Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 25

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.

Most of the Great Artesian Basin lies beneath Queensland, with smaller parts under New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this class of India's land-use records.

The Philippines lies in the western North Pacific, and every tropical cyclone of that basin, whether it strikes the Philippines, China or Japan, is called a typhoon.

The route runs from the dry west to the wet east coast, so the vegetation changes as rainfall rises. Bikaner lies in the Thar Desert of western Rajasthan, where rainfall is below about 25 cm and only desert plants such as khejri and cactus grow.

It stands on the border of Sikkim in India and the Taplejung district of eastern Nepal, and is the highest peak within India as well as the third highest in the world.

Of the four countries offered here Bhutan is by far the smallest, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom whose border with India runs about 699 kilometres along Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

The Tharu are the most widely distributed Scheduled Tribe of Uttar Pradesh, living along the Terai belt that runs below the Himalaya through Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Balrampur, Shrawasti, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj and the neighbouring districts, so they appear in more districts of the state than any other notified tribe.

The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railway line in the world, about 9,289 km from Moscow, with through services from St. Petersburg, to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast of Russia.

Cashew does best on light, well drained, slightly acidic red laterite soil, which is why it is grown on the coastal plains and hill slopes of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Tamil Nadu.

In its middle course, over the gentle slope of the plain, a river loses the power to cut downward and begins to swing from side to side.

A desert shows the largest difference between day and night temperature, called the diurnal range, because dry sand heats up quickly in the day and the cloudless, moisture-free air lets that heat escape just as quickly after sunset.

Tauktae formed in the Arabian Sea in May 2021, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm, moved north along the Konkan coast and made landfall in Gujarat, which is why it is remembered as an Arabian Sea system of the western coast.

The cold snow-forest climate, group D in Koeppen's scheme, lies in the continental interiors of the northern hemisphere between about 40 and 70 degrees north, across northern Europe, Siberia, Canada and Alaska.

The interior of the country has the sharpest difference between summer and winter because it lies far from the sea, and this effect is called continentality.

In Koeppen's scheme the capital letter gives the broad climatic group and the small letters add the rainfall and temperature detail.

Bad lands are stretches of land cut into a close network of deep gullies and sharp ridges, so dissected that cultivation becomes impossible, and they are produced when running water removes the topsoil through sheet wash that concentrates first into rills and then into gullies.

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.

The Yamuna rises from the Yamunotri glacier on the Bandarpunch range in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, so its source lies inside the Indian Himalayas.

Tamil Nadu gets most of its rain from the north-east monsoon between October and December, which is why its rainy season comes when the rest of India is drying out.