Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 45

Dibang, Kameng and Lohit all flow from Arunachal Pradesh into the Brahmaputra.

Lake Faguibine in northern Mali, once one of the largest lakes of West Africa, has dried up and turned into desert.

Tobacco, cocoa and rubber all come from the Americas and spread to Asia, Africa and Europe after Columbus. The exchange of plants and animals between the Americas (New World) and Afro-Eurasia (Old World) after 1492 is called the Columbian Exchange.

SRI saves seed, cuts methane and, by using less irrigation water, saves the electricity spent on pumping. The System of Rice Intensification was developed in Madagascar in the 1980s by the French priest Henri de Laulanié.

21 June is the summer solstice of the Northern Hemisphere, when the North Pole is tilted towards the Sun and the whole Arctic Circle gets 24 hours of daylight.

All three features describe farming done mainly to feed the farmer's own family, with only a small surplus for sale or barter.

The exact, absolute position of any point on Earth is fixed only where its line of latitude crosses its line of longitude.

It joins north-eastern North America with Western Europe, two of the most industrialised regions on Earth, and carries the heaviest traffic of any ocean route.

A crater is the bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano, around the opening through which lava, gas and ash come out.

A drumlin is a smooth, oval hill shaped by a moving glacier out of glacial till, so it is a landform of glacial deposition.

A pull factor is something attractive at the destination that draws people towards it, and better pay is the classic example.

Podsolization is the soil process of cool, moist climates under coniferous forest, which lie in the high middle latitudes. In the cold, wet taiga belt, needle litter from pines and firs decays slowly and forms acidic humus.

The atmosphere is heated mainly from below, by the long-wave heat the Earth's surface gives off, not directly by sunlight.

The Taklamakan lies in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang in north-western China, in the heart of Central Asia. The Taklamakan is a cold, sandy desert ringed by high mountains: the Kunlun to the south, the Tian Shan to the north and the Pamirs to the west.

Singapore lies at about 1.3° North, which makes it the closest of these cities to the Equator, only about 140 km north of it.

In the soil classification of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, based on the USDA Soil Taxonomy, Inceptisols cover the largest share of India, close to 40 per cent of its area.

Jordan grew out of the British Mandate after the First World War, but it is not landlocked because it touches the Gulf of Aqaba.

In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.

It is the deepest landlocked and well-protected port on India's east coast. Visakhapatnam port in Andhra Pradesh lies in a natural harbour cut into the land, sheltered by the Dolphin's Nose headland, which protects ships from the waves of the Bay of Bengal.

A geostrophic wind blows high above the surface, where the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force balance and the air flows parallel to the isobars.