Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 119

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are called terrestrial planets because, like the earth, they are made of rock and metal.

Lakshadweep is a group of small coral islands, atolls and reefs lying off the Malabar coast of Kerala in the Arabian Sea, built on a submarine ridge.

India's standard meridian is 82°30' East, and Indian Standard Time is set by the local time along this line. India stretches from about 68°7' E to 97°25' E, a spread of nearly 30 degrees of longitude, which makes a time difference of about two hours between Gujarat and Arunachal Pradesh.

When industries gather at one urban centre, each of them can use the roads, railways, power lines, water supply, banks, insurance offices, skilled workers, component suppliers and repair workshops that the others have brought into being, and the saving in cost that follows from this sharing is called an agglomeration…

Statements 1 and 2 are correct, but statement 3 is wrong because the convection cells that drive plate movement lie in the mantle, not in the crust.

Chandigarh was built as the new capital of Punjab after Partition, and when Haryana was carved out of Punjab in 1966 the city was made a Union territory serving as the capital of both States.

The volcanoes of Hawaii, such as Mauna Loa and Kilauea, are broad, gently sloping cones built by runny basaltic lava.

The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Mariana Islands, and its southern end holds the Challenger Deep, close to eleven thousand metres below sea level, named after the British survey ship that sounded it in the nineteenth century.

All three factors shape the general circulation of the atmosphere, which is why UPSC's official key gives D. Planetary winds are the trade winds, the westerlies and the polar easterlies.

The White Nile comes from the Lake Victoria region of East Africa and carries a steady flow; the Blue Nile rises at Lake Tana in the Ethiopian highlands and brings the summer flood and most of the silt.

Both statements are true, and the rain shadow of the Western Ghats is exactly why interior Maharashtra gets little rain.

The engineer Kanwar Sain conceived the plan in 1948 of carrying the surplus water of the Sutlej and the Beas into the Thar desert, and the canal was taken up on his design.

Both the North Atlantic Drift and the Brazil Current carry warm water from low latitudes towards higher latitudes. As a rule, currents that flow from the equator towards the poles are warm, and those that flow from the poles towards the equator are cold.

Saddle Peak rises to about 732 metres in North Andaman and is the highest point of the whole union territory; a national park of the same name surrounds it.

The Mahananda rises in the Darjeeling hills, flows through north Bengal and Bihar and joins the Ganga, not the Brahmaputra.

The Palakkad Gap, also called the Palghat Gap, is about thirty kilometres wide and lies between the Nilgiris to its north and the Anaimalai hills to its south.

In inter-cropping the crops share a field at the same time but stand in planned rows. A common pattern is one row of one crop after a set number of rows of another, for example soyabean with maize, or pearl millet (bajra) with cowpea (lobia).

Rourkela in Sundargarh district of Odisha matches all three clues: Jharia coal, Sundargarh and Kendujhar iron ore, Hirakud power and water from the Koel and Sankh.

India does not have the largest railway network in the world; the United States has the longest, followed by China and Russia, with India in fourth place.

The first all-India census was attempted in 1872, and from 1881 a census has been held every ten years. The 1872 count, under Viceroy Lord Mayo, was taken in different regions at different times and did not cover the whole country, so it is called the first, non-synchronous attempt.