Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 17

When houses are built all around a lake or tank, the village grows in a ring around the water, giving a circular pattern.

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.

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.

Loktak is in Manipur, Barapani in Meghalaya, Kolleru in Andhra Pradesh, and Pulicat on the Andhra Pradesh–Tamil Nadu border. Loktak is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India, famous for its floating islands of vegetation called phumdis; Keibul Lamjao, the only floating national park in the world, lies on it.

All three statements are correct descriptions of fog and its two main types. Fog forms when air near the ground cools to its dew point and its water vapour condenses on tiny dust and smoke particles, so it is in effect a cloud at or near ground level.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

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

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

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.

Water passes through limestone along its joints and bedding planes, and slowly dissolves the rock as it goes. Limestone is a sedimentary rock made mainly of calcium carbonate.

Podzolisation is the typical soil-forming process under the cool, moist coniferous forests of the taiga. In the taiga, cold winters slow down decay, and the needles of pine, spruce and fir form an acidic litter on the ground.

It is a warm current that flows south along the east coast of Australia, carrying tropical water from the Coral Sea.

The rocky planets are dense, the gas giants are light, and Saturn is the least dense planet of all. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System at about 5.5 g/cm³, with Venus close behind at about 5.2 g/cm³; both are made of rock and metal.

The Quaternary, the latest period of the Cenozoic era, is divided into the Pleistocene and the Holocene epochs. The Quaternary began about 2.58 million years ago.

Statement 1 describes the epicentre, not the hypocentre; statements 2 and 3 are correct. The hypocentre, or focus, is the point inside the Earth where the energy of an earthquake is released.

Slate is a metamorphic rock, formed when shale is changed by heat and pressure. Igneous rocks form when molten magma or lava cools and hardens.

Each statement places the hills in the wrong range. Statement 1 is wrong: Amarkantak, the source of the Narmada and the Son, lies in the Maikal hills where the Vindhya and Satpura ranges meet.

South-eastern Cameroon lies inside the drainage area of the Congo river, and the country is one of the six nations that share the Congo Basin rainforest.