Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 105

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.

Scattering acts on incoming short-wave sunlight, while the heat the Earth gives back as long-wave energy reaches the air by conduction, convection and radiation.

The 2011 Census found that about 49% of Indian households used firewood as their main fuel for cooking, which rounds to half.

It joins north-eastern North America with Western Europe, two of the most industrialised regions on Earth, and carries the heaviest traffic of any ocean route.

These are cirrocumulus clouds: high clouds of ice crystals arranged in small white puffs and ripples. Clouds are grouped by height and shape.

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.

Southern Argentina is Patagonia, a cold, dry steppe and desert region lying in the rain shadow of the Andes, so it does not have a humid subtropical climate.

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.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed between the main channel of the Brahmaputra to the south and the Subansiri and Kherkutia Suti channels to the north.

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

Paleogeography is the study of the Earth's geography in the geological past, and its main product is a set of maps showing where continents, oceans, mountains and shorelines lay at different times.

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

Mahendragiri, about 1,501 metres high, stands in the Gajapati district of southern Odisha, close to the Andhra Pradesh border.

The equator crosses none of these three water bodies; in Africa it passes through Lake Victoria, not Lake Tanganyika.

The word is a contraction of incoming solar radiation, and it means the short-wave energy from the sun that reaches the earth, measured in India by the India Meteorological Department in units of energy per unit area per unit time.

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

The southernmost of India's major ports is V. O. Chidambaranar Port, long known as Tuticorin, which lies on the Gulf of Mannar in the Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu.

A pattern that looks like the branches of a tree or the veins of a leaf, formed on uniform rock with a regular slope, is dendritic.

Koppen placed the Ganga plain of northern India under Cwg, a monsoon type with dry winters.

Statements 1, 2 and 3 describe the Coal Controller's Organisation, while statement 4 does not. The CCO is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Coal with its headquarters in Kolkata.