Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 41

When Pangaea began to break about two hundred million years ago, it parted into a northern mass called Laurasia or Angaraland and a southern mass called Gondwanaland, and the long narrow Tethys Sea lay between the two.

Wegener attributed the horizontal movement of the continents to the pole-fleeing force, which arises from the rotation of the earth and the bulge of the equator, and to the tidal force, which arises from the attraction of the moon and the sun.

Wegener held that about two hundred and fifty million years ago all the land of the earth lay together as one mass, Pangaea, and that one enormous ocean, Panthalassa, surrounded it.

Wegener, a German meteorologist and climatologist, put forward the continental drift theory in 1912 and developed it in his book The Origin of Continents and Oceans; he argued that all the continents once formed a single landmass, Pangaea, which broke up about two hundred million years ago.

Arabica, Robusta and Liberica are the main species of the coffee plant, Coffea, grown around the world. Arabica (Coffea arabica) gives a milder, more aromatic coffee and grows best on cool hill slopes at higher altitudes.

Sugarcane needs plenty of water through a long growing season, so it is grown under irrigation or in high-rainfall areas, not as a dryland crop.

All three features, richness in lime, iron, magnesia and alumina, a deep clayey and impermeable texture, and a spread over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, describe the black or regur soil.

The Census defines a literate as a person aged seven or above who can both read and write with understanding in any language, so someone who can only read does not qualify.

A zeugen is a tabular ridge carved by wind abrasion in deserts, while a cirque is glacial and a stack is made by sea waves.

Kadaknath is a poultry breed of the Jhabua and Dhar region of western Madhya Pradesh, reared by tribal households, and its black flesh, bones and blood make it distinctive enough to have been given a geographical indication tag.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.

Jute is called the golden fibre for the colour of its retted fibre, so the programme to raise its output and improve its processing is named the golden fibre revolution, and it matters most in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.

Apiculture is bee keeping for honey and beeswax, and it is counted among the allied activities because it needs almost no land and raises the yield of nearby crops through pollination.

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, which studies the stocks, breeding and farming of sea fish along the Indian coast, has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala.

This goat of the cold Changthang plateau grows a very fine soft undercoat in winter, and that fibre, combed out in spring, is the pashmina from which Kashmiri shawls are woven.

Murrah, from the Rohtak and Hisar belt of Haryana, is the best known milk buffalo of India, recognised by its tightly curled horns and heavy milk yield, and it has been used to improve buffalo stock in many states and abroad.

He organised the milk producers of the Kaira district into the cooperative known by the brand Amul, designed the three tier Anand pattern, headed the National Dairy Development Board and led Operation Flood, which is why the growth of Indian dairying is credited to him.

Operation Flood was launched by the National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to build a national milk grid on the Anand pattern of cooperatives, and it ran in three phases until 1996, by which time village societies in most states were selling milk to the big cities.

The blue revolution is the name given to the rapid rise in fish output through aquaculture and improved marine fishing, which in India followed the spread of induced breeding of carp, the work of fish farmers development agencies and later a dedicated central scheme for fisheries.

Statements 1, 2 and 4 are correct; tropical cyclones form in tropical, not middle, latitudes. Tropical cyclones form over warm seas with surface temperatures above about 27°C, which supply heat and moisture through evaporation and condensation.