Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 22

The Malwa plateau lies in western Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan, between the Vindhyas in the south and the Aravallis in the north-west, and is made of Deccan lava with black soil.

Vembanad in Kerala is the longest lake in India, stretching about 96 km from Alappuzha to Kochi, and it is also the largest lake of Kerala.

The Shevaroy Hills, also spelt Servarayan, rise near Salem in Tamil Nadu and are part of the Eastern Ghats.

Aner, Panzara and Waghur all join the Tapi in the Khandesh region of northern Maharashtra, along with the Purna, Girna and Bori.

The India State of Forest Report 2021 placed Madhya Pradesh first in India by total forest cover in area. The report is prepared every two years by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, using satellite data.

Statements 1 and 3 are correct; statement 2 is wrong because the Brahmani is formed by the South Koel and the Sankh, not the Kosi.

Moraines, eskers and outwash plains are landforms left by glaciers, and among these Union Territories only Ladakh has glaciated high mountains.

Weathering, mass wasting, erosion and transportation together wear down and strip away the earth's surface, and this combined work is called denudation.

Services that create, rearrange and interpret new and existing ideas, interpret data and evaluate new technologies are classed as quinary activities.

Rocks are constantly changed from one form to another, and the agents of that change are weathering, erosion and metamorphism, which together make up the rock cycle.

Lhotse is not in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at all; it is a Himalayan peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet, just south of Mount Everest, and at about 8,516 metres it is the fourth-highest mountain in the world.

The focus of an earthquake is also called the hypocentre. It is the point inside the Earth where the rocks first break or slip and the energy of the earthquake is released.

Khair, neem, khejri and palas are typical trees of the tropical thorn forests and scrub of dry areas such as Rajasthan and the edges of the Thar.

The plateau is part of the ancient Gondwana landmass, so it is a rigid, stable block worn down by long erosion.

New York, with its urban agglomeration, became the first city to cross a population of 10 million, around 1950. A megacity is an urban agglomeration with more than 10 million people, the threshold used by the United Nations.

Hot deserts have a large daily range of temperature and very little moisture, so rocks break up physically rather than decay chemically.

All five are tropical cyclones of the North Indian Ocean, named from the list kept by the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones.

The crust is brittle, but the mean thickness of the oceanic crust is about 5 km, not 15 km. The crust is the outermost solid shell of the Earth.

Tors are piles of rounded, weathered blocks standing on hilltops, and they form typically in granite. Granite cools deep underground and develops a network of joints, or cracks.

The Great Indian Desert, or Marusthali, lies to the north-west of the Aravalli hills in western Rajasthan. It is believed that during the Mesozoic era, the age of the dinosaurs some 250 to 66 million years ago, this region lay under the sea.