Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 103

In drip irrigation water is carried through pipes and released slowly, drop by drop, at the root zone of each plant through emitters, so losses to evaporation, runoff and deep percolation are the lowest of all methods and fertiliser can be delivered with the water.

A surface inversion makes the lower air stable, not unstable, and it usually breaks up a few hours after sunrise.

Dry farming, also called dryland farming, is the practice of raising crops without irrigation in areas of low and uncertain rainfall, and the conventional limit used in Indian geography is an annual rainfall of about seventy-five centimetres.

The INSTC links Indian ports by sea to Iran and then by rail and road northwards to Central Asia, Russia and on to Europe.

The scheme was launched in 2015 to bring the scattered irrigation programmes under one roof, and its components include Har Khet Ko Pani, which aims to extend assured irrigation to every field, Per Drop More Crop, which promotes drip and sprinkler systems, the Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme for incomplete major…

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.

Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms on mulberry or other host leaves for the production of raw silk, and it is an allied activity of farming that supports lakhs of rural households in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.

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.

The Agra Canal leaves the right bank of the Yamuna at the Okhla barrage to the south of Delhi and carries water to the districts of Agra and Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, with branches reaching parts of Haryana and Rajasthan.

The Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N) passes through eight Indian states, and Manipur is not one of them; it lies just to the north.

Where population is dense and holdings have been divided by inheritance over generations, as in India, China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia, the farmer puts in abundant labour, manure and irrigation water on a tiny field and takes more than one crop a year.

In Koppen's scheme for India, most of the Ganga plain falls in the Cwg type: a monsoon climate with a dry winter.

The Sirhind Canal is taken from the Sutlej at Ropar, now Rupnagar, and is one of the oldest canal systems of Punjab, irrigating a large tract of the Malwa region and parts of Haryana.

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.

The kolkhoz was the collective farm of the former Soviet Union, in which land, implements, livestock and labour were pooled and the farm worked under state direction with production targets fixed by the plan; the state farm, worked wholly by wage earners, was called the sovkhoz.

The Steppes are the temperate grasslands of Eurasia, stretching across Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan; the Prairies cover the central plains of the United States and Canada; the Velds are the grassy plateaus of South Africa; and the Downs are the grasslands of south-eastern Australia, famous for sheep rearing and merino…

The Mediterranean climate, with its hot dry summer and mild wet winter, suits the vine better than almost any other region, and the lands around the Mediterranean sea, together with California, central Chile, the Cape region of South Africa and parts of southern Australia, are the world's great wine-producing areas…

The Narmada divides the Peninsular plateau into two parts: the Central Highlands to its north and the Deccan Plateau to its south.

In slash-and-burn farming the felled trees and undergrowth are dried and burnt on the spot, and the ash left behind is rich in potash and other mineral nutrients, which the cultivator depends on because no chemical fertiliser or farmyard manure is used.

As its name says, it is subsistence farming, where the family grows food mainly for its own use, not for sale.