Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 63

The Tropic of Cancer crosses India through eight States, namely Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, and Odisha is not one of them because it lies to the south of the line.

The India and Bangladesh boundary runs through five States, and of these West Bengal has by far the longest stretch, since Bangladesh lies along its southern and eastern sides.

Shimla is the capital of Himachal Pradesh, and Dharamshala in the Kangra valley was declared its second or winter capital, where a session of the State assembly is held.

Chandigarh was built as the new capital of Punjab after Partition, and when Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 the city was made a Union territory serving as the capital of both States.

Dispur, a locality within Guwahati, became the capital of Assam in 1973 after Shillong, the earlier capital, went to the newly created State of Meghalaya.

Asia supplies more than half of the world's tin, because the great tin belt of South East Asia runs through Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and China is the largest single producer.

On Survey of India topographical sheets, railway lines, telegraph and telephone lines, settlement names and boundaries are printed in black, so black is the colour of such man-made linear features.

Kazakhstan is the world's largest producer of uranium and alone accounts for roughly two-fifths of global output. Its uranium comes mainly from the Chu-Sarysu and Syr Darya basins and is won by in-situ leaching, a method that dissolves the metal underground instead of digging it out.

Tropical deciduous forests are India's monsoon forests, and their trees shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in the dry summer to save water.

Leh, in the cold desert of Ladakh, lies above 3,500 metres in the Himalayas, and its winter temperature falls far below freezing, lower than anywhere else in the list.

The calm centre of a cyclone is called the eye of the storm, a roughly circular area twenty to fifty kilometres across where the air sinks, the winds are light and the sky can even be clear.

In the mesosphere the temperature falls as one goes up, reaching about minus 100 degrees Celsius at the mesopause near 80 km, which makes it the coldest layer of the atmosphere.

The Himalayas are young fold mountains, formed when the sediments of the Tethys Sea were squeezed and folded as the Indian plate collided with the Eurasian plate.

Calderas are the most explosive of the earth's volcanoes, because they erupt so violently that the magma chamber empties and the summit collapses into a wide hollow instead of building a cone.

Mosses and lichens are the typical plants of the tundra, the cold treeless belt that lies beyond the coniferous forests of the far north.

Kerala shows almost no difference between day and night temperatures because it lies on the coast close to the equator, where the sea keeps the air mild and the humidity stays high.

Mountains are built by endogenic forces, the forces that act from inside the earth and raise, bend or break the crust.

France has twelve time zones, more than any other country, because its overseas departments and territories are scattered across the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean.

The engineer Kanwar Sain conceived the plan in 1948 of carrying the surplus water of the Sutlej and the Beas into the Thar desert, and the canal was taken up on his design.

Tube wells irrigate the largest share of the net irrigated area of Rajasthan, and groundwater drawn through tube wells and wells together waters the greater part of the state's fields.