Which of the following scales would allow the greatest amount of detail on a map?

A. 1: 20

B. 1: 50

C. 1: 500

D. 1: 2,500

The captain of a ship in the mid sea observed that it was local noon as he was listening to 08.00 hrs BBC world news. On which longitude was his ship?

A. 60°E

B. 60°W

C. 120°E

D. 120°W

A map drawn to a scale of 1: 180,000 is reduced three times. What is the scale of the new map?

A. 1: 60,000

B. 1: 90,000

C. 1: 360,000

D. 1: 540,000

Sedimentary rocks are easily recognized in the field because they?

A. form round hills

B. are faulted

C. form vertical columns

D. occur in layers

At which of the following latitudes would you expect more than 24 hours of continuous sunshine or darkness at a particular time of the year?

A. 40°N and S

B. 50°N and S

C. 60°N and S

D. 70°N and S

Which of the following sets of rocks is organically formed?

A. Rock salt, breccia and conglometerate

B. Clay, mudstone and sandstone

C. peat, chalk and limestone

D. Girt, coal and shale

Which of these sets of rivers enter the sea through esturies?

A. The Thames, Zaire and Plate

B. The Plate, Ganges and Columbia

C. Lawrence

D. The Zarie, Thames and Niger

Which of the following landforms originates from aeolian erosion?

A. Wadi

B. Deflation hollow

C. Sand dune

D. Playa

The circulation of ocean currents is?

A. clockwise both in the north and southern hemispheres

B. anti-clockwise both in the southern hemispheres

C. anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise both in the southern hemispheres

D. clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise both in the southern hemispheres

Seasons are recognized with in the tropics primarily on the basis of?

A. air masses

B. temperature

C. rainfall

D. evaporation