Geography Previous Year Questions (PYQ) with Answers – Page 53

An inselberg is an isolated residual hill that rises abruptly from a plain in a hot desert, so it is the work of weathering and wind in arid regions, not of glaciers.

The Coriolis effect is an apparent force produced by the rotation of the earth on its axis.

The polar front jet is strongest in winter, not in summer, so this statement is the incorrect one. A jet stream is a fast, narrow ribbon of westerly wind in the upper troposphere, and its speed depends on the temperature contrast across the front below it.

The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.

The first census was attempted in 1872 and it has been held regularly every ten years since 1881.

This statement is wrong: Shola forests grow in the high hills of South India, in the Western Ghats, not in the Himalaya.

A wind gap has nothing to do with wind, despite its name. It is a notch or gap in a ridge through which a river once flowed; when that river's headwaters were captured by another stream, the gap was left dry.

This statement is not correct, because conjunction happens at every new moon, about once a month, and has nothing to do with the Earth's closest point to the Sun.

Statement 1 is wrong: alluvial soils, the most widespread soils of India, are generally rich in potash and lime but poor in nitrogen and phosphorus, which is why farmers on the northern plains add nitrogen fertiliser.

The Dogger Bank is a large shallow sandbank in the North Sea about 100 kilometres off the east coast of England, one of the richest fishing grounds of Europe.

The Soo Locks, or Sault Ste. Marie canals, carry ships around the rapids of the St. Marys River, which drains Lake Superior into Lake Huron.

The Teesta rises in the glaciers of north Sikkim, flows through Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills into the plains of North Bengal, and then enters Bangladesh, where it joins the Brahmaputra (called the Jamuna there).

A latitude of about 15 degrees north on India's western side, near 74 degrees east, can only be Goa, which lies on the Konkan coast between Maharashtra and Karnataka.

Statements 2 and 4 are correct, while statements 1 and 3 name the wrong city. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), set up in 1986, has its headquarters at Noida in Uttar Pradesh and develops and regulates the national waterways.

Khajuraho lies in Bundelkhand and Tirupati in Rayalaseema; the other three are placed in the wrong regions. Khajuraho, famous for its Chandela temples and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is in Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh, in the Bundelkhand region the Chandelas ruled, so pair 2 is correct.

Shale gas resources have been identified in all three basins: Cambay, Cauvery and Krishna-Godavari. Shale gas is natural gas, mostly methane, trapped in fine-grained sedimentary rock called shale, and it is extracted by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

District Mineral Foundations exist to work for the people and areas affected by mining, not to promote exploration or grant licences.

The first three statements are true, while statement 4 is false because many earthquakes have their epicentre under the sea.

Kerala was narrowly ahead of Jharkhand in Census 2011, and Assam was clearly ahead of Punjab. Census 2011 counted about 3.34 crore people in Kerala, 3.30 crore in Jharkhand, 3.12 crore in Assam and 2.77 crore in Punjab.

Dibang, Kameng and Lohit all flow from Arunachal Pradesh into the Brahmaputra.