NCERT Geography - Water Chapter 5 Class 7 MCQ

1. Dead sea in Israel has salinity of ______ grams per litre of water.

320
330
340
400

2. The ocean bodies and the seas contain ______ water.

clear
pure
salty
mineral

3. An earthquake, a volcanic eruption or underwater landslides can shift large amounts of ocean water. As a result a huge tidal wave called ________ occurs.

tide
tsunami
waves
earthquake

4. What is the regular upward and downward movement of the level of the ocean that is caused by the pull of the Sun and the Moon on the Earth called?

a cyclone
a tide.
a wave
a sea

5. During the full moon and new moon days, the sun, the moon and the earth are in the same line and the tides are _________. These are called spring tides.

gone
average.
lowest.
highest.

6. What are the streams of water flowing constantly on the ocean surface in definite directions?

Ocean currents
Ocean waves
Ocean tides
Ocean tsunami

7. The tsunami of 2004 caused wide spread damage in the coastal areas of India. The Indira point in the _____________ got submerged after the tsunami.

Kerala
Daman And Diu
Lakshwadeep Islands
Andaman and Nicobar islands

8. The Labrador Ocean current is ________ current while the Gulf Stream is a ______ current.

warm, cold
cold, warm
both warm
both cold

9. The process by which water continually changes its form and circulates between oceans, atmosphere and land

Water cycle
Ocean current
Tides
cyclones

10. Where do the warm ocean currents generally originate near?

Equator
Poles
Tropic Of Capricorn
None of these

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