Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 11

This narrow passage between Spain in Europe and Morocco in Africa is the only natural opening of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean, and it has carried the trade of three continents since antiquity.

It is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bounded by the Philippines on the west, Taiwan and Japan on the north and the Mariana Islands on the east, and it is the largest sea on earth; the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point of the ocean floor, lies…

Renukoot in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh is known for aluminium, not for iron and steel. Renukoot is home to the Hindalco aluminium smelter, set up in the early 1960s near the Rihand dam, whose cheap hydroelectric power suits the huge electricity needs of aluminium smelting.

Indian Standard Time is based on 82.5° E, and a place 5 hours behind lies 75° to the west of it, at 82.5° − 75° = 7.5° E. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, so local time changes by one hour for every 15° of longitude, or four minutes…

Fuji. Mount Fuji in Japan is a volcanic mountain, built up by layers of lava and ash, not by the folding of rock layers.

Oyashio, Kuroshio, Alaska and Humboldt are currents of the Pacific Ocean, while Canaries, Labrador and Benguela flow in the Atlantic.

The Purga is a cold, snow-laden local wind of Siberia and the tundra of northern Russia. In winter, a strong high-pressure area builds over Siberia, which becomes one of the coldest places on Earth.

All three projects, Baglihar, Dulhasti and Salal, stand on the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir. The Chenab is formed by the Chandra and Bhaga rivers, which meet at Tandi in Himachal Pradesh, and it flows through Jammu and Kashmir into Pakistan.

The 0° latitude is the Equator, the largest circle that can be drawn on the globe, so it is the longest parallel.

Statements III and IV describe the ionosphere and the mesosphere correctly, while I and II mix up facts about the troposphere and the ozone layer.

The Caucasus Mountains run for about 1,100 kilometres from the eastern shore of the Black Sea to the western shore of the Caspian Sea, forming a wall across the isthmus between the two seas.

Mercury is small and very close to the Sun, so its weak gravity and the intense solar heat and wind have stripped away almost all gas; it has only a trace exosphere, which is why it is described as having no atmosphere.

The National Institute of Disaster Management grew out of the National Centre for Disaster Management, set up in 1995 at the Indian Institute of Public Administration in New Delhi, which was renamed NIDM in 2003.

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

A cumulonimbus cloud is the final stage of a growing cumulus cloud. On a hot day, rising warm air forms small fair-weather cumulus.

An avalanche is a mass of snow and ice sliding suddenly down a mountain slope. It is driven by gravity acting on the snowpack, so it is grouped with landslides as a terrestrial or mass-movement disaster, not an atmospheric one.

Shipki La is the pass through which the Satluj river enters India from Tibet. It lies in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, on the border with the Tibet region of China.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's highway development programme for building and upgrading national highways, economic corridors and border and coastal roads.

Exfoliation is a process of physical (mechanical) weathering, in which outer layers of rock peel off like the skin of an onion, with no change in the rock's chemical make-up.

The Caucasus Mountains stretch from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east, across Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.