Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 46

Sentosa is a small resort island just off the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. Sentosa lies across a narrow channel from Singapore's main island and is linked to it by a causeway, a cable car and a monorail.

The Narmada flows west through a rift valley and falls into the Arabian Sea. The Narmada rises at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows west for about 1,300 km between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, along a rift valley formed by faulting.

High-yielding variety seeds came only in the mid-1960s with the Green Revolution, not immediately after Independence. After Partition, India lost much of its irrigated wheat and rice land to Pakistan and faced food shortages.

The Himalayas were formed by the collision of two continental plates, the Indian and the Eurasian, and such a collision does not produce volcanoes.

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.

South Arcot and Ramanathapuram lie on the Tamil Nadu coast, which gets most of its yearly rain from the retreating, or north-east, monsoon in October to December.

Mangaluru lies on the Karnataka coast, on the western, windward side of the Western Ghats. The south-west monsoon winds coming off the Arabian Sea strike the Ghats there, rise and shed heavy rain, so the coastal belt gets well over 3,000 mm a year.

According to Census 2011, the share of people living in urban areas was about 45.2 per cent in Maharashtra, 47.7 per cent in Kerala, 52.1 per cent in Mizoram and 62.2 per cent in Goa, so this order runs from lowest to highest.

Renukoot in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh is known for aluminium, not for iron and steel. Renukoot is home to the Hindalco aluminium smelter, set up in the early 1960s near the Rihand dam, whose cheap hydroelectric power suits the huge electricity needs of aluminium smelting.

The Purga is a cold, snow-laden local wind of Siberia and the tundra of northern Russia. In winter, a strong high-pressure area builds over Siberia, which becomes one of the coldest places on Earth.

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's highway development programme for building and upgrading national highways, economic corridors and border and coastal roads.

Exfoliation is a process of physical (mechanical) weathering, in which outer layers of rock peel off like the skin of an onion, with no change in the rock's chemical make-up.

The Indravati is a tributary of the Godavari, flowing from Odisha through the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh; it has nothing to do with the Cauvery basin.

In an EEZ every country keeps the freedom to sail ships, fly aircraft and lay submarine cables and pipelines, so these are not rights reserved for the coastal state.

The Ring of Fire around the Pacific is a belt of convergent plate boundaries, full of active volcanoes and earthquakes and lined by deep ocean trenches.

Chemical weathering is the breakdown of rocks through reactions such as solution, oxidation, carbonation and hydration, and all of these need water.

A stack is a landform made by erosion, not by deposition. Waves attack a headland and open cracks into caves; when caves on both sides meet, a sea arch forms, and when the roof of the arch collapses, the seaward part is left standing as an isolated rock pillar called…

Catalonia is in Spain and Mindanao is in the Philippines, but Crimea and Oromia are paired with the wrong countries.

Only statement 3 is correct: long-term irrigation can make farmland saline, while statements 1 and 2 reverse basic facts about soil.