Set 117 of the Geography mixed quiz has 20 multiple-choice questions from 10 different topics of the subject: World Population: Distribution, Density and Growth, Mountain Passes and Hill Stations of India, Drainage Patterns and River Basins of India and more. 4 of them were asked in real previous-year papers. A topic quiz checks one chapter; this set revises the whole subject at once, the way an exam paper does, where the next question can come from any chapter. Every question carries an explanation of why the correct option is right and why the others are wrong. Keep to the timer, read the explanations at the end, and go back to the notes of any topic where you slipped.
20 questions with answers and explanations
The replacement level of total fertility rate for India is
Replacement level fertility is the total fertility rate at which a generation of women exactly replaces itself in the next generation.
Read the full explanation →The Rohtang Pass, beneath which the Atal Tunnel has been built, lies in which state?
The Rohtang Pass lies on the Pir Panjal range in Himachal Pradesh and connects the Kullu valley with the Lahaul and Spiti district.
Read the full explanation →Which river of peninsular India is known as the Dakshin Ganga and has the largest basin in the peninsula?
It rises at Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district of Maharashtra, runs about one thousand four hundred kilometres across Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to the Bay of Bengal, and drains about 3.1 lakh square kilometres, the largest catchment in the peninsula, which is why it is called the Ganga of the…
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following Scheduled Tribes is found in the maximum number of districts in Uttar Pradesh?
The Tharu are the most widely distributed Scheduled Tribe of Uttar Pradesh, living along the Terai belt that runs below the Himalaya through Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Balrampur, Shrawasti, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj and the neighbouring districts, so they appear in more districts of the state than any other notified tribe.
Read the full explanation →In which stage of the demographic transition are both the birth rate and the death rate high, so that population grows slowly?
In the first stage of the demographic transition the society is rural and agrarian, life expectancy is low, medical facilities are poor and literacy is low, so both the birth rate and the death rate are high and they roughly cancel each other, leaving population almost stationary.
Read the full explanation →Read the two statements in the context of urbanisation: A) Due to urbanisation, only the rich began leaving their villages to look for jobs that were opening up in cities in the colonial period B) The poor and many from the low castes, saw this opportunity to get away from oppressive hold that upper-caste land owners exercised over their lives and the daily humiliation they suffered.
Statement B is sound: for the poor and for people of the lower castes, the new jobs in colonial cities were a way out of the control of upper-caste landowners in the village and of the daily humiliation they suffered there, and this pull is part of every account of…
Read the full explanation →Centripetal drainage, in which streams flow inward from all sides, is best illustrated in India by the streams draining into
Loktak lies in the floor of the Manipur valley, which is ringed by hills, so the streams of the valley run inward into it from every side, the classic shape of a centripetal pattern; the lake is also known for its floating phumdis and for Keibul Lamjao, the only floating…
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest and the most extensive plateau in the world?
Enclosed by the Himalaya in the south, the Karakoram and Kunlun in the north-west and the Chinese mountains in the east, it averages well over four thousand metres and is called the roof of the world along with the Pamir; the Indus, the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra, the Yangtze and the…
Read the full explanation →A population pyramid with a very broad base and a narrow top indicates
The width of each bar in a population pyramid shows the share of that age group, so a broad base means that children form a very large part of the population, which happens where the birth rate is high; the narrow top shows that few people survive to old age.
Read the full explanation →The city of Lucknow is located on the bank of which river?
Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and the old seat of the Nawabs of Awadh, stands on the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganga that rises in the Pilibhit district.
Read the full explanation →The Indus, the Satluj and the Brahmaputra cut deep gorges across the Himalaya because they are older than the present mountains. Such drainage is called
These rivers were flowing when the Himalaya was still rising, and instead of being turned aside they cut downward as fast as the land rose, leaving the gorges of the Indus near Gilgit, of the Satluj at Shipki and of the Brahmaputra at the great bend in the Dihang.
Read the full explanation →Blue Revolution is related with the following
The blue revolution is the name given to the rapid rise in fish output through aquaculture and improved marine fishing, which in India followed the spread of induced breeding of carp, the work of fish farmers development agencies and later a dedicated central scheme for fisheries.
Read the full explanation →Which continent has the largest share of the world's population?
Asia holds roughly three-fifths of all the people in the world, mainly in the two great clusters of East Asia and South Asia, which include the two most populous countries on earth.
Read the full explanation →Which statement about the eye of a tropical cyclone is correct?
The eye is ten to fifty kilometres across, the air inside it sinks rather than rises, the wind is light and the sky can even be clear, while the atmospheric pressure there is the lowest in the whole system.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following Indian rivers does not form a delta at its mouth?
It flows west through the narrow rift between the Vindhya and the Satpura ranges and opens into the Gulf of Khambhat, where strong tides sweep away the silt, so the river ends in a funnel shaped estuary and not a delta; the Tapi, which also flows west in a rift…
Read the full explanation →Isoseismal lines on a map are drawn to show equal:
Isoseismal lines join points at which the shaking of an earthquake was felt with the same intensity, and because intensity falls away from the source, they are drawn as roughly concentric closed curves around the epicentre, the point of the surface vertically above the focus.
Read the full explanation →The natural growth of population in a given period is obtained by
Natural growth is the increase that comes from the balance of births over deaths alone, so it is births minus deaths in the period, and it is negative when deaths exceed births.
Read the full explanation →The Narmada river rises from which of the following?
The correct answer is A, the Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh, where the Narmada rises at about one thousand metres and begins its westward journey of some thirteen hundred kilometres through Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to the Gulf of Khambhat; on the way it makes the Dhuandhar falls and the…
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a push factor of migration?
Push factors are the unfavourable conditions of the place a person leaves, such as unemployment, poverty, crop failure, drought, flood, epidemic and political unrest; they push people out.
Read the full explanation →The Tapi river originates near which place in Madhya Pradesh?
It is the second of the two large west flowing peninsular rivers and runs almost parallel to the Narmada, with the Satpura range between them.
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