Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 127

Mercury is small and very close to the Sun, so its weak gravity and the intense solar heat and wind have stripped away almost all gas; it has only a trace exosphere, which is why it is described as having no atmosphere.

Bolivia lost its coast on the Pacific to Chile in the War of the Pacific in the nineteenth century and now reaches the sea only through the ports of its neighbours, while Paraguay lies in the interior and depends on the Parana and Paraguay rivers for an outlet, which is…

Indian Standard Time is based on 82.5° E, and a place 5 hours behind lies 75° to the west of it, at 82.5° − 75° = 7.5° E. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, so local time changes by one hour for every 15° of longitude, or four minutes…

Firozabad has made glass for generations and supplies most of the glass bangles sold in India, along with chandeliers and laboratory glassware.

The crust is brittle, but the mean thickness of the oceanic crust is about 5 km, not 15 km. The crust is the outermost solid shell of the Earth.

Murrah, from the Rohtak and Hisar belt of Haryana, is the best known milk buffalo of India, recognised by its tightly curled horns and heavy milk yield, and it has been used to improve buffalo stock in many states and abroad.

The Purga is a cold, snow-laden local wind of Siberia and the tundra of northern Russia. In winter, a strong high-pressure area builds over Siberia, which becomes one of the coldest places on Earth.

The Philippines lies in the western North Pacific, and every tropical cyclone of that basin, whether it strikes the Philippines, China or Japan, is called a typhoon.

A blizzard is a severe snowstorm with strong winds, blowing snow and very low visibility, so it occurs only where there is heavy snowfall in winter.

The correct answer is B, the Ten Degree Channel, which lies roughly along the parallel of ten degrees north and separates the Andaman group in the north from the Nicobar group in the south; Little Andaman lies to its north and Car Nicobar to its south.

The surface circulation of the oceans is organised into huge, roughly circular loops called gyres, one in each major ocean basin.

In Alfred Weber's least-cost theory of industrial location, isodapanes are drawn through all points at which the total transport cost, for assembling the raw materials and for distributing the finished product, is the same; the innermost isodapane marks the area of least total cost, where the plant should be sited.

The Teesta rises in the glaciers of north Sikkim, flows through Sikkim and the Darjeeling hills into the plains of North Bengal, and then enters Bangladesh, where it joins the Brahmaputra (called the Jamuna there).

The Niagara river carries the water of Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, and on the way it crosses the Niagara escarpment, a band of hard dolomite, which produces the Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil falls on the border of Canada and the United States.

Plantation agriculture means growing a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber or spices on large estates, with heavy capital, hired labour and processing on the spot.

Indonesia is a chain of more than seventeen thousand islands stretching along the equator between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and the Indonesian halves of Borneo and New Guinea as its principal members, and it is the largest archipelago in the world.

Renukoot in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh is known for aluminium, not for iron and steel. Renukoot is home to the Hindalco aluminium smelter, set up in the early 1960s near the Rihand dam, whose cheap hydroelectric power suits the huge electricity needs of aluminium smelting.

The North-South and East-West corridors of the National Highways Development Project intersect at Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh. The North-South corridor runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, and the East-West corridor from Silchar in Assam to Porbandar in Gujarat.

Agricultural density measures how many farm people depend on each unit of land that can actually be farmed. Geographers use three densities.

Madhya Pradesh touches five states, and only these three of them have no coastline. Madhya Pradesh, itself landlocked, sits in the heart of India and borders Rajasthan to the north-west, Uttar Pradesh to the north-east, Chhattisgarh to the south-east, Maharashtra to the south and Gujarat to the west.