Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 112

The Big Bang theory is the accepted explanation of how the universe itself began, while the other options try to explain only the solar system.

The Census of India groups towns into six classes by population: Class I of one hundred thousand and above, Class II of fifty thousand to ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class III of twenty thousand to forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, Class IV of ten thousand to nineteen…

India follows a single standard time, Indian Standard Time, for the whole country, and it is ahead of GMT, not behind it.

The India Meteorological Department attaches a colour to the severity of the expected weather so that an administration can act without reading the whole bulletin.

Only the third statement is right: the crust is the outermost solid shell of the Earth and it is brittle in nature, which is why it cracks and faults during earthquakes.

A glacier fills the whole floor of a valley and erodes its sides as well as its bed, so it widens and deepens the valley into a trough with a broad flat floor and steep straight walls, which in section looks like the letter U. Option A is wrong because…

All three statements describe composite volcanoes, also called stratovolcanoes. Their lava is cooler and more viscous than basalt, so gas cannot escape easily and pressure builds up until the volcano erupts explosively.

The National Waterways Act, 2016 brought together in one statute the five waterways already declared between 1986 and 2008 and added many more, making 111 in all, spread over rivers, canals, creeks, estuaries and backwaters in most states of the country.

Ladakh lies in the rain shadow of the Great Himalaya, so the monsoon winds hardly reach it and it is a cold desert with well under 50 cm of rain a year.

Population ageing is the process by which the share of older people becomes proportionately larger, not lesser, so statement 1 is false, while statement 2 is true.

The South Atlantic Drift is part of the West Wind Drift, the cold eastward flow that circles Antarctica in the belt of the westerlies, around 40° to 50° south.

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

As rivers come down from the mountains onto the plains, their slope suddenly drops and they can no longer carry their heaviest load.

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

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, while statement 3 is wrong. The Satluj rises in the Rakas Tal near Lake Mansarovar in Tibet, at about 4,555 m, and is known there as Langchen Khambab.

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

These are four of the twelve soil orders in the USDA Soil Taxonomy, the classification also used by Indian soil scientists.

The India State of Forest Report 2021, published by the Forest Survey of India, Dehradun, put the forest cover of Arunachal Pradesh at about 79 per cent of its geographical area, the highest among the four Himalayan states listed.

The offshore oil terminal at Vadinar, on the Gulf of Kachchh in Gujarat, was built to ease the load on Kandla Port.

A stack is a landform made by erosion, not by deposition. Waves attack a headland and open cracks into caves; when caves on both sides meet, a sea arch forms, and when the roof of the arch collapses, the seaward part is left standing as an isolated rock pillar called…