Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 84

The Himadri, or Greater Himalaya, is part of the Himalayan system, the youngest fold mountains in India, formed as the Indian plate pushed into the Eurasian plate and folded up the sediments of the old Tethys Sea.

Neither the Kosi division nor the Magadh division touches the Ganga, while every other division named in the options does.

The Sargasso Sea lies in the middle of the North Atlantic and is the only sea in the world with no coastline.

Piedmont swamp soil is found only in the north-western part of West Champaran, at the foot of the Someshwar hills.

The Lilajan and the Mohana meet a few kilometres below Bodh Gaya, and from there the combined stream is called the Phalgu.

Of the four islands listed, Borneo has the largest area; it is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

Rana Pratap Sagar Dam stands on the Chambal at Rawatbhata in the Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan. It is one of the four structures of the Chambal Valley Project: Gandhi Sagar Dam upstream in Madhya Pradesh, then Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar and the Kota Barrage in Rajasthan.

Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya, the hill state whose name means abode of the clouds. Meghalaya was carved out of Assam and became a full state on 21 January 1972, the same day as Manipur and Tripura.

Altitude and slope, which together make up relief, decide how much soil collects at a place, not how fast humus forms.

Nainital, the eye-shaped lake, lies in the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand at a height of about 1,938 metres. The town grew around it after the British trader P. Barron reached the lake in 1841, and it became the summer capital of the United Provinces.

Ilmenite (FeTiO3) and rutile (TiO2) are the main ores of titanium, and India has large deposits of them in its beach sands.

Black cotton soil, or regur, formed from the weathering of the Deccan Trap basalt, lava that poured out through long cracks in the crust about 65 million years ago.

The longest day in the northern hemisphere is the summer solstice, which falls on 20, 21 or 22 June, usually 21 June.

Their boundary, about 8,891 km long including the Alaska section, is the longest border between any two countries.

Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan is a saltwater lake, in fact the largest inland salt lake in India, so it is the odd one out.

Western disturbances are low-pressure systems that start over the Mediterranean Sea and are carried east towards India by the westerly jet stream in winter.

In its upper course a river flows fast down steep slopes, so it cuts downward into the rock more than it spreads sideways.

The Nilgiri Hills, the 'Blue Mountains', rise where the borders of these three states meet, at the junction of the Western and Eastern Ghats.

Both are in the East Khasi Hills of Meghalaya and each gets well over 1,080 cm of rain in a year.

A stalagmite is a column of calcium carbonate that rises from the floor of a limestone cave. Rainwater with dissolved carbon dioxide slowly dissolves limestone and carries it as calcium bicarbonate.