Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 122

Feldspar makes up about half of the earth's crust and is light cream to salmon pink in colour, but magnesium is not its common element.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Ring of Fire around the Pacific is a belt of convergent plate boundaries, full of active volcanoes and earthquakes and lined by deep ocean trenches.

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.

These hot, very dry winds blow from the inland deserts towards the coast of Southern California and spread its autumn wildfires.

The land-use classification kept in India's land revenue records divides the reporting area into nine categories.

The Indravati is a tributary of the Godavari, flowing from Odisha through the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh; it has nothing to do with the Cauvery basin.

The Steppes are the temperate grasslands of Eurasia, stretching across Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan; the Prairies cover the central plains of the United States and Canada; the Velds are the grassy plateaus of South Africa; and the Downs are the grasslands of south-eastern Australia, famous for sheep rearing and merino…

Bharatmala Pariyojana is the Union government's highway development programme for building and upgrading national highways, economic corridors and border and coastal roads.

Where the rivers leave the hills they drop their coarsest load, and the resulting belt of gravel and pebbles is so porous that the smaller streams sink into it and vanish.

In hydration, minerals take water into their structure, swell in volume and change into new minerals, which loosens and breaks the rock.

The Bhabar is a narrow belt about 8 to 16 kilometres wide, laid along the foot of the Shiwalik range, where the rivers leaving the hills drop their coarsest load.

South-east China has a warm, humid subtropical climate with rain in every season, and its natural vegetation is broadleaf evergreen forest of the subtropics.

Chilika lies on the Utkal coast of Odisha, separated from the Bay of Bengal by a long sandbar, and it is the largest brackish-water lagoon in India, famous for its migratory birds and for its population of Irrawaddy dolphins.

All three statements describe how ocean waves form and travel. Statement 1 is correct: wind-driven waves grow with the wind's speed, the length of time it blows and the fetch, the stretch of open water over which it blows.

It takes its name from India, whose peninsula projects into it, and this is the only case of an ocean named after a nation; it is also unusual in being closed in the north by the Asian landmass, which makes its monsoon-driven currents reverse twice a year.

Mount Thullier, about 642 metres high, is the highest point of the Nicobar group and stands on Great Nicobar, the southernmost and largest island of that group.

The Caucasus Mountains stretch from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east, across Russia, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Arabian plate, which carries most of the Saudi Arabian landmass, is counted among the minor plates.

Hawaii was built by a hotspot in the middle of the Pacific Plate, far from any plate boundary, not by a mid-oceanic ridge.