Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 102

The Harike barrage stands in Punjab at the point where the Beas joins the Sutlej, and the Indira Gandhi Canal begins there as the Rajasthan Feeder before continuing as the main canal into Rajasthan.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

A plantation crop is a single cash crop grown on a large estate with heavy capital, hired labour and processing of the produce on or near the estate, and coffee, grown in the hills of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, is a classic example along with tea, rubber and sugarcane.

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.

India's land-use records follow a nine-fold classification, and 'marginal land' is not one of its classes.

By origin, resources are either biotic, which come from living things, or abiotic, which come from non-living things. Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere and have life: plants, animals, fish, livestock and human beings.

The Upper Ganga Canal was opened in 1854 and is taken from the Ganga at Haridwar, from where it runs down the Ganga–Yamuna Doab and irrigates the districts of western Uttar Pradesh; the engineer associated with its construction is Proby Cautley.

Doddabetta, about 2,637 metres high, is the highest peak of the Nilgiri Hills and stands close to Ooty (Udhagamandalam) in Tamil Nadu.

Milpa is the local name given to the slash-and-burn system of the Mexican and Central American forests, where maize, beans and squash are grown together on a burnt forest clearing for a few seasons.

Each of the three grew around a factory: Jamshedpur around the steel works set up by the Tata enterprise, Bhilai around the public sector steel plant built with Soviet collaboration, and Modinagar around the industries of the Modi group, so industry is their dominant function.

The Grand Anicut, known in Tamil as Kallanai, was thrown across the Cauvery by the Chola king Karikala in about the second century to spread the river's water over the delta, and it still serves the canals of the Cauvery delta in Tamil Nadu.

Ahmedabad was founded by Ahmad Shah in 1411 on the left bank of the Sabarmati, and the river gives its name to the Sabarmati Ashram from which Gandhi began the Dandi march in 1930.

Jhum, also written jhoom, is the local name of shifting cultivation in Assam and the hill states of the north-east, where a forest patch on a slope is cleared, burnt and cropped for two or three years before being left fallow.

The India Meteorological Department puts a system in the highest class, super cyclonic storm, when the sustained wind at its centre reaches 222 km/h, which is 120 knots.

The Buckingham Canal is a salt water navigation canal dug in the nineteenth century along the eastern coast, linking the lagoons and backwaters between Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, and it was used to carry goods and to relieve famine by moving grain.

National Waterway 1 runs 1,620 km from Haldia in West Bengal to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, through West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and was the first waterway to be declared national, in 1986.

The correct answer is B, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, where the hill communities of the Eastern Ghats call shifting cultivation podu.

Groundwater drawn through wells and tube wells irrigates the largest part of the net irrigated area of India, and its share has risen steadily since the Green Revolution because a tube well gives water on demand, close to the field and without waiting for a canal turn.

The correct answer is C, Indonesia and Malaysia, where the forest clearings of the equatorial islands are called ladang and are cropped with dry rice, maize and root crops for a few seasons.

Tank irrigation is characteristic of the peninsula, especially Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, for three reasons: the hard crystalline rock of the plateau makes the digging of wells difficult and holds little groundwater, the rivers of the peninsula are seasonal and cannot feed perennial canals, and the uneven…