Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 45

A delta is built out of silt that a river carries down and drops where it meets the sea, so deltaic land is alluvial by definition, and the eastern coastal deltas of the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri are among the most fertile rice tracts of the country.

It is a sea level canal: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea stand at almost the same height, so ships sail straight through without being raised or lowered.

The Salem Steel Plant lies in Salem district of Tamil Nadu, so this is the only correctly matched pair. It is a SAIL unit set up in 1981 and is known for stainless steel cold-rolled coils and sheets rather than ordinary construction steel.

Nuclear power is produced by the fission of uranium and thorium, which are mined ores present in fixed quantities in the Earth's crust, so once used they cannot be replaced within human time.

In the Rigveda the Ravi appears as the Parushni, and it is on this river that the Battle of the Ten Kings, the Dasarajna, is placed.

The Tons is a tributary of the Yamuna in the Ganga system, rising in the Garhwal Himalaya, and has nothing to do with the Brahmaputra basin.

Bamboo drip irrigation is a two-hundred-year-old practice of the Khasi and Jaintia hills of Meghalaya.

Doddabetta, about 2,637 metres high, is the highest point of the Nilgiri hills, the block where the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats meet, and it overlooks the hill station of Udhagamandalam or Ooty in Tamil Nadu.

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian state. Its shore runs from the Rann of Kachchh round the Gulf of Kachchh, along the whole Saurashtra or Kathiawar peninsula and down the Gulf of Khambhat, and this deeply indented outline gives it far more shore than any other state.

Zoji La, or the Zojila pass, lies in the Zanskar range of the Himalayas at a height of about 3,528 metres.

Sandstone forms when grains of sand carried by rivers, wind or waves settle in layers and are cemented together over long periods, which makes it a sedimentary rock.

Hiralal Chaudhuri is called the father of the Blue Revolution, the sharp rise in India's fish production.

Across Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir, the ranges step down from the lofty north to the low foothills in the south.

Moving south between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka, you pass the strait first, then the bay, then the gulf. The Palk Strait is the northern channel that links the Bay of Bengal with Palk Bay, between Point Calimere in Tamil Nadu and the Jaffna peninsula of Sri Lanka.

The Son rises at Amarkantak on the Maikal hills in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, the same plateau from which the Narmada starts in the opposite direction.

Hambantota Port lies on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, close to the main shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean.

Britain handed Hong Kong back to China on 1 July 1997, and it became a Special Administrative Region under the principle of one country, two systems.

Lanak La is a high pass in the Aksai Chin area of eastern Ladakh, on the line between territory held by India and by China.

The Banas is not a tributary of the Luni; it flows east and joins the Chambal, which belongs to the Ganga basin.

Going from east to west, the order is Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghara and Gomti. All four join the Ganga from the north.