What is the time difference for every degree of longitude?

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What is the time difference for every degree of longitude?

A. Eight minutes

B. Ten minutes

C. Four minutes

D. Twelve minutes

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In which of the following planets, the Great Red Spot has been the special feature?

A. Jupiter

B. Saturn

C. Mars

D. Venus

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Our Solar System is an orderly community of _____.

A. One star

B. Two stars

C. Three stars

D. Four stars

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What is the name of 'brightest Planet'?

A. Venus

B. Mercury

C. Mars

D. Saturn

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What is the primary cause of the day and night?

A. Revolution

B. Rotation

C. Inclination of the earth's axis

D. Geoid shape of the earth

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A system of millions and millions of galaxies are called _____.

A. Solar System

B. Universe

C. Space

D. Constellation

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Going into the interior of the earth the weight of an object

A. Increases

B. Decreases

C. Remains unchanged

D. First increases and then decreases

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The inclination of the earth's axis, i.e. the earth's axis is tilted at an angle from perpendicular to the orbital plane or makes an angle with the plane of the earth's orbit. What are these respective angles?

A. $90^{0}$

B. $23 {\frac{1}{2}}^{0}$

C. $0^{0}$

D. $66 {\frac{1}{2}}^{0}$

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Equatorial diameter of the Earth is __.

A. 12757 km

B. 17257 km

C. 17527 km

D. 17572 km

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The rate of rotation of the Earth on its axis is the highest on which of the following date?

A. It never changes

B. January-4

C. January-3

D. January-21

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The group of small pieces of rock revolving round the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are called

A. meteors

B. comets

C. meteorites

D. asteroids

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When a year divisible by 4 and not divisible by 400 is called

A. Siderial Year

B. Solar Year

C. Cosmic Year

D. Leap Year

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Which planet is called 'Double Planet'?

A. Venus

B. Uranus

C. Pluto

D. Earth

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Halley's comet visits us after every.

A. 66 years

B. 76 years

C. 86 years

D. 96 years

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Planet with maximum satellites is _____.

A. Earth

B. Saturn

C. Jupiter

D. Pluto

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Which planet does experience a day almost of the same duration as the Earth?

A. Venus

B. Mercury

C. Mars

D. Jupiter

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How much time does earth take in making one rotation on its axis with respect to a fixed star at infinite distance?

A. 23 hours 56 minutes

B. 24 hours

C. 23 hours 46 minutes

D. 24 hours 4 minutes

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How much is the variation In distance between the Earth and the Sun during aphelion and perihelion?

A. 5000000 km

B. 500000 km

C. 50000 km

D. 5000 km

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What is the geographical term for land's end, that tip of land which projects into the sea?

A. A headland

B. A spit

C. A peninsula

D. A cape

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What is the average radius of the Earth?

A. 6071km

B. 6571km

C. 6371km

D. 6771 km

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Which planet does take the least time in completing one revolution around the Sun?

A. Earth

B. Venus

C. Mercury

D. Mars

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Which of the following statements best describes longitudes?

A. An imaginary line on the earth's surface joining the north and south pole

B. The angular distance east or west of the Greenwich Meridian

C. The distance of place east or west of the Greenwich Meridian

D. The position of a place on the Earth surface with reference to the Prime Meridian

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What do you call a narrow neck oC land that connects two larger landmasses?

A. Peninsula

B. Isthmus

C. Cape

D. Strait

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Which planet does take the longest time in completing one revolution around the Sun?

A. Uranus

B. Saturn

C. Pluto

D. Neptune

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Arrange the Outer Planets in increasing order of their sizes.
1. Jupiter
2. Uranus
3. Saturn
4. Neptune

A. 4, 2, 3, 1

B. 4, 2, 1, 3

C. 2, 4, 3, 1

D. 4, 2, 3, 1

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Largest planet of our Solar System is _____.

A. Jupiter

B. Mars

C. Saturn

D. Uranus

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To a space traveller stationed in Moon, during the day time the lunar sky will appear

A. Blue

B. White

C. Black

D. Crimson Red

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The time taken by the sun to revolve around the centre or our galaxy is

A. 25 million yrs

B. 100 million yrs

C. 250 million yrs

D. 500 millionyrs

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What is peninsula?

A. A narrow belt of land

B. A mountainous island

C. A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides

D. A range of hills

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Brightest planet of our Solar System is _____.

A. Venus

B. Mercury

C. Uranus

D. Saturn

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Equatorial circumference of the Earth is

A. 40067 km

B. 50067 km

C. 4067 km

D. 5067 km

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C. Four minutes

What is the time difference for every degree of longitude?

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In which of the following planets, the Great Red Spot has been the special feature?

Our Solar System is an orderly community of _____.

What is the name of 'brightest Planet'?

What is the primary cause of the day and night?

A system of millions and millions of galaxies are called _____.

Going into the interior of the earth the weight of an object

The inclination of the earth's axis, i.e. the earth's axis is tilted at an angle from perpendicular to the orbital plane or makes an angle with the plane of the earth's orbit. What are these respective angles?

Equatorial diameter of the Earth is __.

The rate of rotation of the Earth on its axis is the highest on which of the following date?

The group of small pieces of rock revolving round the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are called

When a year divisible by 4 and not divisible by 400 is called

Which planet is called 'Double Planet'?

Halley's comet visits us after every.

Planet with maximum satellites is _____.

Which planet does experience a day almost of the same duration as the Earth?

How much time does earth take in making one rotation on its axis with respect to a fixed star at infinite distance?

How much is the variation In distance between the Earth and the Sun during aphelion and perihelion?

What is the geographical term for land's end, that tip of land which projects into the sea?

What is the average radius of the Earth?

Which planet does take the least time in completing one revolution around the Sun?

Which of the following statements best describes longitudes?

What do you call a narrow neck oC land that connects two larger landmasses?

Which planet does take the longest time in completing one revolution around the Sun?

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Largest planet of our Solar System is _____.

To a space traveller stationed in Moon, during the day time the lunar sky will appear

The time taken by the sun to revolve around the centre or our galaxy is

What is peninsula?

Brightest planet of our Solar System is _____.

Equatorial circumference of the Earth is

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2. Uranus
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