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771.

Name the part of the atmosphere that is 10-40 km from the Earth's surface, where the temperature slowly rises from a low of 55c/- 67 F? to around ?C/32 F??

A.	Ionosphere	B.	Stratosphere
C.	Spectrosphere	D.	Lithosphere

772.

The moon orbits the Earth because it is pulled towards it by the earth's gravity. The earth is also pulled by the Moon's gravity. This causes the movement of water on earth. What is called this movement?

A.	Tide	B.	Waves
C.	Watershake	D.	Water quake

773.

When the sun and moon are in a line with the earth, they pull together to give very high tides. What these tides are called?

A.	Heavy Hides	B.	Storm tides
C.	Spring tides	D.	Storm

774.

What are called those tides which are formed when Sun and Moon are at right angles with the earth; they pull against each other to give lowered tides?

A.	Passive tides	B.	Neap tides
C.	Weak tides	D.	Low tides

775.

What are Tropics?

A.	Land and water 3000 km north and south of equator	B.	Land and water 2, 570 km east and west of equator
C.	Land and water 2, 570 km north and south of equator	D.	None of these

776.

Tropic of cancer is:

A.	Northern boundary of tropics, 23.5	B.	Northern boundary of tropics, 33.5
C.	Northern boundary of tropics, 43.5	D.	Northern boundary of tropics, 53.5

777.

The southern boundary of tropics, 23.5 South ltitudes is called:

A.	Southern tropics	B.	Tropic of Capricorn
C.	Semi tropics	D.	Tropics of cancer

778.

Undersea earth quake or volcanic eruption generates a wave. What is it called?

A.	Oceanic earthquake	B.	Tsunami (Japanese 'harbour wave')
C.	Seismic	D.	None of these

779.

What is called a region of high latitude almost without trees, which results from the presence of permafrost (permanently frozen land to a great depth)?

A.	Barren land	B.	Tundra
C.	Desert	D.	savannah

780.

A crack in the earth's crust through which hot magma and gases well up is known as:

A.	Eruption	B.	Volcano
C.	Fault	D.	Crack