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GEOGRAPHY YOU CAN!

TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF 7. He is considered the father of Mathematical

GEOGRAPHY Geography

a) Hecataeus of Miletus b) Alexander von Humboldt

1. The word geography comes from the words: Geo c) Kart Ritter d) Nicholas Copernicus
which means earth and graphos which means: e) Hipparchus of Nicaea (*)

a) landscape b) Terrestrial Globe 8. I build a globe with representations of the earth:

c) Geographic landscape d) Description (*)
e) Interpretation a) Hipparchus of Nicaea b) Alexander von Humboldt
c) Claudius Ptolemy d) Strabo of Amasia
2. It is considered the object of study of geography: e) Bad Crates (*)

to the earth b) The atmosphere 9. He is considered the father of physical geography:

c) Geographic Space (*) of the sun
a) Humboldt (*) b) Bad Crates
e) The stars
c) Claudius Ptolemy d) Nicholas Copermicus
e) Strabo of Amasia
3. He wrote “Instructions for drawing maps”

10. It is a geographical fact:

a) Strabo b) Ptolemy (*)
c) Humboldt d) Hecataeus of Miletus a) The Andes mountain range
e) Federico Ratzel b) The snowy Huascarán
c) The waterfall “The Angel”
4. He is considered the first cartographer of d) The Porculla Pass
Humanity: e) The Gallito Ciego Dam (*)

a) Ritter b) Humboldt 11. Place where Von Humboldt first measured the
c) Hecataeus of Miletus d) Anaximander (*) temperature of the Peruvian Sea.
e) Eratosthenes
a) Tumbes b) Piura
5. It does not belong to the biotic element of the c) Moquegua d) Trujillo (*)
geosystem: e) Lambayeque

a) The Fauna b) Wild animals 12. He was one of the first geographers to calculate the
c) The flora d) Wild plants earth's dimensions:
e) The rocks (*)
a) Hecetheus of Miletus b) Thales of Miletus
6. He is considered a Desktop Geographer: c) Claudius Ptolemy d) Strabo of Amasia
e) Eratosthenes (*)
a) Ratzel b) Ritter (*)
c) Humboldt d) Strabo
e) Hecataeus of Milato

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13. 18th century geographers considered the fathers of 21. The beginnings of Modern Geography date back to
scientific geography: two German geographers:

a) Humboldt - La Blache b) Humboldt - Ritter (*) a) Vidal de La Blache - Ptolemy

c) Humboldt-Ratzel d) Humboldt - Eratosthenes b) Aristarchus of Samos - Eratosthenes
e) Humboldt - Strabo c) Hippocrates - Humboldt
d) Von Humbodt - Karl Ritter (*)
14. The geographical principle that answers the question e) Ratzel - Strabo of Amasia
"Why does the Piura River remain without water for
much of the year is: 22. Globalization is the central theme of Geography:

a) Principle of Activity. b) Comparison Principle a) Quantitative b) Humanistic

c) Connection Principle d) Principle of Chance (*) c) Deterministic d) Classic e) Systemic (*)
e) Principle of Description
23. Systematic geography mainly covers:
15. The connection principle is also called:

a) Physical Geography and Human Geography (*)

a) Extension b) Evolution
b) Economic Geography and Social Geography
c) Explanation d) Analogy e)
c) Cultural Geography and Ethnic Geography
Relationship (*)
d) Regional Geography and General Geography
16. Study the history and Evolution of the Universe: e) Biological Geography and Mathematical Geography

a) Astronomy b) Cosmography 24. They are the rules that govern the study and actions
c) Cosmogony d) Cosmology (*) of Geography, allowing for an efficient investigation of
e) Eology geographical facts or phenomena:

17. It seeks to determine the existence of life on other a) Geographic possibility b) Geographic determinism
stars: c) Geographic positivism d) Geographic radicalism
e) Geographic principles (*)
a) Aerology b) Biology
c) Bioastronomy (*) d) Ethnography e) Biogeography 25. It consists of establishing similarities and
differences between the geographical fact or
18. Division of general geography that is responsible for phenomenon studied, with another that is located in
the study of natural phenomena: other latitudes of the globe:

a) Social Geography b) Economic Geography comparison (*) b) Location

c) Political Geography d) Physical geography c) Causality d) Description e) Activity
e) Human Geography (*)
26. It is the science that studies the spatial distribution
19. Study the features that distinguish the different of all natural (physical) or human phenomena on the
regions of the earth: surface of the Earth's globe:

a) General Geography (*) b) Regional Geography a) Edaphology b) Meteorology

c) Social Geographite d) Political Geography c) Geomorphology d) Geography (*)
e) Economic Geography e) Potamology

20. Geography mainly covers two large branches: 27. It is understood as the set of areas where man
develops and carries out his economic activities:
a) Physical and Human b) Physical and Biological
c) Physical and Regional d) General and Regional (*) a) Perceived space b) Infinite space
e) General and Human c) Geographic space (*) d) Natural space
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28. It is the Social Science focused on the study of 35. It consists of making known the characteristics of a
societies and their territories, both in the static aspect geographic fact or phenomenon that we want to study:
of their organization and in the dynamics of the changes
they experience: a) Location b) Description (*)
c) Analogy d) Explanation e)
a) Human Geography (*) b) Population Geography Relationship
c) Cultural Geography d) Historical Geography
e) Ethnographic Geography 36. It focuses on various social aspects of the spaces
studied such as social divisions, education, poverty,
29. It is a branch of Geography that studies the gender relations, ethnicity, etc.:
specific aspects of a certain region of the globe:
a) Social Geography (*) b) Cultural Geography
a) General Geography b) Population Geography c) Industrial Geography d) Economic Geography
c) Social Geography d) Regional Geography (*) e) Physical Geography
e) Radical Geography
37. He points out that everything is in constant
transformation, having man or nature as transforming
30. Study the natural processes that cause the physical
agents:
diversity of the Earth:
a) Connection b) Activity (*)
a) Political Geography b) Mathematical Geography c) Causality d) Location e) Description
c) Physical Geography (*) d) Population Geography
e) Astronomical Geography 38. The location principle is attributed to:

31. Analyzes the combination of natural and spatial a) Federico Ratzel (*) b) Jean Brunhes
factors in the study of the economic activities of a c) Vidal de La Blache d) Karl Ritter e) Max Sorre
region or a country:
39. He stated the principle of causality:

a) Physical Geography b) Regional Geography a) Ratzel b) Vidal de La Blache

c) General Geography d) Systematic Geography c) Von Humboldt (*) d) Kjellen e) Kart Ritter
e) Economic Geography (*)
40. Science that studies mountains and mountain ranges:
32. It studies the settlement patterns of a community,
the features of space appropriation that have prevailed a) Hydrogeology b) Sedimentology
since ancient times and their modifications, the c) Orography (*) d) Sociology e) Petrology
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different structures of occupation of the Earth and the
41. It is the science that studies the spatial distribution
different commercial communication routes:
of all natural (physical) or human phenomena on the
a) Social Geography b) Political Geography surface of the Earth's globe:
c) Rural Geography d) Historical Geography (*) a) Edaphology d) Geography
e) Industrial Geography b) Meteorology and) Potamology
c) Geomorphology
33. The etymological definition of the word Geography is
derived from two roots that are of origin: 42. He is considered the father of ancient geography:
a) Claudius Ptolemy
a) Latin b) Greek (*) b) Strabo of Amasia
c) Arabic d) Russian e) c) Von Humboldt
German d) Bad Crates
e) Nicolaus Copernicus
34. Study cities, their morphology, their socio-economic
characteristics, their changes and problems: 43. Science that studies rocks:
a) Geomorphology d) Topography
a) Rural geography b) Urban geography (*) b) Orography and)Mapping
c) Economic geography d) Physical geography c) Petrology
e) Human geography
44. “When studying a geographic fact or phenomenon, its
characteristics and elements must be pointed out.” The
statement corresponds to the beginning of:
a) Causality d) Description

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b) Connection and)Activity b) Regional Geography

c) Location c) General geography
d) Systematic Geography
45. Alexander Von Humboldt supported the principle of: e) Economic geography
a) Activity d) Location
b) Description and)Analogy 55. Globalization is the central theme of Geography:
c) Causality a) Quantitative d) Classic
46. He is considered the father of geography: b) Humanistic and)Systematic
a) Eratosthenes d) Ptolemy c) Deterministic
b) Strabo and)Hipparchus
c) Hecataeus of Miletus 56. It is understood as the set of areas where man
develops and carries out his economic activities:
47. Which of the following geographic principles uses a) Perceived space
geographic coordinates?: b) Infinite space
a) Relationship d) Activity c) Geographical space
b) Location and)Description d) A natural space
c) Causality e) Historical space

48. Branch of Geography that describes and explains 57. He points out that everything is in constant
the forms of the earth's relief: transformation, having man or nature as transforming
a) Edaphology d) Geodesy agents:
b) Meteorology and)Climatology a) Connection d) Location
c) Geomorphology b) Activity and)Description
c) Causality
49. He is usually considered the father of modern
Geography in its physical or natural aspect: 58. It has been recognized as the first scientific study
a) Carlos Ritter d) Vidal de La Blanche of Human Geography:
b) Federico Ratzel and)Jean Brunhes a) Cosmos
c) Von Humboldt b) The State as a way of life
50. It is a geographical phenomenon: c) Almagest
a) The Poechos Reservoir d) Anthropogeography
b) The “Cayetano Heredia” Hospital e) Journey to the equinoctial regions
c) The Nevado Huascarán 59. The beginnings of Modern Geography date back to
d) The Park of Legends two German geographers:
e) Macchu Picchu a) Vidal de La Blache – Ptolemy
51. It is Geography that studies the natural processes b) Aristarchus of Samos – Eratosthenes
that cause the physical diversity of the Earth: c) Hippocrates – Humboldt
a) Astronomical d) Population d) Von Humbodt – Karl Ritter
b) Math and)Policy e) Ratzel – Strabo of Amasia
c) Physical
60. Science that studies mountains and mountain ranges:
52. It is a branch of Geography that studies the a) Geology b) Petrology
different regions of the world: c) Orography d) Fluviology e) Edaphology
a) General geography
b) Population Geography 61. It is the first study of Human Geography:
c) Social Geography a) Cosmos
d) Regional Geography b) Almagest
e) Radical Geography c) Anthropogeography
d) Comparative Earth Sciences
53. It is not a component of geographic space: e) Revolution of the celestial spheres
a) Lithosphere d) Biosphere
b) Hydrosphere and)Geosphere 62. He wrote Almagest, a work in which he spread the
c) Exosphere Geocentric conception
a) Aristotle d) Ptolemy
54. Analyzes the combination of natural and spatial b) Herodotus e) Humboldt
factors in the study of the economic activities of a c) Homer
region or a country:
a) Physical geography
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63. Geomorphology studies: 70. He proposed the Heliocentric system in the Modern
a) The population d) The rivers Age:
b) The land relief e) The floors a) Homer
c) The seas b) Aristotle
c) Hippocrates
64. It is considered the domain or object of study of d) Aristarchus
Geography: e) Copernicus
a) Plant association
b) Ecology 71. It consists of making known the characteristics of a
c) Biodiversity geographic fact or phenomenon that we intend to study:
d) The geographical space a) Location d) Analogy
e) Zoogeography b) Relationship e) Explanation
c) Description
65. Does not correspond to Physical Geography:
72. It allows you to identify the reason for the
a) The relief
occurrence of a geographic event or phenomenon:
b) The terrestrial waters
a) Connection d) Location
c) Cultural patterns
b) Activity e) Description
d) The weather
c) Causality
e) The vegetation
73. It is not a component of geographic space:
66. Science that studies the location, distribution and a) Photic zone
relationship that exists between physical, biological and b) Water table map
human phenomena that develop on the surface of the c) geosphere
Earth d) Exosphere
a) Physical geography e) Biosphere
b) Human geography
c) Geography 74. Which of the following geographical principles uses
d) Political geography the use of geographical coordinates?:
e) Cultural Geography a) Relationship d) Causality
b) Activity e) Comparison
67. It is the science that studies the composition and c) Location
nature of the soil in its relationship with the plants and
the environment that surrounds it: 75. It studies the changes or transformations that an
a) Edaphology event or phenomenon undergoes during its development:
b) Mapping a) Causality d) Extension
c) Geography b) Description e) Analogy
d) Climatology c) Activity
e) Meteorology
76. Study of the waters that make up the hydrosphere.
Includes continental and marine or oceanic waters:
68. It studies landscapes or regions as they appear
a) Geomorphology
without the action of man, that is, it studies natural
b) Limnology
landscapes
c) Oceanography
a) General geography
d) Hydrography
b) Population Geography
e) Hydrogeology
c) Mathematical Geography
d) Regional Geography
77. He is usually considered the father of Modern
e) Physical geography
Geography in its physical or natural aspect.
a) Federico Ratzel
69. “The power of man over nature”: fits best in:
b) Von Humboldt
a) Geographic possibility
c) Vidal de la Blache
b) Geographic determinism
d) Karl Ritter
c) Geographic positivism
e) Nicolaus Copernicus
d) Geographic criticism
e) Geographic radicalism
78. Science that studies the seas:
a) Potamology d) Cryology
b) Botany e) Biogeography

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c) Thalassology 86. Ancient Geography was dedicated to:

a) Explain the phenomenon of tides
79. It focuses on various social aspects of the spaces b) Provide pollution data
studied such as social divisions, education , poverty , c) Explain the political influence in the State.
gender relations , ethnicity , etc.: d) The description and accumulation of geographic data.
a) General geography e) Communicate between remote places.
b) Population Geography
c) Social Geography 87. Father of human geography
d) Regional Geography a) Humboldt d) La Blache
e) Demography b) Ratzel d) Ritter
c) Suer
80. Study the economic activities that take place in the
different spaces, their location and the economic 88. Its main objectives are the relationships between
problems: population, State and territory:
a) Astronomical Geography a) Medical geography
b) Human geography b) Geodemography
c) Physical geography c) Geography of tourism
d) Economic geography d) Urban geography
e) Political geography e) Political geography

81. Science that studies physical facts and phenomena, 89. Study the oceans
biological and social, explaining the causes of their a) Ecology d) Physiography
origin, b) Botany e) Biogeography
evolution, interrelation between them: c) Oceanography
a) Physical Geography d) Geography
b) Regional Geography e) Ecological 90. Science that studies mountains and mountain ranges
Geography a) Geomorphology d) Orography
c) Social Geography b) Ecology e) Orography
c) Geogena
82. Humanized space continually transformed and
formed from the relationship of two important 91. Science that studies rivers, their flow, their
elements: the natural and the social: current, their tributaries and their importance:
a) Geographic space a) Edaphology d) Climatology
b) Hydrographic space b) Meteorology e) Potamology
c) Geographic space c) Geomorphology
d) Natural space
e) Economic space 12. Science that studies seas:
a) Thalassology d) Physography
83. Study the natural processes that cause the physical b) Botany e) Biogeography
diversity of the Earth: c) Potamology
a) Astronomical Geography
b) Mathematical Geography 92. Refer to the component or factor of the
c) Physical Geography environment that lacks life but that conditions the
d) Population Geography existence of living beings in a certain place:
e) Political Geography a) Anthropic d) Cosmological
b) Abiotic e) Biological
84. He is considered the father of Physical Geography c) Biotic
a) Humboldt d) La Blache
b) Ritter e) Ratzel 93. It is the part of zoology that explains the
c) Sauer distribution of animals on the planet, the dispersion
models of animals and the factors responsible for this
85. Geographic concept that studies the earth as a dispersion:
system a) Plant association d) Ecotourism
a) Ecological d) Geosystem b) Ecology e) Zoogeography
b) Structuralism e) The rocks c) Biodiversity
c) Criticism

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94. It consists of explaining the why or origin of facts e) Economic space

and phenomena, that is, the causes of their origin:
a) Location d) Analogy 103. Study the distribution of water in lakes and
b) Activity e) Relationship lagoons:
c) Causality a) Geomorphology d) Hydrogeology
b) Meteorology e) Limnology
95. It studies the changes or transformations that an c) Physical geography
event or phenomenon undergoes during its development:
a) Causality d) Analogy 104. Author of the geographical principle of
b) Activity e) Description location:
c) Extension a) Humboldt
b) Ritter
96. It consists of establishing similarities and c) Copermic
differences between the geographical fact or d) La Blache
phenomenon that is being studied with another that is e) Ratzel
located in other latitudes of the globe:
a) Location d) Activity 105. Its main objectives are the relationships
b) Analogy e) Causality between population, state and territory:
c) Description a) Deterministic Geography
b) Possibilist Geography
97. It studies groundwater in relation to its circulation, c) Tourism Geography
its geological conditions and its collection: d) Political geography
a) Geomorphology d) Hydrogeology e) Urban Geography
b) Meteorology e) Limnology
c) Physical geography 106. Science that studies the nature and formation
of the earth:
98. Determinism in geography had as its most radical a) geology d) Potamology
exponent: b) Petrology e) Limnology
a) Churchill d) Kjellen c) Edaphology
b) Hauhofer e) La Blache
c) Ratzel
107. Study the economic activities of a country:
99. Ratzel's fundamental work:
a) Social Geography
a) Travel to the equinoctial regions
b) Political geography
b) Anthropogeography
c) Rural Geography
c) Cosmos
d) Economic geography
d) Nature paintings
e) Urban Geography
e) Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain
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108. Soil science that studies the composition and
100. Social and natural science that studies the nature of the soil in its relationship with plants and the
interrelation of men with their environment: environment that surrounds it:
a) Astronomy d) Hydrogeology a) Hydrology
b) Cosmology e) Bioastronomy b) Edaphology
c) Geography c) Climatology
d) Orography
101. Study the distribution of animals in e) Geography
geographical space:
a) Botany 109. Science that studies rivers, their flow, their
b) Ecology current and their tributaries:
c) Biodiversity a) Edaphology
d) Phytogeography b) Meteorology
e) Zoogeography c) Geomorphology
d) Climatology
102. It is the object of study of Geography: e) Potamology
a) A natural space
b) Hydrographic space 110. Ratzel's fundamental work:
c) Geographical space a) Travel to the equinoctial regions of America
d) Cultural space b) Anthropogeography

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c) Cosmos 118. Study the natural processes that cause the

d) The trips physical diversity of the Earth:
e) Geography a) Astronomical Geography
b) Mathematical Geography
111. It consists of explaining the why, or the origin c) Physical geography
of facts and phenomena, that is, the causes of their d) Population Geography
origin on Earth: e) Political geography
a) Location d) Analogy
b) Activity e) Relationship 119. It is a branch of Geography that studies the
c) Causality similarities and differences between different regions
of the world:
112. It studies the changes or transformations that
a) General geography
an event or phenomenon undergoes during its
b) Population Geography
development:
c) Social Geography
a) Causality d) Analogy
d) Regional Geography
b) Activity e) Description
e) Historical Geography
c) Extension

113. It consists of establishing similarities and

TOPIC : IMAGINARY LINES AND
differences between the geographical fact or
phenomenon that is being studied with another that is
CIRCLES
120. To locate human or geographical facts on the
located in other latitudes of the globe:
earth's surface, we use:
a) Location d) Activity
a) South Pole
b) Comparison e) Causality
b) Terrestrial Equator
c) Description
c) Imaginary Lines and Circles
114. He points out that man with his intelligence d) Earth's axis
manages to impose himself on the geographical e) The poles
environment, achieving its development:
a) Human geography 121. They are lines in the areas parallel to the
b) Regional Geography Equator. They serve to express the latitude of a place:
c) Social Geography a) The Antecos
d) Possibilist Geography b) The Periecos
e) Deterministic Geography c) The Antipodes
d) The Meridians
115. Geographic Determinism had as its main e) The parallels
exponent:
a) Copermic 122. Father of cartography:
b) Humboldt a) Pythagoras
c) Ratzel b) Ptolemy
d) Ritter c) Anaximander
e) La Blache d) Homer
e) Aristotle
116. Geographer with whom Modern Geography
begins: 123. It is the imaginary line on which the Earth
a) Strabo of Amasia rotates around the Sun:
b) Alexander Von Humboldt a) Ecuador
c) Hecataeus of Miletus b) Earth's axis
d) Federico Ratzel c) Latitude
e) Pablo Vidal De La Blache d) The Parallels
e) The Meridians

117. Science that studies the seas:

124. The Terrestrial Equator is also known as:
a) Thalassology
a) The length
b) Orography
b) base meridian
c) Potamology
c) Tropic base
d) Edaphology
d) Base parallel
e) Biogeography
e) The altitude

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125. It is the largest imaginary circle that runs d) Thales of Miletus

through the Earth and divides it into two equal halves e) Bad Crates
known as the northern and southern hemisphere:
a) The Tropics 132. It is responsible for representing the
b) The Terrestrial Equator geographical space on a map, the preparation of which
c) The parallels requires a projection system and a scale:
d) The Meridians a) Geomorphology
e) Earth's axis b) Cartography
c) Geogeny
126. It is taken as a reference to establish the d) Caving
length of a point: e) Petrology
a) The tropics
b) The imaginary circles 133. Divides planet Earth into two equal halves or
c) The earth axis hemispheres (West and East):
d) 180° meridian
e) Greenwich Meridian a) Projection system b) Orientation
c) Base Meridian (*) d) Terrestrial Axis
127. The angular distance that exists from any point e) Terrestrial Equator
on Earth with respect to the Equator:
a) Latitude d) Meridians 134. The true, ideal, conventional and basic shape of
b) The length e) The Parallels the Earth is:
c) The altitude
a) Hyperbolic b) Elliptical c) Geoid (*)
d) Topographic e) Ellipsoid of revolution
128. The geographical division that deals with the
survey and representation of the shape and surface of
135. Line that joins the two poles and passes
the earth:
through the center, around which the Earth rotates:
a) Geomorphology d) Geology
b) Geodynamics e) Geography a) The Terrestrial Axis (*) b) Terrestrial Equator
c) Geodesy c) Base meridian d) Tropic of Cancer
e) Arctic Circle
129. It is one of the most common and useful ways
to represent planet Earth. It is a scale element 136. The maximum length recorded by a spoke is:
designed based on the shape and surface of the planet a) 12,713km b) 6,378km (*) c) 6 356km
and is one of the only three-dimensional d) 12,756km e) 12,800km
representations of the Earth:
a) The map 137. The maximum value in degrees that a meridian
b) d) The planet can acquire is:
c) The projection a) 90º b) 60º c) 180º (*) d) 360º e) 120º
d) e) The meridians
e) The earth globe 138. They are imaginary circles that cross the Earth
transversally:
130. The first globe with a representation of the
lands that Europeans knew after the voyages of a) Terrestrial Equator b) The Parallels (*)
Christopher Columbus and other explorers dates from c) The Tropics d) The Ecliptic e) The Poles
1507 and corresponds to :
a) Martin Behain 139. It is the largest imaginary circle that runs
b) Jorge Behain through the Earth and divides it into two equal halves
c) Martin Quevedo known as (hemispheres: North and South):
d) Martin Waldeseemuller a) Tropic of Cancer b) Tropic of Capricorn
e) Thales of Miletus c) Arctic Circle d) Terrestrial Equator (*)
e) Base Meridian
131. Greek philosopher. He is considered the first
person to build a globe. He did it in the middle of the 140. Maximum circumference perpendicular to the
2nd century BC and it stood out because it included Earth's Axis:
places such as, for example, the Antipodes.
a) Pythagoras
b) Anaximander
c) Homer

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a) Terrestrial Ecuador (*) b) Base Meridian 149. They are those parallels that are located at 23º
c) Tropic d) Terrestrial Axis e) 27′ north and south of the Terrestrial Equator:
Ecliptic
a) Antarctic Circle b) The tropics (*)
141. At its northern end, the Terrestrial Axis points c) Arctic Circle d) The earth axis
to: e) The spokes
a) The dragon star b) The polar star (*)
c) Southern Cross d) Can Minor e) Can 150. The highest value that latitude can assume is
Major 90º and is located at:
a) The earth axis b) The Earth's radius
142. They are circles perpendicular to the Earth's c) The geographic poles (*) d) The terrestrial equator
Axis that decrease in size as they approach the poles: e) The base meridian

a) The meridians b) The parallels (*)

151. They are longitude and latitude, and they are
c) The periecos d) The antipodes
used to accurately locate any point on the Earth's
e) The antecos
surface:

143. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is:

a) Geographic coordinates (*) b) Parallels
c) Assigned scale d) Contour lines
a) 12,713km b) 6 378km
e) Conventional symbols
c) 6 356km d) 12,756km(*)
e) 12,800km
152. It is the art, technique or science that evokes its
studies in the methods or processes used to project the
144. Imaginary semicircular lines that go from pole
shape of the Earth's geoid to a plane, map, sketch or
to pole and together with the parallels constitute the
geographical chart:
geographic network; that allows the location of
geographical phenomena on Earth:
a) Geodesy b) Astrophysics
a) Parallels b) Meridians (*) c) Cartography (*) d) Geography e) Meteorology
c) Antipode d) Anteco e) Perieco
153. It is considered the most important geodesic line,
145. Meridians are also known as lines of: because it indicates the geographical poles, which are
essential to be able to orient ourselves:
a) Altitude b) Height c) Latitude a) Terrestrial equator b) Greenwich Meridian
d) Length (*) e) Mass c) Antarctic Pole d) Arctic pole
e) Earth axis (*)
146. The Earth is divided into 24 time zones, each
measuring: 154. The point diametrically opposite the Zenith is
a) 45º longitude b) 15º longitude (*) called:
c) 60º longitude d) 180º longitude a) Tropic b) Meridian
e) 90º longitude c) Circle d) Ecuador e) Nadir (*)

147. The length of the earth's axis is: 155. South American countries through which the
Terrestrial Equator passes:
a) 10,713 km. b) 11,713 km.
c) 12,713 Km (*) d) 13,713 km a) Argentina, Peru and Ecuador
e) 14,713 km b) Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil (*)
c) Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil
148. The polar circles are distanced from the d) Chile, Argentina and Paraguay
equator by: e) Peru, Ecuador and Brazil

a) 25º 33′ b) 35º 33′ c) 45º 33′ 156. They are circles perpendicular to the Earth's Axis
d) 55º 33′ e) 66º 33′ (*) that decrease in size as they approach the poles:

a) The polar circles b) The Meridians

c) The parallels (*) d) The vertical
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157. They are vertical lines to the Globe and each one 167. It is considered a reference meridian to establish
of them represents an arc whose value is 180º: the longitude of a place:
a) The earth axis b) The Earth's radius
a) The spokes b) The meridians (*)
c) Greenwich (*) d) The Antarctic pole
c) The parallels d) The Tropic of Capricorn
e) The arctic pole
e) The Arctic Circle

158. The inclination of the Earth's axis with respect to 168. They are smaller circles located at 66º 33` with
the ecliptic: respect to the Earth's equator:
a) The terrestrial equator b) The earth axis
a) 23º 27` 30” b) 66º 33` (*) c) The tropic of cancer d) The Tropic of Capricorn
c) 32º 23´30” d) 66º 30´40” e) 33º 66' e) The polar circles (*)

159. The maximum value that latitude can assume is 90º 169. They are imaginary circles that cross the earth
and is located at: transversally:
a) The earth axis b) The terrestrial equator a) The ecliptic b) The tropics c) The poles
c) The terrestrial radius d) The base meridian d) The parallels (*) e) The meridians
e) The geographical poles (*)
170. It is known as the International Time Line:
160. The approximate length of the Earth's axis is: a) The Greenwich meridian b) The earth axis
c) The 180º meridian (*) d) The tropic of cancer
a) 6,365 km b) 12,713 km (*) e) The Tropic of Capricorn
c) 6,378 km d) 12,756 km
e) 40,042 km 171. Angular distance from any point on the Earth's
surface with respect to the Greenwich meridian.
161. It is taken as a reference to establish latitude a) Vertical b) Latitude c) Altitude
values: d) Circumference e) Length (*)
a) The Periecos b) The terrestrial equator
c) The antipodes d) The earth axis (*) 172. It is the geographical representation of the earth
e) The spokes or part of it on a flat surface.
a) The ecliptic b) Topography
162. The intersection between the Terrestrial Equator c) Geodesy d) The scale e) The Map (*)
and Greenwich occurs at:
a) The Alaska Gulf b) The Gulf of Guinea (*)
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173. It is the science that studies the dimensions of
c) The Gulf of Mexico d) The Persian Gulf
the Earth:
e) The Bay of Bengal
a) Geodesy b) Geology
163. Department of Peru closest to the Tropic of c) Cartography d) Geography e) Meteorology
Capricorn:
a) Tumbes b) Arequipa c) Fist 174. He is considered the father of Geodesy:
d) Loreto e) Tacna (*) a) Anaximander b) Eratosthenes
c) Strabo d) Pythagoras e) Copernicus
164. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is:
a) 6,378 km b) 6,356 km 175. Parallels are considered minor circles, except:
c) 12,756 km (*) d) 12,800 km a) The Tropic of Cancer
e) 12,713 km b) The Tropic of Capricorn
c) The Terrestrial Equator
165. The polar flattening of the Earth is equivalent to: d) Arctic Circle
a) 20 km. b) 22 km (*) e) Antarctic polar circle
c) 21 km d) 23 km e) 24 km
176. It is the imaginary line that passes through the
166. It is also known as base parallel: center of the earth:
a) South Pole b) Terrestrial Equator (*) a) The Vertical d) The Earth Axis
c) Tropic of Cancer d) North Pole b) The Normal and)The Meridians
e) Greenwich Meridian c) The spokes

177. The inclination of the Earth's Axis with respect to

the plane of the ecliptic is:
a) 23rd 27' d) 68º 33'
b) 24º 27' and)70º 33'
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c) 66º 33' b) Antarctic e) Arctic

c) Peaceful
178. The approximate length of the Earth Axis is:
a) 10,713 km. d) 13,714 km. 188. It is the angular distance between a point on the
b) 11,713 km. and)14,714 km. Earth with respect to the Terrestrial Equator:
c) 12,713 km . a) Latitude c) Longitude
b) Altitude d) Height e) Distance
179. It is considered the reference meridian to
establish the longitude of a place on Earth: 189. The highest value that latitude can assume is 90º
a) The Earth Axis d) The Antarctic Pole and is located at:
b) Greenwich and)The Normal a) The Earth Axis d) The terrestrial
c) The Arctic Pole equator
b) The geographical poles The terrestrial radius
180. Department of Peru close to the Terrestrial c) The base meridian
Equator:
190. They are smaller circles that are located parallel
a) Tacna d) Loreto
to the terrestrial equator:
b) Mother of God and)Huánuco
a) The vertical d) The meridians
c) Piura
b) The spokes e) The terrestrial equator
c) The parallels
181. The Tropics are located with respect to the
Terrestrial Equator at: 191. The intersection between the Earth's equator and
a) 23º 27' b) 24º 27' the Greenwich Meridian occurs at:
c) 25º 27' d) 26º 27' e) 27º 27' a) Gulf of Guinea d) Gulf of Alaska
b) Gulf of Mexico e) Persian Gulf
182. They are vertical lines to the Globe and each one c) Bay of Bengal
of them represents an arc of 180º:
192. It is the continent most traveled by the most
a) The spokes
important circles and semicircles:
b) The parallels
a) Europe
c) The meridians
b) Asia
d) The polar circles
c) Africa
e) The tropics
d) America
183. Department of Peru closest to the Tropic of
e) Oceania
Capricorn:
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a) Tacna b) Piura
193. It is the science that studies the shape and size of
c) Tumbes d) Arequipa e) Loreto
the Earth and the positions on it:
184. It was the Greek geographer who made the first a) Geography d) Topography
globe: b) Geodesy e) Geology
a) Eratosthenes d) Bad Crates c) Mapping
b) Anaximander e) Copernicus
c) Strabo 194.He is considered the father of ancient
mathematical geography:
185. South American countries through which the a) Kepler
Terrestrial Equator passes: b) Copernicus
a) Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil c) Hipparchus of Nicaea
b) Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil d) Eratosthenes
c) Chile, Argentina and Paraguay e) Galileo
d) Peru, Ecuador and Brazil
e) Argentina, Peru and Ecuador 195.It is the largest imaginary circle that runs through
the Earth and divides it into two equal halves known as
186. It is considered the best representation of the the Northern and Southern Hemispheres:
Earth because it presents shape, area and distance at a) Vertical
the same time: b) Terrestrial Equator
a) The maps d) Geographic charts c) Earth's axis
b) The plans e) The Globe d) base meridian
c) The graphics e) Zenith
187. The 180º Meridian runs through the Ocean:
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196. They are semicircles perpendicular to the 205. Centrifugal force is produced by:
Terrestrial Equator: a) The movement of tectonic plates
a) Thematic maps b) The Translation Movement
b) The maps c) Rotation Movement
c) The parallels d) Earth's Gravity
d) The earth globe e) The Earth Axis
e) The meridians
206. Located at 66º 33' north and south of the Earth's
equator:
197. Geoid means
a) Tropic of Cancer
to) South Pole d) North Pole
b) Tropic of Capricorn
b) Terrestrial Equator e) Shape of the earth
c) The polar circles
c) Tropic of Cancer
d) The meridians
e) Geographic coordinates
198. It is considered the most important geodesic line,
because it marks the geographic poles: 207. Department of Peru closest to the Tropic of
a) arctic pole Capricorn:
b) The ecliptic a) Tumbes
c) Earth's axis b) Arequipa
d) Terrestrial Equator c) Fist
e) Greenwich Meridian d) Loreto
e) Tacna
199. The earth rotates around an ideal axis called:
208. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is:
a) Parallel
a) 6,378 km
b) Meridian
b) 6,356 km
c) Earth's axis
c) 12,756 km
d) Normal
d) 12,800 km
e) Vertical
e) 12,713 km

200. It is the main parallel with the largest diameter: 209. They are imaginary lines drawn on the earth,
forming a grid, which helps us locate a point on the
a) Base Meridian d) The poles earth map:
b) The Ecliptic e) Terrestrial Equator a) Cartographic projection
c) The tropics b) Geographical coordinates
c) Level Heal
201. The approximate length of the Earth's axis is: d) Parallels
a) 12,713 km d) 12,756 km e) Latitude
b) 12,710 km e) 40,042 km 210. Angular distance from the principal meridian:
c) 6,378 km a) Height
b) Altitude
202. The inclination of the Earth's axis with respect to
c) Latitude
the ecliptic is:
d) Parallels
a) 23º 27'
e) Length
b) 70º 33'
c) 66º 33'
211. All points of equal length are called:
d) 66º 30'
a) Parallel
e) 33º 66'
b) Meridian
203. At its southern end, the Terrestrial Axis points c) Geographical coordinates
out: d) Maps
a) To Can Major d) The dragon star e) Galaxies
b) To Can Minor e) The polar star
c) To Cruz del Sur 212. Planar, geometric, simplified and conventional
representation of all or part of the Earth's surface:
204. They are imaginary circles that cross the Earth
a) Tropic
transversally:
b) Coordinate
a) The Ecliptic d) The meridians
c) Circle
b) The Tropics e) The parallels
d) Map
c) The poles
e) Meridian
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213. Parallels are considered minor circles, except: 221. They are smaller circles located at 66º 33' with
a) The Tropic of Cancer respect to the Earth's equator:
b) The antimeridian a) The Earth's equator
c) The Base Meridian b) The earth axis
d) The Earth axis c) The Tropic of Cancer
e) The Terrestrial Equator d) The tropic of capricorn
e) The polar circles
214. It is also known as base parallel:
a) South Pole 222. They are imaginary circles that cross the earth
b) Terrestrial Equator transversally:
c) Tropic of Cancer a) Meridians d) The parallels
d) North Pole b) The antimeridian e) The normal
e) Greenwich Meridian c) The vertical

223. It is the continent most covered by important

215. The inclination of the Earth's axis with respect to circles and semicircles:
the plane of the ecliptic is: a) Europe
a) 23º 27' b) Africa
b) 66º 33' c) America
c) 32º 23' d) Asia
d) 55º 30' e) Oceania
e) 90º 66'
224. It is the geographical representation of the earth
216. The approximate length of the Earth's axis is: or part of it on a flat surface:
a) 6,356 km. d) 09. 040 km a) The ecliptic
b) 12,713 km . e) 40. 076 km b) cartography
c) 6,378 km. c) Geographic coordinates
d) The imaginary lines
217. They are the great semicircles of the terrestrial e) The map
geoid that pass through the poles
225. South American countries through which the
a) The spokes
Terrestrial Equator passes:
b) The meridians
a) Argentina, Peru and Ecuador
c) The parallels
b) Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil
d) The polar circles
c) Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil
e) The tropics
d) Chile, Argentina and Paraguay
e) Peru, Ecuador and Brazil
218. It is considered a reference meridian to establish
226. The intersection between the Terrestrial Equator
the longitude of a place:
and Greenwich occurs at:
a) The earth axis
a) The Gulf of Alaska
b) The Earth's radius
b) The Gulf of Guinea
c) The Greenwich Meridian
c) The Gulf of Mexico
d) The Antarctic pole
d) The Persian Gulf
e) the arctic pole
e) The Bay of Bengal
219. It is the imaginary axis around which the Earth
227. The greatest latitude that a parallel can measure
rotates in its rotational movement:
is:
a) The earth axis
a) 90º
b) The Earth's equator
b) 66º 33'
c) The earth's radius
c) 23º 27'
d) The base meridian
d) 180º
e) The geographical poles
e) 360º
220. It is taken as a reference to establish latitude
values: 228. Angular distance from the principal meridian:
a) The Greenwich Meridian a) Height
b) The tropics b) Altitude
c) The spokes c) Latitude
d) The Earth's equator d) Flat
e) The Earth axis e) Length

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229. It is the great circle whose plane is perpendicular 237. It is a rotating neutron star that emits radio
to the Earth's Axis: waves:
a) The Antecos
a) Black hole b) Nebula
b) The meridians
c) Press (*) d) Quasar e) Constellation
c) The parallels
d) The periecos
238. They are gaseous stars, in whose core light
e) The Earth's equator
chemical elements fuse, releasing energy in the process:
230. Department of Peru closest to the Tropic of a) Comets b) Nebulae
Capricorn: c) Stars (*) d) Constellations
f) Tumbes d) Loreto e) Black holes
g) Arequipa e) Tacna
h) Fist 239. It is the closest star to Earth, and it is also a
yellow median:
231. Country that does not cover the Base Meridian: a) Antares b) Alfa
a) England c) Syrian of the sun (*) e) Canope
b) Algeria
c) Spain 240. It is considered the brightest star and is located
d) France in the southern constellation Canis Major:
e) China
a) Alpha b) Arthur
232. The equatorial diameter of the Earth is: c) Canope d) Syrian e)
d) 6 378km Antares (*)
e) 6 356km
241. It is considered a southern constellation:
f) 12,756km
g) 12,800km
a) The lyre b) Hercules c) Ursa Major
h) 12,713km.
d) Ursa Minor e) Southern Cross (*)

TOPIC : THE UNIVERSE 242. Edwing Hubble classified galaxies by their shape.
Among them, galaxies that lack a defined shape are:
233. Author of the theory of the cyclic or oscillating
universe: a) Spirals b) Elliptical c) Irregular (*)
a) Hernán Bondy b) George Lemaitre d) Circulars e) Flattened
c) Tomas Gold d) Fred Holey
e) Alexander Friedman (*) 243. Approximately in the year 150 BC made a catalog
of stars
234. Astronomical measurement that is equivalent to
the distance traveled by light at a speed of 300 ml a) Strabo b) Ptolemy c) Pythagoras
km/sec, during one year d) Homer (*) e) Eratosthenes
a) Astronomical unit b) Light year (*)
c) Parsec d) Kiloparsec e) Megaparsec 244. Called “Universe Islands” they constitute the basic
units of the universe:
235. They are the two chemical elements that make up
about 99% of the matter of the sun and stars: a) Cosmic dusts b) Constellations
c) Black holes d) Starse) Galaxies (*)
a) Nitrogen - oxygen b) Hydrogen - helium (*)
c) Helium – hydrogen d) Oxygen - silicon 245. Galaxy cluster of which the Milky Way is a part:
e) Hydrogen - nitrogen
a) Nebula b) Black hole c) Constellation
236. It is not characteristic of the universe: d) Press e) Crazy group (*)

a) It is indeterminate b) It is in compression (*) 246. Constellation containing the brightest star in the
c) It is organized d) It is curved e) It northern universe (Arthur)
is finite
a) Canis Major b) Boyero (*) c) Southern
Cross
d) Ursa Minor e) Hydra

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247. It is the second closest star to the sun: 256. They are those nebulae whose gases are shiny and
are characterized by the fact that they form stars:
a) Alpha b) Syrian (*) c) Aldebaran
d) Antares e) Arthur a) Emission nebulae (*) b) Absorption nebulae
c) Reflection nebulae d) Dark nebulae
248. Antares is considered a star based on its size. e) Irregular nebulae
a) Dwarf b) Median c)
257. They are particles that are floating in the
Giant
universe:
d) Nova e) Super giant (*)

a) Solar energy b) Solar radiation

249. Constellation known as “The Great Chariot”:
c) Cosmic dusts (*) d) Meteorites
a) The Lyre b) Ursa minor c) Mountain e) Satellites
dog
from the Dragon e) Ursa Major (*) 258. Stars are basically made up of:

250. Zodiac constellation that is located between March a) Particles of unknown nature
21 to April 20 b) Low temperature gases
c) Hydrogen and helium (*)
a) Aries (*) b) Taurus c) Gemini d) Gases at high temperature
d) Cancer e) Leo e) Cosmic dust

251. They are considered star-eaters: 259. The hottest “o” stars have maximum temperatures
of about:
a) Constellations b) Black holes (*)
c) Meteorites d) Planets e) Comets
a) 10 000ºC b) 20 000ºC c) 30 000ºC
d) 40,000ºC (*) e) 50 000ºC
252. The black hole is formed as a consequence of:

a) Collapse of a high-mass star (*) 260. They are groupings of stars that appear in the
b) The force of gravity terrestrial sphere and that take the name of religious
c) A galactic explosion or mythological figures, animals or objects:
d) The approach of a comet a) Stars b) Constellations (*)
e) The union of millions of stars c) Galaxies d) Nebulae e) Planets

253. The theory of the Big Bang or the great explosion 261. The thickness of the Milky Way is:
was developed from the cosmological model proposed
by: a) Five thousand light years b) Ten thousand light
years (*)
a) Hérnan Bondi b) Albert Einstein (*) c) Fifteen thousand light years d) Twenty thousand
c) Thomas Gold d) Alexander Friedman light years
e) Jorge Lemitre e) Two thousand light years

254. He developed the Heliocentric Theory in which he 262. It is a spherical celestial body with its own light
explained that the earth revolved around the sun: and a structure that has the capacity to generate
energy:
a) Edwin Hubble b) Von Humboldt
c) Nicholas Copernicus (*) d) Galileo Galilei a) Galaxies b) Planets c) Comets
e) Federico Ratzel d) Nebulae e) Stars (*)

255. Italian astronomer who pioneered telescopic 263. Cosmological theory according to which the
observations also defended the Heliocentric Theory: Universe had no origin, has always been the same and
will remain so forever:
a) Nicholas Copernicus b) Von Humboldt
c) Galileo Galilei (*) d) Edwin Hubble a) Big Bang Theory
e) Federico Ratzel b) Theory of the stationary Universe (*)
c) Theory of the Cyclic Universe
d) Oscillating Universe Theory
e) Big Splash Theory

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264. It is the science that studies the description of 272. He based his astronomical ideas on mathematics,
the Universe: he considered that the most perfect figure was the
sphere:
a) Astronomy b) Cosmology c) Astronautics a) Pythagoras d)
d) Cosmogony e) Cosmography (*) Eratosthenes
b) Anaximander e) Ptolemy
265. It is everything that exists in the world, matter, c) Hubble
energy, space and time:
273. They are masses of gas and cosmic dust with
a) Planets b) Starsc) Galaxies imprecise outlines:
d) Universe (*) e) Earth to) cosmic dusts b) Nebulae
c) stars d) Constellations
266. It was the first astronomical instrument built:
and) Galaxies

a) Astrolabe b) Telescope c) Gnomon (*)

274. The most spectacular accident in the history of
d) Heliograph e) Compass
space navigation has been the explosion of:
267. The youngest stars are colored: to) Soyuz I d) Challenger
b) Apollo I e) Soyuz XI
a) Red b) White c) Blue (*) c) Apollo XIII
d) Yellow e) Black
275. First Satellite launched into orbit by the United
268. Zoodiacal constellation that is located between States:
February 20 to March 20: to) Apollo XI d) Apollo XV
b) Explorer I e) Apollo XVII
a) Aries b) Taurus c) Libra c) Explorer VI
d) Cancer e) Pisces (*)
276. Italian astronomer, initiator of Scientific
269. The energy given off by stars comes from: Astronomy:
to) Johannes Kepler d) Edmund Halley
a) At his death b) Galileo Galilei e) Aristarchus of Samos
b) In the nuclear fusion reactions that occur between c) Nicolaus Copernicus
them (*)
c) In the big explosion 277. They are the two chemical elements that make up
d) In the center of galaxies about 99% of the matter of the sun and stars:
e) In the center of the Milky Way
to) Hydrogen – Oxygen b) Hydrogen – Argon
270. The Milky Way is a galaxy that belongs to the local c) Hydrogen – Krypton d) Hydrogen – Nitrogen
group made up of 21 galaxies. In this set of galaxies the and)Hydrogen – Helium
largest is:
278. It is considered the brightest star and is located
a) The great Magellanic cloud in the Austral Constellation Canis Major:
b) Triangle M - 33 to) Sun d) Alfa Centauri
c) Andromeda (*) b) Antares e) Sirius
d) Small Magellanic cloud c) Arthur
e) Sculptor
279. Hercules, Dragon, Lyra are Constellations:
----------------------------------------------------------------
to) Boreal d) Zodiacal Australs
b) Autrals e) Boreal Zodiacs
271. In astronomy it is practically accepted as a certain c) Zodiacs
fact that the expansion of matter began about 15,000 280. Constellation that we can observe from August 23
million years ago as a consequence of: to September 22:
a) big Bang to) Aries d) Aquarius
b) big splash b) Taurus e) Pisces c) Virgo
c) Expansion of galaxies
281. The Sun is a yellow G star, whose surface
d) Closeup of galaxies
temperature is:
e) Big Crunch
to) 2 000ºC d) 8 000ºC
b) 3 000ºC e) 9 000ºC c) 6 000ºC

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292. The expansion of matter began about 15,000

282. Region of space where there are hundreds of star million years ago as a consequence of:
clusters and billions of stars, gas and atmospheric dust: a) Big Splash
to) Star b) Galaxy b) Expansion of galaxies
c) Black Hole d) Press c) big Bang
and)Quasar d) Closeup of galaxies
e) Big Crunch
283. With respect to the Milky Way, population I is
made up of colored stars:
293. He maintains that the Universe has been expanding
to) White and red
incessantly and that new matter is constantly being
b) White and yellow
created, which is why the amount of it in space has
c) White and blue
always been constant:
d) White and orange
a) Cyclic Universe d) Big Bang
and) White and greenish
b) Continuous state e) Latent universe
284. The zodiacal constellations are a total of: c) pulsating universe
to) 54 d) 100 294. They are the two chemical elements that make up
b) 32 e) 200 c) 12 about 99% of the matter of the sun and stars:
a) Hydrogen – Oxygen
285. 15. The distance from the Sun to the center of the
b) Hydrogen – Argon
Milky Way is equivalent to:
c) Hydrogen – Helium
to) 23,000 AL d) 53,000 AL
d) Hydrogen – Nitrogen
b) 33,000 AL e) 63,000 AL c) 43,000 AL
e) Hydrogen – Krypton
286. They are considered Black Stars: 295. They are gaseous stars formed mainly by hydrogen
a) Pulsars c) Black Holes and ice, which emit their own light:
b) Comets d) Asteroids e) Meteorites a) Planets d) Meteorites
b) stars e) Satellites
287. It is the largest star in the Universe:
c) Galaxies
to) Antares b) Alfa
c) Syrian d) Sun e) Canope 296. The hottest stars “O” have maximum temperatures
of about:
288. It is considered a zodiacal constellation:
a) 20,000 ºC d) 40,000 ºC
to) Lira b) Hercules
b) 10,000 ºC e) 30,000 ºC
c) Canis Major d) Leo e) Canis Minor
c) 15,000 ºC
289. The distance of the Sun from the Earth is
equivalent to: 297. Stars that suddenly explode:
to) 150 million km. a) Neutrons
b) 100 million km. b) protons
c) 200 million km. c) Nebula
d) 250 million km. d) Guasar
and)300 million km. e) You do not go

290. It is a normal spiral Galaxy in which the Solar 298. The length of the Milky Way is equivalent to:
Planetary System is located: a) 100,000 light years
to) Sculptor b) Milky Way b) 10,000 light years
c) The Large Magellanic Cloud d) Andromeda c) 33,000 light years
and)Markariam 348 d) 7,000 light years
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291.The theory of the Stationary Universe states that: 299. Region of space where there are hundreds of star
a) The Universe is in indefinite expansions and clusters and billions of stars, gas and atmospheric dust:
contractions a) Star d) Press
b) The Universe has been the same and will continue to b) Galaxy e) Quasar
be that way forever. c) black hole
c) The Universe has a point of origin, but it has no
end. 300. Stars are basically made up of:
d) The Universe is an island a) Particles of unknown nature
e) The Universe occurred due to a great expansion b) Low temperature gases
c) Hydrogen and ice

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d) Gases at high temperature 309. The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds are
e) cosmic dust galaxies:
a) Elliptical
301.The distance from the Sun to the center of the
b) Normal Spirals
Milky Way is equivalent to:
c) Irregular
a) 23,000 AL d) 53,000 AL
d) Barred Spirals
b) 33,000 AL e) 63,000 AL
e) Circulars
c) 43,000 AL

302. It is the largest Galaxy in the Local Group where 310.Hercules, Dragon are constellations:
the Milky Way also belongs: a) Zodiacs
a) The Great Magellanic Cloud b) Austral
b) The small Magellanic cloud c) Boreal
c) Triangle M-33 d) Central
d) Andromeda e) Demotic
e) Markarian 348
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303. The forms of Galaxies that are least abundant in
the universe are:
311. Science that studies interplanetary travel:
a) Spirals
a) Cosmology
b) Elliptical
b) Cosmogony
c) Regular
c) Cosmography
d) Irregular
d) Cosmonautics
e) Circulars
e) Astronomy
304. It is considered the brightest star and is located
in the Southern Constellation “Canis Mayor”:: 312. It does not correspond to the characteristics of
a) Sirius d) Alpha Centauri the universe:
b) Antares e) Sun
c) Arthur a) It is compressed
b) it is dark
305. The Milky Way is classified as a Galaxy due to its
c) It is curved
shape:
d) It's expansive
a) Irregular d) Spiral
e) Is ordered
b) Globular e) Conoidal
c) Regular
313. Proof that the Universe is expanding:
306. Sculptor and Leo I, they are galaxies
a) Regular a) The universe is infinite
b) Irregular b) Galaxies move away from each other
c) Elliptical c) The planets move away from each other
d) Conoidal d) The stars move away from each other
e) Spirals e) Because of the existence of black holes

307. The Sun is a yellow G star, whose surface 314. The Theory of the Stationary Universe states
temperature is: that:
a) 2 000 ºC
b) 3,000 ºC a) The Universe is in indefinite expansions and
c) 6,000 ºC contractions
d) 8,000 ºC b) The Universe has been the same and will continue to
e) 9,000 ºC be that way forever.
308. Whale and crow are constellations: They are c) The Universe has a point of origin
observed from the hemisphere: d) The Universe is an island
a) North e) The Universe occurred due to a Big Bang
b) South
c) Equatorial
315. The energy given off by stars comes from:
d) Western
a) in his death
e) Oriental
b) In the nuclear fusion reactions that occur in them
c) In the Big Bang
d) In the center of the Galaxies
e) In the center of the Milky Way
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d) After a month they can be observed.

316. The stars are made up of: e) The figures they represent.
a) Particles of unknown nature
b) Low temperature gases 324. The boreal constellations are a total of:
c) Hydrogen and helium a) 54 d) 150
d) Gases at high temperature b) 32 e) 200
e) cosmic dust c) 12

317. The hottest stars “O” have maximum temperatures 325. Cassiopeia and The Bull are constellations:
of about: a) zodiacal
a) 20,000º C d) 40,000º C b) boreal
b) 10,000º C e) 30,000º C c) austral
c) 15,000º C d) Elliptical
e) Ellipsoids
318. Galaxies are mainly made up of:
a) Planets d) Stars 326. The most abundant galaxies in the universe are:
b) Satellites e) Meteorites f) Elliptical
c) Quasars g) Irregular
h) Spirals
319. It is called an artificial satellite: i) old
a) Any object placed in orbit around the Earth j) In training
b) He who is comparable to the Sun
c) When it is capable of emitting stellar radiation 327. It is considered the second brightest star in the
d) When it eliminates ultraviolet rays universe:
e) When it reaches the center of the Milky Way a) Sirius
b) Canope
320. He is the first man to be sent into space and the c) Alpha
first to “orbit” the Earth in 1961 in the Vostok 1 d) Vega
spacecraft: e) Arthur
a) Yuri gagarin
b) George Gamow 328. They are galaxies that have a rectangular nucleus:
c) Alexander Friedman a) Normal spiral
d) Edwin Hubble b) barred spiral
e) Hubble c) Elliptical
d) Irregular
321. It was the first artificial satellite launched by the e) In training
US:
a) Sputnik 1 329. The constellation Ursa Minor can be observed from
b) Sputnik 2 the hemisphere
c) Sputnik 3 a) North
d) Explorer 1 b) South
e) Explorer 2 c) Oriental
d) Western
322. Astronomical measurement that is equivalent to e) Southern
the distance that separates the earth from the sun and
is about 150 million kilometers 330. It is the farthest galaxy from the Milky Way
a) Parsec a) Large Magellanic Cloud
b) Light-year b) Triangle M-33
c) cosmic year c) Sculptor
d) astronomical unit d) Andromeda
e) kilometer e) Antares
323. The classification of the constellations is carried
out according to: TOPIC : SOLAR SYSTEM

a) Its length, throughout the year

b) Your distance, every two years
c) To the hemisphere from which they can be seen during
the year
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331. Etymologically they mean wandering, they lack 340. The speed of rotation of the earth is:
their own light and revolve around the sun:
a) 28 km/min (*) b) 38 km/min
a) Planets (*) b) Satellites
c) 48 km/min d) 58 km/min
c) Comets d) Meteorites e) Planetoids
e) 68 km/min

332. It is the point in the Earth's orbit furthest from

341. It is known as the “Goddess of Beauty” and is
the sun:
related to the brightest planet:
a) Apogee b) Perigee c) Aphelion
(*) a) Mercury b) Pluto c) Venus (*)
d) Perihelion e) Apogalactic d) Earth e) Mars

333. They are satellites of Jupiter except: 342. It was the last comet that passed near the earth:

a) IO b) Ganymede c) Europe
a) Hale - Bopp (*) b) Halley c) Donati
d) Phobos (*) e) Calixto
d) Daylight e) Humason

334. He was the first astronomer to make observations

343. It is the closest asteroid to the sun:
on the surface of the Moon:

a) Galileo Galilei (*) b) Hubble a) Ceres b) Icarus (*) c) Vesta

c) Kepler d) Copernicus e) Plolomy d) Hidalgo e) Eros

335. They stated that the Solar Planetary system 344. It is the most abundant chemical element in the
resulted from the rotating moment of a nebula. sun:

a) Eamnuel Kant and George Gamow a) Hydrogen (*) b) Silicon c) Carbon

b) Emanuel Kant and Fred Hoyle d) Oxygen e) Nitrogen
c) Emanuel Kant and Alexander Friedman
d) Emanuel Kant and George Lemaitre 345. The limit between the solar region and interstellar
e) Emanuel Kant and Pierre Simón de Laplace (*) space is called

336. He was the discoverer of four of Jupiter's a) Magnetosphere b) Heliosphere (*)

satellites: c) Solar wind d) Biosphere e)
a) Strabo of Amasia b) Claudius Ptolemy Troposphere
c) Nicholas Copermicus d) Galileo Galilei (*)
e) Pythagoras 346. Planet known as “Mythological Divinity”:

337. He spearheaded the first Heliocentric model, a) Jupiter b) Saturn c) Uranus (*)
saying that the Earth was a star like any other and that d) Neptune e) Mars
it revolved around the sun:
347. It is the greatest distance that the Sun presents
a) Nicholas Copermicus b) Ptolemy during its translational movement to the center of the
c) Tycho Brahe d) Johannes Kepler Milky Way:
e) Aristarchus of Samos (*)
a) Apogalactic (*) b) Perihelion c) Perigee
338. They are remains of planets that gravitate around d) Aphelion e) Perigalactic
the sun in an elliptical orbit between Mars and Jupiter:
348. When the Earth rotates on its axis, it generates a
a) Asteroid (*) b) Planets
force called:
c) Satellites d) Comets e) Aerolites

a) Centripetal Force b) Centrifugal Force (*)

339. The orbit that the planets describe around the sun
c) Plastic Force d) Dynamic force
is:
e) Gravitational force
a) Irregular b) Circular
c) Elliptical (*) d) Rectangular e) Triangular

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349. The translational movement of the earth is carried 357. The Sun is a very hot gaseous body, and is mostly
out in a time of: composed of:

a) 25% helium b) 40% hydrogen

a) 325 days b) 335 days c) 365 days (*)
c) 70% lead d) 75% hydrogen (*)
d) 355 days e) 375 days
e) 60% carbon

350. One of the influences of the Moon on the Earth is:

358. A meteor:
a) It slows down the earth's rotation, without it the
a) It is a meteoroid that disintegrates in the
earth would spin faster. (*)
atmosphere
b) Destabilizes the axis of rotation
b) It is a shooting star
c) It does not allow the formation of tides
c) It is the same as a meteoroid
d) Allows the evaporation of water
d) It is a Moon
e) Allows the formation of climates
e) It is a meteoroid that collides with the surface of a
planet (*)
351. Which body in the Solar System is also known as
“The Lord of the Rings”: 359. It is called an artificial satellite:

a) Mercury b) Earthc) Venus a) Any object placed in orbit around the Earth (*)
d) Neptune e) Saturn (*) b) That which is comparable to the Sun
c) When it is capable of emitting stellar radiation
352. It is the brightest planet in the century. PS: d) When it eliminates ultraviolet rays
to Earth b) Sun c) Moon e) When it reaches the center of the Milky Way
d) Venus e) Mars (*)
360. Sun:
353. When the Earth approaches the Sun, it is called
……. and when it moves away it is known as…….: a) It is in the center of the Milky Way
a) Perigalactic - Apogalactic b) It is in the center of the Galactic System
b) Perigee - Apogee c) It is in the Orion arm of the Milky Way (*)
c) Perihelion - Aphelion (*) d) It is in the center of the earth
d) Summer - Winter e) It is composed of dark matter
e) Rotation - Translation
361. It has the highest volcanic formations in the Solar
354. The speed of rotation of the Earth at the System:
Terrestrial Equator is:
a) 18 km/min b) 28 km/min (*) a) Mercury b) Jupiter c) Earth
c) 38 km/min d) 48Km/min e) 58Km/min d) Venus e) Mars (*)

355. It is a secondary object that gravitates in a closed 362. What planet has the shortest day?
orbit around a planet:
to Earth b) Mars c) Venus
a) Planet b) Star c) Comet
d) Jupiter (*) e) Saturn
d) Satellite (*) e) Galaxy

363. Which planet has the longest day?

356. Astronomer who identified in his observations how
the tails of comets always appeared opposite to the sun:
to Earth b) Venus (*) c) Saturn
a) Edwin Hubble b) Von Humboldt d) Uranus e) Neptune
c) Johannes Kepler (*) d) Galileo Galilei
e) Anaximander 364. Planet that has a very inclined axis of rotation,
which makes it rotate sideways, since the poles are
located close to the plane of the ecliptic:

to Earth b) Venus c) Saturn

d) Uranus (*) e) Neptune

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365. Planet that has the highest temperature (425º C) 373. Inner planets with satellites:
compared to the others: a) Mercury and Venus b) Jupiter and Saturn
c) Mercury and Mars d) Earth and Mars (*)
a) Mercury b) Earthc) Venus (*) e) Venus and Uranus
d) Neptune e) Uranus
374. It is the point in Earth's orbit furthest from the
366. Mars is the planet that has had the most satellite sun:
visits, because it presents the best conditions to be
a) Aphelius (*) b) Apogee c) Perihelion
able to see it, one of its characteristics being:
d) Apogalactic e) Perigalactic

a) Its rotational movement is retrograde

375. The visible outer layer of the sun is called:
b) It has a very inclined axis of rotation
c) It has a light blue color
a) Chromosphere b) Core c) Photosphere (*)
d) It is the most deformed planet
d) Crown e) Sunspots
e) It presents channels in its relief which suggests that
it could have corresponded to the channels of ancient
376. It is the largest planet in the solar system, the one
rivers (*)
with the greatest mass:

367. During the translational movement, the Sun a) Venus b) Jupiter (*) c) Earth
presents a d) Mercury e) Venus
shorter distance called …………., with respect to the
center of the Milky Way and a greater distance 377. The orbit that the planets describe around the sun
called……: is:

a) Perigee – Apogee b) Perihelion - a) Rectangular b) Circular c) Elliptical (*)

Aphelion d) Irregular e) Regular
c) Rotation – Translation d) Summer - Winter
e) Perigalactic - Apogalactic (*) 378. He was the astronomer who demonstrated that the
orbits of the planets were elliptical:
368. The Earth moves around the Sun with a speed of
a) Von Humboldt b) Federico Ratzel
about:
c) Johannes Kepler (*) d) Neil Armstrong
a) 20 km/s b) 30 km/s (*) e) Anaximander
c) 10 km/s d) 50 km/s e) 60 km/s
379. The circumference that the earth describes in its
369. Astro closest to the Sun, satellite type: translational movement is called:

a) Deimos b) Triton c) Phobos a) Curve b) Orbit (*) c) Satellite

d) Moon e) Gaminedes (*) d) Aphelius e) Perhelion

370. Comets are solid bodies, composed of materials 380. He proposed the heliocentric theory:
that sublimate in the vicinity of the sun, at a great
distance they develop an atmosphere that surrounds the a) Galileo Galilei b) Anaximander
nucleus and as a result forms: c) Strabo of Amasia d) Nicolás Copermico (*)
e) John Kepler
to the head b) The core c) The comma (*)
d) The hair e) The queue 381. I propose the geocentric theory:

371. State of matter in the sun: a) Copermic b) Ptolemy (*)

a) Solid b) Liquid c) Plasma (*) c) Kepler d) Ritter e) Ratzel
d) Gaseous e) Viscous
382. It is the central part of the sun and is in a liquid
372. Densest planet in the solar planetary system: state:

a) Mercury b) Venus c) Mars a) Photosphere b) Solar Corona

d) Earth (*) e) Saturn c) Core (*) d) Chromosphere e)
Hydrogen

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383. They are the chemical elements that make up 393. It is the most abundant chemical element in the
about 99% of the matter of the sun and stars: sun:

a) Hydrogen and Oxygen b) Hydrogen and Argon a) Oxygen b) Helium c) Nitrogen

c) Hydrogen and Helium (*) d) Hydrogen and Krypton d) Argon e) Hydrogen (*)
e) Hydrogen and Xenon
394. The average distance between the sun and the
384. During the movement of the sun to the center of earth is:
the Milky Way, it has a greater distance:
a) 100,000,000 km b) 150,000,000 km. (*)
a) Aphelius b) Perihelion c) 200,000,000 km d) 250,000,000 km
c) Perigalactic d) Apogalactic (*) e) Perigee e) 300,000,000 km

385. The sun's movement around the center of the 395. They are jets of gas that are launched into space:
Milky Way has a duration of:
a) Protuberances (*) b) Crown
a) 225 million years (*) c) Sun spots d) Faculae
b) 325 million years e) Chromosphere
c) 425 million years
d) 525 million years 396. The planets orbit the sun in the following way:
e) 625 million years
a) Elliptical (*) b) Ellipsoidal c) Circular
386. Planet known as the “Messenger of the gods” d) Parabolic e) Spiral

a) Saturn b) Neptune c) Mercury (*) 397. Planet known as god of the sea and is the fourth
d) Uranus e) Venus largest planet in the SPS:

387. They are the most spectacular stars. They have a a) Jupiter b) Saturn c) Neptune (*)
nucleus and a long tail: d) Venus e) Earth
a) Stars. b) Comets. (*)
c) Asteroids. d) Planets. e) Satellites. 398. The classification of the Planets is due to:

a) Meteorites b) Satellites c) Asteroids (*)

388. They are remains of planets that orbit the sun d) Comets e) Earth
between Mars and Jupiter and allow their classification:

a) Asteroids. (*) b) Planets. 399. They are considered Inner Planets:

c) Satellites. d) Comets. e) Stars.
a) Jupiter – Saturn b) Mercury - Venus (*)
c) Uranus – Neptune d) Jupiter - Uranus
389. Planet called “Mother of all Gods”
e) Saturn - Neptune
a) Venus b) Earth (*)
c) Mars d) Saturn e) Jupiter 400. They are stars with a luminous appearance, formed
by rocks and frozen gases:
390. Planet that has the largest number of satellites:
a) Meteorites b) Planets c) Comets (*)
to Earth b) Venus c) Saturn (*) d) Satellites e) Aerolites
d) Jupiter. e) Mercury
401. It was the first comet to be photographed in
391. The Solar Planetary System is part of:
color:

a) Of the universe b) Of the Galaxies

a) Donatti b) Daylight c) Halley
c) Of the Milky Way (*) d) Of the world
d) Humason (*) e) Bennett
e) From the atmosphere

402. It is the largest planet with respect to the Inner

392. It is in a liquid state, it is the part of the sun that
Planets:
has the highest temperature:

a) Mercury b) Venus c) Earth (*)

a) Crown b) Sun spots
d) Mars e) Moon
c) Core (*) d) Faculae e) Chromosphere

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403. They are stars that gravitate around the planet to 413. It is the central part of the sun and is in state:
which they belong: a) Solid b) Gaseous
c) Plasmatic d) Liquid
a) Stars b) Meteorites
e) Viscous
c) Comets d) Aerolites e) Satellites (*)

414. Does not integrate the inner planets:

404. ……….. It is the comet that passes every 76 years:
a) Mercury
a) Bennett b) Donatti c) Halley (*) b) Venus
d) Daylight e) Kohoutek c) Land
d) Saturn
405. It is the most deformed asteroid: e) Mars

a) Ceres b) Icarus c) Vesta 415. The best known and most studied comet is:
d) Eros (*) e) Moon a) Humanson
b) Halley
406. Titan is a satellite that belongs to the planet: c) Donaty
d) Daylight
a) Mercury b) Venus c) Earth
e) Halle Bopp
d) Mars e) Saturn (*)

416. The fact that we see the sun rise in the east and
407. It is the only asteroid visible from Earth because
set in the west is due to the movement of:
it is the brightest:
a) land transfer
b) Earth rotation
a) Icarus b) Ceresc) Vesta (*)
c) sun rotation
d) Eros e) Aphrodite
d) Translation of the sun
e) lunar isochronism
408. Planet Earth has only one satellite called:
417. He proposed the heliocentric theory:
a) Johannes Kepler
a) Ganymede b) Deimos
b) Galileo Galilei
c) Phobos d) Selene (*) e)
c) Nicolaus Copernicus
Titan
d) Claudius Ptolemy
e) Anaximander
409. The first man to set foot on lunar soil was:
418. Planet known as mother of all gods:
a) Edwin Hubble b) Michael Collins a) Saturn d) Jupiter
c) Edwin Aldrin d) Carlos Noriega b) Land e) Uranus
e) Neil Armstrong (*) c) Neptune

410. They are stars that lack fixed orbits, when they 419. The outer planets are characterized because their
collide with the Earth's atmosphere they give rise to atmosphere is made up mainly of:
shooting stars: a) Oxygen and nitrogen
b) Methane and argon
a) Satellites b) Meteorites (*) c) Hydrogen and methane
c) Asteroids d) Comets d) Argon and Krypton
e) Planetariums e) Xenon and Uranium
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420. They are opaque stars that lack fixed orbits, many
of them end up crashing into planets:
411. The most accepted theory about the origin of the
a) Satellites c) Asteroids
Solar Planetary System is:
b) Meteorites d) Comets e) Planets
a) Fusiform d) Big bang
b) From the drop e) Nebular
421. Densest planet in the solar planetary system:
c) Planestesimal
a) Mercury b ) Earth
c) Venus d) Saturn e) Mars
412. Least dense planet:
a) Mercury d) Saturn 422. They are remains of planets that gravitate around
b) Venus e) Earth the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
c) Mars a) Meteorites
b) asteroids

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c) Planets b) Meteorites
d) Comets c) stars
e) cosmic dusts d) Comets
e) asteroids
423. Characteristic of the planets called Jovians:
a) They are the closest to the sun ------------------------------------------------------
b) They have less severity
c) They are the hottest 431. The most accepted theory about the origin of the
d) They are the most serious Solar Planetary System is:
e) They are the smallest. a) Fusiform d) Nebular
b) From the drop e) Big Ban
424. He was the astronomer who demonstrated that the c) Planestesimal
orbits of the planets were elliptical:
a) Von Humboldt 432. He developed the Heliocentric Theory, in which he
b) Federico Ratzel explained that the Earth revolved around the Sun:
c) Neil Armstrong a) Edwin Hubble
d) Anaximander b) Nicolas Copermico
e) Johannes Kepler c) Johann Kepler
d) Von Humboldt
425. The earth with respect to its axis generates the e) Galileo Galilei
movement of……. And around the sun it generates the
movement of:…….. 433. The Sun is a yellow star G, whose temperature is:
a) Translation – rotation a) 2,000 ºC d) 8,000 ºC
b) Rotation – translation b) 3,000 ºC e) 9,000 ºC
c) Orbital – rotation c) 6,000 ºC
d) Orbital – translation 434. The orbits of comets are almost always:
e) Permutation – translation a) Circulars
426. It is the farthest point in Earth's orbit from the b) Rotational
sun: c) Very elongated ellipses
a) Apogalaptic b ) Aphelius d) Very short ellipses
c) Perigalaptic d) Apogee e) Perihelion e) Parabolic circulars

427. The translational movement of the sun is carried 435. The translational movement of the Sun is carried
out at a speed of: out with respect to the Center of the Milky Way at a
a) 28 km/min. speed of:
b) 30 km/sec. a) 28 km/mn
c) 19 km/sec. b) 30 km/sec
d) 618 km/sec. c) 19 km/sec
e) 58 km/sec. d) 618 km/sec
e) 58 km/sec
428. It is the greatest distance that the sun has during
its translational movement with respect to the center 436. The Sun is a very hot gaseous body, and is mostly
of the Milky Way: composed of:
a) Perigalactic a) 25% ice
b) Aphelius b) 40% hydrogen
c) Perihelion c) 70% lead
d) Apogalactic d) 75% hydrogen
e) Rotational e) 60% carbon

437. The earth within its terrestrial axis generates the

429. They are considered black stars:
movement of………… and around the Sun it generates the
a) Pulsars
movement of………
b) black holes
a) Translation – Rotation
c) Comets
b) Orbital – Rotation
d) Meteorites
c) Rotation – Translation
e) asteroids
d) Orbital – Translation
e) Permutation – Translation
430. They are stars with a luminous appearance formed
by rocks and frozen gases:
a) Planets
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438. It is the point in the Earth's orbit farthest from b) Comets

the Sun: c) Satellites
a) Apogalactic d) Aphelius d) asteroids
b) Perigalactic e) Apogee e) Meteorite
c) Perihelion
448. The seasons originate as a consequence of:
439. The fact that we see the Sun rise in the east and a) Approach of the Earth to the Sun.
set in the West is due to the movement of: b) Getting away from the Sun
a) Earth's translation d) Translation of the Sun c) Polar flattening and equatorial widening
b) Earth rotation e) Lunar Isochronism d) Earth's rotation movement
c) Rotation of the Sun e) Translational movement of the earth
440. When the Sun performs its rotation movement
around its axis, it takes a time of: 449. Date of the longest day in the Southern
a) 20 days d) 45 days Hemisphere:
b) 25 days e) 55 days a) July 21
c) 35 days b) September 23
c) December 22th
441. The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are d) March 22
called terrestrial planets: e) January 1
a) Gaseous d) Jovians
b) Exteriors e) Seniors 450. Day and night originate as a consequence of:
c) Rocky a) Approach of the Earth to the Sun.
b) Getting away from the Sun
442. Planet known as “God of the Sea” and is the fourth
c) Polar flattening and equatorial widening
of the outer planets:
d) Earth's rotation movement
a) Jupiter d) Neptune
e) Translational movement of the earth.
b) Saturn e) Earth
c) Uranus
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443. It is the planet known as “God of War” and the one
that has received the most satellite visits because it
451. Comets are mainly made of:
has the best conditions:
a) Methane d) Carbon
a) Mercury d) Jupiter
b) Ice e) Nitrogen
b) Venus e) Saturn
c) Water
c) Mars

444. It is the largest asteroid, discovered by the 452. Comets orbit around:
Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801: a) Sun
a) Icarus d) Ceres b) The earth
b) Vesta e) Eros c) They do not revolve around any body
c) Chiron d) The asteroid belt
e) Mars
445. They are stars that lack fixed orbits, many of
them end up crashing into planets and satellites: 453. Sun:
a) Comets a) It is in the center of the Milky Way
b) Planetoids b) It is around Jupiter
c) Meteorites c) It is in the Orion arm of the Milky Way
d) asteroids d) It is in the center of the Universe
e) Satellites e) It is composed of dark matter

446. The best known and most studied comet is: 454. What planet has the shortest day?:
a) Humanson a) Land d) Jupiter
b) Donaty b) Mars e) Saturn
c) Halley c) Venus
d) Daylight
e) Halle bopp 455. The planets have a longer year when:
a) Greater is its size
447. Stars called “Cosmic Sperms”: b) They are smaller
a) black holes c) They are closer to the Sun
d) They are further away from the Sun
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e) They are closer to the Moon e) There is no difference

464. The Earth moves around the Sun with a speed of:
456. Which planet has the longest day?:
a) 20km/s d) 50 km/s
a) Land d) Uranus
b) 30km/s e) 60 km/s
b) Venus e) Neptune
c) 10km/s
c) Saturn
465. Astro closest to the Sun, satellite type:
457. What body in the Solar System is also known as a) Deimos d) Triton
“the Lord of the Rings”: b) Phobos e) Moon
a) Mercury d) Neptune c) Ganymede
b) Land e) Saturn
c) Venus 466. The Sun is a very hot gaseous body, and is mostly
composed of:
458. What are the seas of the Moon?: a) 25% helium
b) 40% hydrogen
a) Large expanses of water
c) 70% lead
b) large craters
d) 75% hydrogen
c) Large expanses of solidified lava
e) 60% carbon
d) Holes caused by solar wind erosion
e) It is not known what they are 467. It has the highest volcanic formations in the Solar
System:
459. A Black Hole: a) Mercury d) Venus
b) Jupiter e) Mars
a) Determine the cardinal points
c) Land
b) Diverts air currents
c) Generates the magnetic charge of the stars 468. It is the lowest density planet in the Solar System,
d) It is an object with intense gravity that nothing can it also has a gigantic ring system:
escape from it. a) Land d) Venus
e) Allows the deflection of sunlight b) Jupiter e) Neptune
c) Saturn
460. It is a secondary object that gravitates in a closed 469. It is the brightest planet in the sky:
orbit around a planet: a) Land d) Sun
a) Planet d) Satellite b) Moon e) Venus
b) Star e) Galaxy c) Mars
c) Kite
470. The oldest known observation of Comet “Halley”
461. If the Earth had no inclination, the apparent occurred in the year 467 BC, its last passage occurred
movements of the stars would be: in February 1986, its next appearance will occur in the
f) Different throughout the year year:
g) The same throughout the year a) 2010 b) 2030 c) 2064
h) Faster all year round d) 2020 e) 2062
i) Strongly shaken by planetary winds
j) Catastrophic for the planets 471. It is the planet that has the largest number of
satellites:
462. Planet in the solar system closest to the sun, and
a) Jupiter b) Saturn c) Uranus
does not have satellites:
d) Neptune e) Earth
a) Mars b) Mercury c) Jupiter
d) Venus e) Earth
TOPIC : STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH
463. What is the difference between a star and a
planet?: 472. The ocean floors are mainly formed by rocks of
a) The star does not change color, while the planet the type:
does
b) The star is made from hydrogen, while the planet is a) Limestone b) Sandstone c) Granite
made from oxygen. d) Phosphoric e) Basalt (*)
c) The star emits its own light, while the planet shines
because of the light it can reflect.
d) The star does not illuminate, while the planet
generates energy

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473. They are extensions of the earth's surface that 481. The variety of the relief of the Peruvian territory
have suffered subsidence found below sea level: has its origin due to the action of two forces:

a) The Andes mountain range and the tablazos

a) Valley b) Slopes c)
b) Geological and tectonic forces
Depressions (*)
c) Geological and geographical forces (*)
d) Plainse) Plateaus
d) Solar energy and earth's gravity
e) Geographic and exogenous force
474. The Andes rise to the west of South America,
beginning and ending in two well-marked areas: 482. The earth's crust is mainly made up of:

a) From Tucumán to the Guayaquil Gulf a) Minerals - elements

b) From Mendoza to the Persian Gulf b) Rocks - soils (*)
c) From Potosí to the Paricuy Gulf c) Limestone - sandstone
d) From Tierra de Fuegos to the Gulf of Paría (*) d) Physical - chemical elements
e) From Córdova to the Gulf of Mexico e) Silicates - basalts

475. It is the most superficial layer that extends up to 483. In the internal structure of the Earth, the
30 km deep: Mohorovicic discontinuity is located between:

a) Mantle - core
a) Earth's crust (*) b) Mantle b) Inner core - outer core
c) Asthenosphere d) Core e) Mesosphere c) Cortex - core
d) Sial - Sima
476. Science that studies the forms of the terrestrial e) Cortex - mantle (*)
relief:
484. Anticlines and synclines are characteristic forms
a) Geomorphology (*) b) Geology of:
c) Petrology d) Geogenics e) Geophysics
a) Joints b) The failures c) Volcanoes
d) Fractures e) Folding (*)
477. The geotemic gradient is equal to….. For each …….
Depth: 485. It is the science that studies the formation and
nature of the earth.
a) 1ºC - 53 m b) 1º C - 43 m c) 1º C - 33 m (*)
a) Geodesy b) Geography c) Geogenics
d) 1º C - 23 m e) 1º C - 13 m
d) Cartography e) Geology (*)

478. According to the natural regions, the Quechua

486. The earth is mainly composed of two important
region is located at:
elements called:
a) 0 - 500 meters above sea level b) 500 - 2300 a) Granite – Silicon b) Sandstone - oxygen
meters above sea level c) Basalt – granite d) Silicon - oxygen (*)
c) 2300 - 3500 meters above sea level (*) d) 3500 - 4000 e) Granite - basalt
meters above sea level
487. The tectonic plates are located in the sector of
e) 4000 - 4800 meters above sea level
the Earth's crust and in the upper part of the mantle:
these plates would be moving over:
479. The spatial percentage that the continents occupy
on Earth is:
a) The asthenosphere (*) b) The lower mantle
to 20 % b) 30% (*) c) 40% c) The pyrosphere d) The inner core
d) 50% e) 60% e) The outer core

480. Geographic region where the highest continental 488. The mantle and core are separated by the
point of Peru is located: discontinuity of:
a) Chala b) Yunga c) Quechua
a) Weicher b) Lehman c) Mohorovicic
d) Suni e) Janca (*)
d) Repeat e) Gutenberg (*)

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489. It is the smallest and most productive geographic 498. The basaltic layer is also known as:
region of Peru that houses half of the Peruvian
population: a) Continental crust b) Nuclear cortex
c) Oceanic crust (*) d) Earth's crust
a) Omagua b) Rupa Rupa c) Janca e) Discontinuous Cortex
d) Chala (*) e) Suri
499. The lower mantle is also called “Pyrosphere”
490. According to the natural regions, the Chala region because:
is located at:
a) The birth of the mountain ranges
a) 0 - 500 meters above sea level (*) b) 500 - 2300 b) The beginning of discontinuities
meters above sea level c) The rise of the water table
c) 2300 - 3500 meters above sea level d) 3500 - d) The trigger for volcanoes
4000 meters above sea level e) Be a sphere of fire (*)
e) 4000 - 4800 meters above sea level
500. The northern Andes of the Andes mountain range
491. It is the largest mountain system on the planet:
are located mostly in:

a) Himalayas b) Alps c) Atlas

a) Venezuela b) Colombia (*) c) Peru
d) Caucasus e) Andes mountain range (*)
d) Ecuador e) Bolivia
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492. The continental crust is also known as:
501. He divided Peru into eight natural regions based on
a) Sima b) Sial (*) c) Continental mantle similar characteristics between them:
d) Silicon e) Continental slope
a) Antonio Brack Egg b) Javier Pulgar Vidal (*)
493. The most abundant chemical element in the bark c) Antonio Raymondi d) Von Humboldt
is……… and it represents……. : e) Edgardo Mercado Jarrin

a) Silicon - 30.5% b) Oxygen - 49.9% 502. Most of the volcanoes in Peru are located in:
c) Aluminum - 8.1% d) Oxygen - 46.6 % (*)
e) Silicon - 27.7% a) The Caravaya mountain range b) The northern Andes
c) The southern Andes d) The southern Andes
494. The term mesosphere obeys the meaning of: (*)
e) The northern Andes
a) Next sphere b) Middle sphere (*)
c) Medium sphere d) Weak sphere 503. Amazonas cattle are typical of the region:
e) Malleable sphere
a) Rupa Rupa (*) b) Omagua c) Yunga
495. The nucleus is also known as Barisphere due to: d) Quechua e) Suni

a) The few pressures there are 504. The potential of the Janca or mountain range
b) The great depressions region is:
c) The different temperature variations
d) The great pressures that are produced in it (*) a) Andeanism (*) b) Hunting c) Fishing
e) High temperatures d) Navigation e) The shot

496. Layer that represents 82% of the volume of the

505. The composition of nickel and iron makes the core
gosphere:
known as:

a) Bark b) Tectonic Plate c) Mantle (*) a) Siderosphere b) Barisphere c) Endosphere

d) Core e) External core d) Nickelosphere e) Nife (*)

497. The sial and the sima are separated by the

discontinuity of:

a) Conrad (*) b) Repeat c) Lehman

d) Gutenberg e) Weichert

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506. The increase in temperature as we descend in the 514. The continental cortex is characterized because it
geosphere is called. is found forming continents whose density is:

a) Infodynamic gradient a) 2.7 grams. /cc (*) b) 3.7 grams. /cc

b) Thermodynamic gradient c) 4.7 grs/cc d) 5.7 grams. /cc
c) Vertical gradient e) 6.7 grams. /cc
d) Horizontal gradient
e) Geothermal gradient (*) 515. The lithosphere is mainly made up of:

a) Minerals and elements

507. The space between the layers and sublayers is
b) Rocks and soils (*)
called:
c) Limestone and sandstone
d) Physical and chemical elements
a) Interlayer space b) Discontinuity (*)
e) Silicates and basalts
c) Mesosphere d) Discontinuous space
e) Average space
516. The ocean floors are mainly formed by rocks of
the type:
508. Science that has indirectly helped to obtain the
knowledge we have about the geosphere:
a) Limestone b) Sandstone c) Granite
a) Seismology (*) b) Geography c) Geology d) Basalt (*) e) Syenite
d) Edaphology e) Orography
517. He…………………………….. It is known as the
509. The snow-capped Huascarán is located in the ……… asthenosphere, the tectonic plates move up to here:
mountain range, which is a branch of the Andes of the
………. : a) Inner core b) External core
a) Black – center b) Black - north c) Upper mantle (*) d) Lower mantle
c) White – center d) White - north (*) e) Continental block
e) From Caravaya - south
518. The layer with the greatest volume that the
510. The longest mountain range in the world owes its geosphere has is:
origins to a phenomenon known as:
a) Core b) Mantle (*) c) Crust
a) Earthquake b) Cataclysm c) Folding (*) d) Lithosphere e) Oxysphere
d) Sedimentation e) Volcanism
519. Discontinuity that separates the crust from the
511. La Yunga is known as an endemic region for: mantle:
a) There are many subregions
b) Many natural phenomena occur a) Conrad b) Mohorovicic (*) c) Repeat
c) Epidemic diseases occur (*) d) Gutenberg e) Weicher
d) There are many huaycos
e) Landslides are frequent 520. Layer of the geosphere formed by nickel and iron:
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512. The earth is mainly composed of 2 very important a) Magnetosphere b) Pyrosphere c)
chemical elements: Lithosphere
d) Oxysphere e) Barisphere (*)
a) Granite – Silicon b) Sandstone - oxygen
c) Basalt – granite d) Silicon - oxygen (*)
521. The mantle and core are separated by the
e) Granite - basalt
discontinuity of:

513. The Earth's crust is called the oxysphere because

a) Weicher b) Lehman c) Repeat
the most abundant element is:
d) Gutenberg (*) e) Mohorivicic
a) Sodium b) Iron c) Aluminum
d) Oxygen (*) e) Silicon 522. How far does the bottom of the volcanoes go?

a) Upper mantle b) Lower mantle (*)

c) Core d) Barisphere e) Endosphere

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523. Layer that forms the continental relief and serves 531. The relief of the Peruvian coast presents:
as the bottom of lakes and rivers:
a) Basaltic layer b) Granitic layer a) Tablazos, plains, pampas, peaks
c) Oceanic crust d) Core (*) e) Sima b) Valleys, peaks, snow-capped mountains, pampas
c) Valleys, pampas, peaks, terraces
524. The Andes rise to the west of South America, d) Valleys, pampas, planks, terraces (*)
starting in the south ……………………………………… and ending in e) Valleys, peaks, planks, snow-capped mountains
the north until ………………………………: --------------------------------------------

a) From Tucumán - the Gulf of Guayaquil. 532. The temperature of the earth increases 1 ªC for
b) From Mendoza - the Persian Gulf. every 33 meters of depth, this phenomenon is known as:
c) From Potosí - - the Paricuya Gulf. a) Vertical gradient b) Metamorphism
d) From Tierra del Fuego - the Gulf of Paria. (*) c) Land relief d) Nucleus
e) From Córdova - the Gulf of Mexico. e) Geothermal Gradient (*)

525. It is the largest mountain system in the world: 533. It is the most superficial layer of the earth and is
made up of rocks:
a) Alps b) Himalayas c) Atlas a) Mantle b) Asthenosphere c)
d) Caucasus e) Andes Mountains (*) Mesosphere
d) Core e) Earth's crust (*)
526. The southern Andes are also called the Andes:
534. It is the intermediate layer of the internal
a) Center b) South (*) c) North structure of the earth and occupies 83 of its volume:
d) Northwest e) Southwest a) Core b) Mantle (*) c) Lithosphere
d) Mesosphere e) Earth's crust
527. Andes chain located in the department of Piura
535. Intrusive igneous rocks are also known as:
a) Central b) Eastern c) Western (*)
a) RI extrusive b) RI Plutonic (*)
d) Of the Condor e) From Carabaya
c) RI Volcanic d) RI Sedimentary
e) R. metamorphic
528. Mountains are shapes that the earth presents,
according to geomorphologist A. K. Lobeck are classified 536. They are aggregates of mineral particles that form
into: naturally in the Earth's crust:
a) Minerals b) Andes c) Rocks (*)
a) First order b) Second order (*)
d) Mountains e) Valleys
c) Third order d) Fourth order
e) Fifth order 537. They are rocks that transform due to increased
temperature and pressure:
529. According to the natural regions, the Quechua a) Metamorphic (*) b) Sedimentary
region is located at: c) Igneous d) Intrusive e) Extrusive
a) 0 - 500 meters above sea level b) 500 - 2300 538. It is the most abundant chemical component of the
meters above sea level Earth's crust:
c) 2300 - 3500 meters above sea level (*) d) 3500 -
4000 meters above sea level a) Hydrogen b) Nitrogen c) Oxygen (*)
e) 4000 - 4800 meters above sea level d) Helium e) Argon

539. Granite is a rock:

530. The variety of the relief of the Peruvian territory
has its origin due to the action of two forces: a) Igneous (*) b) Igneous and sedimentary
c) Metamorphic d) Sedimentary
a) Centripetal and centrifugal e) Igneous and metamorphic
b) Internal and external (*) 540. It is the layer of the internal structure of the
c) Solar energy and Earth's gravity earth that has the smallest thickness:
d) Climate and soil
a) Mantle b) Atmosphere c) Core
e) Vegetation and temperature
d) Mesosphere e) Earth's Crust (*)

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541. The core was called NIFE for: d) Gutenberg

e) Weicher–Lehman
a) Alfredo Wegener (*) b) Neil Armstrong
c) Carlos Noriega d) Edwin Hubble 550. The dunite and pyrodotite rocks are found in
e) Nicolas Copernicus greater concentration in the layer called:
a) Cortex b) Core
542. Inner layer of the Earth that determines c) Mantle d) Sima e) Sial
terrestrial magnetism:

a) Earth's Crust b) External core 551. The ocean floor is mainly made up of rocks such as:
c) Inner core (*) d) Mantle e) a) Granite b) Basalt
Lithosphere c) Blackboard c) Marble e) Sandstone

543. It is the longest mountain system on earth: 552. Chemical compounds that when grouped together
give rise to rocks:
a) Alps b) Andes Mountains (*) a) Minerals
c) Himalayas d) Appalachia e) Oral b) Magma
c) Floors
544. The Andes mountain range runs through: d) Sandstones
e) Quartz
a) Asia b) North America
c) Antarctica d) South America (*) 553. The highest continental point on earth is found in
e) Central America the mountain range:
a) From the pyrenees
545. In the Southern Andes the western chain is also b) The Urals
known as: c) Himalayan
d) From the Apennines
a) Black mountain range b) White mountain range e) Of the Andes
c) Chila Mountain Range d) Carabaya
e) Volcanic (*) 554. In the Piura region you can find altitudinal levels
such as:
546. Internal layer of the earth whose main a) The yunga, the quechua and the puna
characteristics is its greatest volume: b) The chala, the yunga and the high jungle
a) Lithosphere b) Earth's crust c) The dry forest and the Pacific desert
c) Oxygen d) Mantle (*) e) Core d) Only the chala
e) The river yunga and the maritime yunga
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555. Depressions are subsidence of the earth's surface,
547. The Earth's crust is also called the Oxiosphere which is why there are:
because: a) in the deserts
a) Oxygen is the most abundant element b) In the valleys formed by the mountains
b) Oxygen is produced there c) Below sea level
c) There is no oxygen in it d) Close to the coast
d) envelops the earth e) Only on the plateaus
e) Allows the development of life
556. It is considered the highest volcano in Peru and is
548. The increase in temperature as we descend into located in the Arequipa region:
the Earth's crust is called: a) Misti d) Sara Sara
a) Vertical gradient b) Coropuna e) Sabancaya
b) Horizontal gradient c) Ampato
c) Thermodynamic gradient
d) Dynamic gradient 557. Science in charge of the study of the development
e) Geothermal gradient of mountains:
a) Edaphology b) Geomorphology
549. Discontinuity located between the crust and the c) Geology d) Orography e) Morphology
mantle:
a) conrad 558. Science whose postulates have served as the basis
b) Mohorovicic for the internal study of the earth indirectly:
c) Repetti a) Petrology b) Edaphology

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c) Orography d) Seismology e) Volcanology 567. It is the science that studies the shapes that the
earth presents on its surface:
559. We can also know the knowledge we have about the a) Geomorphology b) Potamology
Geosphere directly using: c) Limnology d) Meteorology
e) Petrology
a) oil drilling
b) the gravity 568. It is the science that studies the nature and
c) the magnetism formation of the earth:
d) seismic waves a) geology b) Geodesy
e) artificial explosions c) Cartography d) Geogenics e) Geomorphology

560. Altitudinal floor whose name in Quechua means 569. It is known as the Lithosphere and represents
white: between 2% and 3% of the total volume of the
a) Puna d) Jalca Geosphere:
b) Yunga e) Janca a) Earth crust d) Core
c) Chala b) Asthenosphere e) Nife
c) Mantle
561. Discontinuity that can be easily detected:
a) Weicher–Lehman 570. To know the interior of our planet, man has
b) Gutenberg resorted to many studies. The one that has provided
c) Mohorovicic the most information to geologists is:
d) conrad a) Exterior studies
e) Repetti b) Gravimetric studies
c) Magnetic studies
562. Inside the earth not only does the temperature d) Seismological studies
increase but also: e) Astronomical studies
a) The discontinuity
b) The volume 571. The earth is mainly composed of two important
c) pressure and density elements called:
d) volume and mass a) Oxygen - granite
e) Mass b) Oxygen - sandstone
c) Oxygen - silicon
563. The high concentrations of metals such as Iron and d) Oxygen - iron
nickel cause the nucleus to be called: e) Oxygen - Nitrogen
a) Endosphere b) Sodiosphere
c) Barisphere d) Nife e) Siderosphere 572. The mantle and core are separated by the
discontinuity of:
564. The Yunga region is called the endemic region of a) conrad b) Gutenberg
Peru due to: c) Repeat d) Weicher e) Mohorovicic
a) Due to the constant landslides that exist
b) Because it is an unstable region 573. The most abundant element in the Earth's crust is:
c) There are many insects a) Aluminum b) Silicon c) Oxygen
d) There are no health systems c) Iron e) Sodium
e) Many epidemics occur there.
574. The continental crust is mainly made up of:
565. Orogenic and epirogenic movements that cause a) talcum powder d) Basalt
major transformations of the Earth's coast: b) And so e) Iron
a ) Diastrophism b) Earthquake c) Granite
c) Volcanism d) Folding e) Erosion
575. The sial and sima are separated by the
566. Largest volume layer: discontinuity of:
a) Core b) Crust a) conrad b) Gutenberg
c) Oxysphere d) Mantle c) Mohorovicic d) Repeat e) Weicher
e) Nife
576. The earth's crust is made up of:
----------------------------------------------- a) Rocks and minerals
b) Rocks and oxygen
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d) Rocks and sandstone

e) Rocks and plaster 586. The upper mantle is also called:
a) Lithosphere b) Nife
577. It is known as the basaltic layer: c) Discontinuity d) Pyrosphere e) Asthenosphere
a) continental crust
b) granitic layer 587. Inner layer of the Earth on which the tectonic
c) Asthenosphere plates rest:
d) oceanic layer a) Pyrosphere d) Asthenosphere
e) Joints and volcanism b) Core e) Sial
c) Chasm
578. Internal part of the earth that is more than 6,000 TOPIC : HYDROGRAPHY
km away. deep:
a) Mantle d) Core 588. It is a chemical characteristic of ocean waters:
b) Oxysphere e) Lithosphere
a) Density b) Temperature
c) Earth crust
c) Color d) Salinity (*) e) Phosphorescence

579. The Earth's crust and mantle are separated by the 589. Marine sovereignty of the Peruvian Sea was
discontinuity of: established by DS of August 1, 1947 signed by the
a) Mohorovicic d) Gutenberg president:
b) Repetti e) Conrad
c) Weicher a) Manuel Prao Ugarteche
b) Juan Velasco Alvarado
580. The inner core and the outer core are separated c) José Luís Bustamante y Rivero (*)
by the discontinuity of: d) Fernando Belaunde Ferry
a) conrad b) Mohorovicic e) Manuel Odría
c) Gutenberg d) Weicher
590. It is the distance between the origin and the
e) Globalization
mouth of the river:
581. The inner core is in state: a) Flow b) Course (*)
a) plasmatic b) Liquid c) Regime d) Mouth e) Channel
c) Solid d) Gaseous
e) Viscous 591. Hydrographic basin called “The Lung of the World”

582. The irregular surface of the Earth's crust is a) From the Pacific b) From the Amazon (*)
known as: c) From Titicaca d) From the beginning e) From the
a) underwater relief Mediterranean
b) Petrology
c) Meteorology 592. River that forms the longest canyon in the world:
d) Volcanism a) Nile b) Amazon
e) Land relief c) Niger d) Colorado (*) e) Congo

583. The upper mantle and the lower mantle are 593. Currently it is considered the richest sea on the
separated by the discontinuity of: planet:
a) conrad b) Weicher
c) Gutenberg d) Repeat a) Black b) Red
e) Mohorovicic c) Grau (*) d) Mediterranean e)
Caribbean
584. The continental layer is also called:
a) Oceanic d) Granitic 594. It is the largest river on the Pacific hydrographic
b) Asthenosphere e) Nife slope:
c) Basaltic
a) Santa (*) b) Rimac
c) Tumbes d) Tambo e) Piura
585. It constitutes the intermediate layer between the
cortex and the core.
a) Cortex d) Lithosphere
b) Core e) Mantle
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595. It is the largest river on the Titicaca hydrographic 605. They are those seas that surround the continents,
slope: being open to the oceans:

a) Ramis (*) b) Suches c) Drain a) Epicontinental (*) b) Mediterranean

d) Coata e) Key c) Interiors d) Islands e) Pits

596. It is the longest river on the planet: 606. The Ilave River is formed by the confluence of the
a) Mississippi b) Use macinta rivers:
c) Amazon (*) d) La Plata e) Orinoco
a) Ucayali and Marañón b) Huenque and Aguas Calientes
(*)
597. Ocean whose waters are the most polluted:
c) Lampa and Cabanillas d) Ene and Perené
a) Atlantic b) Arctic e) Tambo and Urubamba
c) Antarctic d) Pacific e) I indicate (*)
607. River that forms the highest waterfall in the
598. Most abundant gas in ocean waters. world:

a) Oxygen b) Nitrogen (*) a) Amazon b) Iguazu c) Churon (*)

c) Hydrogen d) Argon e) Neon d) The red e) San Lorenzo

599. Color of ocean waters that originate from the 608. Ocean waters are 81% concentrated in:
decomposition of dead organisms:
a) Northern hemisphere b) Western Hemisphere
a) Red b) Blue c) Emerald green c) Eastern Hemisphere d) Southern hemisphere (*)
d) Yellow e) Black (*) e) Arctic Circle

600. It is considered the most polluted sea on the 609. Lakes and lagoons are part of the waters:
planet:
a) Lotics b) Lentic (*)
a) Red Sea b) Black sea c) Baltic Sea (*) c) Frozen d) Water e) Oceanic
d) Sea of Grau e) Mediterranean Sea
610. The reason why the Pacific Ocean displaced the
601. The Peruvian Sea extends in the north from: Atlantic in importance is:

a) Peninsula Illescas b) Needle tip a) Its largest trade balance (*)

c) Milestone No. 1 La Concordia d) Talwes of the b) It is the most studied
Putumayo River c) It is the most touristy
e) Boca de Capones (*) d) For being the greatest
e) It has a greater number of islands
602. The Tambo River of the hydrographic slope of the
Amazon has been formed from the union of the 611. The presence of sodium chloride in the oceans
following rivers: makes their waters:

a) Very warm b) Suitable for plankton

a) Ene and Perené (*) b) Tambo and Urubamba
c) Very cold d) Of different colors
c) Marañón and Ucayali d) Lampa and Cabanillas
e) Salty (*)
e) Mustache and Canchaque

603. Longest Peruvian river and is formed by the 612. According to studies carried out: water on the
confluence of the Urubamba and Tambo rivers: planet represents the……. ; of that total being …….salt
water and only the….. sweet water.
a) Amazon b) Ucayali (*) a) 60% - 99% - 1% b) 60% - 95% - 6%
c) Cashew d) Huallaga e) Apurimac c) 89% - 95% - 5% d) 70% - 97% - 3% (*)
e) 97% - 70% - 30%
604. It is considered the highest navigable lake on the
planet:

a) Caspian b) Maracaibo c) Titicaca (*)

d) Baykal e) Dead Sea

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613. The greatest depth of the Pacific Ocean is located 621. When a river basin has no outlet to the sea, it is
in the trench: said to be:

a) Java b) Marianas (*) a) Exorheic b) Extrarreic

c) Callao d) Nasca e) Mexico c) Arreica d) Mediterranean e) Endorheic
(*)
614. The Caribbean Sea, the deepest of all, is located
within the ocean: 622. Which of these rivers belongs to the Amazon
basin:
a) Pacific b) Arctic c) Atlantic (*)
d) I indicate e) Antarctic a) Tambo b) Huancabamba (*)
c) Locumba d) Casma e) Suches
615. According to the classification of the seas; the
Grau sea is: 623. The river of the Titicaca hydrographic basin that
transports the waters of this lake to Lake Poopo is:
a) Insular b) Mediterranean c)
Intercontinental a) Suches b) Key
d) Closed e) Epicontinental (*) c) Ramis d) Drain (*) e) Cabanillas

616. Peruvian sea current that has the peculiarity of 624. The Amazon River is also considered the longest in
increasing the water temperature between 21ºC and the world and its sources are located in:
24ºC:
a) The snowy Huascarán b) The snowy Misti
a) El Niño Current (*) b) Peruvian Current c) The snowy Mismi (*) d) The Hornillos River
c) Humboldt Current d) Nasca Current e) The Ucayali River
e) Curoshivo Current
625. The Chira River in its sources is known as:
617. The Peruvian sea has an extension of 200 miles
which were obtained during the president's government: a) Turicarami b) Catamayo (*)
c) Bald spots d) Quiroz e) Puyango
a) Serapio Calderón
b) José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (*) 626. Lake Titicaca is of origin:
c) Augusto B. Leguia
d) Manuel Apolinario Odria a) Residual b) Volcanic
e) Juan Valasco Alvarado c) Glacial d) Artificial e) Tectonic (*)

618. The emerald green color on the Peruvian sea coast 627. It is an artificial lake that irrigates the Chira
is due to: valley:

a) The presence of phytoplankton (*) a) Poems (*) b) Chipillico

b) The sediments carried by rivers c) San Lorenzo d) Curumuy e) Tinajones
c) The presence of the Peruvian current -------------------------------------------
d) The presence of the El Niño current 628. They are those waters that are in permanent
e) The abundance of sodium chloride movement over the continental surface.

a) Lentic b) Atmospheric
619. The border line between Peru and Colombia is given
c) Phreatic d) Lotic (*) e) Potamology
by a part of the river called:

a) Course b) Cuadal c) Channel 629. It is considered a “World Mediterranean Sea”, as

d) Regime e) Talweg (*) it is surrounded by continental blocks, communicating
with the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait.
620. The lower course of a river is also known as:
a) Youth of the river b) Old age of the river (*) a) Pacific Ocean b) Arctic Glacial Ocean (*)
c) Source of the river d) Adulthood of the river c) Atlantic Ocean d) Antarctic Glacial Ocean
e) Course of the river e) Indian Ocean

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630. It is the largest sea in the world: 639. Geological structure that determines that three
basins or hydrographic systems are formed in Peruvian
a) Red Sea b) Black Sea territory.
c) Coral Sea (*) d) Sea of Grau
e) Mediterranean Sea a) South Pacific anticyclone
b) Nazca tectonic plate
631. The Peruvian Sea extends in the north from: c) The Pacific Ring of Fire
d) The Andes mountain range (*)
a) Needle Point b) Illescas Peninsula e) The tablazos of northern Peru
c) Boca de Capones (*) d) Talweg of the Putumayo
River 640. Hydrographic slope made up of 53 main rivers,
e) Milestone No. 1 of Concord which have their origin in the western chain of the
Andes.
632. Flow of warm equatorial waters that erupt at the a) Pacific slope (*)
beginning of the southern summer, from the Gulf of b) Amazon slope
Guayaquil in a southerly direction: c) Atlantic slope
d) Titicaca slope
a) El Niño Current (*) e) Indian Slope
b) Peruvian Current
c) Greenland Current 641. River whose sources are found in the western
d) California Currents Andes of Ecuador, north of the city of Loja, with the
e) Kuro - Shivo Currents name of the Catamayo River.

633. It is a current of water that moves across the a) Zarumilla b) Tumbes

continental part, from the highest to the lowest parts. c) Chira (*) d) Piura e) Huancabamba

a) Oceans b) Seas 642. The Piura River rises in Cerro Sogorón with the
c) Rivers (*) d) Lake e) Lagoon name of San Martín, and takes the name of Piura from
the confluence of the rivers:
634. When a river rises from a lake it is said to be of
origin: a) Canchaque - Morropón
b) Huancabamba - Pusmalca
a) Pluvial b) Lake (*) c) Mustache - Salitral
c) Glacier d) Phreatic e) River d) Canchaque - Mustache (*)
e) Huancabamba - Quiroz
635. It is called a trough, it is the median line that joins
the ends of the channel in its deepest part. 643. Piura River that belongs to the hydrographic slope
of the Amazon.
a) Course b) Bed
c) Regime d) Flow e) Talweg (*)
a) Chira b) Huancabamba (*)
c) Quiroz d) Canchaque e) Ayabaca
636. It refers to the distance between the place of
origin and the mouth of the river.
644. It is the largest river on the Pacific hydrographic
a) Talweg b) Divirtium Aquarium slope.
c) Regime d) Course (*) e) Current
a) Tumbes b) Chira
637. Mouth that is characterized because the river c) Amazon d) Tambo e) Santa (*)
drains through several channels.

a) Estuary b) Delta (*) 645. A tributary of the Amazon River on the left bank,
c) Bar d) Mixed e) Endorheic it serves as the boundary between Peru and Colombia.

638. It is the union of two or more rivers, which meet a) Putumayo (*) b) Cashew
to form another main one. c) Yavari d) Ucayali e) Napo
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a) Effluent b) Confluence (*)
c) Tributary d) Mixed e) Phreatic

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646. The ocean ….. It is the largest of all and the 654. It is the longest river in the Peruvian Pacific basin:
deepest sea trench is located here:
a) Zarumilla b) Chira
c) Piura d) Milk e) Tambo (*)
a) Atlantic b) Pacific (*)
c) Indian d) Arctic e) Antarctic
655. River that flows into the Pacific Sechura Bay:

647. The marine sovereignty of the Peruvian Sea was a) Chira b) Santa
established on August 1 of the year: c) Piura (*) d) Tumbes e) Zarumilla

a) 1927 b) 1937 656. The largest hydrographic basin in Peru is:

c) 1947 (*) d) 1957 e) 1967
a) From the Pacific b) From the Amazon (*)
648. The Peruvian Current and that of “El Niño” differ c) From Titicaca d) Endorheic e) Del Marañon
fundamentally in:
657. It is the longest river in the Amazon basin:
a) Its volume b) Its temperature (*) a) Marañón b) Mantaro
c) His wealth d) Its depth e) Its color c) Huallaga d) Ucayali (*) e) Yavari

649. It is the northernmost river in Peru: 658. The rivers of the Amazon basin are characterized
by:
a) Zarumilla (*) b) Jequetepeque
c) Tumbes d) Chira e) Piura a) They form rich continental valleys
b) They have little flow
650. The Amazon River is formed by the confluence of c) They are important means of communication (*)
the rivers: d) Regulate the temperature
e) Its vegetation
a) Canchaque and Mustache b) Tumbes and
Urubamba 659. It is considered the only tributary river of the
c) Marañon and Ucayali (*) d) Perennial and Jan Hoya del Titicaca:
e) Lampa and Cabanillas
a) Huancane b) Drain (*)
c) Key d) Coata e) Ramis
651. During the child phenomenon the most affected
area is…….. ocean waters are more…….
660. It is characteristic of the rivers of the Titicaca
basin:
a) The entire coast - cold
b) The entire north coast - agitated a) Its large volume of water
c) The entire north coast - hot (*) b) They are rivers with a steep slope
d) The entire central coast - cold c) They are short-course rivers (*)
e) The entire south coast - hot d) Its origin is in the white mountain range
e) They are regular and powerful rivers
652. The origin of the Pacific Hydrographic basin is
found in: 661. It is the largest and largest river in the Titicaca
basin:
a) The Pasco Knot
b) The Vilcanota Knot
a) Suches b) Ramis (*)
c) Central Andes Mountain Range
c) Coata d) Key e) Drain
d) In the Western Cordillera of the Andes (*)
e) In the Eastern Cordillera of Peru
662. The fundamental difference between the rivers of
the coast and the Peruvian mountains lies in:
653. One of the characteristics of the Pacific
hydrographic basin is, they are rivers:
a) Its salinity b) Its ichthyographic richness
a) Low flow (*) b) They are mighty rivers c) Its color d) Its length (*) e) Its tranquility
c) They are navigable rivers d) They are rivers of
the regular regime
e) They are rivers of great length

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663. Limnology is a branch of Hydrography that studies: c) 50 miles d) 20 miles e) 10 miles

a) Oceans and seas b) Lakes and lagoons (*) 672. The river ………….transports the waters of Lake
c) Rivers and streams d) Groundwater Titicaca to Lake Poopo in Bolivia:
e) Glaciers a) Suchez c) Ramis
b) Drain d) Cohata e) Vilcanota
664. Shimbe Lagoon is located in the region of:
673. 81% of ocean waters are concentrated in:
a) Piura (*) b) Junin a) Southern hemisphere
c) Fist d) Huánuco e) Ancash b) In the Pacific Ocean
c) in the glaciers
-------------------------------------------------- d) In the water table
e) in atmospheric humidity
665. Lentic waters are formed by:
a) water vapor 674. Waters that circulate through the continental
b) rain and snow part:
c) Seas and rivers a) Phreatic b) Lentic
d) Oceans and lakes c) Cryogenic d) Lotics e) Residuals
e) Groundwater
675. Due to the presence of phytoplankton, the Peruvian
666. The ocean is called the World Mediterranean Sea: sea has a color:
a) Peaceful a) Navy blue d) Light blue
b) Indian b) emerald green e) Blackish
c) Arctic Glacier c) Bluish
d) Antarctic Glacier
e) Atlantic 676. River that does not belong to the department of
Piura:
667. The Mariana Trenches represent for the Pacific a) The Galician d) Quiroz
Ocean: b) Saint Paul e) Ramis
a) Its greatest depth c) Mustache
b) A very touristy area
c) The ideal area for underwater hunting 677. Due to its origin, Lake Titicaca would be located
d) An area of coral reefs among the lakes:
e) The shallowest area a) Residuals b) Tectonics
c) Glaciers d) Artificial
668. It was called the Tethys Sea and was formed when e) Volcanic
Pangea separated into two:
a) Caspian 678. River that rises in the heights of our region and
b) Black pours its waters into the Amazon slope:
c) Dead a) Piura b) Huancabamba
d) Mediterranean c) Quiroz d) Chipillico e) Chira
e) Yellow
679. The water resource present in Peru compared to
669. River that forms the Poechos reservoir: the rest of the world:
a) Piura a) 10% b) 3% c ) 5% d) 7% e) 9%
b) Chira 680. The Peruvian sea owes the coldness of its waters:
c) Bald a) Child Current
d) Huancabamba b) Outcrop of waters
e) The milk c) Global warming
d) Glacial eustatism
670. Part of the river that serves as the boundary line e) Greenhouse effect
between the states:
681.The largest trade balance that the Pacific Ocean
a) Cause d) Course
has has transformed it into:
b) Flow e) Basin
a) largest ocean in the world
c) Talweg
b) More dangerous
c) More important
671.The jurisdiction of the Peruvian sea includes:
d) Deeper
a) 5 miles b) 200 miles

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e) More polluted d) Peaceful

e) Ucayali
682. It is called old age of the river when:
a) Lower course d) Medium course
692. River in the Amazon basin with the highest energy
b) Upper reaches e) River torrent
production:
c) Cause of the river
a) Ucayali
683. Ocean that has a circular shape: b) Mantaro
a) I indicate b) Arctic c) Piura River
c) Antarctic d) Pacific e) Atlantic d) Urubamba
e) Huallaga.
684. It is the most polluted ocean::
a) Peaceful
693. The true source of the Amazon River occurs in the
b) Indian
Chila mountain range and is initially called:
c) Arctic Glacier
a) Sogoron
d) Antarctic Glacier
b) Tambo
e) Atlantic
c) Stoves
----------------------------------------------- d) Apurimac
685. World Oceans Day is celebrated on: e) Mantaro
a) May 7 d) September 9
b) June 8 e) October 28 694. The Ucayali River is formed due to the confluence
c) August 9 of the rivers:
686. It is known as the Ocean richest in species: a) Tambo and Urubamba
a) Atlantic d) Antarctic b) Perennial and Jan
b) Indian e) Pacific c) Mantaro and Apurimac
c) arctic d) Carabaya and Ayavari
e) Lampa and Cabanillas
687. It is the Ocean that receives the largest rivers in
the world such as the Amazon and the Congo:
695. River that is formed from the union of the Perené
a) Atlantic
and Ene:
b) Indian
a) Ucayali
c) Arctic
b) Tambo
d) Antarctic
c) Piura
e) Peaceful
d) Sucches
688. Ocean that bathes the coasts of northern Europe, e) key
Asia and America:
a) Atlantic d) Antarctic 696. River that is formed from the union of the Lampa
b) Arctic e) Indian and Cabanillas
c) Peaceful a) Suches d) Jan
b) Tambo e) Ramis
689. Geographical feature where the Humboldt Current c) Coata
is diverted towards Australia:
a) Paracas Island 697. Piura River is born on Sogorón Hill due to the
b) Punta Balcones confluence of:
c) White Cape a) Canchaque and Mustache
d) Paita Bay b) Tambo and Urubamba
e) Seal Island c) Mantaro and Apurimac
690. Establishes limits between countries, when a river d) Ene and Perene
appears as a dividing element: e) Huenque and hot water
a) Flow d) Channel 698. The river that originates in Ecuador with the name
b) Regime e) Course of Puyango:
c) Talweg a) Tumbes
b) Tambo
691.Those rivers that originate in the western chain of c) Chira
the Andes, are short in length and vary periodically, d) Caplina
belong to the slope of: e) Santa
a) Titicaca
b) Atlantic 699. It is the single largest river on the Pacific slope:
c) Amazon a) Piura

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b) Chira b) Indian e) Pacific

c) Tumbes
d) Rímac
e) Santa c) arctic

700. International river, born north of Loja with the 708. It is the Ocean that receives the largest rivers in
name of Catamayo: the world such as the Amazon and the Congo:
a) Piura a) Atlantic
b) Santa b) Indian
c) chira c) Arctic
d) Zarumilla d) Antarctic
e) Tumbes e) Peaceful

701.The Amazon River is formed by the confluence of: 709. Ocean that bathes the coasts of northern Europe,
a) Huallaga and Ucayali Asia and America:
b) Ucayali and the Mantaro a) Atlantic d) Antarctic
c) Marañón and Ucayali b) Arctic e) Indian
d) Ilave and the Coata c) Peaceful
e) Coata and Aguas Calientes.
710.They are closed seas or surrounded by continents:
702. In its course the Poechos reservoir has been built:
a) Islanders
a) tumbes river
b) Continentals
b) Piura River
c) Mediterranean
c) Santa River
d) aquifers
d) Chira River
e) Epicontinental
e) Suches River

703. The length of a river is called: 711. Ocean that has the shape of an elongated S and is
a) Talweg d) Regime the second in terms of surface area:
b) Channel e) Course a) Peaceful
c) Flow b) Indian
c) Arctic
704. It is the volume of water transported by a river: d) Atlantic
a) Course e) Antarctic
b) Channel
c) Talweg 712.They are seas that bathe the coasts of the islands
d) Flow and are common in Oceania:
e) Regime a) Epicontinental d) Lakes
b) Mediterranean e) Gaps
------------------------------------------- c) Islanders

705. Elongated depressed underwater subsoil zones,

713.The continental shelf covered by marine waters up
where the depth of the ocean increases
to 200 meters deep is called:
a) continental slope
a) continental slope
b) sea graves
b) Marine trench
c) Beaches
c) continental socket
d) Tides
d) Coastal coastline
e) pelagic zone
e) Mid-ocean ridge
706. Masses of water on the planet that surround the
714.It is the most polluted ocean in the world:
continents, together they occupy 70% of the planet's
a) Peaceful
surface:
b) Atlantic
a) Lakes
c) Arctic
b) Rivers
d) Antarctic
c) Lagoons
e) Indian
d) Oceans
e) Glaciers 715.The average temperature of our Peruvian Sea is:
a) 10ºC
707. It is known as the Ocean richest in species: b) 12ºC
a) Atlantic d) Antarctic c) 15ºC

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d) 19ºC 724. World Oceans Day is celebrated on:

e) 21ºC a) On January 8
b) March 8
716.It is considered the “World Mediterranean Sea”, c) June 8
covered in ice: d) On September 8
a) Glacier Arctic Ocean e) December 8
b) Antarctic Glacial Ocean 725.Ocean waters are concentrated 61% in:
c) Indian Ocean a) Western Hemisphere
d) Pacific Ocean b) North Hemisphere
c) Eastern Hemisphere
e) Atlantic Ocean d) Southern hemisphere
e) Antarctic Hemisphere
717.It constitutes the largest and deepest of the
planet's oceans: 726. Continental waters are called “fresh water”
a) Arctic because :
b) Indian a) Its high luminosity
c) Atlantic b) Its great variety of plankton
d) Peaceful c) Its low salinity
e) Antarctic d) Its great density
e) Its low potassium content
718.Peruvian Marine sovereignty was established by DS
from August 1, 1947, during the presidential
727. The Pacific Ocean presents a shape:
government of:
a. Triangular
a) Alan García Pérez
b. Circular
b) Francisco Bermudez
c. Geoid
c) Juan Velasco Alvarado
d. That elongated
d) José Luis Bustamante y Rivero
e. Diamond
e) Manuel Odria

719.Ocean where the largest underwater ridge on the 728. Ocean considered the food reserve of the world:
planet is located: a. Glacier Arctic Ocean
a) Peaceful b. Pacific Ocean
b) Indian c. Mediterranean Ocean
c) Arctic d. Antarctic Glacial Ocean
d) Antarctic e. Atlantic Ocean
e) Atlantic
729. Community that integrates the economies of Asia,
720. Oceans that surround the continents and are open Oceania and America through the Pacific Ocean:
to the oceans: a) Andean Community of Nations
a) Epicontinental d) Warm b) European Community
b) Islanders e) Mediterranean c) Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
c) Deep d) Southern Common Market
e) North American FTA
721.The Peruvian Sea extends in the north from:
a) Illescas Peninsula 730. A peculiarity of the Mar de Grau is being
b) Needle Point considered the richest, due to:
a) Milestone No. 1 “La Concordia” a) Low salinity of its waters
b) Bayovar Depression b) Variety and abundance of ichthyological
c) Capones Mouth resources
722. ocean that has a circular shape: c) Pacific Ocean Belonging
a) Indian d) Antarctic d) Plankton alone abundance
b) Peaceful e) Atlantic e) High temperature of its waters
c) Arctic
731.The Strait of Gibraltar is the exit from the sea….
723. It is the ocean with the smallest surface area and
to the Atlantic Ocean:
the least polluted, located in the southern hemisphere.
a) Mediterranean
a) Peaceful d) Arctic
b) Red
b) Atlantic e) Antarctic
c) Black
c) Indian
d) Baltic
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d) River mouth
732. Marine waters that bathe the coastlines of the e) Margins
continents and are open to the oceans are called: 740. It is an energetic characteristic of the rivers of
a. Tropical the Pacific Ocean slope:
b. Intercontinental a) They present a transversal route
c. Islanders b) Mostly unnavigable
d. Epicontinental c) Torrent in its upper course
e. Mediterranean d) Formation of hydroelectric plants
733. The maritime border with Chile was established by e) Being of an irregular regime
………….. he ……………. : 741.The Poechos Dams, in Sullana, and the San Lorenzo
a) The UN – 01/27/2014 Dam, in Tambogrande, have an origin:
b) The OAS – 01/27/2014 a) Glacier
c) The CIH – 01/27/2014 b) Volcanic
d) UNICEF – 01/27/2014 c) Artificial
e) The IACHR – 01/27/2014 d) Tectonic
734. The cold and warm marine currents that bathe e) Residual
the Mar de Grau are called respectively: 742. Calendar date on which “world water day” is
a) Peruvian (or Humboldt) – Del Niño celebrated:
b) From Humboldt – Countercurrent a) June 8
c) Del Niño – Oceanica b) January 27th
d) From Phytoplankton – From Zooplankton c) December 25th
e) Del Niño – Contracorriente d) March 22
735. Part of the Putumayo River that establishes the e) 28 of July
border line between Peru and Colombia: 743. Due to their size, it can be said that the
a) Margin accumulations of water that form after light rainfall
b) Talweg are called:
c) Channel a) Regatos
d) Divortium Aquarium b) puddles
e) Course c) Shelves
736. To determine the banks of a river, the correct way d) Swamps
to locate is: e) Lagoons
a) Looking where the river flows from 744. It is the Ocean in which the largest number of
b) Right arm facing east islands are located:
c) Looking straight to the West a) Pacific Ocean
d) Looking where the river flows b) Atlantic Ocean
e) Left arm facing south c) Glacier Arctic Ocean
737. The course of a river in its middle part is also d) Antarctic Glacial Ocean
called: e) Mediterranean Sea
a) River old age
b) Source of the river 745.Ocean waters are concentrated 61% in:
a) Western Hemisphere
c) River Youth
b) North Hemisphere
d) River's course c) Eastern Hemisphere
e) River Adulthood d) Southern hemisphere
e) Antarctic Hemisphere
738. The longest and largest river in the world, it is
formed by the confluence of the rivers: 746. Continental waters are called “fresh water”
a) Apurimac and Mantaro because :
b) Ucayali and Marañón a) Its high luminosity
c) Urubamba and Tambo b) Its great variety of plankton
d) Ene and Perene c) Its low salinity
e) Napo and Putumayo d) Its great density
e) Its low potassium content
739. Part of the rivers that is generally cleaned and 747. The Pacific Ocean presents a shape:
overflows avoided in the face of the threat of a strong a. Triangular
phenomenon, on the Pacific slope: b. Circular
a) Channel c. Geoid
b) Course d. That elongated
c) Talweg e. Diamond

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755.Part of the Putumayo River that establishes the border

748. Ocean considered the food reserve of the world: line between Peru and Colombia:
f) Margin
a) Glacier Arctic Ocean g) Talweg
b) Pacific Ocean h) Channel
c) Mediterranean Ocean i) Divortium Aquarium
d) Antarctic Glacial Ocean j) Course
e) Atlantic Ocean 756.To determine the banks of a river, the correct way to
locate is:
749. Community that integrates the economies of Asia, f) Looking where the river flows from
Oceania and America through the Pacific Ocean: g) Right arm facing east
a. Andean Community of Nations h) Looking straight to the West
b. European Community i) Looking where the river flows
j) Left arm facing south
c. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
d. Southern Common Market
e. North American FTA TOPIC : METEREOLOGY
750. A peculiarity of the Mar de Grau is being
considered the richest, due to: 757. Military aviation moves through the atmospheric
a) Low salinity of its waters layer:
b) Variety and abundance of ichthyological
a) Stratosphere (*) b) Mesosphere
resources
c) Thermosphere d) Exosphere e)
c) Pacific Ocean Belonging
Troposphere
d) Plankton alone abundance
e) High temperature of its waters 758. Meteor showers and shooting stars occur in:
751.The Strait of Gibraltar is the exit from the sea…. a) The troposphere b) The thermosphere
to the Atlantic Ocean: (*)
a) Mediterranean c) The exosphere d) The stratosphere
b) Red e) The magnetosphere
c) Black
d) Baltic 759. The carbon dioxide that comes from the
e) The tithe combustion of organic compounds causes:
752. Marine waters that bathe the coastlines of the a) Maritime warming
continents and are open to the oceans are called: b) Holes in the ozone layer
a) Tropical c) Soil salinity
b) Intercontinental d) The greenhouse effect (*)
c) Islanders e) Acid rain
d) Epicontinental
e) Mediterranean 760. Winds with speeds of up to 500 km/h used in air
navigation between America and Europe:
753. The maritime border with Chile was established by a) Trade winds b) Jet Stream (*)
………….. he ……………. : c) Monsoons d) Cyclonic e) Polar
a) The UN – 01/27/2014
b) The OAS – 01/27/2014 761.The production of CFCs in developed countries
c) The CIH – 01/27/2014 ceased thanks to the agreements of the Protocol
d) UNICEF – 01/27/2014 of……….of 1987:
e) The IACHR – 01/27/2014
754. The cold and warm marine currents that bathe the to London b) Geneva
Mar de Grau are called respectively: c) Beijing d) Paris e) Montreal (*)
a) Peruvian (or Humboldt) – Del
Niño 762. The origin of the atmosphere can be located in:
b) From Humboldt – Countercurrent
a) Global warming
c) Del Niño – Oceanica
b) The formation of the universe
d) From Phytoplankton – From
c) The collision of a meteorite with the earth
Zooplankton
d) Volcanic eruptions (*)
e) Del Niño – Contracorriente
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763. Gases whose presence is not uniform throughout 771.Inert gas that dissolves oxygen making it
the earth and the retention of temperature depends on breathable.
them:
a) Ozone b) Carbon dioxide
a) Permanent gases b) Thermoregulatory gases (*) c) Helium d) Hydrogen e) Nitrogen
c) Earth's gravity d) Water vapor (*)
e) Heavy gases
772. The state of weightlessness of the earth occurs in
764. Atmospheric layer that has the highest the:
concentration of humidity and polluting gases: a) Thermosphere (*) b) Exosphere
c) Troposphere d) Mesosphere
a) Homosphere (*) b) Heterosphere e) Stratosphere
c) Stratosphere d) Sodiosphere
e) Magnetosphere 773. Suspended particles of dust, smoke, ash, salts, and
organic matter that destroy the ozone layer:
765. The decrease in temperature by 6ºC for every km. a) Dioxin b) Hydrofluorocorbon
promotion is called: c) Halons d) Hydrocarbons e) Aerosols (*)

a) Geothermal gradient b) Atmospheric gradient

774. Ozone-depleting chemical used to fight fires:
c) Vertical Gradient (*) d) Latitudinal gradient
e) Horizontal gradient a) CFCs b) Ammonia
c) Dioxin d) Halons (*) e) Methane
766. Atmospheric gas that is characterized by its 775. Solar radiation allows gases in the atmosphere
stench, toxicity and corrosion: a) Escape from the atmosphere
b) They move up to a certain height (*)
a) Helium b) Sulfur vapor
c) They stay at ground level
c) Ozone (*) d) Carbon Dioxide
d) Modify the climate
e) Sodium vapor
e) Produce global warming
--------------------------------
767. Cosmic rays, lethal to the Earth, are deflected
into:
776. The source of energy that makes all atmospheric
a) The ozone layer b) The Appletón layer processes possible is:
c) The ionosphere d) The sodiumsphere a) Humidity
e) The magnetosphere (*) b) The sun (*)
c) The chemical elements that the atmosphere has
768. Light gases that are not held by gravity: d) Nitrogen
e) The core of the earth
a) Nitrogen and oxygen b) Argon and neon
c) Hydrogen and helium (*) d) Oxygen and xenon 777. Of the permanent gases that exist in the
e) Water vapor and carbon monoxide atmosphere, the most abundant is……. And the most
important one is…….. .
769. Capacity of movement of gases to occupy a volume
a) Ozone and sodium b) Water vapor and
smaller than the initial one when subjected to pressure:
oxygen
a) Mobility b) Compressibility (*) c) Hydrogen and helium d) Nitrogen and oxygen (*)
c) Elasticity d) Diatermancy e) Oxygen and nitrogen
e) Malleability
778. The formation of the atmosphere is almost parallel
770. The coloring of the atmosphere is due to the to that of the planet, owing its origin to:
action of:
a) Volcanic eruptions (*)
a) Thermopause b) Magnetosphere b) The formation of the nucleus
c) Sodiosphere (*) d) Tropopause c) Interstellar gas
e) Ionosphere d) The increase in temperature
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779. One of the characteristics of water vapor is: 787. Product of the deterioration of the azone layer
has increased on earth:
a) Be a heavy gas
b) Form glaciers a) Hurricanes b) The rains
c) Avoid acid rain c) Skin cancer (*) d) The EDA
d) Store more thermal energy (*) e) The temperature
e) Be a permanent and abundant gas
788. The most turbulent region of the atmosphere is:
780. The troposphere is the heaviest atmospheric layer, a) Troposphere (*) b) Ionosphere
occupying the ……… of the total weight of the c) Exosphere d) Mesosphere
atmosphere: e) Thermosphere

a) 40% b) 50% c) 80% (*) d) 90% e) 75% 789. When the temperature decreases 6ºC for every
km. promotion is called:
781.The communications layer is called:
a) Temperature variation
a) Troposphere b) Exosphere b) Increase in temperature
c) Stratosphere d) Mesosphere c) Horizontal gradient
e) Ionosphere (*) d) Vertical gradient (*)
e) Geothermal gradient
782. According to the chemical composition of the
atmosphere, the following layers can be found: 790. The increase in gases that produce the greenhouse
effect is causing:
a) The homosphere and the heterosphere (*)
b) The ionosphere and the exosphere a) The cooling of the planet
c) The tropopause and the magnetosphere b) Global warming (*)
d) The mesosphere and the thermosphere c) Acid rain
e) The troposphere and the stratosphere d) The ERAs
e) The reduction of pollution
783. The main gases that we can find in the homosphere
are: 791.The boundary layer of the mesosphere is……….. and
the thermosphere is …………. :
a) Oxygen and sodium b) Nitrogen and oxygen (*)
c) Argon and oxygen d) Hydrogen and nitrogen a) The ionosphere and the thermopause
e) Oxygen and water vapor b) The thermopause and the exosphere
c) The mesopause and sidereal space
784. He …. It does not allow the escape of infrared rays d) The stratosphere and the exosphere
into space due to carbon dioxide concentrations: e) The mesopause and the thermopause (*)

a) Water vapor b) The greenhouse effect (*) 792. The burning of fossil fuels such as oil and gasoline
c) The ozone layer d) The refraction of light produces high concentrations of …………which causes acid
e) It is a property of air rain:

785. The largest hole in the ozone layer is located: a) Poisonous gases b) Chlorofluorocarbons
c) Sulfur dioxide (*) d) Carbon dioxide
To Africa b) Antarctica (*) e) Carbon monoxide
c) In Siberia d) Central America
e) In Bermuda 793. The constant use of air fresheners, spray
deodorants, and refrigerators deteriorates.
786. Atmospheric layer that does not belong to the
atmosphere itself: a) The Appleton layer b) The sodiumsphere
c) The atmosphere d) The ozone layer (*)
a) Mesosphere b) Stratopause e) The ionosphere
c) Thermopause d) Thermosphere e) Exosphere
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794. Global warming on Earth causes glaciers to ………. ; 804. The artificial satellites are located in the:
then the water ……………:
a) Thermosphere (*) b) Troposphere
a) Melt and decrease c) Mesosphere d) Exosphere
b) Remove and increase its volume (*) e) Stratosphere
c) Disappear and retire
d) Evaporate and freeze 805. Layer where meteors volatilize:
e) Freeze and increase
--------------------------------- a) Stratosphere b) Exosphere
795. Correct meaning of Nitrogen: c) Thermosphere (*) d) Troposphere
e) Mesosphere
a) Oxidant b) Inert
c) Lifeless (*) d) New e) Hidden
806. The existence of the atmosphere on earth is due
796. World Day for the Preservation of the Ozone to:
Layer: a) Solar radiation and lunar phases
b) Earth's gravity and the greenhouse effect
a) September 14 b) September 15
c) Solar radiation and Earth's gravity (*)
c) September 16 (*) d) October 17
d) Solar eclipses and lunar eclipses
e) October 13
e) Clouds and precipitation
797. Gas that allows living beings to breathe:
807. It is the atmospheric layer where clouds form:
a) Oxygen (*) b) Nitrogen
c) Xenon d) Argon e) Inert a) Ionosphere b) Troposphere (*)
c) Mesosphere d) Stratosphere e) Exosphere
798. Gas displacement capacity:
a) Understandability b) Elasticity 808. Gas that acts as an oxygen diluent:
c) Diatermancy d) Mobility (*)
e) Gravity a) Hydrogen b) Helium
c) Xenon d) Nitrogen (*) e) Oxygen
799. It is known as the sound layer:
809. Etymologically Troposphere means:
a) Troposphere (*) b) Mesosphere
c) Stratosphere d) Exosphere
a) Sphere of changes (*) b) Heat sphere
e) Thermosphere
c) Vapor sphere d) Gas sphere
e) Color sphere
800. Most important layer for Man:

a) Thermosphere b) Troposphere (*) 810.The most abundant atmospheric gas in the

c) Exosphere d) Stratosphere atmosphere is:
e) Mesosphere
a) Oxygen b) Carbon dioxide
801.Its purpose is to absorb ultraviolet rays: c) Argon d) Nitrogen (*)
e) Hydrogen
a) Ozone layer (*) b) Helium
c) Hydrogen d) Kenelli-Heaviside layer 811. Branch of physical geography that studies
e) Appleton layer atmospheric phenomena:

802. It is known as the Layers sphere: a) Aerology b) Eology

a) Mesosphere b) Stratosphere (*) c) Climatology d) Hydrology e) Meteorology (*)
c) Thermosphere d) Exosphere
812.Ozone reaches its maximum concentration in:
e) Troposphere

a) The Troposphere b) The Ionosphere

803. The sodiumsphere is located in the:
c) The Stratosphere (*) d) The Mesosphere
a) Troposphere b) Mesosphere (*) e) The Thermosphere
c) Exosphere d) Stratosphere
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813.Capacity of the atmosphere to let the sun's rays b) Mesosphere e) The sodiumsphere
through: c) Troposphere

a) Elasticity b) Understandability 821.The layered sphere is conducive to the development

c) Mobility d) Diatermancy (*) e) Combustion of aviation:
a) Military d) Sports
814.They are responsible for ozone destruction: b) Commercial e) Civil
c) Interplanetary
a) Dust and atmospheric vapor
b) Chlorofluorocarbons (*) 822. Ozone is an atmospheric gas that is characterized
c) Oxides and nitrates by:
d) Ozone and carbon dioxide a) orange color
e) Water vapor and oxygen b) Sulfur composition
c) Water vapor concentration
--------------------------------------------------- d) Foulness, toxicity and corrosion
e) bluish color
815.As a consequence of the volcanic eruptions at the
beginning of the formation of planet Earth, the 823. In the thermosphere the temperature increases to
following were created: 1500ºC, producing:
a) Global warming a) The vertical gradient phenomenon
b) The atmosphere b) Volatization of meteorites
c) The ozone layer c) Acid rain
d) The mountains d) Rejection of the solar wind
e) The greenhouse effect e) The meteors
824. One of the benefits of the existence of the
816.The importance of thermoregulatory gases lies in magnetosphere is that:
the fact that: a) Allows the existence of the ozone layer
a) They cool the planet b) Allows the entry of meteorites
b) They protect the planet from the solar wind c) The rain of stars is formed in it
c) They allow Earth's gravity d) Draws the heat of the sun to the earth
d) They allow temperature retention e) Deflects cosmic rays lethal to the earth
e) Prevents the effect of acid rain
825. The……………is considered a gas………………
817.Aeronomy studies: therefore………………………….:
a) The conditions of the atmosphere above 30 km. a) Hydrogen / light / is not retained by gravity
b) The effect of permanent gases on earth b) Argon / heavy / is not retained by gravity
c) The formation of the atmosphere c) Helium / heavy / is retained by gravity
d) The effects of meteors on Earth d) Xenon / pollutant / is retained by gravity
e) The formation of the layers of the atmosphere e) Oxygen / light / is retained by gravity

818.In the homosphere they are mainly concentrated: 826. Factor of the atmosphere that allows the mobility
a) Very light gases of gases:
b) helium and hydrogen a) High altitudes
c) Humidity and polluting gases b) Solar radiation
d) The absolute void c) Low temperatures
e) The magnetosphere. d) High temperatures
e) atmospheric changes
819.The vertical gradient phenomenon refers to the
fact that the temperature: 827. One of the benefits of the sodiumsphere is:
a) Decreases 8ºC per km. promotion a) Give blue color to the atmosphere
b) Increases by 6ºC per km. promotion b) Allow the existence of oxygen
c) Increases by 8ºC per km. promotion c) Allow fighter jets to fly
d) It remains the same as on the earth's surface d) Give a blackish tone to the atmosphere
e) Decreases by 6ºC per km. promotion e) Allow the development of telecommunications

820. Most weather phenomena occur in the atmospheric 828. ……………..is an inert gas that dissolves oxygen
layer called: making it breathable.
a) Heterosphere d) The thermosphere a) Water steam d) Carbon dioxide

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b) Nitrogen e) Argon b) Hydrogen e) Argon

c) carbon dioxide c) carbon dioxide

829. Gas used by plants to carry out photosynthesis: 837. They are bright white clouds with a regular outline:
a) Oxygen d) Carbon dioxide a) Cumulus clouds d) Strata
b) Nitrogen e) Water vapor b) Nimbus e) Auroras
c) Ozone c) Cirrus

830. The greenhouse effect is formed as a result of the 838. The .…………….retains atmospheric heat and spreads
emissions of carbon dioxide that comes from the it:
combustion of: a) Hydrogen d) Atmospheric dust
a) Organic compounds d) Of gold b) Nitrogen e) Water vapor .
b) Copper e) Sulfur c) Helium
c) of the salts
839. The existence of the atmosphere is due to two
831.In the thermosphere occurs: factors:

a) the flight of the birds a) Mobility and shape of the earth

b) satellite communication b) Earth's mobility and rotation
c) The state of weightlessness of the earth c) Solar energy and lunar phases
d) interspatial communication d) Solar energy and tides
e) meteorological phenomena e) Solar energy and Earth's gravity

832. Chlorofluorocarbons that destroy the ozone layer 840. The degree of heat or cold that the atmosphere
can be found in: has in a given geographic area is measured by:
a) Barometer
a) Burning fossil fuels b) Pluviometer
b) Soda drinks c) Thermometer
c) Heating and burning wood d) vane
d) The extraction of hydrocarbons e) Anemoscope
e) Aerosols and refrigerant gases
841.It is an atmospheric element vital for life and is one
833. Ammonia is a polluting gas that man uses mainly in: of the most important elements in the atmosphere:
a) The food industry a) Hydrogen
b) The refrigerators b) Oxygen
c) Power generation c) Helium
d) computer screens d) Spores
e) Beverage manufacturing e) Water steam

834. The Kyoto protocol whose objective is to reduce 842. Etymologically Troposphere means:
the global rate of greenhouse gas emissions was not a) Change sphere
signed by b) calm sphere
a) Russia and Germany d) Australia and the c) heat sphere
USA d) Medium sphere
b) France and Italy e) Denmark and Spain e) vital sphere
c) England and Norway
843. Greater dispersion of light and propagation of
------------------------------------------------------- sound occur in the:
a) Mesosphere d) Troposphere
835. Layer formed by permanent and thermoregulating b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere
gases that covers and protects the earth: c) Thermosphere
a) geosphere d) Magnetosphere
b) Hydrosphere e) Sodiosphere 844. Where is the atmospheric sublayer that absorbs
c) Atmosphere ultraviolet radiation located?:
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere
836. Gas used by plants to carry out their b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere
photosynthesis: c) Mesosphere
a) Oxygen d) Helium

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845. The sodiumsphere layer and the polar auroras are

located respectively: 853. The presence of CO 2 generates:
a) Decrease in ambient temperature
a) Stratosphere – magnetosphere b) Lung conditions in men
b) Mesosphere – thermosphere c) Holes in the ozone layer
c) Magnetosphere - troposphere d) Decrease in winds
d) Stratosphere – mesosphere e) Increase in ambient temperature
e) Stratosphere – thermosphere
854. Precipitation of particles converted into acidic
846. Area where gases are heated by the Earth's substances due to atmospheric pollution
surface, and yet the temperature decreases with a) Greenhouse effect d) Fog
altitude: b) Acid rain e) Clouds
c) Tides
a) Exosphere d) Thermosphere
b) Troposphere e) Stratosphere ----------------------------------------------------
c) Mesosphere
855. Weather forecasting is the main objective of:
847. Coldest atmospheric layer of the atmosphere:
a) The Meteorology d) Astronomy
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere b) Climatology e) NASA
b) Mesosphere e) Exosphere c) Geology
c) Stratosphere
856. World Meteorology Day is celebrated on:
848. It is the boundary layer of the thermosphere, a) January 16 d) October 16
where the highest temperature is recorded: b) February 16 e) December 16
a) Tropopause d) Magnetosphere c) September 16
b) Thermopause e) Stratosphere
c) Exosphere 857. It is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere:
a) Hydrogen d) Atmospheric dust
849. The state of weightlessness of the earth occurs in b) Nitrogen e) Water vapor.
the: c) Helium
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere
b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere 858. Ozone is found mostly in the atmospheric layer
c) Mesosphere called:
a) Troposphere d) Stratosphere
850. The magnetosphere is also called: b) Thermosphere e) Mesosphere
a) Van Allen rings c) Exosphere
b) solar wind
c) Mesosphere 859. The existence of the atmosphere is due to two
d) Ozonosphere factors:
e) Biosphere a) Mobility and shape of the earth
b) Earth's mobility and rotation
851.Ozone is being destroyed by the excessive use of c) Solar energy and lunar phases
aerosols such as: d) Solar energy and tides
a) Chlorine, fluorine, carbon e) Solar energy and Earth's gravity
b) Chlorine, hydrogen, carbon
c) Chlorine, fluorine, helium 860. Atmospheric layer according to its chemical
d) Chlorine, helium and oxygen composition formed by heavy gases called oxygen and
e) Chlorine, nitrogen and oxygen nitrogen:
a) Heterosphere
852. Determine what characteristic corresponds to the b) Homosphere
exosphere: c) Mesosphere
a) Most atmospheric phenomena occur here. d) Thermosphere
b) It is known as the layer of calms e) Exosphere
c) This is where the sodiumsphere is located.
d) Volatilization of meteorites occurs 861.Etymologically Troposphere means:
e) This layer constitutes two main rings of radiation a) Change sphere
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c) heat sphere 871.According to their chemical composition, the

d) Medium sphere atmospheric layers are classified into:
e) vital sphere a) Troposphere – exosphere
b) Mesosphere - stratosphere
862. Greater dispersion of light and propagation of c) Thermosphere - ionosphere
sound occur in the: d) Homosphere – heterosphere
a) Mesosphere d) Troposphere e) Troposphere – biosphere
b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere
c) Thermosphere 872. It is the boundary layer where the highest
863. Where is the southern layer formed by sodium temperature is recorded:
vapor located: a) Tropopause d) Thermopause
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere b) Mesopause e) Stratopause
b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere c) Magnetopause
c) Mesosphere
873. Determine what characteristic corresponds to the
864. It is the lower layer in contact with the earth's thermosphere:
surface: a) Most atmospheric phenomena occur here.
a) Exosphere b) It is known as the layer of calms
b) Troposphere c) This is where the sodiumsphere is located.
c) Mesosphere d) Volatilization of meteorites occurs
d) Thermosphere e) This layer constitutes two main rings of radiation
e) Stratosphere around the Earth.
865. Lower temperature atmospheric layer: 874. The increase in CO 2 generates:
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere a) Acid rain
b) Mesosphere e) Exosphere b) The cooling of the waters
c) Stratosphere c) The greenhouse effect
d) The water
866. It is the boundary layer of the troposphere, it is e) The lunar isochronism
also considered the “Roof of meteorological weather”:
a) Tropopause d) Magnetosphere 875. Precipitation of particles converted into acidic
b) Thermopause e) Stratosphere substances by atmospheric pollution:
c) Exosphere a) Greenhouse effect d) Fog
b) Acid rain e) Clouds
867. The magnetosphere is composed of: c) Tides
a) Helium and hydrogen 876. It is the lowest layer, in which life and most
b) Oxygen and nitrogen meteorological phenomena develop:
c) Electrons and protons f) Thermosphere
d) Argon and xenon g) Exosphere
e) Ions and cosmic dusts h) Mesosphere
i) Stratosphere
868. Atmospheric layer where water occurs in its three j) Troposphere
states:
877. The most important layer of the atmosphere for
a) Thermosphere d) Troposphere
geography is the troposphere because:
b) Stratosphere e) Mesosphere
f) It is the one with the least pollution.
c) Exosphere
g) It is the last layer of the atmosphere.
h) In it we find its object of study.
869. The magnetosphere is also called:
i) It is a layer of calms.
a) Van Allen Rings d) Ozonosphere
j) It is the least prone to natural disasters.
b) solar wind e) Biosphere
c) Mesosphere
878. Above the Tropopause, between 30 and 50
kilometers, we find the:
870. Atmospheric layer where artificial satellites are
f) Ozonosphere
located:
g) Sodiosphere
a) Troposphere d) Thermosphere
h) Stratopause
b) Stratosphere e) Exosphere
i) Magnetosphere
c) Mesosphere
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879. The atmosphere has a volume: 886. It is the property of the atmosphere, like all
a) Uniform throughout the planet. gases, to decrease in volume under pressure:
b) Greater at high latitudes. f) Mobility.
c) Variable due to rotational movement. g) The compressibility
d) Which varies in inverse relation to h) diathermancy
temperature. i) Elasticity
e) More considerable at the poles. j) The pressure

880. It absorbs part of the ultraviolet and infrared 887. The exosphere is contained in the…………
radiation from the Sun and enables the existence of (represents the earth's magnetic field) (500-60,000
suitable conditions for life on the Earth's surface: km). In that region, there is a high content of cosmic
a) cosmic rays dust that falls on Earth:
b) Acid rain a) Magnetosphere
c) The ozone layer b) Stratosphere
d) The auroras c) Mesosphere
e) The winds d) Troposphere
e) Thermosphere
881.The main person responsible for acid rain is:
f) CFCs
g) SO2 888. In the Earth's atmosphere two regions with
h) O2 different chemical composition can be distinguished:
i) CH4 to) Ionosphere – Sodiosphere.
j) CO2 b) Heavy gases – Light gases
c) Homosphere – Thermosphere
882. The excess of greenhouse gases thrown into the d) Homosphere – Stratosphere
troposphere is a factor that is causing: and) Homosphere – Heterosphere
f) Acid rains.
g) Global warming. 889. They are watery meteorological phenomena:
h) Depletion of the ozone layer. to) Clouds – Rainbow
i) The thermal inversion effect on the coast. b) Clouds – Polar Auroras
j) Decrease in environmental temperature. c) Fog – Thunder
883. They are gases in the atmosphere that are found d) Tornado – Anticyclone
in variable proportions and have many important and) Clouds – Fog
applications in industries such as lighting, welding, and 890. Irregular-shaped, dark gray clouds that generate
space exploration: torrential rains and snowfall:
a) Permanent gases. to) The cirrus
b) The gases of the Sun. b) Strata
c) The noble gases. c) Cumulus clouds
d) The intense gases. d) Nimbus
e) The big gases. and) Nimbostratus
884. It is the heat emitted by the Sun in the form of 891.Nitrogen means:
electromagnetic energy: a) Oxidizer
a) Solar radiation b) Lifeless
b) Temperature c) Inert
c) Atmospheric pressure d) sodium vapor
d) Thermal amplitude e) Cloak of calms
e) Breezes
892. It is a meteorological phenomenon in the form of
885. An accumulation of Carbon Dioxide in the
brightness or luminescence that occurs in the night sky,
atmosphere produces:
generally in polar areas:
f) Depletion of the ozone layer.
a) Rainbow
g) Greenhouse effect on earth
b) twilight rays
h) Let the animals eat more and better
c) Tropical cyclones
i) Insolation
d) Crowns
j) UV Breakage
e) Polar aurora (or aurora polaris)

893. The Ionosphere is also called:

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b) Life layer 900. Winds that occur during the day and blow from the
c) Communication layer sea towards the continent:
d) Middle layer
and) Boundary layer a) Ocean breezes b) Valley breezes
c) Mountain breeze d) Sea breeze (*)
894. It is the presence in the air of materials that in
e) Monsoons
certain quantities imply a risk, damage or serious
discomfort for people and other living beings: 901. The summer monsoon is characterized because:
to) Global warming
b) The greenhouse effect
a) They cause droughts and lack of precipitation
c) The rain
b ) They generate precipitation and flooding in the
d) Pollution
sector
and) The Aurora
continental(*)
895. It protects us from the impact of most meteorites c) They are winds that originate from the
and filters many solar rays that are harmful to life and characteristics
contains the gases necessary for the respiration of typical of a region
living beings: d) They generate little cloudiness
to) The troposphere e) They generate calm weather without rain.
b) The Oxigen
c) The tides 902. High clouds located between 6000 and 8000 meters
d) The mesosphere above sea level are made up of:
and) The atmosphere
a) Water drops b) Water vapor
c) Atmospheric gas d) Ice crystals (*)
e) Dust and organic particles

903. Precipitation below 0ºC is called:

a) Solid (*) d) Orographic

b) Liquids e) Cyclonic c) Shower

904. The city of Lima is covered by clouds for much of the

TOPIC : CLIMATOLOGY
year:

896. Amount of water vapor existing per unit volume of a) Nimbus d) Nimbus strata
air, expressed in g/m3 b) Cirrus e) Cumulus clouds c) Strata (*)

a) Atmospheric humidity b) Absolute humidity(*) 905. It is a concept obtained from the observation of
c) Relative humidity d)Partial humidity time:
e) Percent humidity
a) Climate(*) d) Atmospheric phenomenon
897. To measure the temperature at the poles and high b) Meteor e) Weather c) Time
mountains, the thermometer is used:
906. Soil moisture loss through direct evaporation and
a) Mercury d) Alcohol (*) plant transpiration:
b) Methane e) Nitrogen c) Benzine
a) Perspiration b) Evapotranspiration (*)
C) Evaporation d) Sublimation e) Condensation
898. The thermodynamic elements of the climate
depend on solar radiation of which only......remains on
907. Isoline that joins points of equal precipitation:
earth
a) Isadensa d) Isonephas
a) 76% d) 66%(*) b) 60% e) 80% c) 70% b) Isohydric e) Isohyets (*) c) Isohelia

899. According to Ferrer's law, winds are affected by: 908. Area that receives the sun's rays with greater
inclination:
a) The Coriolis effect(*) b) The law of Buys Ballot
a) The poles (*) d) Earth axis
c) Sepherson's law d) The law of gravity
b) Tropic of cancer e) The vertical
e) The force of Earth's gravity
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909. It is a geographical factor of the climate that 917. For the Greeks, the climatic conditions of a place
determines the angle of incidence of the sun's rays: depended directly on:

a) Relief d) Altitude a) The determination of the gods

b) Oceanity e) Latitude (*) b) The inclination of the earth's axis
c) Marine currents c) The breath of Zeus
d) The designs of the wind god
910. Climate that belongs to Piura and Tumbes according e) The inclination of the salt rays (*)
to Kooppen:
918. Both the thermodynamic and aqueous elements of the
climate depend directly on:
a) Semi warm d) Boreal cold
a) Temperature and pressure respectively
b) Semi warm very dry e) Warm humid
b) Temperature and pressure respectively
c) Warm very dry (*)
c) Wind and humidity respectively
911. Our country is known as the climatic synthesis of the d) Temperature and water respectively (*)
world because the……….of them is presented here: e) Clouds and altitude respectively

919. If temperature depends on altitude then we affirm

a) 70% d) 90%
that:
b) 75% e) 80% (*) c) 85%
a) The higher the altitude, the lower the temperature
912. The climatic regions of the earth are presented (*)
according to: b) The lower the latitude, the lower the temperature.
c) The lower the altitude, the lower the temperature.
a) Altitude d) Humidity d) Altitude does not influence temperature
b) Latitude (*) e) Precipitation c) Pressure e) Latitude and altitude are the same

913. Climate that corresponds according to Kooppen to the 920. The lowest atmospheric pressure in the world is
Amazon plain located in:

a) Warm humid (*) b) Subhumid tempering a) The Ural Mountains b) The ocean floors
c) Warm very dry d) Boreal cold c) The poles d) The Andes mountain range
e) Semi warm e) The Himalayan mountain range (*)

914. Instrument that records the amount of evaporation 921. To indicate the direction of the wind, the following is
that has occurred in a place: taken into account:

a) Hygrometer b) Evaporimeter (*) a) Know what type of wind it is

c) Psychrometer d) Anemometer b) Know where it comes from (*)
e) Nephoscope c) Know your speed
d) Know where you are going
915. Result of the difference between the maximum and
e) Know what it is called
minimum temperature.
a) Intermediate temperature 922. The pressure difference between two fronts causes:
b) Percentage temperature
c) Thermal amplitude (*) to the clouds b) Precipitation
d) Temperature halo c) The rays d) The winds (*) e) Snowfall
e) Thermal insulation
923. High clouds formed by ice crystals are:
------------------------------------------------------
916. Considering the concept of time and climate we can a) Cirrocumulus (*) b) Altocumulus
say: c) Nimbus d) Strata e) Cumulus
a) The weather in Piura yesterday was hot clouds
b) The climate of Peru has changed since 2007
c) The weather in the morning was cold (*) 924. Precipitation that occurs at temperatures below 0ºC
d) The weather has not changed for many years is:
e) The weather changes by day and night a) Liquidb) Solid (*)
c) Cold d) Frontal e) Orographic

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925. The amount of rain received at a location is recorded 933. The presence of the Peruvian current on the central
in: coast of Peru makes it possible that in practice there are
two very different seasons, which are:
a) Cubic meters b) Square centimeters
c) Cubic centimeters d) Square centimeters a) Autumn and spring b) Spring and winter
e) Cubic millimeters (*) c) Summer and winter (*)d) Winter and autumn
e) Spring and summer
926. The anemoscope is an instrument that points out:
934. The temperate climate in the world can be found
a) Wind pressure b) Wind speed
between the parallels…………….. both in the northern
c) The origin of the wind d) The direction of the wind
hemisphere and in the southern hemisphere.
(*)
e) The intensity of the wind a) 60º and 80º b) 30º and 60º (*)
c) 50º and 80º d) 0º and 20º e) 10th and 20th
927. Tropical cyclones in Central America are called:
935. A characteristic of the polar and tropical areas of
a) Typhoon b) Hurricane (*)
the world is that:
c) Buguio d) Wili Wili e) Tornado
a) They do not have seasons in the year
928. The inclination of the Earth's axis affects the b) There is always summer
climatic conditions of the world, which is why it is a c) The phenomenon of the midnight sun occurs
factor: d) They do not present summer and winter respectively
(*)
a) Thermodynamic b) Thermodynamic
e) The rains are constant and abundant
c) Cosmic (*) d) Geographic
e) Interplanetary ------------------------------------------------
936. The correct expression regarding climate is the
929. The equatorial line and the tropics determine that
following:
the planet exists:
a) The weather in Piura yesterday was better
b) The weather in Piura has not changed in years
a) Two cold zones b) A tropical zone (*)
c) The climate of the Holocene is different from that
c) Two icy zones d) Two temperate zones
of the Pleistocene
e) A cold zone and a temperate zone
d) The Piuran climate changes constantly
e) Time in the world is the same
930. According to its geographical possession and without
the presence of the Andes mountain range, Peru would
937. The ethyl alcohol thermometer is used to measure
have a climate:
temperatures in:
a) Warm b) Tropical rainy (*) a) Moon
c) Cold d) Temperate rainy e) Polar b) Environmental
c) The sea
931. The climate where temperatures during the day d) The center of the earth
reach up to 53ºC and at night drop to -4ºC is called: e) The poles and the high mountains
a) Dry climate (*) b) Tropical climate 938. The thermodynamic elements of climate depend on:
c) Cold weather d) Warm climate e) Polar climate a) Temperature c) The rain
b) The winds e) The inclination of the axis
932. Wladimir Koppen's classification of the world's c) Clouds
climates was based on:
939. The winds originate mainly from:
a) Geographic and cosmic factors a) The force of Earth's gravity
b) Solar energy b) The rotational movement of the earth
c) Winds and humidity c) The force of the translational movement
d) Pressure and altitude d) pressure differences
e) Temperature and precipitation (*) e) The greenhouse effect

940. Solar radiation is measured with:

a) Barometer
b) Heliograph
c) Thermometer
d) Pluviometer
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941. Cyclonic winds in the northern hemisphere take one

direction: 950. The Greeks divided the planet into three large
a) Following clockwise climatic zones taking into account:
b) From north to south a) The latitude
c) From south to north b) The length
d) From the poles towards the Equator c) The height
e) Counterclockwise d) Precipitation
e) The pressure
942. Clouds formed by ice crystals are called:
a) Nimbus d) Cumulus clouds 951. The presence of 80% of the world's climates in our
b) Strata e) Haze country makes it known as:
c) Cirrus a) Pantry of the world
b) Multiclimatic country
943. Solid precipitations are those that are produced by: c) World climate summary
a) Below 0ºC d) World Climate Reserve
b) wind action e) World Biodiversity Reserve
c) Glacier action
d) Above 0ºC 952. I take temperature and precipitation as criteria for
e) In temperate zones classifying climates:
a) Strabo of Amasia
944. Clouds called:
b) Galileo Galiley
a) Shower
c) Claudio Ptolemy
b) Fog
d) Nicolaus Copernicus
c) Ascendants
e) Wladimir Koppen
d) Fog
e) Haze 953. Instrument to determine the location of clouds:
a) Anemometer d) Nanometer
945. The maximum temperatures during the day are
b) Nephoscopi or e) Photometer
recorded when the sun is at its:
c) Telescope
add b) Zenith
c) Azimuth d) lowest point 954. Clouds that allow torrential rains to occur:
e) Most inclined point a) Altostratus d) Altocumulus clouds
b) Strata e) Cirrostratus
946. To measure the amount of evaporation that has
c) Nimbus
occurred in a place, the:
a) Hygrometer 955. Instrument used to measure temperature:
b) Psychrometer a) Heliograph d) Rain gauge
c) Thermometer b) Barometer e) Endoscope
d) Evaporimeter c) Thermometer
e) Barometer
947. They are those winds that circulate throughout the -----------------------------------------------------
planet 956. It is dynamic and instantaneous and constantly
a) The continentals changing:
b) The planetariums a) Climate d) Humidity
c) the tides b) atm pressure e) Weather
d) The cosmics c) Temperature
e) The cyclones 957. One of the factors that alters temperature is
altitude, therefore, at higher altitudes:
948. The direction of the winds is measured with:
a) Higher temperature
a) The barometer d) the quadrant
b) Medium temperature
b) The sextant e) The
c) Lower temperature
weather vane
d) Maximum temperature
c) The crossbow
e) Regulate temperature
949. One of the cosmic factors of climate is:
958. Average temperature of the Earth at sea level:
a) Latitude
a) 10º C d) 25º C
b) Length
b) 15º C e) 30º C
c) Solar energy
c) 20º C
d) The relief
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959. The humidity of the atmosphere is formed by the 969. Among the modern climate classifications, the most
action of ………because it generates the …………….of the accepted is:
waters: a) The Greeks d) Antonio Brack
a) Heat – condensation b) The Romans e) Javier Pulgar
b) Climate – condensation c) Vladimir Koopen
c) Heat – sublimation
d) Wind – Evaporation 970. Winds that are characterized because they change
e) Heat – evaporation direction between day and night:
a) Breezes d) Cyclones
960. The Angle of Incidence of solar rays refers to: b) Monsoons e) Anticyclone
a) The way the sun's rays arrive c) trades
b) The transparency of the atmosphere
c) The plants' photosynthesis 971. Factors that condition and modify the climate of the
d) Heating from the sun's radiation Peru:
e) Precipitation a) El Niño Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone and
the Andes Mountains
961. During the…………………….. and the……………days and
b) Peruvian Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone and
nights are the same.
the Andes Mountains
a) Spring fall d) Autumn - winter
c) The Tropics, the South Pacific Anticyclone and the
b) Summer Winter e) Summer - Autumn
Andes Mountains
c) Spring Summer
d) The Gulf of Guayaquil, the South Pacific Anticyclone
962. It is a thermodynamic element of the climate: and the Andes Mountains
a) Temperature d) Atm humidity. e) The Ocean Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone
b) Precipitation e) Clouds and the Andes Mountains
c) Cloudiness
972. Climate that corresponds to Peru due to its
963. Insolation is greater in: geographical position:
a) Low latitudes d) High altitudes a) Cold d) Tropical
b) High latitudes e) Polar Zones b) Tempered e) Polar
c) temperate latitudes c) Boreal

964. Peruvian department where there is more pressure:

973. Cosmic factor that modifies the climate:
a) Huaraz d) Cusco
a) Altitude d) Sunstroke
b) Pasco e ) Tumbes
b) Length e) Precipitation
c) Huancayo
c) Pressure
965. Law of wind behavior, according to which the speed
of the wind is in direct proportion to the pressure of the 974. I draw the first map with isothermal lines:
points between which it blows: a) Galileo d) Copermic
a) Gravitation d) Ballot b) Ratzel e) Ptolemy
b) Coriolis e) From Ferrel c) Humboldt
c) By Steppenson 975. Instrument that records the hours of the sun on the
966. Establish the correct relationship: earth's surface:
a) Earthquake – weather vane a) Evaporimeter d) Heliograph
b) Temperature – anemoscope b) Nephoscope e) Rain gauge
c) Pressure – barometer c) vane
d) Wind direction – evaporimeter --------------------------------------------
e) Precipitation – Nephoscope.
976. The average temperature of the Earth at sea level:
967. Rain is a type of precipitation: a) 10º C d) 25º C
a) Solid d) Plasma b) 15º C e) 30º C
b) Liquid c) Viscose c) 20º C
c) Soda
977. Regarding the climate, it is correct:
a) It is predictable every day
968. Regular winds blowing towards the equator:
b) It's instant
a) Breezes d) Polar
c) Varies after long periods
b) Monsoons e) Cyclones
d) It's dynamic
c) trades
e) Constantly changing

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988. Among the modern climate classifications, the most

978. The humidity of the atmosphere is formed by the accepted is:
action of …………………as it generates the …………….. of the a) The Greeks d) Antonio Brack
waters: b) The Romans e) Javier Pulgar
a) Heat – condensation c) Vladimir Kooppen
b) Climate – condensation
c) Heat – sublimation 989. Due to the great variety of climates that Peru
d) Wind – Evaporation presents, it has been called:
e) Heat – evaporation a) The kidneys of the planet d) Andean Country

979. It is the force exerted by the weight of the b) The lungs of the planet e) Equatorial Country
atmosphere on the Earth's surface: c) The global climate synthesis
a) Temperature d) Clouds
b) Atmospheric pressure e) Waves 990. Factors that condition and modify the climate of
c) Winds Peru:
a) El Niño Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone and
980. They are periodic winds the Andes Mountains
a) trades d) Breezes b) Peruvian Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone and
b) Polar e) Anticyclones the Andes Mountains
c) Cyclones c) The Tropics, the South Pacific Anticyclone and the
Andes Mountains
981. Peruvian department where there is more pressure: d) The Gulf of Guayaquil, the South Pacific Anticyclone
a) Huaraz d) Cusco and the Andes Mountains
b) Pasco e) Tumbes e) The Ocean Current, the South Pacific Anticyclone
c) Huancayo and the Andes Mountains

982. Law of wind behavior, according to which the speed 991. Climate that corresponds to Peru due to its
of the wind is in direct proportion to the pressure of the geographical position:
points between which it blows: a) Cold d) Tropical
a) law of gravitation d) Ferrel's Law b) Tempered e) Polar
b) Coriolis force e) Ballot's Law c) Boreal
c) Steppenson's Law
992. Cosmic factor that modifies the climate:
983. Rain is a type of precipitation: a) Altitude d) Sunstroke
a) Solid d) Plasma b) Length e) Precipitation
b) Liquid c) Viscose c) Pressure
c) Soda
993. When the Earth makes its translational movement,
984. It is solid precipitation that falls from the clouds due the maximum temperature in the southern hemisphere is
to low temperatures: observed during the month of:
a) Rain d) Garúa a) April d) December
b) Shower e) Hail b) June e) August
c) Drizzle c) September
985. Establish the correct relationship: 994. It is a cosmic climate factor:
a) Pressure - weather vane a) Temperature d) Sunstroke
b) Temperature – anemoscope b) Latitude e) Altitude
c) Evaporimeter – water vapor c) Ocean currents
d) Wind direction – thermometer
e) Precipitation – nephoscope. 995. Climate that corresponds to Tumbes and Piura up to
an altitude of 1000 meters:
986. Instrument used to record wind direction:
a) Sub humid temperate d) Boreal
a) Nephoscope d) Evaporimeter
b) Tundra e) Warm humid
b) Pluviometer e) Anemometer
c) Very dry warm
c) vane

987. Instrument to measure wind speed: TOPIC : HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

a) Anemometer d) Heliograph
b) vane e) Nephoscope 996. Science that is responsible for the study of the
c) Barometer population quantitatively:

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a) Human geography b) Social geography 1005. In population density in South America, Peru
c) Urban geography d) Demographics(*) occupies:
e) Historical geography
a) First place. d) Third place
997. Among the natural causes of population distribution b) Fifth place (*) e) second place
we have: c) Fourth place

a) Type of winds b) Demographic evolution 1006. Consequence of massive migrations to large

c) Abundance of water (*) d) Quality of life Peruvian cities:
e) Industrialization
a) Increase in public services
998. The population growth rate of Peru according to the b) Increase in skilled labor
2007 census was: c) Development of mass transportation
a) 3.6% c) 2.5% d) Appearance of marginal areas (*)
b) 2.0% e) 1.6 %(*) c) 3.0% e) Creation of work sources

999. It is that demographic variable that establishes the 1007. It is the Peruvian department with the largest
degree of diseases suffered by a population: female population:

a) Disease registry a) Huancavelica d) Huanuco

b) Death rate b) Lambayeque(*) e) Piura climate
c) Morbidity rate (*)
d) Healthy growth rate 1008. Country that, due to its religious beliefs, will
e) Disease index surpass China in population in the near future:

1000. Lima continues to be the most populated to Japan d) Pakistan

department according to the 2007 census, being the 2nd b) Indonesia e) India (*) c) Iran
department:
1009. Diseases that decimated the Peruvian aboriginal
a) Piura(*) d) Tumbes
population in greater numbers than the wars of conquest:
b) Cajamarca e) Lima c) Freedom
a) The wart and hepatitis
1001. After the United States and Brazil, the most b) Cancer and the flu
populated country in America is: c) Smallpox and influenza (*)
d) Cholera and the black plague
to Peru d) Mexico(*) e) Typhoid and malaria
b) Argentina e) Colombia c) Canada
1010. At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the
1002. He stated that population tends to grow faster Peruvian population was concentrated in:
than food production:
a) David Ricardo b) Robert Malthus(*) a) The urban area b) The rural area (*)
C) Federico Ratzel d) Carl Ritter c) The jungle region d) The coastline
e) Immanuel Kant e) The plateaus

1003. It is a highly populated area of the world: 1011. The city with the largest population in the world is:

a) Bombay d) Tokyo (*)

a) High latitude regions b) Sao Paulo e) Mexico c) Los Angeles
b) Equatorial zones
C) Temperate regions(*) 1012. Highly populated countries apply …………policies to
d) Desert areas control population growth:
e) Polar regions
a) Natalists b) Antinatalists (*)
1004. In percentage terms and according to the 2007 c) Repressive d) Preventive
census, the coast represents: e) Assistanceists

a) 46.6% d) 52.6% 1013. The most populated countries in the world are:
b) 48.6% e) 54.6 %(*) c) 50.6%

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a) Russia – China d) Mexico – Brazil 1022. The last census that was carried out in Peru was
b) China - India (*) e) Indonesia – United States during the President's government:
c) India Brazil a) Juan Velasco b) Andrés de Santa Cruz
c) Alberto Fujimori d) Alejandro Toledo
1014. Country that has the highest infant mortality rate e) Alan García (*)
in the world:
1023. According to the census carried out on October
a) Rwanda b) Afghanistan n (*) 21, 2007, the total population of Peru is:
c) Ethiopia d) Botswana e) San Marino
a) 20,220,764 inhabitants
1015. 20. In the urban areas of our territory, life b) 22,220,764 inhabitants
expectancy is: c) 24,220,764 inhabitants
d) 26,220,764 inhabitants
a) High d) Same as the rural area e) 28,220,764 inhabitants (*)
b) Very high e) Very low c) Low (*)
------------------------------------------------------ 1024. According to the 2007 census, the second most
populated department is:
1016. It is the science that aims to study human
a) Fist b) Cajamarca
populations and deals with their dimensions and structure
c) Freedom d) Piura (*) e) Lima
from a quantitative point of view:
a) Social Geography b) Statistics 1025. The population density of Peru according to the
c) Demographics (*) d) Political Geography 2007 census is:
e) Historical geography
a) 20.0 inhabitants per square kilometer
1017. It is the most populated country in the world: b) 22.0 inhabitants per square kilometer (*)
c) 32.0 inhabitants per square kilometer
a) India b) United States d) 42.0 inhabitants per square kilometer
c) China (*) d) Brazil e) Japan e) 52.0 inhabitants per square kilometer

1018. Worldwide, the second most populated continent 1026. Department of Peru with the lowest absolute and
is: relative population (2007 census)
a) Asia b) America (*)
a) Fist b) Mother of God (*)
c) Africa d) Europe e) Oceania
c) Huancavelica d) Tacna e) Tumbes
1019. It is the fourth most populated American country
1027. With respect to population density, Peru occupies
worldwide:
………………place in South America:
to Peru b) Chile
a) Fifth (*) b) Fourth
c) Colombia (*) d) United States e) Cuba
c) Third d) Second e) First

1020. It is the least populated country in the world:

1028. According to the 2007 census, the coast
represents:
a) Holy See (*) b) San Cristobal
c) Tuvalu d) Maldives e) Nauru
a) 24.6% of the total population
b) 34.6% of the total population
1021. Regarding the evolution of the Peruvian
c) 44.6% of the total population
population, the second stage is between the years:
d) 54.6% of the total population (*)
e) 64.6% of the total population
a) 20,000 BC - 1,532 AD
b) 1532 AD - 1 824 AD (*)
1029. Department with the largest male population
c) 1 824 AD - 2 000 AD
(2007 census)
d) 1 824 AD - until today
e) 3,000 AD - 5,000 AD a) Saint Martin b) Mother of God (*)
c) Tumbes d) Ucayali e) Pasco

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1030. Refers to those people between 15 and 64 years 1039. Peru represents the….of the population of Latin
old, who are able to work: America:
a) Rural population a) 8.4% b) 6.3% c) 5.9% d) 5.4% (*) e) 7.3%
b) Urban population
c) Elderly population 1040. The Peruvian population before the 1950s was:
d) Economically active population (*) a) Mostly urban
e) Absolute population b) Mostly rural (*)
c) Mostly illiterate
1031. Worldwide, the country with the lowest mortality d) Clearly coastal
rate is: e) Purely white
To Germany b) United States
c) France d) Brazil e) Cuba (*) 1041. The degree of development of a country is
measured by:
1032. Country with the highest birth rate in the world: a) Fertility rate and sex ratio
a) Niger (*) b) Switzerland b) Mortality rate and reproduction rate
c) Japand) Germany e) Peru c) Natural growth and old age index
d) Migration balance and real growth
1033. The United States has a life expectancy of: e) Infant mortality rate and life expectancy (*)
a) 55 years b) 66 years
c) 77 years (*) d) 88 years e) 99 years 1042. According to population studies, Peru has a type
of population pyramid:
1034. The Italian who arrives in Peru is considered: a) Regressive b) Expansive (*)
a) Reimmigrant b) Emigrant c) Stationary d) Modern stationary
c) Immigrant (*) d) Colonizer e) Old stationary
e) exiled
1043. According to the 1993 constitution, Spanish is the
1035. It is the rate at which the population of a country official language of Peru, but indigenous languages such
varies per year, and is expressed in percentages: as…………………………are official in areas where they
predominate:
a) Life expectancy a) Quechua and Ashaninca b) Quechua and
b) Average annual growth rate (*) Aquarina
c) Population density c) Quechua and Puchina d) Quechua and Araucano
d) Absolute population e) Quechua and Aymara (*)
e) Morbidity rate
1044. They are frequency histograms that allow States
----------------------------------------------- to apply various demographic policies:
1036. The natural or vegetative growth of the a) Censuses b) Population pyramids (*)
population is obtained by subtracting: c) Statistical data d) Bar graphs
e) Population maps
a) Births - deaths (*)
b) Births - migrations 1045. Main races, which give rise to the castes in Peru:
c) Deaths - migrations
a) Sambo and black b) Cholo and mestizo
d) Youth index - old age index
c) Chapetón and India (*) d) Cuarterón and Tercerón
e) Life expectancy - mortality rate
e) Mulatto and Indian

1037. It is an area of population dispersion in the world:

1046. World population estimates say that by 2050 the
world will have a population of:
a) Central Europe b) East Asia
c) Mexico d) The Tibet area (*)
a) 8000 million inhabitants
e) United States
b) 8500 million inhabitants
c) 7800 million inhabitants
1038. The most populated country in Latin America is:
d) 6500 million inhabitants
to Colombia b) Argentina e) 9000 million inhabitants (*)
c) Brazil (*) d) Mexico e) Peru

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1047. It is a science that studies the population from a

statistical perspective: 1055. Science that quantitatively studies human
populations::
a) Political Geography b) Geography of the population a) Statistics
c) Human geography d) Demographics (*) b) Demography
e) Statistical Geography c) Sociography
d) biology
1048. The absolute population is required by: e) Anthropology

1056. United Nations organization that is in charge of

a) Number of births per year
censuses worldwide:
b) Number of deaths per year
a) WHO
c) Total number of inhabitants that exist in a given
b) UNESCO
territory (*)
c) IMF
d) Average number of children
d) UNWTO
e) Real increase in population
e) OAS

1049. Population concentrations in the world are 1057. The United States has a modern demographic
generally located in: regime with a life expectancy of:
a) 43 years old
a) Northern Hemisphere (*) b) Southern b) 60 years old
hemisphere c) 72 years old
c) Eastern Hemisphere d) Western Hemisphere d) 82 years old
e) Equatorial zone e) 77 years old

1058. Most populated country on the American

1050. The Peruvian population represents the……..of the
continent:
world population:
a) Brazil
b) USA
a) 0.20% b) 0.4% (*)
c) Colombia
c) 1.4% d) 0.8% e) 1.8%
d) Cuba
e) Peru
1051. ……………….is the most populated country in the
world. 1059. On which continent is the least populated country
on the planet located?
to China (*) b) United States a) Asia
c) India d) Indonesia e) Brazil b) Africa
c) Europe
1052. It is a language of Amazonian origin: d) America
e) Oceania
a) Jibito (*) b) piquita 1060. In South America, the country with the lowest
c) Culle d) Set e) Quingnam population density is:
a) Peru
1053. He stated that the population grew in geometric b) Bolivia
progression, while resources in arithmetic progression: c) Brazil
d) Argentina
a) Robert Malthus (*) b) Edward Jenner e) Ecuador
c) Alexander Fleming d) Leonhard Euler
e) Lambert Adolphe 1061. In South America, Peru occupies the …………..
according to population density:
1054. Societies that have an expansive population a) First
pyramid have: b) Second
c) Third
a) Larger child population (*) d) Room
b) Larger elderly population e) Fifth
c) Smaller adult population 1062. It is the densest department of Peru, according
d) Larger adult population to the 2007 census::
e) Smaller elderly population a) Fist
b) Cajamarca
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d) Piura c) Due to the socioeconomic conditions of the

e) Lime population.
1063. It is the least dense department in Peru: d) By having graphically adult populations.
a) Lime d) Piura e) Due to the population explosion
b) Lambayeque e) Tumbes 1071. Second most populated province in the
c) Mother of God department of Piura:
a) Piura d) Talara
1064. The absolute population of the department of b) Sullana e) Safety
Piura according to the 2007 census is: c) More clothes
a) 1' 676 315 inhabitants
b) 1' 576 315 inhabitants 1072. Year in which the first census of the 20th
c) 1' 476 315 inhabitants century was carried out in Peru
d) 1' 376 315 inhabitants a) 1 920
e) 1' 276 315 inhabitants b) 1 930
c) 1 940
1065. It is the least populated country in Central d) 1 950
America: e) 1 960
a) Cuba
b) San Cristobal 1073. Currently the population that inhabits our planet
c) Haiti is approximately:
d) Jamaica a) 2 billion inhabitants
e) Puerto Rico b) 3 billion inhabitants
c) 4 billion inhabitants
1066. It is the least populated country in Oceania: d) 5 billion inhabitants
a) Tuvalu e) 7 billion inhabitants
b) Tonga
c) Australia 1074. The 2007 census in Peru was:
d) New Zealand a) VII of population and III of housing
e) Palao b) VIII of population and IV of housing
c) IX for population and V for housing
1067. Worldwide, the country with the lowest mortality d) XI of population and VI of housing
rate is: e) XII of population and VII of housing
a) USA
b) Germany ---------------------------------------------------
c) France
d) Brazil 1075. It is the fourth most populated continent
e) Cuba worldwide:
a) Africa d) Europe
1068. The continent with the highest mortality rate is: b) America e) Oceania
a) Asia c) Asia
b) America
c) Africa 1076. It is the second most populated province in the
d) Europe department of Piura:
e) Oceania a) Security d) Talara
b) Sullana e) Morropón
1069. In South America, the country with the highest c) Paita
life expectancy is;
a) Peru 1077. The population density of Peru according to the
b) Bolivia 2007 census was:
c) Ecuador a) 8.1 rooms/ km 2
d) Chili b) 11.0 rooms/km 2
e) Surinam c) 13.0 rooms/km 2
d) 17.6 rooms/km 2
1070. Why is life expectancy in some countries shorter e) 22.0 rooms/km 2
than others?
a) Due to excessive environmental pollution 1078. In South America, the country with the lowest
b) Due to the low per capita income population density is:
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b) Brazil e) Bolivia c) IX population Housing IV

c) Colombia d) VII of population III housing
e) VII of population Housing II
1079. It is the second most populated department,
according to the 2007 census: 1087. Least populated continent worldwide:
a) Fist d) Piura a) America d) Africa
b) Cajamarca e) Lima b) Europe e) Asia
c) Freedom c) Oceania
1088. Least populated country in Asia:
1080. Total number of population existing in a given
a) Maldives d) Laos
territory:
b) Brunel e) Oman
a) Absolute population
c) Cambodia
b) Population density
c) Relative population 1089. Worldwide, the country with the lowest mortality
d) Life expectancy rate is:
e) Growth rate. a) USA d) Brazil
b) Germany e) Cuba
1081. It represents the average number of years a c) France
newborn can expect to live:
1090. Most populated country in Europe:
a) Gross reproduction rate
a) Greece d) Poland
b) Crude birth rate
b) Sweden e) Russia
c) Life expectancy
c) Hungary
d) Crude fertility rate
e) Morbidity rate 1091. Most populated country in America:
a) Mexico d) Argentina
1082. Why is life expectancy in some countries shorter b) USA e) Brazil
than in others?: c) Cuba
a) Due to excessive environmental pollution 1092. According to the 2007 Census, the department
b) Due to the low per capita income with the smallest population in Peru is:
c) Due to the socioeconomic conditions of the a) Fist d) Piura
population. b) Freedom e) Mother of God
d) By having graphically adult populations. c) Cajamarca
e) Due to the population explosion
1093. It is the second most populated continent:
1083. Etymologically the word census comes from the
a) Africa
Latin Censere which means:
b) Asia
a) Census
c) Europe
b) Continent
d) America
c) World
e) Oceania
d) Count
1094. He is considered the father of demography, he
e) Country
published his work titled “Essay on the Principle of
1084. Most populated country in square kilometer: Population”:
a) Monaco a) Ratzel
b) Singapore b) Humboldt
c) India c) Malthus
d) Africa d) Ritter
e) Mongolia e) La Blache
1095. Taking into account the terrestrial equator, the
1085. It is a graph that allows you to indicate the hemisphere with the smallest world population is:
population by age and sex somewhere, for each year: a) North Hemisphere
a) Population structure b) Southern hemisphere
b) Intercensal growth rate. c) Northern hemisphere
c) Underemployed population d) Western Hemisphere
d) Stationary population e) Eastern hemisphere
e) Population pyramid
TOPIC : POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY
1086. The 2007 census in Peru is:
a) XI of population VI of housing 1096. It is a form of social organization and establishing
b) X of population V for housing rules to facilitate relationships between individuals
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a) Government b) Sovereignty 1104. It is the country in South America with the

c) State(*) d) Power e) Region smallest continental area:

1097. Study politics in various spaces. The organization to Argentina b) Bolivia

and characteristics of the states: c) Brazil d) Colombia e) Suriname(*)

1105. Country with the largest territorial area in Asia:

a) Demographics b) Social Geography.
c) Political Geography (*) d) Statistics
to China d) Russia(*)
e) Historical Geography
b) Indonesia e) Japan c) Malaysia

1098. It is the geographical space or land surface in 1106. London is the capital of:
which the State exercises its power and authority.
to France b) Switzerland
a) Stated) Society c) England(*) d) Spain e) Scotland
b) Constitution e) Territory (*) c) Town
1107. Largest country in North America
1099. It is the way in which the State is legally
organized to order, command and execute, seeking well- to Canada(*) b) United States
being: c) Brazil d) Mexico e) Colombia.

a) Sovereignty b) General will 1108. Capital of Uruguay:

c) Government(*) d) Population e)
Constitution to Santiago b) Peace
c) Assumption d) Paramaribo e) Montevide or (*)
1100. In this form of government, the head of the
Bench is elected by the people, either directly or 1109. Peru borders with:
indirectly, for a specific period of government, which
ranges between 4 to 6 years: a) 3 countries d) 4 countries
b) 6 countries e) 5 countries(*) c) 9 countries
a) Autocracy b) Absolute monarchy.
c) Theocratic d) Constitutional Monarchy 1110. Guyana is a country in South America and its capital
e) Republic (*) is:

1101. The easternmost point of Peru is located in: a) Sucre b) Georgetown(*)

c) Brasilia d) Assumption e) Paramaribo.
a) Talweg of the Putumayo River
b) Milestone No. 1 La Concordia 1111. Departmental capital of Peru with the highest
c) Confluence of the Heath and Madre de Dios rivers . altitude:
(*)
d) Punta Balcones a) Cusco d) Huanuco
e) Sechura Depression. b) Cajamarca e) Cerro de Pasco (*)
c) Arequipa
1102. The Salomón - Lozano Treaty was signed in the
government of: 1112. It is the largest department in the country and also
one of the least populated:
a) Sánchez Cerro b) To taste B. Leguia(*)
c) Juan Velasco d) Manuel Prado a) Mother of God d) Loreto(*)
e) Alberto Fujimori. b) Fist e) Amazon c) Tacna

1103. The Rio de Janeiro Protocol of Peace, Friendship 1113. It is the smallest Peruvian department::
and Boundaries was signed:
a) Loreto d) Mother of God
a) June 3, 1929 b) September 17, 1909 b) Ucayali e) Tumbes(*) c) Cusco
c) March 24, 1922 d) September 8, 1909.
e) January 29, 1942(*) 1114. It is the department with the highest international
limit:

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a) Fist d) Mother of God. 1124. Territory that Peru received in compensation when
b) Ucayali e) Loreto(*) c) Tumbes signing the Salomón Lozano Treaty with Colombia

1115. Capital of the United States: a) Amazon Trapeze

b) Caquetá River area
a) Ottawa d) California c) Lower area of Putumayo
b) Washington(*) e) Los Angeles c) Florida d) Population of Leticia
. ------------------------------------- e) Sucumbios Triangle (*)

1116. Peru has five continental borders of which the 1125. The First Constitution of Peru (12-12-1823), was
smallest is the one with: promulgated during the government of:

to Chile (*) b) Brazil a) José de la Mar b) Tagle Tower (*)

c) Colombia d) Bolivia e) Ecuador c) José de la Riva Agüero d) Agustín Gamarra
e) Simon Bolivar
1117. Political region of Peru that has the three natural
regions (Coast, Mountains and Jungle) 1126. The Piura region is divided into eight provinces, the
last to be created:
a) Piura b) Lambayeque
c) Ancash d) Freedom (*) e) Cajamarca a) Talara b) Ayabaca
c) Safety (*) d) Morropón e) Paita
1118. Political region considered the central point of Peru
and where the majestic “Sleeping Beauty” is located 1127. Capital of the political region of San Martín

a) Ancash b) Huánuco (*) a) Abancay b) Moyobamba (*)

c) Cusco d) Ayacucho e) Pasco c) Chachapoyas d) Huanuco e) Puerto Maldonado

1119. Border country that borders the largest number of 1128. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, who
political regions in Peru participated in the signing of the Treaty of Peace,
Friendship and Limits of Rio de Janeiro
to Brazil b) Colombia
c) Ecuador (*) d) Chile e) Bolivia
a) Julio Tobar Donosso b) Alfredo Solf y Muro (*)
c) Alberto Salomón d) Hernán Velarde
1120. Political Region, with the largest number of
e) Pedro Rada
Provinces:

A lime b) Cusco 1129. The northernmost point of Peru is located in the

c) Piura d) Arequipa e) Ancash (*) political region of:

1121. It is the river that serves as the natural boundary a) Tumbes b) Mother of God
between the border of Peru and Colombia c) Huanuco d) Tacna e) Loreto (*)

a) Yaravi b) Putumayo (*)

1130. Branch of Human Geography that studies the
c) Suchez d) Zarumilla e) Tumbes
boundary situation, government systems and the
relationships between different States.
1122. The treaty of Rada Gamio Figueroa Larrain was
signed during the government of the President
a) Social geography b) Geopolitics
a) Manuel Prado Ugarteteche c) Historical Geography d) Urban Geography
b) José Luis Bustamente y Rivero e) Political Geography (*)
c) Alberto Fujimori Fujimori
d) Augusto Bernardino Leguía (*) 1131. German geographer considered the Father of Political
e) Fernando Belanunde Terry Geography

1123. Treaty that was signed between Peru and Brazil, on a) Federico Ratzel (*) b) Alexander Von Humbold
September 8, 1909. c) Karl Ritter d) Pablo Vidal de la Blache
e) Rudolf Kjellen
a) Limits, Trade and Navigation of the Amazon Basin (*)
b) Border Rectification
c) Solomon - Lozano
d) Rada Gamio - Figueroa Larraín
e) Peace, Friendship and Limits in Rio de Janeiro

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1132. It is the State that is located in the central and 1141. The Acre area was ceded to:
western part of South America and occupies third place in
area. a) Ecuador b) Brazil (*)
c) Bolivia d) Chile e) Colombia
to Chile b) Peru (*)
c) Ecuador d) Colombia e) Bolivia 1142. South American state that has maritime borders
with the Atlantic and the Pacific:
1133. In relation to the Earth's equator, Peru is located to Colombia (*) b) Venezuela
in the hemisphere: c) Guyana d) Paraguay e) Suriname

a) North b) Western 1143. They are geo-economic territorial units with diverse
c) Northern d) Southern (*) e) Eastern natural, social and institutional resources.
a) Departments b) Regions (*)
1134. Westernmost point of Peru:
c) Provinces d) Districts
e) Mega regions
a) Talwey of the Putumayo River
b) Confluence of the Heath and Madre de Dios rivers
1144. Why is the Peruvian State independent?
c) Punta Balcones (*)
d) Central Grave of Callao a) There are other local governments in parallel
e) Milestone No. 1 of Concord b) Exercises its power within its limits
c) Exercises a representative government
1135. At the lowest point of the Peruvian Andes, it is d) There is no subordination with another state (*)
located in the pass of: e) It is a democracy

a) The Stripe b) Ticlio - Antichona 1145. The border with Ecuador was definitively sealed
c) High Cruise d) Porculla (*) e) Báyovar thanks to:
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1136. He is considered the father of political geography: a) The Polo Treaty - Sánchez Bustamante
a) Miur b) Ratzel (*) b) The Salomón Lozano Treaty
c) Kant d) Kirby e)Taylor c) The Presidential Act of Brasilia (*)
d) The Rio de Janeiro Protocol
1137. The council of ministers is an entity of power: e) The Itamaratí Agreement

a) Electoral b) Popular 1146. Currently South America is made up of…………………

c) Executive (*) d) Judicial e) Legislative states:

1138. The protocol of peace, friendship and limits of Rio a) 09 b) 10 c) 11 d) 13 e) 12 (*)

de Janeiro was signed on:
a) January 29, 1922 b) January 29, 1932 1147. The Amazon trapezium area was ceded to:
c) January 29, 1952 d) January 29, 1942 (*)
e) January 29, 1962 to Colombia (*) b) Chile
c) Ecuador d) Brazil e) Bolivia
1139. The highest altitude of the national territory is
1148. Study politics in various spaces, the organization
located in…….…and the lowest altitude is located in………:
and characteristics of states:
a) The snow-capped Huascarán and Sechura Bay
b) The snow-capped Huandoy and Punta Aguja a) General Geography b) Regional geography
c) The snowy Huascarán and the Sechura Depression (*) c) Political Geography (*) d) Social Geography.
d) The snowy Partoruri and Punta Balcones e) Economic geography
e) The snow-capped Misti and Sechura Bay
1149. It is the way in which the State is legally organized
1140. The Peruvian territory established its borders to order and execute.
under the territories it owned in the year:

a) 1810 (*) b) 1821 c) 1879 d) 1822 e) 1837 a) Territory b) Population

c) Sovereignty d) Constitution e) Government (*)

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1150. Peru has five continental borders of which the b) Asia e) Africa
largest is the one with: c) Oceania

to Chile b) Bolivia 1159. As a continent it is small, but has a high population

c) Ecuador d) Brazil (*) e) Colombia density:
a) Asia d) Oceania
1151. The President of the Council of Ministers is also b) Europe e) Africa
known as: c) America
a) Aide-de-camp of the republic b) First
legislator 1160. Capital of Bolivia considered the highest city in
c) Chancellor of the Republic d) First president the world:
e) Prime Minister (*) a) Santiago d) Paramaribo
b) Peace e) Montevideo
1152. The principle of utti possidetis means: c) Assumption

a) Take what is not yours

1161. The easternmost point of Peru is located at:
b) Own what you have owned (*)
a) Talweg of the Putumayo River
c) Claim your possessions
b) Milestone No. 1 La Concordia
d) Take all your territories
c) Confluence of the Heath and Madre de Dios rivers.
e) Recognize your borders
d) Punta Balcones
1153. In the regionalization process of 1987, Piura was e) Sechura Depression.
located in:
1162. The Salomón - Lozano Treaty was signed in the
a) The Piura region b) The Far North region government of:
c) The Vicús region d) The Grau region (*) a) Sanchez Cerro
e) The Northern region b) To taste B. Leguia
c) John Velasco
1154. It is the continent that has the smallest number of d) Manuel Prado
states: e) Alberto Fujimori.

a) Asia b) America
1163. The Rio de Janeiro Protocol of Peace, Friendship
c) Africa d) Europe e) Oceania (*)
and Boundaries was signed:
a) September 8, 1909.
1155. It is a South American state where the official
b) September 17, 1909
language is English:
c) March 24, 1922
d) June 3, 1929
a) Suriname b) French Guiana
e) January 29, 1942
c) Guyana (*) d) Jamaica e) Trinidad and
Tobago
1164. It is the country in South America with the
----------------------------------------------- smallest continental area:
a) Argentina d) Colombia
1156. He is considered the father of Political b) Bolivia e) Suriname
Geography: c) Brazil
a) Thomas Malthus d) Hipparchus of
Nicaea 1165. Largest country in North America
b) Federico Ratzel e) Karl Ritter a) Canada d) Mexico
c) Von Humboldt b) USA e) Colombia
c) Brazil
1157. Ivory Coast is a country whose name is due to the
large trade in elephant tusks and is located on the 1166. The southernmost geographic point of Peru is
continent: located at:
a) African d) Oceanic a) Punta Balcones
b) European e) Asian b) Confluence of the Canchaque and Bigote rivers
c) American c) Confluence of the Heath and Madre de Dios rivers
d) Milestone No. 1 “La Concordia”
1158. It is the continent that is made up of a large e) Talweg of the Putumayo River
number of islands of coral and volcanic origin:
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1167. Peruvian departments that form the border with d) Chili

Bolivia: e) Pacific Ocean
a) Madre de Dios, Puno and Arequipa
b) Madre de Dios, Puno and Cajamarca 1175. The westernmost point of Peru is located in the
c) Madre de Dios, Puno and Tacna province of:
d) Madre de Dios Puno and Loreto a) Piura d) Talara
b) Security e) Paita
1168. Country that has preserved the tradition of being c) Sullana
the best watch maker in the world:
a) Germany 1176. Continent with the largest number of countries:
b) Peru a) Europe
c) Japan b) Asia
d) Swiss c) Africa
e) Italy d) Oceania
e) America
1169. Peruvian department that forms the border with
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Colombia:
a) Ucayali 1177. In relation to the Greenwich Base meridian, Peru
b) Amazon is located in the hemisphere:
c) Loreto a) North
d) Mother of God b) Northern
e) Piura c) Oriental
d) Western
1170. River that forms the natural border between Peru e) This
and Bolivia 1178. Second largest continental border of Peru:
a) Putumayo a) Brazil d) Chile
b) Suches b) Ecuador e) Bolivia
c) Tumbes c) Colombia
d) Zarumilla
e) Ramis 1179. It is the country with the largest territory in
South America:
1171. Peruvian departments that border with Brazil: a) Chili d) Peru
a) Madre de Dios, Ucayali and Loreto b) Colombia e) Argentina
b) Puno, mother of God c) Brazil
c) Tumbes, Piura and Cajamarca
d) Loreto, Amazonas and Piura 1180. Continent with the largest number of countries:
e) Ayacucho, Junín and Tacna a) Asia
b) Africa
1172. It is the smallest Peruvian department:: c) America
a) Loreto d) Europe
b) Ucayali e) Oceania
c) Mother of God
d) Cusco 1181. Capital of the department of Madre de Dios:
e) Tumbes a) Tumbes
b) Mother of God
1173. It is the department with the highest c) Puerto Maldonado
international limit: d) Chachapoyas
a) Fist e) Pucallpa
b) Ucayali
c) Mother of God 1182. It is the largest country in North America:
d) Tumbes a) Washington
e) Loreto b) USA
c) Mexico
1174. After Brazil, the country that has the longest d) federal District
border with Peru is: e) Canada
a) Ecuador
b) Colombia 1183. Capital of Junín:
c) Bolivia a) Pasco Hill

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b) Huancayo c) Talara
c) Chachapoyas d) Paita
d) Huaraz e) Security
e) Moyobamba
1192. The Border Rectification Treaty was Signed By:
1184. It is the largest continent in the world: a) Peru – Chile
a) Asia d) Oceania b) Peru – Ecuador
b) Europe e) Africa c) Peru – Colombia
c) America d) Peru – Bolivia
e) Peru – Argentina
1185. During which government was the Treaty of Lima
signed: 1193. Politically the department of Piura is divided into:
a) Sanchez Cerro a) 8 provinces and 74 districts
b) Manuel Prado b) 8 provinces and 64 districts
c) To taste B. Leguia c) 8 provinces and 54 districts
d) Alberto Fujimori d) 8 provinces and 44 districts
e) John Velasco e) 8 provinces and 34 districts

1194. Country that delimits with the largest number of

1186. The central point of Peru is located in the
Peruvian departments:
department of:
a) Colombia
a) Cusco
b) Bolivia
b) Cajamarca
c) Chili
c) Arequipa
d) Ecuador
d) Huánuco
e) Argentina
e) Ayacucho

1187. Capital of the department of Lambayeque: 1195. The easternmost point of the Pero is located in
a) Chiclayo the department of:
b) Chachapoyas a) Piura
c) Trujillo b) Loreto
d) Moyobamba c) Tacna
e) Huancayo d) Mother of God
e) Huánuco
1188. The longest border length is in the department
of:
1196. The last Constitution of Peru was given during the
a) Mother of God
year:
b) Fist
a) 1923
c) Tacna
b) 1933
d) Loreto
c) 1944
e) Amazon
d) 1993
1189. The Protocol of Peace, Friendship and Limits in Rio e) 2007
de Janeiro on January 29, 1942, was signed during the 1197. The southernmost point of Peru is located in
government of: The Department of:
a) José de la Riva Agüero a) Piura
b) Manuel Prado Ugarteche b) Loreto
c) Augusto B. Leguia c) Mother of God
d) Julio Tovar Donoso d) Fist
e) Alfredo Solf and Muro e) Tacna
1190. Peruvian Department that has the smallest 1198. It is the science that studies political events in
territorial extension: relation to geographical factors and their impact on the
a) Moquegua States.
b) Tacna a) Political geography
c) Tumbes b) Social Geography
d) Loreto c) Mathematical Geography
e) Ucayali d) Democratic Geography
e) Economic geography
1191. Piurana Province with the largest territorial area:
a) Piura
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1199. It is the form of political organization, endowed a) Trade d) Tourism

with sovereign and independent power, that integrates b) Transportation e) Transformation (*)
the population of a territory: c) Government
a) The population
b) The state 1208. Piura province with the highest livestock
c) The nation production:
d) The village
e) The territory a) Ayabaca d) Sullana(*)
1200. . Northernmost political region of Peru. b) Morropón e) Safety c) Paita

a) Piura d) Cajamarca 1209. Factor that favors the development of fishing

b) Lima e) Tacna
activity in Peru:
c) Loreto
1201. The protocol of peace, friendship and limits of Rio de a) The narrowness of the Continental Zócalo
Janeiro was signed on: b) The presence of the El Niño phenomenon
a) February 29, 1942 c) The coldness of the sea waters(*)
b) March 29, 1909 d) The scarcity of phytoplankton
c) April 29, 1942
d) January 29, 1942 e) The high level of salinity
e) May 29, 1929
1210. Agriculture on the Peruvian coast is:
TOPIC : ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
1202. The fishing of the…….is artisanal. It is carried out a) Artisanal
in rivers and lakes. Paiche and Dorado are mainly fished. b) Low production
Zúngaro, Sábalo, Boquichico: c) Consumption crops
d) Coast d) Low investment
e) Mariculture e) Intensive (*)
f) Jungle
g) Mountain range 1211. The Peruvian Sea is also called:
h) Pond
a) Sea of storms
1203. It is the economic activity in which the largest b) Sea of Grau (*)
number of Peruvians participate, it mainly uses water and c) 200 mile sea
soil. d) Humboldt Current Sea
i) Mining e) Island Sea
j) The Agriculture
k) Trade 1212. Piura airport is called:
l) The livestock
m) Quaternary a) José Quiñones Gonzáles
b) Jorge Chavez
Guillermo Concha Iberian(*)
1204. It is a renewable natural resource: d) Velasco Astete
Manco Capac.
a) Oil of gold
b) Charcoal e) The gas c) Water (*) 1213. Department with the highest gold production:
a) Cerro de Pasco b) Cajamarca (*)
1205. It is the department with the highest poultry c) Mother of God d) Arequipa
production: e) Cusco

A lime(*) d) Tumbes 1214. Resources that have been exploited through the
b) Cajamarca e) Piura c) Freedom Camisea and the Nor Peruano Pipeline projects:
a) Water – Maca b) Petroleum – Phosphates
1206. Study the stages of the economic process related
c) Iron – Gold d) Gas – Oil (*)
to physical factors of the environment:
e) Copper - Diesel
a) Physical Geography b) Human Geography
c) Social Geography d) Economic Geography(*) 1215. The Bayóvar phosphate rock deposits are located
e) Ecological Geography in Piura, in the Province of:
a) Talara b) Huancabamba
1207. They are tertiary economic activities, except:
c) Safety(*) d) Ayabaca e) Morropón

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1216. The activity that generates the highest 1226. They are tertiary economic activities, except:
percentage of foreign currency for the country is:
a) Trade b) Transformation
a) Trade. b) Tourism c) Transportation d) Tourism e)
c) Fishing d) Agriculture e) Mining (*) Government (*)

1217. Deep sea fishing includes the capture of: 1227. When supply is greater than demand, prices...,
a) Anchovy and sardines b) Tuna and sharks(*) therefore demand
c) Horse mackerel and mackerel d) Prawns and squid
e) Squid and bonito. a) Increase – decrease b) Decreases - increases (*)
c) Does not vary - freezes d) Oscillate - compete
1218. The main mining centers in Peru are: e) Compete - Low

a) Pampilla Chuquiguay b) Tarma, Cerro Azul 1228. Section of the first railway line, built in Peru; in
c) Antamina and Pierina(*) d) Cajamarca and 1851:
Pierina
a) Lima - Callao (*) b) Piura - Paita
e) Toquepala and Cerro Verde
c) Lima – Chorrillos d) Arequipa - Juliaca
e) Lima - Cerro de Pasco
1219. International lake navigation is carried out in:

a) Lake Titicaca(*) b) Amazon River 1229. It is the department with the highest poultry
c) Puyango River d) Laguna Ramón and Ñapique production:
e) La Niña Lagoon A lime (*) b) Cajamarca
c) Freedom d) Tumbes e) Piura
1220. The first railway in South America was built in:
1230. Factor that favors the development of fishing
a) Bolivia b) Colombia
activity in Peru:
c) Peru(*) d) Chile e) Brazil.
a) The narrowness of the Continental Zócalo
1221. It is called penetration road: b) The presence of the FEN
c) The coldness of the sea waters (*)
a) When it travels the country longitudinally d) The scarcity of phytoplankton
b) When it runs parallel e) The high level of salinity
c) When it runs transversally (*)
d) When it runs obliquely 1231. Study the stages of the economic process related
e) When it originates other roads. to physical factors of the environment:
a) Physical Geography b) Human Geography
1222. It is the largest oil producing region: c) Social Geography d) Economic Geography (*)
a) Piura d) Mother of God e) Ecological Geography
b) Huanuco e) Loreto (*) c) Fist
1232. Export product grown in Alto Chira and
1223. The Pan-American Highway begins at: Querecotillo:

a) Transgenic rice b) Organic banana (*)

To Costa Rica d) Alaska(*)
c) Pearl corn d) Improved lemon
b) Mexico e) Venezuela c) Canada
. e) Organic asparagus
1224. Department with the highest gold production:
1233. Cephalopod species, processed by hand and
a) Cerro de Pasco b) Cajamarca (*) provides occupation for residents of Talara and Paita:
c) Mother of God d) Arequipa e) Cusco a) Pota (*) b) Fan shell
c) Octopus d) Horse mackerel e)
1225. Resources that have been exploited through the Grouper
Camisea and the Nor Peruano Pipeline projects:
1234. Agriculture on the Peruvian coast is:
a) Water – Maca b) Petroleum - Phosphates
c) Iron – Gold d) Gas - Oil (*) a) Artisan b) Low production
e) Copper - Diesel c) Consumption crops d) Low investment
e) Intensive (*)

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1235. The Peruvian Sea is also called: 1244. It is dedicated to large-scale extraction of
minerals; This category includes companies whose capital
a) Sea of Storms is high and have technology to extract, process and
b) Mar de Grau (*) export minerals:
c) 200 Mile Sea a) Medium mining
d) Humboldt Current Sea b) Small mining
e) FEN Sea c) The great mining
d) Illegal mining
1236. The Piura airport is called: e) The limited mining

a) José Quiñónez Gonzáles

b) Jorge Chavez
c) Guillermo Concha Iberian (*)
d) Velasco Astete
e) Manco Cápac

1237. Production of less than 351 TON of mineral per

day corresponds to:

a) Large Mining b) Intermediate Mining

c) Medium Mining d) Express Mining
e) Small Mining (*)

1238. It is a renewable natural resource:

a) Oil b) Charcoal
c) Water (*) of gold e) The gas

1239. They are public economic agents:

a) Company b) Family
c) Companies d) State (*) e) Clubs

1240. Highway that connects Piura with Sullana:

a) Wall Mezones b) Nazca - Puerto Maldonado

c) Federico Basadre d) Panamericana Norte (*)
e) North Longitudinal

1241. Exports that generate the most foreign currency

to Peru:

a) Mining (*) b) Fishery

c) Agricultural d) Textiles e) Agricultural

1242. They are economic service activities:

a) Transport b) Forestry
c) Tourism (*) d) Trade e) Livestock

1243. Piura province with the highest livestock

production:

a) Ayabaca b) Morropón
c) Paita d) Sullana (*) e) Safety

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