Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 36

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are called terrestrial planets because, like the earth, they are made of rock and metal.

South-east China has a warm, humid subtropical climate with rain in every season, and its natural vegetation is broadleaf evergreen forest of the subtropics.

The south-west monsoon usually lasts about 100 to 120 days, from early June to about mid-September. The monsoon reaches the Kerala coast around 1 June and spreads over almost the whole country by early to mid-July.

Neither has a Mediterranean climate, so neither has sclerophyll vegetation. Sclerophyll means 'hard leaf'.

Its Challenger Deep, about 10,900 metres (nearly 11 km) below sea level, is the deepest known point of the oceans.

The Arabian plate, which carries most of the Saudi Arabian landmass, is counted among the minor plates.

The Agulhas current flows in the Indian Ocean, down the south-east coast of Africa, so it is not a Pacific current.

The Irrigation Commission of 1972 treated an area as drought-prone when less than 30 per cent of its gross cropped area was irrigated, so an area with 30 per cent or more is left out.

Dryland farming is practised where annual rainfall is below about 75 cm. Indian agriculture is grouped by the source of moisture into irrigated and rainfed farming, and rainfed farming is further divided into dryland and wetland farming.

The land-use classification kept in India's land revenue records divides the reporting area into nine categories.

The Panama Canal cuts across the narrow Isthmus of Panama in Central America and joins the Caribbean Sea, an arm of the Atlantic, with the Gulf of Panama on the Pacific.

In India most women move from their parents' home to their husband's home after marriage, so marriage is by far the largest reason for female migration.

Only statement 2 is true. Statement 1 is wrong because jet streams, the narrow belts of very fast westerly winds near the top of the troposphere, blow in both hemispheres.

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, and Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, face each other across the Río de la Plata. The River Plate is a wide funnel-shaped estuary formed where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet before entering the Atlantic Ocean.

With a land area of only about 32 square kilometres, Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India. Lakshadweep is a group of 36 coral islands in the Arabian Sea off the Kerala coast, of which only about ten are inhabited.

Fertigation feeds dissolved fertiliser through drip or sprinkler lines, but it cannot use insoluble rock phosphate. Fertigation means applying fertilisers along with irrigation water, usually through a drip system, so that small doses reach the root zone exactly when the crop needs them.

India's land-use records follow a nine-fold classification, and 'marginal land' is not one of its classes.

The Climax mine is in Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, and it was long the world's largest molybdenum mine.

As its name says, it is subsistence farming, where the family grows food mainly for its own use, not for sale.

The Sea of Azov joins the Black Sea through the narrow Kerch Strait, east of the Crimean peninsula. The Sea of Azov is bordered by Russia and Ukraine and is often called the shallowest sea in the world, with a maximum depth of only about 14 metres.