Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 31

The Kaveri is an old peninsular river with a mature valley, and the Alaknanda is a young Himalayan river still cutting its valley, but the largest east-flowing peninsular river is the Godavari, not the Krishna.

Chaparral is the shrub vegetation of the Mediterranean climate in California, not of the cold Taiga, so this statement is incorrect.

Boulders and large pebbles are too heavy to be lifted by the water, so the river rolls, slides and drags them along its bed; this is traction.

The Cardamom Hills form the southernmost part of the Western Ghats, lying south of the Palghat Gap along the Kerala–Tamil Nadu border.

The major languages of India belong to four language families: Indo-European (Indo-Aryan), Dravidian, Austric (Austro-Asiatic) and Sino-Tibetan. The Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family is the largest, spoken by about three-quarters of Indians and including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Odia.

An oxbow lake forms when a river erodes the outer banks of a meander and deposits silt that seals off the loop, so it needs both erosion and deposition.

Of the four states listed, Punjab had the smallest population in the 2011 Census, about 2.77 crore people. The 2011 Census, the fifteenth census of India, counted about 121 crore people in all.

The doldrums are the equatorial belt of calm and light, variable winds, and the belt shifts with the seasons; they have nothing to do with the roaring forties.

Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, is not built on a river bank; it is known instead as the City of Lakes.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

The English geologist William Lowthian Green put forward the Tetrahedral Hypothesis in 1875 to explain how continents and ocean basins are arranged.

In Census 2011, a person aged seven and above who could both read and write with understanding in any language was counted as literate.

Chhattisgarh lies in the heart of the country and is surrounded only by other Indian States. Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh in November 2000.

The Nyishi are the largest tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, living mainly in its central and western hill districts. The Nyishi live in districts such as Papum Pare, Kurung Kumey, Kra Daadi, East Kameng and Lower Subansiri, with smaller groups in the bordering parts of Assam.

Among the four States listed, only Assam and Nagaland touch Arunachal Pradesh. Arunachal Pradesh is the largest State of the North-East by area.

The prevailing winds push warm surface water west in the tropics and east in the middle latitudes. In the tropics the trade winds blow from east to west.

Rain forest soils are poor in nutrients, even though dead matter decomposes very fast there. In the hot, wet climate of tropical rain forests, fallen leaves and wood are broken down by fungi, bacteria and insects within weeks.

Statement 3 is wrong: 75 PVTGs have been notified in India, not 95. The category was created in 1973, following the Dhebar Commission, as 'Primitive Tribal Groups' and renamed PVTGs in 2006.

Sugarcane needs far more water to grow than the other three crops, so it is the least water-efficient. Sugarcane stays in the field for 12 to 18 months and needs roughly 1,500 to 2,500 mm of water over its life, often supplied by heavy irrigation.

Infrared radiation is strongly absorbed by water vapour, and most water vapour lies in the lowest few kilometres of the atmosphere.