Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 125

From west to east the Tropic of Cancer passes through Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram, which is why the line is said to divide India almost into two halves.

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.

This coast lies in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats while the south-west monsoon blows, so its summer is comparatively dry, and it gets most of its rain between October and December from the retreating monsoon and the north-east monsoon, which is exactly what the small letter s records.

A khadin is a long earthen embankment built across the lower end of a sloping field, so that rainwater running off the higher rocky ground collects behind it.

Brazil is so large in north to south extent that the Equator crosses its northern part near the mouth of the Amazon while the Tropic of Capricorn crosses its south, close to Sao Paulo, making it the only country in the world cut by both lines.

Anaimudi stands in the Anaimalai hills of Kerala, where the Anaimalai, Palani and Cardamom hills meet, and rises to about 2,695 metres.

The capital B marks a dry climate, the capital W marks the arid or desert subdivision, h marks a hot climate and the last w marks a dry winter, so the whole code describes the heart of the Thar, the driest part of the country.

Bhangar is the older alluvial deposit of the Northern Plains. It forms terraces that stand above the present flood level, so fresh silt no longer reaches it, and long leaching has left calcareous concretions called kankar in its profile.

Ethiopia lies wholly north of the Equator, roughly between 3 and 15 degrees north, and its capital Addis Ababa is about 9 degrees north, so the line misses it, although the country is tropical and highland in character.

Towards the end of the Cretaceous period, fissure eruptions poured out sheet after sheet of lava over western and central India; the hardened lava is basalt and the stepped landscape it makes is called the Deccan Trap.

The capital D marks a cold snow forest climate in which the coldest month falls below minus three degrees Celsius, f marks the absence of a dry season and c marks a short summer with fewer than four months above ten degrees Celsius, and in the standard table for India…

Shimla is the capital of Himachal Pradesh, and Dharamshala in the Kangra valley was declared its second or winter capital, where a session of the State assembly is held.

The Tropic of Capricorn crosses Australia through Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, passing close to the town of Rockhampton, and Australia is the only country of Oceania on this line.

In that year the International Hydrographic Organization recognised the waters surrounding Antarctica, broadly south of sixty degrees south latitude, as the fifth ocean of the world, which is why older textbooks speak of four oceans and newer ones of five.

Over most of the Ganga plain the temperature rises steadily through the spring and peaks in May, before the rains break, after which cloud and moisture bring the readings down, and Koppen gave this particular annual march of temperature its own letter.

Aconcagua stands in the Andes in the Mendoza region of western Argentina, close to the Chilean border, and at about 6,961 metres it is the highest summit of both the Americas and of the southern hemisphere, and so the highest anywhere outside Asia.

Because the earth's axis is tilted by about 23 and a half degrees, the northern hemisphere is turned most towards the sun on 21 June, the summer solstice, when the noon sun stands vertically above the Tropic of Cancer and the northern hemisphere has its longest day.

The interior of the Deccan is hot in every month, which gives it the capital A, and it has a long dry season with moderate rain in summer, which gives it the small letter w, the classic savannah combination.

The name Ecuador is the Spanish word for the equator, the line crosses the north of the country, and its capital Quito stands only a few kilometres south of it in the Andes, which makes Quito the large capital city closest to the Equator.

Within the dry B group Koppen used two capital letters for the degree of dryness, S for the steppe, which is semi-arid, and W for the desert, which is fully arid, so BShw describes a hot semi-arid climate with a dry winter.