Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 101

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.

The Caspian has no natural outlet to any ocean, so it is a landlocked water body, in fact the largest inland body of water on Earth.

Lithuania is a Baltic state to the north of Belarus, and Belarus lies between it and Ukraine, so the two never touch.

The atmosphere is heated mainly from below, by the Earth's own long wave (terrestrial) radiation, not directly by sunlight. Incoming solar radiation is short wave, and the atmosphere is largely transparent to it, so most of it passes through and heats the Earth's surface.

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, and Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, face each other across the Río de la Plata. The River Plate is a wide funnel-shaped estuary formed where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet before entering the Atlantic Ocean.

That is exactly what a port of call is. Ports of call first grew up as stopping points on the great ocean routes, where ships halted to take on fuel, fresh water and provisions before the next long leg of the voyage.

Dhupgarh, about 1,350 metres high, stands in the Pachmarhi hills of Madhya Pradesh and is the highest peak of the Satpura range, which is a block mountain bounded by faults along the Narmada and the Tapi.

The Pennar river cut the Gandikota gorge through the Erramala hills in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. Gandikota is often called the Grand Canyon of India.

Begun in 1958 as the Rajasthan Canal and renamed in 1984, it is the longest canal in India; its feeder and main canal together run for about six hundred and fifty kilometres and carry water from the Punjab rivers into the Thar desert of western Rajasthan.

The Deccan Traps, the vast lava plateau of the north-western peninsula, were laid down by eruptions at the close of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago.

All three statements describe India's two coasts correctly: the west is high, rocky and erosional, the east is low and depositional.

Physiological density divides the total population by the area of arable or net cultivated land, showing how many people each unit of farmland must support.

Olericulture is the branch of horticulture that deals with vegetables, covering their production in the field, their storage, their processing and their marketing, and it is the branch on which market gardening and truck farming rest.

Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.

Expressed as women per men, Asia has a low sex ratio, because several of its large countries have fewer women than men.

Singapore lies at about 1.3° North, which makes it the closest of these cities to the Equator, only about 140 km north of it.

In a centripetal pattern streams flow inward from all sides into a central lake or basin, like spokes pointing to a hub.

The Sea of Azov joins the Black Sea through the narrow Kerch Strait, east of the Crimean peninsula. The Sea of Azov is bordered by Russia and Ukraine and is often called the shallowest sea in the world, with a maximum depth of only about 14 metres.

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.

Anamudi, about 2,695 metres high, rises in the Anaimalai hills of the Idukki district of Kerala and is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole peninsular plateau south of the Himalayas; the Eravikulam National Park around it shelters the Nilgiri tahr.