Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 121

When sandstone, made mostly of quartz grains, is put under great heat and pressure, the grains fuse together and the rock turns into quartzite.

India's territorial waters, where it has full sovereignty, extend 12 nautical miles (about 22.2 km) from the baseline of its coast.

The hypocentre, also called the focus, is the point inside the Earth where the rupture begins and the stored energy is released.

Magnetic declination is the angle between true north and magnetic north, and along the agonic line that angle is zero, so a compass needle there points to true north.

The mistral is a cold, dry northerly wind that blows from the Alps down the Rhone valley of France to the Mediterranean coast.

Angel Falls, called Salto Angel in Spanish, drops about 979 metres from the Auyan Tepui, one of the flat topped table mountains of the Guiana highlands, and is fed by the Churun river, a tributary of the Caroni.

In Arunachal Pradesh the Brahmaputra is called the Dihang, or Siang, the name it carries after it enters India from Tibet.

Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark lying between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, is the largest island on earth, most of it covered by an ice sheet, and it is a continental island separated from the North American landmass.

Cochin Port lies at the head of the Vembanad Kayal and Mormugao Port at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, while statements 1 and 4 place Deendayal and Paradip wrongly.

Bara Shigri descends from the Pir Panjal and Great Himalayan slopes into the valley of the Chandra river, which joins the Bhaga at Tandi to form the Chandrabhaga or Chenab.

A cirque is carved by a glacier, not by a river, so it is not a fluvial landform. Fluvial landforms are those shaped by running water.

Shipping and navigation on inland waterways declared by Parliament to be national waterways is a Union List subject, which is why a central Act is needed to declare each waterway.

Tropical cyclones of the North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific are called hurricanes, not typhoons, so statement 2 is wrong.

Within this zone the coastal State has sovereign rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing the living and non-living resources of the water, the seabed and the subsoil, and exclusive jurisdiction over artificial islands, marine scientific research and the protection of the marine environment.

Neither has a Mediterranean climate, so neither has sclerophyll vegetation. Sclerophyll means 'hard leaf'.

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

Most places have two high tides a day, and because the moon rises about 52 minutes later each day, each high tide comes about 12 hours 26 minutes after the last.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along roughly the 10° North parallel, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group.

Muling La lies in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, on the route from the Gangotri region into Tibet, not in Arunachal Pradesh.

This statement is false: GPS was built by the United States for its military, but it has been open to civilian users worldwide for decades.