Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 23

The temperate forests called Sholas grow in the higher reaches of all three ranges named, the Nilgiris, the Anaimalai and the Palani hills.

Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.

A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.

The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the sole research and development wing of the Ministry of Railways. RDSO is headquartered at Lucknow.

Nagaland was the only Indian state whose population fell between 2001 and 2011; its decadal growth rate in Census 2011 was about −0.6 per cent.

Paleogeography is the study of the Earth's geography in the geological past, and its main product is a set of maps showing where continents, oceans, mountains and shorelines lay at different times.

Mahendragiri, about 1,501 metres high, stands in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed between the main channel of the Brahmaputra to the south and the Subansiri and Kherkutia Suti channels to the north.

Southern Argentina is Patagonia, a cold, dry steppe and desert region lying in the rain shadow of the Andes, so it does not have a humid subtropical climate.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 describe the Coal Controller's Organisation, while statement 4 does not. The CCO is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Coal with its headquarters in Kolkata.

Shale gas resources have been identified in all three basins: Cambay, Cauvery and Krishna-Godavari. Shale gas is natural gas, mostly methane, trapped in fine-grained sedimentary rock called shale, and it is extracted by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Only Gandhi Sagar is matched with its correct State, so three of the four pairs are wrong. Gandhi Sagar is the first of the Chambal valley dams, built in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, so pair 2 is correct.

The 2011 Census found that about 49% of Indian households used firewood as their main fuel for cooking, which rounds to half.

Because the axis is tilted and keeps pointing the same way as the Earth goes round the Sun, each place gets more sunlight in one half of the year and less in the other.

The Kiel Canal is cut across the neck of the Jutland peninsula in northern Germany and allows ships to pass between the North Sea and the Baltic without sailing all the way round Denmark, saving several hundred kilometres and avoiding the rough waters off the Skagerrak.

The Trans-Andean Railway was built to join the Pacific coast of South America to the Atlantic coast, running from the Chilean port of Valparaiso across the Andes to Buenos Aires in Argentina.

A packet station handles short-distance traffic across a narrow stretch of water, carrying passengers, mail and vehicles rather than bulk cargo.

In the age of coal and later of oil, long ocean voyages had to be broken at fixed points where a ship could take on fuel, fresh water and provisions, and settlements at those points grew into ports.

Rotterdam stands on the delta where the Rhine and the Meuse reach the North Sea, which gives it inland waterway access to the industrial heart of Germany, Switzerland and France.

The Australian Trans-Continental Railway runs for about 4,000 km from Perth on the west coast to Sydney on the east, and on its way it crosses the Nullarbor Plain, a flat treeless limestone surface in the south of the continent.