Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 52

Pulicat Lake lies in two states, but the Himalayas and the Western Ghats each spread over more than five states.

Cold dry air below and warm moist air above makes the atmosphere stable, which suppresses rising air; a thunderstorm needs the reverse, warm moist air near the ground and colder, drier air aloft.

The Himalayan Frontal Fault lies on the southern edge of the range and separates the Himalaya from the Indo-Gangetic plains, not from Tibet.

Loktak Lake lies in the valley of Manipur, south of Imphal, and is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India.

Lebanon and Syria have coastlines on the eastern Mediterranean; Jordan and Iraq do not. The eastern shore of the Mediterranean, called the Levant coast, runs from Turkey in the north through Syria, Lebanon and Israel to the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

In Census 2011, a person aged seven and above who could both read and write with understanding in any language was counted as literate.

In Census 2011 their sex ratios were about 963, 950, 931 and 889 females per 1,000 males. Census 2011 put India's overall sex ratio at 943.

The Chagos Archipelago lies in the central Indian Ocean, not in the North Pacific. The Chagos Islands lie south of the Maldives, roughly 500 km away, and include Diego Garcia, the site of a major military base.

Kalakot lies in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the foothills of the Himalaya. India's coal is of two ages.

These low-pressure systems travel east from the Mediterranean region and bring winter rain and snow to Kashmir and north-west India.

The mainland of India extends from about 68 degrees 7 minutes east to about 97 degrees 25 minutes east, a longitudinal spread of roughly 29 degrees.

The Rangeet is a Sikkim river that joins the Teesta, but the Teesta neither shares the Brahmaputra's source nor reaches the sea by itself.

At Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand the Mandakini, which flows down from near Kedarnath, joins the Alaknanda. Rudraprayag is one of the Panch Prayag, the five holy confluences of the Alaknanda on its way to forming the Ganga.

The Taklamakan lies in the Tarim Basin of Xinjiang in north-western China, in the heart of Central Asia. The Taklamakan is a cold, sandy desert ringed by high mountains: the Kunlun to the south, the Tian Shan to the north and the Pamirs to the west.

At Chandipur beach in Balasore district of Odisha the sea pulls back several kilometres at low tide and returns at high tide, so visitors can walk on the exposed sea bed.

The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands and near Guam. It is the deepest known part of the world's oceans.

The Teesta flows from Sikkim through West Bengal into Bangladesh and joins the Brahmaputra, so it has nothing to do with the Indus system.

With an area of about 7.86 lakh sq km, New Guinea is the world's second-largest island, after Greenland. New Guinea lies just north of Australia and is shared by two countries: its western half belongs to Indonesia and its eastern half is the mainland of Papua New Guinea.

Plantations do lie mostly in the humid tropics, but the soils there are generally poor, not highly fertile. Plantation farming grows a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa, banana or oil palm on large estates with heavy capital and hired labour.

A stalagmite is built up on the floor of a limestone cave by water that seeps in from above, so the agent at work is underground water.