corrie lake

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Question 4. Plain formed by wind deposition is called:

  1. Dune
  2. Hamada
  3. Dhiran
  4. Loess

Answer: 4. Loess

Question 5. Lakes containing saline water in the Sahara desert are called:

  1. Shotts
  2. Balson
  3. Dhand
  4. Tal

Answer: 1. Shotts

Question 6. The process by which, soil and rock layers move down along the slope of highlands by gravity is called:

  1. Weathering
  2. Gradation Process
  3. Endogenic processes
  4. Mass wasting process

Answer: 4. Mass wasting process

WBBSE Class 10 Geography And Environment Chapter 1 Exogenic Processes And Resultant Landforms MCQs

Question 7. In peneplain, low-lying hills of hard rocks remain as residual landforms is called:

  1. Yardang
  2. Zeugen
  3. Sand Dunes
  4. Inselberg

Answer: 4. Insellberg

Question 8. The process by which the height of the earth’s surface increases is:

  1. Aggradation
  2. Degradation
  3. Weathering
  4. Denudation

Answer: 1. Aggradation

“Exogenic Processes and Landforms Class 10 MCQs”

Question 9. Deep cracks on the surface of the mountain glacier are called:

  1. Nunatak
  2.  Crevasse
  3. Arete
  4. Cirque

Answer: 2. Crevasse

Question 10. The gorge formed in the arid regions is called as

  1. Canyon
  2. ‘V’ Shaped valley
  3.  Potholes
  4. Dhand

Answer: 1. Canyon

Question 11. Bird-foot delta is formed at the mouth of

  1. River Nile
  2. Hwang Ho
  3. Indus river
  4. Mississippi-Missouri river

Answer: 4. Mississippi-Missouri River

Question 12. The process by which natural agents reshape the existing landscape over the earth’s surface is known as:

  1. Exogenetic process
  2. Endogenetic Process
  3. Orogenetic process
  4. Epeirogenetic Process

Answer: 1. Exogenetic process

Question 13. The geomorphic process that shapes and reshapes land externally is called:

  1. Endogenicprocess
  2. Exogenic process
  3. Earthquake
  4. Volcanism

Answer: 1. Exogenic process

Question 14. The factor responsible for the melting of ice caps and consequent rise in sea level is

  1. Change in the ocean floor
  2. Upliftment of land
  3. Global warming
  4. Subsidence of coastal areas

Answer: 3. Global warming

“WBBSE Class 10 Geography Exogenic Processes quiz”

Question 15. The exogenetic processes are

  1. Sudden
  2. Fast
  3. Slow
  4. Very slow

Answer: 4. Very slow

Question 16. By graduation, the height of landforms is

  1. Reduced
  2. Remains the same
  3. Increased
  4. Subsided

Answer: 3. Increased

Question 17. A pothole is formed by

  1. Hydraulic action
  2. Corrosion
  3. Abrasion
  4. Attrition

Answer: 2. Abrasion

Question 18. The waterfall is found in the rivers in

  1. Youthful stage
  2. Mature stage
  3. Old Stage
  4. All Stages

Answer: 1. Youthful stage

Question 19. The main activity of a river in the lower course is

  1. Vertical Erosion
  2. Lateral Erosion
  3. Deposition
  4. Transportation

Answer: 3. Deposition

Question 20. Which one of these regions has continental glaciers?

  1. Himalaya
  2. Alps
  3. Greenland
  4. Antarctica

Answer: 3. Greenland

Question 21. Which landform is produced by glacial erosion?

  1. Arete
  2. Moraine
  3. Drumlin
  4. Water Fall

Answer: 1. Arete

Question 22. Which landform is produced by glacial deposition?

  1. Cirque
  2. Hanging Valley
  3. Medial Moraine
  4. Potholes

Answer: 3. Medial Moraine

Question 23. Wind acts as an agent of denudation in

  1. Humid region
  2. Arid region
  3. Polar region
  4. Deposition

Answer: 2. Arid region

Question 24. The process by which sand and dust are blown away from the surface is called

  1. Corrosion
  2. Deflation
  3. Abrasion
  4. Deposition

Answer: 4. Deposition

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Question 24. The process by which sand and dust are blown away from the surface is called

  1. Corrosion
  2. Deflation
  3. Abrasion
  4. Deposition

Answer: 2. Deflation

Question 25. Yardangs are formed by

  1. Wind Erosion
  2. Arid deposition
  3. Wave Erosion
  4. Glacial deposition

Answer: 1. Wind Erosion

Question 26. Hamada refers to

  1. Sandy desert
  2. Gravelly desert
  3. Rocky desert
  4. Plain region

Answer: 1. Sandy desert

Question 27. Crescent-shaped dunes are called

  1. Seifs
  2. Barkhans
  3. Loess
  4. Moraine

Answer: 2. Barkhans

Question 28. Global warming affects delta regions by

  1. Submerging coastal areas
  2. Increasing Rainfall
  3. Creating droughts
  4. All of the above

Answer: 1. Submerging coastal areas

Question 29. The Sahara desert is extending towards the

  1. North
  2. South
  3. East
  4. West

Answer: 1. North

Question 30. The following landform is produced by a glacier:

  1. Inselberg
  2. Meander
  3. Pyramidal peak
  4. Waterfall

Answer: 3. Pyramidal peak

Question 31. Wind erosion produces:

  1. Ox-bow lake
  2. Dunes
  3. Yardang
  4. Moraines

Answer: 3. Yardang

Question 32. Ox-bow Lake is formed due to

  1. Erosion by river
  2. Decrease of slope
  3. Decrease of slope
  4. Glacial deposition

Answer: 1. Erosion by river

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Question 33. Waterfalls are formed by:

  1. Glacial erosion
  2. Wide deposition by the river
  3. Decrease of slope
  4. Transportation Of river

Answer: 3. Decrease of slope

Question 34. The extensive floodplain is found in the basin of the river

  1. Narmada
  2. Tapti
  3. Ganga
  4. Sabarmati

Answer: 3. Ganga

Question 35. The Gour is formed by the action of

  1. River
  2. Glacier
  3. Wind
  4. Ocean

Answer: 3. Wind

Question 36. The depositional feature of an almost triangular shape at the mouth of a river is called

  1. Delta
  2. Estuary
  3. OX-bow lake
  4. Hanging valley

Answer: 1. Delta

Question 37. The kettle-like small depressions in the rocky beds of the river valley are called

  1. Potholes
  2. Gorges
  3.  Yardangs
  4. Floodplain

Answer: 1. Potholes

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Question 38. In the middle course of a river

  1. Gorges
  2. Flood-plains
  3. Delta
  4. Estuary

Answer: 2. Flood-plains

Question 39. Lagoons are common in a rivers in

  1. Valleys
  2. Coastal regions
  3. Plain region
  4. None of the above

Answer: 2. Coastal regions

Question 40. Waterfalls are common in the course of a

  1. River
  2. Glacier
  3. Deposition
  4. All

Answer: 1. River

Question 41. The main work of a river in its middle course is

  1. Erosion
  2. Transportation
  3. Deposition
  4. All

Answer: 2. Transportation

Question 42. The side-cutting of a river is mostly found in

  1. Upper course
  2. Middle course
  3. Lower course
  4. In all course

Answer: 1. Upper courses

Question 43. On the two sides of a river flood

  1. Plains
  2. Deltas
  3. Meanders
  4. Region

Answer: 1. Plains

Question 44. Roche Mountaineer is created through the work of

  1. River
  2. Wind
  3. Glacier
  4. All

Answer: 3. Glacier

Question 45. The height of the snowline is affected by

  1. Longitude
  2. Latitude
  3. Time
  4. Pressure

Answer: 1. Latitude

Question 46. The snowline at the lowest height is found on the Poles due to

  1. Low rainfall
  2. Low temperature
  3. Low humidity
  4. None of these

Answer: 3. Low temperature

Question 47. The Greenland ice sheet is the best example of

  1. Valley glacier
  2. Continental glacier
  3. Piedmont glacier
  4. None of these

Answer: 2. Continental glacier.

Question 48. The Malaspina Glacier of Alaska is an example of

  1. Continentalgalcier
  2. Running glacier
  3. Valley glacier
  4. Piedmont glacier

Answer: 4. Piedmont glacier

Question 49. The basket of eggs topography is related with

  1. Eskers
  2. Drumlins
  3. Outwash plain
  4. Corrie

Answer: 2. Drumlins

Question 50. In France Corrie is known as

  1. Cirque
  2. Arete
  3. Drumlin
  4. None of these

Answer: 1. Cirque

Question 51. Matterhorn of Switzerland is an example of

  1. Corrie
  2. Arete
  3. Burgshrund
  4. Potholes

Answer: 2. Arete

Question 52. Cresent-shaped sand dunes are common in the

  1. Desert
  2. River valley
  3. Glacial Valley
  4. Mountainous region

Answer: 1. Desert

Question 53. _______ valley is common in the mountain area.

  1. U-shaped
  2. V-shaped
  3. T-shaped
  4. D-shaped

Answer: 1. U-shaped

Question 54. Bars are common near the

  1. Sea Coast
  2. Mountain areas
  3. River basin
  4. River mouth

Answer: 1. Sea coast

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Question 55. Cirques are common in the

  1. River Basin
  2. Mountain Areas
  3. Desert regions
  4. All of these

Answer: 2. Mountain Areas

Question 56. The wind is an important agent of erosion in

  1. Arid region
  2. Mountain region
  3. Coastal region
  4. None of these

Answer: 1. Arid region

Question 57. A large depression formed by deflation is called

  1. Blowhole
  2. Blowout
  3. Sinkhole
  4. Sink out

Answer: 2. Blowout

Question 58. The steep-sided, dome-shaped pyramids formed by wind erosion are called

  1. Yardangs
  2. Inselbergs
  3. Zeugens
  4. Roche Moutonnee

Answer: 2. Inselbergs

Question 59. Sword-like long narrow ridges of sand in the Sahara are called

  1. Barkhans
  2. Seifs
  3. Dunes
  4. Loess

Answer: 2. Seifs

Question 60. Extensive deposits of loess are found in

  1. North-West China
  2. Thar desert
  3. Sahara desert
  4. Equatorial region

Answer: 1. North-West China.

Question 61. A stony desert is called an/a

  1. Erg
  2. Hamada
  3. Reg
  4. Sief

Answer: 3. Reg

Question 62. Atmospheric ozone gas is concentrated in the layer of

  1. Stratosphere
  2. Mesosphere
  3. Ionosphere
  4. Troposphere

Answer: 3. Ionosphere

Question 63. The temperature decreases by ______ for every 1000 m rise in height.

  1.  5.4°C
  2. 6.4°C
  3. 6.7°C
  4.  5.7°C

Answer: 2. 6.4°C

Question 64. The percentage of solar energy reflected into space by the atmosphere and Earth’s crust is

  1. 35%
  2. 64%
  3. 34%
  4. 66%

Answer: 3. 34%

Question 65. The layer of the atmosphere where the inversion of temperature is noticed is

  1. Lonosphere
  2. Troposphere
  3. Stratosphere
  4. Mesosphere

Answer: 2. Troposphere

Question 66. Rainfall is measured by

  1. Rain Gauge
  2. Barometer
  3. Chronometer
  4. Sextant

Answer: 1. Rain Gauge

Question 67. Relative humidity can be measured by

  1. Hygrometer
  2. Thermometer
  3. Rain Gauge
  4. Barometer

Answer: 1. Hygrometer

Question 68. Chinook is found in

  1. Rockies
  2. Rhine river valley
  3. Rhone river valley
  4. None of these

Answer: 1. Rockies

Question 69. The process by which water of rivers, lakes, and oceans turns into water vapour due to heat is called:

  1. Precipitation
  2. Saturation
  3. Evaporation
  4. Condensation

Answer: 3. Evaporation

Question 70. All the land drained by a river, its tributaries and distributaries, is called:

  1. River basin
  2. Water divide
  3. Hanging Valley
  4. Outwash plain

Answer: 1. River basin

Question 71. The isolated residual hill in the desert formed due to wind erosion is called:

  1. Monadnock
  2. Inselberg
  3. Mesa & Butte
  4. Gour

Answer: 2. Inselberg

“WBBSE Class 10 Exogenic Processes solved MCQs”

Question 72. The fragments of rocks shattered by frost action and brought down the valley by a glacier are called:

  1. Alluvium
  2. Salt pans
  3. Moraines
  4. Pyroclasts

Answer: 3. Moraines

Question 73. The largest reservoir of freshwater on earth is

  1. River
  2. Glacial ice
  3. Oceans
  4. Groundwater

Answer: 2. Glacial ice

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