Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 35

Italy, Japan and South Korea all have fertility rates far below the replacement level of about 2.1 children per woman, ageing people and shrinking numbers.

The Mechi bridge links Panitanki in India with Kakarvitta in Nepal; the other two statements get the places or the country wrong.

Palm oil is used in cosmetics such as lipstick and perfume and as a feedstock for biodiesel, but the oil palm is native to West Africa, not Southeast Asia.

Aliyar, Isapur and Kangsabati are all dams with reservoirs built for irrigation in different parts of India. The Aliyar dam stands on the Aliyar river near Pollachi in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, at the foot of the Anamalai hills, and is part of the Parambikulam-Aliyar project.

The INSTC links Indian ports by sea to Iran and then by rail and road northwards to Central Asia, Russia and on to Europe.

In Census 2011 their sex ratios were about 963, 950, 931 and 889 females per 1,000 males. Census 2011 put India's overall sex ratio at 943.

Galathea Bay, on the south-east coast of Great Nicobar Island, fits all four clues. Great Nicobar is the southernmost island of India, and its tip, Indira Point, lies only about 150 km from the northern entrance of the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.

The Chagos Archipelago lies in the central Indian Ocean, not in the North Pacific. The Chagos Islands lie south of the Maldives, roughly 500 km away, and include Diego Garcia, the site of a major military base.

In parts of the dry west, arid soils hold so much salt that common salt is made by evaporating the saline water.

All four statements are true of tropical rain forests. These forests grow near the Equator, in the Amazon, the Congo basin and South-East Asia, with heavy rain and high heat all year.

A GIS needs data, hardware, software and people working together; methods are usually named as the fifth component. A Geographic Information System captures, stores, analyses and displays information tied to locations on the Earth.

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps are erosional landforms carved by sea waves on rocky coasts. Waves attack a headland from both sides and wear away the weaker rock along cracks.

A raster stores the world as a grid of cells, which is simple and matches satellite images, and its cell size sets its resolution.

Israel has land borders with all four countries named in the question. Israel lies on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

Bermuda is a small group of islands in the western North Atlantic, about 1,000 km east of the coast of North Carolina in the USA.

Kerala was narrowly ahead of Jharkhand in Census 2011, and Assam was clearly ahead of Punjab. Census 2011 counted about 3.34 crore people in Kerala, 3.30 crore in Jharkhand, 3.12 crore in Assam and 2.77 crore in Punjab.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Galapagos Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the eastern Pacific, about a thousand kilometres west of the South American coast, and they form a province of Ecuador; the finches, tortoises and iguanas Charles Darwin observed there in 1835 led him towards the theory of natural selection, and the group…

Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea is made up of coral atolls, reefs and submerged banks built by colonies of coral polyps in warm, shallow and clear tropical water, which is why the islands are low, flat and ringed by lagoons, with Kavaratti as the capital.

Indira Point lies at the southern tip of Great Nicobar, the largest island of the Nicobar group, and is the southernmost point of the territory of India; it was earlier called Pygmalion Point and was renamed, and it subsided during the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004.