Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 28

A landlocked country has no coastline on an open sea or ocean. South America has only two such countries, Bolivia and Paraguay.

India keeps one standard time for the whole country, Indian Standard Time, based on the 82° 30′ E meridian, which passes near Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.

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

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

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

Geology is the science of the solid Earth: the rocks it is made of, how it formed and changed over time, and the minerals, coal, oil and gas found inside it.

Both pairs are reversed: in Punjab rice is a commercial crop, while in Odisha it is a subsistence crop. The same crop can be commercial in one state and subsistence in another; it depends on why the farmer grows it.

That is exactly what the Indian monsoon is. The word monsoon comes from the Arabic mausim, meaning season, and describes winds that reverse direction with the season.

Tsomgo Lake, also called Changu Lake, lies in East Sikkim, about 40 km from Gangtok on the road to Nathu La.

Precipitation is any form of water, liquid or solid, that falls from clouds to the ground. When the temperature is above freezing it falls as rain or drizzle; below freezing, water vapour turns directly into ice crystals that fall as snow.

The Deccan plateau is the large triangular block of the Peninsular plateau south of the Narmada, bounded by the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north, the Western Ghats in the west and the Eastern Ghats in the east, with an average height of about 600 metres.

The Krishna rises near Mahabaleshwar in the Satara district of Maharashtra, at about 1,337 metres in the Sahyadri, which is the local name of the Western Ghats.

The Ganga basin is the most populous river basin on earth, home to more than 600 million people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and a small part of Tibet.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra river in Assam, near Jorhat, and is the largest river island in the world. In 2016 it became India's first island district.

Panchmuli Lake lies in the Sardar Sarovar reservoir area on the Narmada at Ekta Nagar (Kevadia) in the Narmada district of Gujarat, close to the Statue of Unity, and is known for its boat rides and crocodiles.

These monsoon forests are the most widespread natural vegetation in India. Tropical deciduous forests grow where annual rainfall is roughly 70 to 200 cm, which covers much of the peninsula, the Ganga plain margins and the lower Himalayan slopes.

Bagram Air Base lies in Parwan province of Afghanistan, about 60 km north of the capital Kabul.

Canada has vast land and a small farming population, so it practises large-scale, mechanised commercial grain farming, not intensive subsistence farming.

The word nimbus means rain cloud: these dark, thick clouds bring steady rain or snow. Nimbus clouds form at low to middle heights and are so dense that sunlight hardly passes through them, which is why they look dark grey or black.

An avalanche is a sudden slide of snow, ice and debris down a mountain slope, a movement of material on the land surface, so it is grouped with terrestrial disasters.