Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 40

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock: grains of sand carried by rivers or wind settle in layers and harden over time.

It is a warm current of the Indian Ocean that flows southward along the eastern coast of southern Africa, carrying tropical water towards the Cape before most of it turns back into the Indian Ocean.

A tide is the regular rise and fall of sea level caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and, to a smaller extent, the Sun, together with the centrifugal force of the spinning earth.

A seismograph, also called a seismometer, senses the shaking of the ground and draws it as a wavy line called a seismogram.

Venus is wrapped in a dense blanket of carbon dioxide topped by thick white and yellow clouds of sulphuric acid, which is why it shines so brightly in our sky.

Kalahandi in Odisha is known for the large bauxite deposits of the Eastern Ghats; Zawar near Udaipur in Rajasthan is India’s best-known zinc and lead mine, worked since ancient times; Kolar in Karnataka is famous for the Kolar Gold Fields, among the deepest gold mines in the world until they…

A ‘million city’ is a city or urban agglomeration with a population of ten lakh or more. Kanpur, the leather and textile centre on the Ganga once called the ‘Manchester of the East’, crossed this mark in the 1971 Census and became the first million city of Uttar Pradesh.

Trans-Himalayan rivers rise beyond the Great Himalaya, on the Tibetan side, and are older than the mountains themselves. As the Himalaya rose, they kept cutting down through it, which is why they flow through deep gorges; geographers call them antecedent rivers.

The Himadri, or Greater Himalaya, is part of the Himalayan system, the youngest fold mountains in India, formed as the Indian plate pushed into the Eurasian plate and folded up the sediments of the old Tethys Sea.

Neither the Kosi division nor the Magadh division touches the Ganga, while every other division named in the options does.

Piedmont swamp soil is found only in the north-western part of West Champaran, at the foot of the Someshwar hills.

Zoji La is the pass on the Srinagar–Leh highway (NH 1) that joins the Kashmir valley with Dras and Ladakh.

The Damanganga Reservoir Project is the main irrigation scheme of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, whose canal network of about 115 km of minor canals and distributaries serves the territory.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along this latitude, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group. The Ten Degree Channel lies between Little Andaman in the north and Car Nicobar in the south, and it is about 150 km wide.

In Census 2011, Greater Mumbai was the most populous urban agglomeration of India, followed by Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai. Census 2011 counted about 18.4 million people in the Greater Mumbai urban agglomeration, about 16.3 million in Delhi, about 14.1 million in Kolkata and about 8.7 million in Chennai.

The Shompen are a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group who live in the forests of Great Nicobar Island. The Shompen are a semi-nomadic people who hunt, gather and grow a little food along the rivers of Great Nicobar's forested interior, and they have very little contact with outsiders.

Humidity is the amount of water vapour present in the air. Air holds water as invisible vapour, and the amount it can hold rises with temperature.

Temperate cyclones are carried from west to east by the westerlies, while tropical cyclones generally move from east to west with the trade winds.

The Chambal valley is the best-known Indian example of land destroyed by intensive gully erosion, which has carved it into deep ravines.

The location is reversed: the Sargasso Sea lies east of the Gulf Stream and west of the Canary Current, not the other way round.