Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 104

Because the axis is tilted and keeps pointing the same way as the Earth goes round the Sun, each place gets more sunlight in one half of the year and less in the other.

When houses are built all around a lake or tank, the village grows in a ring around the water, giving a circular pattern.

Kampala lies almost on the equator, where a point on the Earth's surface moves the longest distance in each rotation and so has the greatest linear speed.

It rises on the plateau of Tibet, flows across central China and enters the East China Sea near Shanghai, and is the longest river of Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon.

The Mohorovicic discontinuity, or Moho, is the boundary between the crust and the mantle, where seismic waves suddenly speed up.

Death Valley lies in eastern California within the Mojave desert region and its floor at Badwater Basin is about eighty-six metres below sea level, the lowest land point of North America; it is also one of the hottest places recorded on the earth.

. Statement D is the incorrect one: the streams on a dissected volcanic cone do form a radial drainage pattern.

Hyderabad was founded in 1591 on the Musi, a tributary of the Krishna, and the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs built on the Musi still help supply the city.

Both statements are correct: the Coriolis force works at right angles to the pressure gradient force, and it vanishes at the equator, where winds cross the isobars at right angles.

The eight countries of the WMO and ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones agreed on a list of names for this basin and began using them in 2004, long after the Atlantic, where naming had been practice for decades.

In the hills of Uttarakhand the river is called the Kali (or Mahakali); it takes the name Sarda (Sharda) only after it reaches the plains.

The Pamir knot is the node where the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun and the Tian Shan ranges meet, and the Fedchenko glacier, running for roughly seventy-seven kilometres, is the longest glacier found anywhere outside the Arctic and the Antarctic.

Only Gandhi Sagar is matched with its correct State, so three of the four pairs are wrong. Gandhi Sagar is the first of the Chambal valley dams, built in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh, so pair 2 is correct.

The correct answer is C, 1,620 km, which makes National Waterway 1 the longest of India's national waterways and the one with the largest cargo movement.

The temperate forests called Sholas grow in the higher reaches of all three ranges named, the Nilgiris, the Anaimalai and the Palani hills.

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

. Mica is an excellent electrical insulator that withstands high voltage and heat, so it is used mainly in the electrical and electronic industries.

The Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) is the sole research and development wing of the Ministry of Railways. RDSO is headquartered at Lucknow.

Punjab has the highest share of Scheduled Castes in its population among the States, about 31.9 per cent in Census 2011.

Only statement 1 is correct; statement 2 has the two layers the wrong way round. Sleet is precipitation in the form of frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water.