Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 106

Nagaland was the only Indian state whose population fell between 2001 and 2011; its decadal growth rate in Census 2011 was about −0.6 per cent.

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.

Collision-coalescence is the way rain forms in warm clouds, whose tops stay below the level where water freezes. In such clouds all droplets are liquid.

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.

Of every hundred units of insolation arriving at the top of the atmosphere, about thirty-five are turned back before they can heat the ground, twenty-seven from the tops of clouds, two from snow and ice covered surfaces and the remainder scattered by the atmosphere; this reflected share is the albedo…

A khadin is a long earthen embankment built across the lower end of a sloping field, so that rainwater running off the higher rocky ground collects behind it.

It runs across Russia from St Petersburg and Moscow in the west to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, a distance of about 9,289 km from Moscow, and no other single railway line in the world is as long.

Going from north to south, the order is Aravalli, Vindhya, Satpura and then Ajanta. The Aravalli Range runs across Rajasthan in the north-west and is among the oldest fold mountains in the world.

Nimbostratus is a thick, dark grey layer cloud that covers the whole sky and gives steady, continuous rain or snow, often for many hours.

Gujarat has the longest coastline of any Indian state. Its shore runs from the Rann of Kachchh round the Gulf of Kachchh, along the whole Saurashtra or Kathiawar peninsula and down the Gulf of Khambhat, and this deeply indented outline gives it far more shore than any other state.

This is the normal lapse rate, the average fall of temperature with height in the troposphere, and it is the reason a hill station is cool while the plain at the same latitude is hot.

A place that has a municipal corporation, a municipality, a cantonment board or a notified town area committee is a statutory town, and it is urban whatever its population; it is therefore not a census town at all.

The line begins in European Russia and runs eastward across the whole of Siberia, and Vladivostok is both its terminus and the principal Russian naval and commercial port on the Pacific.

Although it is called a sea because of its size and its saline water, it has no outlet to the ocean and is therefore the largest lake in the world by area.

The orbit of the earth is an ellipse, so the distance from the sun changes through the year; the earth is closest at perihelion about the third of January and farthest at aphelion about the fourth of July, which is option D and the usual distractor in this question.

The Great Barrier Reef stretches for over two thousand kilometres in the Coral Sea along the north-eastern coast of Queensland, is the largest coral reef system in the world, and was placed on the list of World Heritage sites in 1981; the warm shallow tropical water of the continental shelf…

The Suez Canal was cut across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt and opened in 1869.

Advection is the sideways or horizontal transfer of heat by moving air, and in the middle latitudes most of the day to day variation in temperature comes from it; the hot loo that blows over north India in summer and the cold wave that follows a north-westerly wind in winter…

It crosses the isthmus of Central America, where the land rises well above sea level, so ships cannot simply be floated through.

An inversion needs the ground to lose heat quickly and the air above to stay undisturbed: a long night gives time for terrestrial radiation to escape, a clear sky lets it escape, dry air absorbs little of it, and calm conditions keep the cold air lying in place, so the…