Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 118

Each theory is paired with the scientist who put it forward. Immanuel Kant proposed the Gaseous Hypothesis in 1755: a slowly rotating cloud of hot gas condensed to form the Sun and the planets.

It is a landlocked salt lake bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the remnant of the ancient Tethys sea, and is called a sea only by custom.

A point on a map is fixed where its line of latitude crosses its line of longitude, so both values are needed and enough.

The Barak between Lakhipur and Bhanga, about 121 km, serves the Barak valley of southern Assam, and through Karimganj it joins the protocol route across Bangladesh, which makes it the lifeline of a region cut off from the rest of Assam by hills.

Magma is mostly molten silicate, so the minerals that crystallise from it, such as feldspar, quartz, mica, pyroxene and olivine, are silicates.

Under the Maritime Zones Act of 1976 the territorial waters extend to twelve nautical miles from the baseline, and within them India has sovereignty over the water, the seabed, the subsoil and the air space, subject only to the right of innocent passage of foreign ships.

All three statements about the Richter scale are correct. Statement 1 is correct: the American seismologist Charles F. Richter devised the scale in 1935 at the California Institute of Technology, working with Beno Gutenberg.

The Tropic of Cancer (23.5°N) passes through eight Indian states, and Manipur is not one of them; it lies just to the north.

Statements I and II describe the Coriolis force correctly; statement III is wrong, because away from the equator the wind ends up blowing parallel to the isobars.

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

The south-west monsoon usually lasts about 100 to 120 days, from early June to about mid-September. The monsoon reaches the Kerala coast around 1 June and spreads over almost the whole country by early to mid-July.

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.

The Kuroshio is a warm current that flows north-east along the east coast of Japan, carrying warm tropical water from the North Equatorial Current.

Their boundary, about 8,891 km long including the Alaska section, is the longest border between any two countries.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Kashmir Himalayas correctly, but Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are salt-water lakes. The Karewas are thick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines, laid down on the floor of the Kashmir Valley; they are famous for the cultivation of saffron (zafran).

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest of all by both diameter and mass; it is a gas giant of hydrogen and helium.

Indore stands on the Malwa Plateau in western Madhya Pradesh. Malwa is a volcanic upland of basalt rock, part of the Deccan Traps, lying north of the Vindhya Range; its black soil supports soybean, wheat and cotton, and the region also takes in Ujjain, Dewas, Ratlam and Mandsaur.

The Tsangpo enters India as the Dihang and the Godavari has the second largest basin, but the Chambal and Betwa join the Yamuna, not the Ganga.

Black soil covers most of the Deccan Plateau, and its clay holds water so well that rainfed crops actually do well in it, so statement 3 is false.

The patches of evergreen temperate forest in the high valleys of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills of the Western Ghats are called sholas.