Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 29

The damage an earthquake does depends on how strongly the ground shakes and on what, and who, stands on it, not on the region's climate.

Sleet is a form of precipitation, frozen raindrops or a mix of rain and snow that falls from clouds, not a form of condensation.

A batholith is a huge mass of magma that cools and hardens deep inside the crust, usually as granite, and takes the form of large domes.

The focus, also called the hypocentre, is the point inside the earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released and from where its waves start.

With an average density of about 5.51 grams per cubic centimetre, Earth is the densest planet of the solar system.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is built on the Godavari river in Telangana and is often described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation scheme.

The Atal Tunnel runs under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh and cuts the road distance between Manali and Leh by about 46 km, saving four to five hours of travel.

A field of many drumlins lying side by side looks like eggs packed in a basket, so it is called basket-of-eggs topography.

Plantation agriculture means growing a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber or spices on large estates, with heavy capital, hired labour and processing on the spot.

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm with strong winds, blowing snow and very low visibility, so it occurs only where there is heavy snowfall in winter.

The Luhri Hydro-Electric Project is a run-of-the-river scheme on the Satluj (Sutlej) in Himachal Pradesh, on the stretch between the Shimla and Kullu districts.

The Kutch region of Gujarat is one of the driest parts of India, with low and highly uncertain rainfall, often below 40 cm a year, and failures of the monsoon in many years.

Pithoragarh lies in the Kumaon Himalaya of Uttarakhand, close to the borders of Nepal and Tibet, in the most earthquake-prone belt of the country.

Indian Standard Time is based on 82.5° E, and a place 5 hours behind lies 75° to the west of it, at 82.5° − 75° = 7.5° E. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, so local time changes by one hour for every 15° of longitude, or four minutes…

The 0° latitude is the Equator, the largest circle that can be drawn on the globe, so it is the longest parallel.

In hydration, minerals take water into their structure, swell in volume and change into new minerals, which loosens and breaks the rock.

Iceland's volcanic and tectonic activity gives it cheap geothermal energy, adds new land through eruptions and draws large numbers of tourists.

The Antarctic Plate, carrying Antarctica and the ocean around it, is one of the seven major lithospheric plates. Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into seven major plates and several minor ones.

The Mahananda rises in the Darjeeling hills, flows through north Bengal and Bihar and joins the Ganga, not the Brahmaputra.

India's standard meridian is 82°30' East, and Indian Standard Time is set by the local time along this line. India stretches from about 68°7' E to 97°25' E, a spread of nearly 30 degrees of longitude, which makes a time difference of about two hours between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh.