Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 123

Igneous rocks are called primary rocks, but they can be changed into metamorphic rocks, and slow cooling gives large grains, not small ones.

The range runs about 7,000 kilometres down the western edge of South America through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and it carries Aconcagua, the highest peak outside Asia.

Iceland's volcanic and tectonic activity gives it cheap geothermal energy, adds new land through eruptions and draws large numbers of tourists.

The Bhakra dam stands on the Sutlej at Bhakra in Bilaspur district of Himachal Pradesh, with the Nangal barrage downstream in Punjab, and the reservoir behind it is Govind Sagar.

In the southern hemisphere the trade winds are the south-east trades, blowing from the subtropical high towards the equator and turned to their left by the Coriolis force.

The Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Unnat Gram Abhiyan was announced in the Union Budget of 2024-25 and approved by the Union Cabinet in 2024 as a mission to saturate tribal-majority villages and aspirational blocks with basic facilities such as housing, roads, water, electricity, health and education, working through the convergence of…

Exfoliation is a process of physical (mechanical) weathering, in which outer layers of rock peel off like the skin of an onion, with no change in the rock's chemical make-up.

The energy of an earthquake is released at a point inside the earth, and the point on the surface directly above it is the epicentre, where the tremor is felt first and usually most strongly; it is the point reported in news bulletins.

Belarus is a landlocked country in eastern Europe, far south of the Arctic, so it has no tundra. Tundra vegetation grows beyond the tree line, mainly north of the Arctic Circle, where summers are short and cool and the subsoil stays frozen as permafrost.

The Seventy-fourth Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992 inserted Part IXA into the Constitution with Articles 243P to 243ZG, gave municipalities a fixed term of five years with elections conducted by a State Election Commission, provided for reservation of seats, and added the Twelfth Schedule listing eighteen subjects for urban local…

Oceanic trenches mark the places where one plate sinks beneath another, so they are key evidence for plate movement and are lined by volcanoes and earthquakes.

The Palk Strait lies between the Ramanathapuram coast of Tamil Nadu and the Jaffna region of northern Sri Lanka, and it joins Palk Bay in the north with the Gulf of Mannar in the south; the shoals of Adam's Bridge run across its southern end.

Only the Siachen pair is correct. The Siachen Glacier, about 76 km long, lies in the eastern Karakoram, and its meltwater gives rise to the Nubra river, which joins the Shyok; the Nubra Valley of Ladakh lies below its snout, so the glacier belongs to the Nubra Valley region.

Jordan grew out of the British Mandate after the First World War, but it is not landlocked because it touches the Gulf of Aqaba.

Statements 2 and 4 are correct, while statements 1 and 3 name the wrong city. The Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), set up in 1986, has its headquarters at Noida in Uttar Pradesh and develops and regulates the national waterways.

The Great Artesian Basin lies below the dry interior of eastern Australia, mainly under Queensland and parts of New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, and it is the largest artesian basin in the world; water enters the porous rock where it is exposed near the Great Dividing…

In an EEZ every country keeps the freedom to sail ships, fly aircraft and lay submarine cables and pipelines, so these are not rights reserved for the coastal state.

Mediterranean agriculture is a highly specialised commercial type of farming, and growing grapes, called viticulture, is its best-known feature.

Both statements are correct: a ground inversion is formed by radiation cooling, and it is the same as a negative lapse rate near the surface.

Singapore is both a port of call and an entrepot, and Karwar is a naval port, but Dover is a ferry port, not an outport.