Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 19

In the first stage of the demographic transition the society is rural and agrarian, life expectancy is low, medical facilities are poor and literacy is low, so both the birth rate and the death rate are high and they roughly cancel each other, leaving population almost stationary.

Replacement level fertility is the total fertility rate at which a generation of women exactly replaces itself in the next generation.

The United Nations marked 15 November 2022 as the Day of Eight Billion, the date on which the world population was estimated to have reached eight thousand million.

In this essay of 1798 Malthus argued that population tends to increase in a geometric progression while the means of subsistence can increase only in an arithmetic progression, so growth must be restrained either by positive checks such as famine, disease and war, or by preventive checks such as late…

Density of population is a ratio between the number of people and the area they occupy, and the standard unit is the number of persons living in one square kilometre; it is the simplest way of measuring the pressure of people on land.

Sumatra in Indonesia lies just across the sea to the south-east of Great Nicobar, the southernmost island of India.

Khardung La, the Nubra Valley and monasteries such as Hemis, Thiksey and Diskit all lie in Ladakh, which became a separate Union Territory in 2019.

Only statement 3 is wrong, because stratus, nimbostratus and stratocumulus are low clouds, not high clouds. Statement 1 is correct: clouds take two basic forms, layered stratiform sheets formed by gentle lifting of air and heaped cumuliform clouds formed by rising convection currents.

Detroit stands on the Detroit River, which links Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie, and is far from Lake Superior.

India follows a single standard time, Indian Standard Time, for the whole country, and it is ahead of GMT, not behind it.

During El Nino the trade winds of the Pacific weaken or even reverse, so a steady flow of these winds is not one of its results.

The Amsterdam-St. Paul Plateau is a raised area of the ocean floor in the southern Indian Ocean, named after the French islands of Amsterdam and Saint-Paul that rise from it.

Chemical weathering is the breakdown of rocks through reactions such as solution, oxidation, carbonation and hydration, and all of these need water.

The South Atlantic Drift is part of the West Wind Drift, the cold eastward flow that circles Antarctica in the belt of the westerlies, around 40° to 50° south.

As rivers come down from the mountains onto the plains, their slope suddenly drops and they can no longer carry their heaviest load.

The focus, or hypocentre, is the point inside the Earth where the rocks first break and energy is released. The point on the surface directly above it is the epicentre, which is usually where shaking is felt first and strongest, so statement 1 is correct.

The India State of Forest Report 2021, published by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, put the forest cover of Arunachal Pradesh at about 79 per cent of its geographical area, the highest among the four Himalayan states listed.

All three statements describe composite volcanoes, also called stratovolcanoes. Their lava is cooler and more viscous than basalt, so gas cannot escape easily and pressure builds up until the volcano erupts explosively.

A stack is a landform made by erosion, not by deposition. Waves attack a headland and open cracks into caves; when caves on both sides meet, a sea arch forms, and when the roof of the arch collapses, the seaward part is left standing as an isolated rock pillar called…

The Panama Canal cuts across the narrow Isthmus of Panama in Central America and joins the Caribbean Sea, an arm of the Atlantic, with the Gulf of Panama on the Pacific.