Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 51

This statement is not correct, because the peninsular sugar mills are concentrated mainly in Maharashtra and Karnataka, in the west and the interior of the plateau.

The Gulf Stream is a warm current of the North Atlantic. It starts in the Gulf of Mexico, passes through the Florida Strait, flows north along the east coast of the USA and then turns north-east across the Atlantic as the North Atlantic Drift, keeping the ports of north-western Europe…

Gauge conversion, electrification of tracks and automatic signalling have all been part of the modernisation of Indian Railways. Gauge conversion: under Project Unigauge, started in 1992, metre-gauge and narrow-gauge lines have been steadily converted to broad gauge (1,676 mm) so that trains can run through without transhipment.

On the winter solstice the Sun is overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn, so the Northern Hemisphere has its shortest day and longest night.

Aridisols are the soils of deserts, and they are poor in organic matter, so this statement about them is not correct.

The statement is not correct because tsunami is a Japanese word, from tsu (harbour) and nami (wave), meaning a harbour wave.

Those areas have a Mediterranean climate with dry summers and winter rain, and their vegetation is evergreen scrub such as chaparral and maquis, not rain forest.

The winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere falls on about 22 December. On that day the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Capricorn, and the North Pole is tilted away from the Sun.

Mediterranean agriculture is a highly specialised commercial type of farming, and growing grapes, called viticulture, is its best-known feature.

India does not have the largest railway network in the world; the United States has the longest, followed by China and Russia, with India in fourth place.

Both statements are true, and the rain shadow of the Western Ghats is exactly why interior Maharashtra gets little rain.

Sumatra in Indonesia lies just across the sea to the south-east of Great Nicobar, the southernmost island of India.

Chabahar gives India a sea-and-land route to Afghanistan and Central Asia that bypasses Pakistan. The port lies on the Makran coast of Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province, on the Gulf of Oman, outside the Strait of Hormuz.

. Statement D is the incorrect one: the streams on a dissected volcanic cone do form a radial drainage pattern.

The Indian Ocean Dipole lies wholly within the Indian Ocean, and it can soften or strengthen El Nino's effect on the monsoon.

Going north along the east coast from Chennai, these rivers are crossed in exactly this order. The shortest road from Chennai to Kolkata runs up the eastern coastal plain.

About 90% of the atmosphere's ozone lies in the stratosphere, forming the ozone layer. The stratosphere extends from the top of the troposphere, about 8 km at the poles and 18 km at the equator, up to about 50 km.

Very heavy rainfall, high and steady temperature, humidity above 75 per cent and trees that stay green all year are the marks of tropical wet evergreen forests.

Cropping intensity is gross cropped area divided by net sown area, usually shown as a percentage, and it tells how many times the same land is cropped in a year.

Census 2011 recorded about 52 persons per sq km in Mizoram, the lowest of the four states given. Mizoram is a hilly, heavily forested state with a small population of about 11 lakh, which keeps its density low.