Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 120

The spin of the Earth throws the equatorial belt outward, so the planet bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles.

These are communities within the Scheduled Tribes that are the least developed on four counts: a pre-agricultural level of technology, a stagnant or declining population, extremely low literacy and a subsistence economy.

Chalk is a soft, white limestone built up from the tiny calcium carbonate shells of marine micro-organisms, so it is an organically formed sedimentary rock.

The Scottish geographer and town planner Patrick Geddes coined the word conurbation in 1915 for a great urban mass formed when separate towns grow outward until their built-up areas merge, as in Greater London or the Ruhr.

P waves are the fastest earthquake waves and reach a seismograph first, and they are longitudinal, while S waves are transverse.

The Pamir, mostly in Tajikistan, is the knot where the Himalaya, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun and Tien Shan meet, and its height and position earned it this name, which is also used for the plateau of Tibet.

In the Hadley cell, air rises near the equator and sinks at about 30 degrees latitude, in the subtropical high-pressure belts.

Its shape and depth come from the rift: the floor between two parallel faults sank, giving a trough rather than a shallow basin.

The Barak rises in the hills of Manipur, not Meghalaya, so statement 1 is false, while the other two statements are true.

The Panama Canal was opened in 1914 across the narrow isthmus of Panama, it is about eighty kilometres long and uses a system of locks and the artificial Gatun Lake, and it saves a ship sailing between New York and San Francisco the long voyage around Cape Horn at the…

Both statements describe the industry correctly. The modern cotton mill industry began in Mumbai in 1854 and grew first in Maharashtra and Gujarat, close to the black cotton soil, the ports and a ready market.

The Danube rises in the Black Forest of Germany, flows east through central Europe and reaches the Black Sea, and it passes the capitals of Austria, Hungary and Serbia, which is why it is said to water more capital cities than any other river in the world.

The Golden Quadrilateral links Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai, and neither Lucknow nor Indore lies on any of its four sides.

Operation Flood was launched by the National Dairy Development Board in 1970 to build a national milk grid on the Anand pattern of cooperatives, and it ran in three phases until 1996, by which time village societies in most states were selling milk to the big cities.

A latitude of about 15 degrees north on India's western side, near 74 degrees east, can only be Goa, which lies on the Konkan coast between Maharashtra and Karnataka.

The Bay of Bengal gets about four cyclones for every one that forms in the Arabian Sea.

In a recumbent fold the rock layers are pushed over so far that the fold lies on its side and its axial plane is almost horizontal.

Both statements are true, and UPSC's official key also gives C. Water vapour is a variable gas, from almost nil in cold deserts to about 4 percent of the air by volume in the warm, humid tropics.

Only statement 1 is wrong: these trees shed their leaves in winter, not in summer. Mid-latitude (temperate) deciduous forests grow where summers are warm and moist and winters are cold.

Its Challenger Deep, about 10,900 metres (nearly 11 km) below sea level, is the deepest known point of the oceans.