Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 25

Punjab has the highest share of Scheduled Castes in its population among the States, about 31.9 per cent in Census 2011.

Kampala lies almost on the equator, where a point on the Earth's surface moves the longest distance in each rotation and so has the greatest linear speed.

Koppen placed the Ganga plain of northern India under Cwg, a monsoon type with dry winters.

Only statement 1 is correct; statement 2 has the two layers the wrong way round. Sleet is precipitation in the form of frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water.

In the hills of Uttarakhand the river is called the Kali (or Mahakali); it takes the name Sarda (Sharda) only after it reaches the plains.

The Mohorovicic discontinuity, or Moho, is the boundary between the crust and the mantle, where seismic waves suddenly speed up.

. Mica is an excellent electrical insulator that withstands high voltage and heat, so it is used mainly in the electrical and electronic industries.

Both statements are correct: the Coriolis force works at right angles to the pressure gradient force, and it vanishes at the equator, where winds cross the isobars at right angles.

The Indian Ocean Dipole lies wholly within the Indian Ocean, and it can soften or strengthen El Nino's effect on the monsoon.

Only statement 2 is true. Statement 1 is wrong because jet streams, the narrow belts of very fast westerly winds near the top of the troposphere, blow in both hemispheres.

Lithuania is a Baltic state to the north of Belarus, and Belarus lies between it and Ukraine, so the two never touch.

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, and Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, face each other across the Río de la Plata. The River Plate is a wide funnel-shaped estuary formed where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet before entering the Atlantic Ocean.

Going north along the east coast from Chennai, these rivers are crossed in exactly this order. The shortest road from Chennai to Kolkata runs up the eastern coastal plain.

About 90% of the atmosphere's ozone lies in the stratosphere, forming the ozone layer. The stratosphere extends from the top of the troposphere, about 8 km at the poles and 18 km at the equator, up to about 50 km.

Lands with a Mediterranean climate are the world's great orchards of oranges, lemons, grapes and olives. The Mediterranean climate has hot, dry, sunny summers and mild, rainy winters, the rain coming from westerly winds.

With a land area of only about 32 square kilometres, Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India. Lakshadweep is a group of 36 coral islands in the Arabian Sea off the Kerala coast, of which only about ten are inhabited.

IMR is a rate, so it compares infant deaths with live births in the same year. An infant is a child who has not yet completed one year of life.

The Jhelum was called the Vitasta in the Rig Veda and in later Sanskrit texts. The rivers of the Punjab region carried Vedic names: Vitasta for the Jhelum, Asikni for the Chenab, Parushni for the Ravi, Vipasha for the Beas and Shutudri for the Satluj.

The Tamraparni rises in the Agasthyamalai hills of the Western Ghats and flows east through Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts of Tamil Nadu into the Gulf of Mannar.

All three statements are correct. Meridians of longitude are half-circles that run from the North Pole to the South Pole, so they are farthest apart on the Equator, about 111 km per degree, and come closer towards the poles until they meet there, where the gap becomes zero.