Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 109

Decomposition breaks rocks down at the surface and is a process of weathering, whereas metamorphism changes rocks deep inside the crust through heat, pressure and chemically active solutions.

The Ganga-Yamuna Doab is a level alluvial plain with deep fertile soil, assured water from wells, canals and a high water table, and a long history of dense farming settlement, so its villages are compact or nucleated: the houses stand packed together in one block with narrow lanes, and the…

Earthquake waves are of two basic types, body waves and surface waves, and surface waves are produced when body waves reach the surface and interact with the surface rocks.

The Gobi lies in southern Mongolia and northern China, in the rain shadow of the Himalaya, which keeps the monsoon out; it is a cold desert with bitter winters, gravel plains rather than sand seas, and is known for dinosaur fossil beds.

All three features listed, excess salts of sodium, potassium and magnesium, a sandy to loamy texture and their spread in western Gujarat, the eastern deltas and the Sundarbans, describe saline soils.

The Murray rises in the Snowy Mountains of the Great Dividing Range and, with its long tributary the Darling, drains the south-eastern interior of Australia; the basin is the country's chief farming region for wheat, fruit and sheep, and it is supported by the Snowy Mountains water scheme and by…

Rice is mainly a kharif crop, and in West Bengal and the neighbouring states farmers grow three rice crops in a year: aus in the pre-monsoon and early monsoon season, aman in the main monsoon season with a winter harvest, and boro in winter and spring.

Its cotton textile mills, which began in the 1860s and multiplied in the early twentieth century, earned it the comparison with the English mill town of Manchester.

Mica is a non-metallic mineral, a silicate that splits into thin, clear, flexible sheets, and no metal is extracted from it.

The warning comes in four stages, each tied to a number of hours before the adverse weather is expected on the coast.

Kamarajar Port is a corporatised major port that was earlier called Ennore Port, but it is an artificial harbour, not a natural one.

An isohel, from the Greek helios for the sun, joins places that receive sunshine for an equal number of hours, and such maps are used in studies of solar energy potential and of crop seasons.

Chhattisgarh is a long, narrow state that stretches from about 17.8° N in Sukma district to about 24.1° N in Balrampur district, a north-south length of roughly 700 km.

A drumlin is a smooth oval mound of till, the unsorted debris left by ice, shaped like an inverted spoon with its steeper end facing the direction from which the glacier came; a group of drumlins produces what is called basket-of-eggs topography.

Both statements swap the roles of high and low clouds. Low clouds such as stratus and stratocumulus are thick and bright from above.

The Authority came into being in 1986 under the Inland Waterways Authority of India Act, 1985, and its headquarters is at Noida in Uttar Pradesh.

The Senkaku Islands are a small group of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, administered by Japan and claimed by China, which calls them the Diaoyu Islands; Taiwan also claims them as Diaoyutai.

Anatolia–Turkey and Amhara–Ethiopia are correct, while Cabo Delgado and Catalonia are paired with the wrong countries. Anatolia, also called Asia Minor, is the large peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean that forms most of Turkey's territory, so pair 1 is correct.

Stewart Island, the Bay of Plenty and Hawke Bay are all in New Zealand. Stewart Island, called Rakiura in Maori, is the third-largest island of the country and lies south of the South Island across the Foveaux Strait.

The Ganga flows from west to east across the northern plains, so the cities follow the order in which the river reaches them.