Class 9 Geography – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)
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Which method is used to show a variable whose distribution is continuous, such as altitude, temperature or rainfall?
Chapter 1: Distributional Maps
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Answer: C. Isopleth method
Isopleth maps join places of equal value with lines, so they suit continuous variables like altitude, temperature and rainfall.In a dot-method map of population, rural population is shown by dots. How is urban population shown?
Chapter 1: Distributional Maps
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Answer: A. By circles
In dot maps, dots show rural population while circles are used to show urban population.When two fractures develop side by side in the earth's crust and the land between them sinks, what landform is formed?
Chapter 2: Endogenetic Movements
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Answer: D. Rift valley
The deep part that subsides between two fractures is a rift valley, e.g. the rift valley of the Narmada; a raised block between faults is a block mountain.Where in Maharashtra does the textbook show stalactites formed by chemical precipitation of limestone?
Chapter 3: Exogenetic Processes Part-1
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Answer: B. Wadgaon Darya, Ahmadnagar district
The book's example of limestone being chemically precipitated again (a chemical weathering process) is the stalactites at Wadgaon Darya in Ahmadnagar district.Mushroom rocks are formed mainly by which process?
Chapter 4: Exogenetic Processes Part-2
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Answer: C. Erosion by wind
Sand and pebbles carried by wind rub against rocks; this erosional work of wind forms mushroom rocks, deflation hollows and yardangs.In orographic rainfall, the side of the mountain away from the moist winds (leeward side) gets less rain. What is this area called?
Chapter 5: Precipitation
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Answer: A. Rain-shadow area
After crossing the mountain the air has less vapour, so the leeward side gets less rainfall and is called the rain-shadow area.Below a depth of about 2000 m, what is the temperature of sea water almost everywhere, from the equator to the poles?
Chapter 6: The Properties of Sea Water
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Answer: B. About 4 °C
Sea-water temperature falls with depth only down to about 4 °C; below 2000 m it is about 4 °C everywhere, so deep water does not freeze.Why does the International Date Line turn east or west in places instead of running straight along the 180° meridian?
Chapter 7: International Date Line
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Answer: D. To keep it completely in the Pacific Ocean so land and islands do not have two different dates
If the IDL crossed land or islands, people on its two sides would follow different dates, so it is drawn to pass completely through the Pacific Ocean.In which type of economy do the private and public sectors exist together, balancing profit and social welfare?
Chapter 8: Introduction to Economics
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Answer: C. Mixed economy
A mixed economy has co-existence of private and public sectors (e.g. India); capitalistic aims at maximum profit, socialistic at social welfare.A country's imports are worth more than its exports in a given period. What is its balance of trade called?
Chapter 9: Trade
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Answer: B. Unfavourable balance of trade
Balance of trade is the difference between import and export values; when imports exceed exports it is an unfavourable balance of trade.
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All questions are written by PadhaiNotes in our own words from the chapters of the official Maharashtra State Board Balbharati textbook (ebalbharati.in). Each question shows its chapter.