Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 31

The Cardamom Hills form the southernmost part of the Western Ghats, lying south of the Palghat Gap along the Kerala–Tamil Nadu border.

A plantation crop is a single cash crop grown on a large estate with heavy capital, hired labour and processing of the produce on or near the estate, and coffee, grown in the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is a classic example along with tea, rubber and sugarcane.

An oxbow lake forms when a river erodes the outer banks of a meander and deposits silt that seals off the loop, so it needs both erosion and deposition.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

The prevailing winds push warm surface water west in the tropics and east in the middle latitudes. In the tropics the trade winds blow from east to west.

Sugarcane needs far more water to grow than the other three crops, so it is the least water-efficient. Sugarcane stays in the field for 12 to 18 months and needs roughly 1,500 to 2,500 mm of water over its life, often supplied by heavy irrigation.

Licences for deep-sea exploration in international waters are granted by the International Seabed Authority, not by the Global Ocean Commission.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

Adolescents are seen as a youthful population with high potential, but in 2011 they were about one-fifth of India's people, and males outnumbered females among them.

The Nagavali and the Vamsadhara both rise in the Eastern Ghats of southern Odisha. The Nagavali (also called Langulya) rises in the Eastern Ghats in Kalahandi district of Odisha and flows into the Bay of Bengal in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.

Didwana, Kuchaman, Sargol and Khatu are salt lakes in the dry Nagaur region of Rajasthan. Western Rajasthan has a chain of inland saline lakes, of which Sambhar is the largest.

The Jhelum, Ravi and Sutlej all end up in the Chenab, and the Chenab carries their combined water to the Indus.

Anamudi, about 2,695 metres high, rises in the Anaimalai hills of the Idukki district of Kerala and is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole peninsular plateau south of the Himalayas; the Eravikulam National Park around it shelters the Nilgiri tahr.

The shortest rail route from Bengaluru reaches Delhi from the south through Agra and Mathura, which lie on the western side of the Yamuna, so the train never has to cross that river.

Under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the Prime Minister is the ex officio chairperson of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

Palm oil is used in cosmetics such as lipstick and perfume and as a feedstock for biodiesel, but the oil palm is native to West Africa, not Southeast Asia.

In parts of the dry west, arid soils hold so much salt that common salt is made by evaporating the saline water.

All four statements are true of tropical rain forests. These forests grow near the Equator, in the Amazon, the Congo basin and South-East Asia, with heavy rain and high heat all year.

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps are erosional landforms carved by sea waves on rocky coasts. Waves attack a headland from both sides and wear away the weaker rock along cracks.

Tides are the regular rise and fall of sea level caused mainly by the gravitational pull of the Moon, and to a lesser extent the Sun, on the Earth.